The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of the Department of Time, Space and Humans (DOTSH) of the planet of Aetheria states in no unclear terms that every activity of the human strain on the planet has to be logged with respect to time and space.

Clarity is one of the built-in features of the language of Aetheria. The design of the language had taken many eons in human-time for precisely this reason that it had to be unequivocal. The first inhabitants of the planet and the designers of their systems enforced intent and earnestness through the language. The prosaic fantasticality of the language makes it impossible for speakers to make statements that they know are factually wrong or make promises that they know they are not going to keep.

Right after the big bang we see a party of 1000-strong beings, composed mainly of the gas Argon, inhabiting this cold, inert planet in the very edge of the then known universe. These beings, like their eponymous element, were exceptionally reclusive and dull (they thought of themselves as introverts). In a very short span of time they built a fully developed, completely stable civilization and lived peacefully for majority of the ever after. Nothing major happened for roughly the next 5 billion years, until Xerxes, their leader, went on a tour to the outskirts of one Milky Way galaxy and fell in love with a carbon-based Earthnoid baddie called Neha Gupta.

This was very uncharacteristic of an Arganoid. But Xerxes was not a pure bred Arganoid. Xenia, Xerxes’ mother, and his original lover, is believed to have been the first Arganoid and she is believed to have some part of Xenon in her composition. This element is mostly docile in the Arganoid gene pool but every now and then it manifests and is responsible for roughly all of the volatility in the Aetherian history.

DOTSH, since its inception roughly 5 billion and 500 years ago, has been single-handedly steered by me, its sole member. I was trusted with this most important job because it was realized very early that of all the kids of Xerxes, the youngest one (me) was the most obsessed with order. Like all Argonian kids, I was taken by logging at a very early age, but unlike any other being I displayed a pedantry not seen in even the most methodical Argonians. The H in DOTSH was added 500 years ago when the course of our history became unpredictable for the first time. The introduction of another element in our gene pool increased randomness by an infinite percentage. My job became more difficult than ever.