And it came to pass twelve thousand years before the present age of men, when the colonies of Earth had grown powerful and the human populations had multiplied across the face of the planet, that the old resentments erupted into war.
The Valhallans, displeased with their northern allotment, began to stir rebellion.
They looked upon the wealth of the other colonies and said,
“Why should the late-comer be made lesser? Why should the cold lands be ours while the older empires feast upon the golden regions of Earth? Are we not warriors? Are we not heirs of the storm? Shall we bow forever before the decree of the Anunnaki?”
And they whispered among the Igigi.
For the Igigi had never forgotten the humiliation of the mines.
Though they had become overseers, they were still beneath the Anunnaki.
Though they commanded humans, they were still commanded by higher blood.
Therefore many Igigi listened.
And the Valhallans whispered also among Olympia and Di Consentes.
For the Olympians coveted influence, beauty, tribute, and worship.
And the Di Consentes desired law and order beneath their own imperial hand.
Thus a hidden alliance began to form.
The Valhallans stirred the humans with tales of injustice.
They gave weapons to certain tribes.
They promised freedom to the Igigi.
They offered power to ambitious human kings.
They spoke of a new order in which Earth would no longer serve as a labor world beneath Anunnaki supremacy.
And the humans, violent and brilliant, listened.
For humanity had grown beyond its first purpose.
The creature made for labor had become a creature of language, memory, desire, strategy, hatred, worship, and war.
Men had learned to build.
Men had learned to rule.
Men had learned to kill not merely for hunger, but for symbols, gods, crowns, revenge, and control.
The Anunnaki saw this and were troubled.
But they saw it too late.
The Initiation of War
The war began in hidden places.
Mines were sabotaged.
Gate-temples were defiled.
Igigi overseers turned against Anunnaki masters.
Human armies rose beneath banners they barely understood.
Atlantean sea engines were attacked.
Orisha thunder sanctuaries were raided.
Olympian citadels changed allegiance.
Di Consentes strongholds armed rebel provinces.
Valhallan sky-forges awakened weapons forbidden by treaty.
And Earth shook beneath the multiplying conflict.
At first the Anunnaki believed the rebellion could be contained.
They sent commanders.
They issued decrees.
They demanded surrender.
But the rebellion spread faster than expected.
For the humans were many.
The Igigi knew the labor systems.
The Valhallans knew war.
The Olympians knew seduction, intrigue, and betrayal.
The Di Consentes knew organization, roads, supply, and imperial command.
Thus the conflict became not a revolt only, but a planetary war.
And the war did not remain upon Earth.
It spread to Tiamat.
The Battle for Tiamat
Tiamat was still the great prize of Terran wealth.
Its gold, silver, diamonds, and deep mineral reserves made it essential to the gate engines and the Dominion’s power systems.
Whoever controlled Tiamat controlled the wealth of the Terran expedition.
Therefore the rebels sought it.
The Anunnaki defended it.
Fleets moved between Earth, Tiamat, Mars, and Nibiru.
Diamontion weapons were awakened.
Celestial forces were drawn from planetary cores.
Nebulous navigation was corrupted by war-time haste.
The black records say the skies of Tiamat burned for seven cycles.
Its moons trembled.
Its cities cracked.
Its mountains were opened.
Its mines became tombs.
And in the final stage of the conflict, a weapon was unleashed that should never have been used upon a living world.
Some say it was fired by the rebels.
Some say it was misdirected by a corrupted Pineal Navigator.
Some say the Anunnaki attempted to seal Tiamat’s core and failed.
Some say the Valhallans struck the planet rather than allow the Anunnaki to keep it.
The sealed tablets do not agree.
But all agree on the result.
Tiamat was destroyed.
The fourth world was shattered.
Its body broke apart in fire and grief.
Its mountains of gold, diamond, and silver were scattered into space.
Its fragments became the asteroid belt.
And its moon, Mars, was cast from its former order and sent wounded into its own path around the sun.
Mars became the red orphan of Tiamat.
Scarred.
Desolate.
Remembering the death of its parent world.
And the destruction of Tiamat broke the strength of the Terran Dominion.
The Flood of Earth
The breaking of Tiamat did not end with Tiamat.
The shock traveled through the system.
Celestial forces were disturbed.
Gravitational harmonies were wounded.
Fragments fell.
Tides rose.
The Earth staggered beneath the consequences of heavenly war.
The seas lifted themselves against the land.
The skies darkened.
Fire came from above.
Waters burst from below.
The climates changed.
The old coastlands drowned.
The cities of the colonies were struck.
Atlantean sea kingdoms were swallowed by the very waters they had mastered.
Yonaguni’s stone-memory temples sank beneath the waves.
Lemurian mother-cities were broken.
Mu vanished from the maps of the living.
Earthquakes tore the continents.
Storms erased kingdoms.
The human populations were greatly reduced.
Beasts perished.
Forests shifted.
The warm places cooled.
The air itself seemed to mourn.
And the age known to later humanity as the Younger Dryas began as the cold wound left behind by the war of gods.
But among the survivors, memory did not remain whole.
The records became fragments.
The fragments became myths.
The myths became flood stories, sky-war stories, titan stories, dragon stories, god-war stories, and tales of a world before the waters.
The Judgment Upon Earth
After the destruction of Tiamat and the flooding of Earth, the surviving powers gathered upon Nibiru.
The Anunnaki summoned the representatives of the remaining colonies.
Atlantea came wounded.
Orisha came in thunder and grief.
Igigi came divided.
Yonaguni came in silence.
Valhalla came defiant, though bloodied.
Olympia came with accusation upon its lips.
Trimurti came speaking of cycles and endings.
Mu came as refugees.
Tuatha came veiled in mist.
Ennead came bearing records of the dead.
Di Consentes came demanding legal settlement.
Lemuria came mourning the loss of its mother-cities.
And the Anunnaki sat in judgment above them all.
Then the charge was spoken:
“Earth hath become a wound in the Terran Dominion. Tiamat is broken. Mars is cast into exile. The human stock hath become unstable. The colonies have turned a labor world into a battlefield. The gate-chain itself trembleth from the violence committed here.”
And the Anunnaki declared Earth forbidden.
No empire was permitted to return openly.
No slave colony was to be restored.
No human population was to be placed again under direct imperial control.
The old temples were to be sealed.
The gate-machines were to be buried.
The human survivors were to be left to rebuild without knowledge of their makers.
And all empires were commanded to depart.
Thus Earth became the abandoned world.
The sealed world.
The forbidden cradle.
The planet of dangerous children.
The Prophecy Left Behind
Before the final withdrawal, the Anunnaki left a prophecy in the core archives of Nibiru.
And the prophecy read:
Let Earth be watched, but not ruled.
Let humanity grow, but not be guided by open hand.
For they are born of beast and god, clay and star, hunger and imagination.
If they remain divided upon Earth, they shall wound themselves.
If they unite without wisdom, they shall wound their world.
If they leave their world before mastering the violence within them, they shall wound the heavens.
And if the children of Earth find Nibiru, the Terran Crossroads shall awaken.
The black gate shall remember them.
The old empires shall turn again toward the forbidden cradle.
And the long spiral of destruction shall begin among the intergalactic thrones.
Thus was Earth abandoned.
But not forgotten.
Recovered from the archives of the mining capital of, The Tiamat before its destruction.