Once Upon a Time...

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...in a galaxy far, far, away, there was a mighty group of powerful life forms. These life forms felt that it was their responsibility to ensure that all other life forms in their immediate galactic community be treated with morality and justice (at least as they see it, and hence, pursue it).

Unfortunately, the quasi-nobility of these life forms' goal of ending tyranny was jaded by the means in which they attempted to accomplish it. They continually employed the use of war to end, in their perception, the rule of evil and tyrannical leaders in other regions of the galaxy. This, of course, created many problems.

Suddenly, one day, for the first time in history, these life forms' own world was attacked by other beings who's world they were currently "liberating"! Having never experienced an attack on their own land, the beings of this super planet were outraged! They spent many of the immediate coming years re-living, or at the very least, living through the perspective of that one vulnerable day on which they were attacked.

What these mighty people failed to realize is that, though they had suffered a serious and great loss, it was but a glimpse of what a large percentage of beings in their galactic community experienced on a daily basis. What's more is that those beings were subjected to such terror by both, what we shall call, the "super-beings", in the means by which they sought to liberate, and by the tyrants from which these life forms needed freedom from.

One day, and it is unclear whether it was mere months or millennia in the future, these "super-beings" discovered that war can never end (or prevent) war. Destruction can never repair destruction. Tyranny can never stop tyranny. It is only Love that can free all people of the galaxy, including themselves, from fear, hate, war, poverty, and death.

It is believed that this understanding came to spread as far as our home we call Earth, and that we illustrated this by ending great stories with, "...and they lived happily ever after." Sadly, shortly after this learning (and despite the continued use of it's illustrative story ending), that knowledge was lost. I wonder when it will be discovered once more.