The Great Collapse

The great collapse was an event that happened approximately 70 thousand years ago but the Jéem have deliberately obfuscated it's date because any real knowlege of it has serious Pattern Law implications.

Were it not for the direct intervention of Jéem the human race would have become extinct along with all life in the universe. Based on the distribution of ruined, uninhabitable, once seeded worlds it is estimated that only one in a hundred thousand of all life seeded planets survived the great collapse. Although the numbers of surviving planets are relatively small there are still dozens of inhabited worlds left across 4 galaxies.

Only the Jéem are aware of the exact details of the collapse but it was an inevitable war fought by differingly sophisticated higher humans over the power to live agelessly.

The great collapse conflict continues in the form of the determinism war between the eighth monastery and the seven monasteries.