Battleworld

Battleworld:

The Battleworld was a somewhat hospitable world the size of a small moon in the Moorcey system created by the advanced technology of the pre-Elder Type III Moorceyans. It was used as an arena and was the home of extremely advanced technology culminating in a device known as the Time Scoop, which could pull large numbers of matter, living or otherwise, from anywhere within the Timestream and deposit it on the Battleworld. It also contained technology that could harvest the energy released when sentients are killed which could then be used to grant full blown temporal powers to Type III Moorceyans. It was a hodge-podge of chunks of other worlds from up and down the timestream marked with a central spire in which the core technology was contained.

The Battleworld, the Time Scoop, and the technology for harvesting the energy released by the death of a sentient being comprise the darkest secret of the trans-temporal entities known as The Elders. This secret was taken advantage of by Elder Apprentice BlackMane to gain full Time Travel powers and was exposed by the renegade Elder Rangar.

The Type III Moorceyans Rangar and his wife Janus created the technology of the Time Scoop and the Battleworld's energy harvesting technology, but they rebelled when they learned as to what purpose this technology would be put. They were overruled and the first Elders were created, including Sentinel, Kindred, and Zyoity. Rangar himself was the among first Elders. It is unclear as to whether or not he was empowered as a means to bring him to the side of the Elders or as a test in case the technology failed.

A second generation of Elders was created when the Enforcer Omen and some others activated a beacon on Altair's moon, Ra, which summoned a vessel that contained a few unaltered Type III Moorceyans, who had been put in Temporal Stasis and forgotten. Once revived, their leader Twilight used the technology of the Battleworld to empower himself and his allies. These new Elders eventually fought the original ones in the Time War of the Elders.