Editing Entity (section)

===Origins===
The entities evolved on a planet with a gray sludge-like surface. Their solar system contained a "tear in reality," which their world would pass through twice per revolution around their sun. This tear allowed the entities to travel to alternate versions of their planet, allowing them to access new resources in order to feed and reproduce. After countless revolutions, some entities developed the ability to travel between worlds even outside the boundaries of the tear.<ref name="origin">'''Wildbow''' - 05/29/2019

:Kind of like we'll never know how a biological worm like the proto-Entities managed to go across dimensions
<br/>My thoughts on it is that it was just the reality on their planet that things were a bit ripped up or torn, and abundant resources and advanced hunting encouraged those that could better absorb or adapt to interdimensional stuff. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/59522675 Wildbow on Discord], Archived on Spacebattles</ref><ref name="origin2">It began at a planet that rotated around a star that was simultaneously binary and solitary because of a tear in space that cut through it, transforming it into a double image.  The planet traveled a path that, twice per revolution, intersected a hole in space.  When that planet intersected the hole, the writhing species that lived on it could move between.  Those that could travel could access other layers of that same world.  Other possibilities.  Food was abundant, and so was breeding.  Those that could see and interact with the tears when they passed by had the advantage.<br><br>After a thousand thousand such revolutions, a thousand contests, some began to be able to create and work with their own tears, keeping the subatomic particles with them. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/04/11/last-20-e1/ Excerpt] from [[Last_20.e1]]</ref> Over time, this ability allowed them to thrive and reproduce across countless versions of their planet, until they had exhausted almost every food source on every version of their world in every reality. The entities then turned to devouring each other as well, until there were only a few left, which then retreated to a handful of worlds while life across the realities replenished. After the worlds recovered, the entities would proliferate again until they were forced to consume one another and eventually retreat once more. This cycle of life and death occurred over a hundred and seventy times without variation, with each cycle taking a shorter time to elapse, and with some realities left permanently barren.<ref name="I26" />

Eventually, one of the entities realized that there was only so much time left before every version of their world would be rendered barren, and with a powerful broadcast that crippled the entity, proposed that the entire species consolidate and leave their home planet. One last war was fought, carried out over several revolutions, with each entity consuming and incorporating one another until there were only two entities left, each so large their bodies snaked across countless realities. Ready to depart, they configured their bodies into numerous fragments that formed an interdimensional shell around the planet. They then leeched the energy from every version of their world, using that energy to shatter them all in a massive detonation that launched their fragments into space in search of new homes, like the seeds of a dandelion.<ref name="I26" /><!--seeding metaphor good but might want to change it for those who don't know what that is.-->