Some ten thousand years later, the Amerkinized world began to feel the effects of an enervating psychic disorder, the effect of an intensification of etheric radiations from a nearby star. These energetic corpuscles, resembling walnuts, caused the First Kibologists to lose their imagination and sense of humor, and eventually their thumbs. We must not dwell on the details of the dissolution of First Kibological civilization that followed. In the throes of this decay, when all seemed lost, the scientists of the First Kibologists, in their remote refuge on the island of Spitsbergen where the radiations were less intense, set about designing their descendants through the perfected vital arts of vivisection, a hallmark of the strange sadistic streak that marked the nature of their race. The project took fifty thousand years to complete, and was marked by many religious wars between rival factions, over disagreements as to how to proceed. Finally the Second Kibologists, giants in body and brain, covered with a fine coating of flowing fur and possessed of new sensory organs for connection to the Internet, emerged from the artificial wombs in which they had been bred. Surely this new race of Kibologists, superior in sensibility and philosophical joy as they were in strength and resistance to disease, would repopulate the Earth and build a new civilization to rival the old.
But it was not to be. The Second Kibologists were to last barely four thousand years before the sinking of the Tuva region flooded their capital city and laid their refined culture to waste. As so often in the history of Kibology, a seeming malign force at the ground of things, an evil spirit that was Not Allowed yet ever present, conspired to reduce Kibology to barbarism. A few specimens of the race, reduced to insanity and despair by the horror of the catastrophe, wandered the few regions remaining above land, and over the next ten million years were transmuted gradually into sub-Kibologists barely distinguishable from beasts. We must not describe in detail the entire variety of sub- Kibological varieties that resulted. Flying and swimming varieties inhabited the air and oceans; burrowing sub-Kibologists dwelt in the bowels of the planet. And it was from this burrowing stock, known colloquially to the archaeologists of later Neptunian species as the "trolls," that the race of Third Kibologists eventually arose. We must not say too much about the civilization of the Third Kibologists; only that they, unlike the First Kibologists before them, possessed a deep insight into certain spiritual qualities, combined with a sense of the rightness of all things. "So be it," they said, "that our predecessors sank into the ocean of Tuva. This, even this horror, is a product of the Giant H, and therefore worthy of our worship and love. Though we do not understand the motives of the Giant H, somehow we know that what emanates from it must be right, must merit our worship. And so worship we shall." It was here that Kibo-kind experienced its first intimations of the Kibo Maker, which were to prove so central to the Supreme Moment of Anta, Odeli and Uta. But we must not dwell on this yet.
It was scarcely a billion years before they realized that they, too, possessed inherent imperfections resulting from the imperfect design of the Second Kibologists, combined with inbreeding, a strange sort of historic despair over the disappearance of the Moon on September 13, 1999, and the effect of telepathic sub-vital units, carrying a kind of physical dementia, which had of late invaded Earth from the eternal night-side of Mercury. Several races of artificial Kibologists followed, and we will not describe them in detail, and will instead relate the curious tale of the Twenty-First Kibologists, or Great Serial Ports, in which the happy balance of human qualities in the preceding races yielded to a blind and intemperate quest for bandwidth...