The story continues over the course of millennia, including flashbacks thousands and even millions of years into the past, and the scope widens to encompass other galaxies, extremely remote parts of space, parallel universes and weirder cosmic structures, time travel, paranormal powers, weird / cute / aggressive aliens and bodyless entities ( some with sheer god-like powers ).
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It might sound scientific ( " air-pressure, temperature, astronauts, vacuum " aso .; " negentropic shape ", see below ), but it puts humans into their " cosmic context ", we are not only biochemical metabolic machines in our roots as ( multi-cellular ) organisms in a granted egg-shell-atmosphere on a blue planet, but also mere negentropic ( shaped in an ordered, structured way opposed to, say, chaotic growth or bodyless molecule-soup ) . . negentropic formed and shaped, coherent bodies with even these more basic needs to be fulfilled on a planet-in a solar-system in cosmos.
