The West Throckmorton (UK) Library holds a secret - it's an Intergalactic storage facility for dangerous creatures, magically kept in its tens of thousands of books. But there are those who would release its frightful inhabitants upon Earth. Enter t...
We don't talk about the OSSS. It's something that's kept from Apprentices and familiars, for fear that we'll be tempted to do research about them on our own. And the OSSS has been known to set traps meant just for us, hidden within our various Libraries. One moment we find a distressing inconsistency in lore, and then we're gone before we can report it, swept away to who knows where.
There are countless worlds in countless galaxies that are home to countless zillions of intelligent species. Each one has its own unique weapons of mass destruction. I'm not sure what Gulp had in the way of those. I think maybe we...and ultimately, I...ate ourselves and everything living before we had a chance to come up with them. We were too busy either eating or being eaten. We were, in our own way, biological WMDs.
The weapons killed beings outright. Some alter kocker genius from Orion 12 came up with the idea of a weapon that only killed a certain type of being, and left everything else alone – buildings, plants, animals. They had lots of problems testing that one.
Then there were the Corellian planet-destroyer weapons. That's right – their scientists made stuff that blew entire planets into space dust. Unfortunately, their government sponsors wanted to salvage all the rocks and minerals for future use. They turned those scientists into space dust instead.
But Earth? Earth knew better. Yes, they had thousands of years of bashing, spearing, shooting and blowing up stuff – and it wasn't until some true genius invented gladiatorial combat that someone thought to make a weapon that wasn't a weapon – it was words! Words written to conquer minds, change opinions and sell product without anyone or anything being blown up.
When Earth became a member of the Intergalactic Council of Worlds, they spread their deceitfully innocent products and 'fast-food' franchises and big-box supply stores across the farthest reaches of explored Space. That was the beginning. When the Tzitzit documentary entitled "The Role of Sports in the lives of Earth Humans" was released, it was only a matter of time before their activities were being played or imitated by all manner of species – airborne, aquatic, underground or interdimensional. The response was immediate and massive.
The Tzitzit documentary was funded by a coalition of Earthlings, Tzitzitians, Andromedes, Pleideans and {^7^7}ites. Unofficially, they called themselves the OSSS – Outer Space Sports Society. In less than 50 earth years, they became the most powerful non-government body in existence. They made entire planets into arenas and stadiums. Air pollution from the enormous number of spaceships in orbit began threatening delicate native airborne species. Riots and civil unrest caused by the angry fans of losing teams or athletes became commonplace.
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The OSSS introduced their SS (Sports Security) to handle such problem – for a price, of course.
The Watchers noticed the shift. They performed a scrying that showed disasters exponentially mounting in number – universal political coups, with the OSSS bankrolling the side that supported their expansion without regard to policy or protocol.
