Elite: Genesis

 Something I wrote a long time ago for one of the Anthology newsletters.

 

 "In the beginning was the word, and the word was E L I T E.  

And Michael said, 'Let there be procedurally generated light,' and 400 billion stars sparked into existence. 

Now that Michael could see the word, he thought that it was good. 

And Michael said, 'let there be procedural worlds, of various sizes from small, rocky planetoids and asteroids to gas supergiants and failed stars.' And lo, the Milky Way (for such it was) was populated with planets and those planets in turn with moons in their size, and even unto those larger moons Michael gave them moons also.

Then Michael breathed upon this galaxy so that those planets and moons of large enough mass and magnetic field should hold an atmosphere even unto the solar wind of the brightest stars. And he saw that it was good and stopped for a coffee.

And then he took the book, the book of books, the Book of Names and read from that book the Names of All Things so that each star, planet, moon and mote of dust could be catalogued and mapped. 

'Soon' is the word of Brookes"

Farewell Michael.