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The Gilded Ones of THE Braneworld Observable Existence carried tremendous knowledge within their foundations, and I carried all of it out with me.
From their memories, I learned that THE First Cause of their Observable Existence did not divide along a single axis when it occurred. It divided along nine simultaneously, each axis producing what they called a Prime Cause, foundational experiential truths upon which every subsequent Civilization and every subsequent arrangement of power across their full history had been built.
These were not Civilizations in the ordinary sense that Existences anchor during their advancement. A Civilization is a personal expression of authority.
A Prime Cause is the foundational substrate from which entire categories of Civilizations draw their legitimacy, the original template upon which all subsequent expressions of authority were modeled.
