Prophet

## General Overview

The *Prophets*, also known as *"Wormhole Aliens"* by *Starfleet Command* of the Milky Way Galaxy from 2369 onwards, are non-corporeal lifeforms which resided in the only stable wormhole known to exist, artificially constructed to serve as the *"Celestial Temple"*.

In reality, the term *"Prophet"* is somewhat inaccurate as it only refers to one aspect of the entire *"Ascended Beings"* or *"Pantheon"*, as it has come to be known consisting to many different species that have learned how to transcend physical form into a non-linear existence.

## History

Hundreds of millions of years prior to the establishment of the United Commonwealth of Planets, the first ever recorded evolution of humanity evolved on the planet of *Celestis* in the *Knife Edge Galaxy*, 50 million lightyears away from the Milky Way Galaxy.

This group of humans were eventually able to evolve to a point where they transcended physical form, becoming known as *"The Ancients"* or *"Alteran"* people, the first known race to reach evolutionary ascension.

Meanwhile, on the planet of *Bajor* in the Milky Way Galaxy, a group of Bajorans were able to achieve the same feat, reaching evolutionary ascension themselves. However this group were unable to co-exist with the original Ancients who feared other alien species learning how to ascend and a division occurred between *The Ancients* and the *Prophets*, leading to the Prophets creating a *Pocket Dimension*, known as the *Bajoran Wormhole* to serve as a home for them, somewhere that the Ancients had no influence over them.

It was later discovered by the Galactic Commonwealth in 2452, that there was a third group of ascended beings led by *Merlin*, who resented the Ancients belief of strict non-interference with lesser evolved species and directly interfered with *Earth*. Leading *Arthur's People* through a *Pocket Dimension Wormhole* to the Black Eye Galaxy, later becoming the Aventis Empire.

It is also possible that The Q Continuum, the Ghast Dominion and Organians may have also ascended from other alien civilisations.

Faced with so many different alien species obtaining biological ascension due to natural evolutionary process, the *Ancients* began to fear the other species, due in part with their experiences with a long dead subsection of their own society known as *"The Ori"*, which had existed until the beginning of the 21st Century. The led them to admonish the Prophets for encouraging the Bajoran people to create an entire religion around the Prophets in order to protect Bajor, in part due to their own experiences with religion in the past.

This led to an event known as the *"Celestial Cold War"*, where the *Ancients,* operating in secret to uphold their non-interference directive began to try and stop other species from achieving biological ascension in order to prevent *"Heaven from being too crowded"*, as Merlin had described, remarking that for all their achievements, his people were unable to rid themselves of the one human trait which could lead to their downfall, Pride.

In reaction to the *Celestial Cold War*, the Ghast retreated to their own pocket dimension and the *Ancients* attempted to isolate themselves from other ascended beings, operating in secret to prevent any more species from achieving ascension before they *"were ready"*. This has inevitably left many ascended beings open to manipulating by malevolent cosmic forces in their fear of others, specifically from the Spirit of the Abyss.