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matter, it also caused odd swirls of light that to an untrained eye would seem illogical and eerie. The spot continued to shrink until it was but a spec and then nothing. A time when someone would swallow, once a universe like their own diminished to nothing. Ten seconds went passed; the simalo were very advanced but had never before witnessed anything like this before. Perhaps a drop of fear sneaked into the mind of a young boy, "what if it never comes back?"
Absolute silence dominated the atmosphere, just the odd head turned here and there. Would panic set in if it didn't appear? They all knew it would come, it was just that they didn't have a clue how long it would take, they had all assumed it would be instantaneous. Then quick as a flash, all heads trained upon the screen a speck of light, then a bright four-pointed star, before they knew the once dark screen was a bright white. The ones standing were knocked down and those sitting bowled over with the tremendous sight of the new universe being born.
At the same time in the newly created universe, the simalo had named, "orchall." A planet was being created, the universe now five billion years old. Already half the matter had changed to black matter; massive stars had been born and imploded, some of them within the first million years. The dust and matter that managed to escape the massive stars had been able to group to form galaxies and group again to form solar systems.
The little planet mentioned was situated in a galaxy, later to be known as, "The Milkyway." It was the first planet in a very average solar system; the last of the dust cleared to reveal the shining surface of the water rich planet. As soon as the suns ultra violate rays showered the planets surface, chemical reactions began to take place to create the first spec of life and a stormy atmosphere with. It didn't take long for the bacteria to become algae spewing oxygen into the atmosphere.
Perhaps only a few million years had passed when the atmosphere was oxygen rich and craved for a species to use it. By the time the atmosphere had a thick ozone layer, much of the water had been used up to provide the oxygen. The hydrogen escaped the planet's gravity entirely.
Meteors seldom hit the planet because of its close proximity to the sun but occasionally they did. Meteorite craters with the aid of volcanic eruptions gave the crust of rock on the surface an unevenness that became the seas and the lands.
Plants quickly adapted to the tropical land and even amphibious, odd-looking creatures managed a living in the turbulent environment on the planet later to be known as sun-giver.
Sun-giver was visited frequently; the first planet in a solar system in its early stage was considered to be something very special indeed. When the weather was nice the smallness of the planet made for a very special view, an intense blue sky and a sunset that would fill the whole sky.
Around this time, perhaps five and a half billion years after the big bang; the second planet later to be known to the humans as the moon was beginning the same process sun-giver had gone through. There were minor differences, including some of the water had been ice and caused early unevenness on the surface. By the time moon was in a state of tropical paradise the solar system had become quite a popular destination and was in danger of being colonised if it wasn't for the treaty.
The planet to be later named Mercury was to be the first to harbour intelligent life in this solar system. It was now that the treaty of non-interference would come into play. Now ten billion years after the big bang, about five billion years before the presence of humans, Mercury's intelligent beings had built cities. The drozen kind were reptilian, they stood on
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