Petey: In the language of the F'Sherl-Ganni, or Gatekeepers, these Dark Matter Entities are called the Paan'uri.
Narrator: The Fleetmind knows it all, too, and now must brief the mere mortals.Fleetmind A.I. I: Roughly six million years ago the Paan'uri and the progenitors of the F'Sherl-Ganni fought a war over the teraport.
Fleetmind A.I. II: Teraports were already the cause of wars in the universe of "normal" matter. Destructive as those wars were, they paled in comparison to the fight with the Paan'uri.
Athens: Teraport activity was "polluting" Paan'uri "space," and they put a stop to it very simply, attacking any gravitic source capable of generating a wormhole, and then forcing the nearest star to explode.
Athens: Losses were great on both sides, and the Paan'uri agreed to a treatyFleetmind A.I. III: They retreated to the Andromeda Galaxy, and the F'Sherl-Ganni agreed to develop a system of wormgates instead of using teraports.
Petey: Then, 100,000 years ago, the Paan'uri provided the F'Sherl-Ganni with instructions for creating a zero-point-energy drive at the core of the Milky-Way galaxy.
Captain Kevyn: Wait. . . The core generator is a drive?Ennesby: Yes and no. Yes, its stated purpose was to prevent the two giant galaxies from their inevitable merge.
Fleetmind A.I. IV: But no, the Paan'uri did not intend it as a drive. It has become clear that their intent was to use it to destroy their enemies forever.