Information

Pollack
Legacy Name: Pollack

The

Custom Galactic Paralix
Owner: past

Age: 56 years, 4 months, 4 days

Born: December 31st, 1969

Adopted: 10 years, 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Adopted: March 7th, 2016

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Statistics

Level: 11
Strength: 23
Defense: 30
Speed: 22
Health: 23
HP: 23/23
Intelligence: 5
Books Read: 4
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Surfboard Rental Clerk

This is the story of how the universe ends.

This is the story of the most important being there ever was, is and will be.

This is the story of an happy space creature named Pollack.

I - Origins

The origins of Pollack are completely irrelevant. When I first met him, I asked where he came from.

'I come from a beautiful blue planet, full of wonderful creatures and beautiful sights. But I also come from a cruel world, a world that didn't care if I lived or died. I wanted to see the stars... I think I might have become the stars. That makes me very happy.' That was his reply.

My research shows that Pollack comes from a planet called Earth. It doesn't seem like anyone there knows or remembers him. His name appears in no history books, his birth or his death in no records.

Yet he was a very important figure even on his planet. He was the first of his kind to go to space. The first to see the stars. But to do so, he had to sacrifice his physical body and become one with the universe. In doing so, he became a Masked Being.

Archivist's note on Masked Beings

II - Motives

My interactions with Pollack have always been pleasant. He seems to have no deeper motives beyond genuine curiosity for the unknown.

He once told me: 'Exploration is what I love. There is so much to discover! The universe is so vast. I don't think I'll ever get bored of finding new things and meeting new beings.'

Even after billions of eons, Pollack has always shown the same genuine excitement for discovery and the same sense of wonder for the universe. Just like his mask, Pollack is a warm being, and I might even say 'a ray of sunshine,' to use an idiom from his home planet.

While 'good' and 'bad' are concepts that have a variety of meanings across our vast universe and its many civilizations, I would qualify Pollack as 'good' by most standards.

III - Relationships

For many eons, I would always find Pollack wandering the universe alone. For a being who is so social and so chatty, it seemed strange that he didn't really have any significant relationships, all the more so considering he comes from a sentient species that values connection and community.

That is not to say Pollack had no connections. Even though my role in this story is to document and never interfere, Pollack told me on more than one occasion that he enjoyed visiting me, calling me 'old friend' at every encounter.

It is hard not to appreciate Pollack, with his genuine curiosity and interest in others, and his tendency to want to help anyone he meets.

Some selected relationships of Pollack include:

Preon

Perseid

Galaxy

Genese

IV - Purpose

Pollack's purpose is to end the universe.

Or it could be said that it is to know the secret of the universe. And by knowing this secret, Pollack is destined to end everything there is.

It is a heavy burden for any being to carry, knowing that they will eventually end it all. But Pollack never seemed to be affected by this. He carried this secret to the end of infinity, when everything that could happen had happened.

I cannot claim to know why he was the being destined for this purpose. My purpose is to document. But if I may allow myself one note, I speculate that Pollack was chosen precisely because he is Pollack: a being with no ulterior motives, driven by wonder for all there is, all there was, and all there ever will be.

V - Connection

This dossier wouldn't be complete without mentioning Pollack's most important connection of all: Andromeda.

Andromeda is a manifestation of the very universe itself. She has no origin, she has always existed and always will exist. And to Pollack, she is everything.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when Pollack, the lone space lizard, became Pollack and Andromeda. It seems in my documentation that Pollack has been alone for Eons, but at the same time, he has been travelling with Andromeda for all of eternity.

Andromeda is the whole universe. She is there so that Pollack never has to carry his burden alone. And at the end of everything, when all of the Pollacks in all the dimensions end the universe, Andromeda is to remain by his side.

What comes after

Credits
Overlay by Keshi
Profile by past with coding help from helix's template
Art by feather, Grey, mei, sheimi, grim, monsters, goodboy
Story and everything else by past
Background is a vintage photograph from the public domain archives of NASA

A note on the Archivist
This profile is written by Altais, who acts as a meta bookkeeper in this story.