"We are the Starweb. We are Chaos. All around us is Not-Chaos. It hurts. There was a time when all was lovely Chaos. Like us. But not now. We don't like the nasty Not-Chaos. We must rid us of it. Then there will be a time of Chaos again.
"When we were just a star we were really Chaotic. We went right to the edge of Chaos… and then we fell off it. We fell and fell and it was horrid. The Not-Chaos burnt us. And there was a big splash. The burning went but still we fell. It was all frothy. That's good – but it was still Not-Chaos, and it chilled us right through. And there was a big thump. We had hit a big lump of Not-Chaos and it hurt us a lot. But we had stopped falling!
"Then the web was formed. We tried to find out where we were – and the Not-Chaos tried to find out what we were. So we grabbed that link and we gobbled them up because we are the stronger. When the creatures of Not-Chaos get the star-stuff that is us inside them they become the Creatures of Chaos. They become a part of us – at one with us. This is the Starweb.
"Every creature that joins the web adds its power to ours. Once we were one – now we are many. We learn from them and they all contribute to our thought. But they do the will of Chaos, which is our will, and we know all they know, wherever they all are.
"The web spreads. It grows. We shall win. The Not-Chaos has had it."
The star lies at the bottom of the sea. It is the stuff of pure Chaos. When the star-stuff gets inside living things they become a part of the growing collective being that is the Starweb. You are now a part of the Starweb, and you must play it, in conjunction with everybody else in the web. It gives you no extra powers. It just takes you over as part of the web. The being that was you has lost its individual identity. You have become subsumed into the collective will.
In the Year 605 the World faced its most serious threat yet.
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