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  The city was fifty thousand years old and had been the capital city of one of the two powerful cultures, ones which had once lived upon the beautiful world of Genesis. War had broken out for reasons that were not sufficient to allow the deaths of billions of the inhabitants of this world to happen. There were now few signs of their cities, or that an intelligent civilisation had once thrived on the planet. Up until two hundred years ago, only a few thousand savages had dwelt here, a few thousand twisted souls and an all-powerful being built by the dying victors of a war that destroyed a world. Then two hundred years ago, a starship had arrived with five hundred hope-filled colonists, fleeing a similar world governed by intolerance and hate. The all-powerful being had slept for thousands of years, for no one now dwelt within the city, the savage natives had become too scared of its ruins to even venture near to its stone walls. On sensing the arrival of the starship, the computer had awakened from its sleep and had fired an energy bolt up at the ship. It had damaged the ship causing it to crash land upon the planet, the being never thought that the five hundred souls within the damaged ship could have survived its attack; it had been wrong for Genesis was born from its broken hulk.