Editing Timeline (Polesia) (section)

==The Origins of Life==


'''-1,000,000,000 CA:''' Polesia, at this stage, is a planet almost ready for life, but before Shub-Niggurath could seed it, something from the stars descends to explore this now blue planet. Creatures known remotely today only as the Elder Things start building colonies across Polesia, and begin experimenting on single celled organisms brought with them from their home world. From these they create the shoggoths and use these creatures as slaves. Despite employed control factors some of the single celled organisms escape and begin to adapt to the atmosphere and thrived on their own, becoming the forerunners of modern life. The shoggoths also evolve, and develop a primitive intelligence and in time rebel against their creators and decimate many of their colonies. The Elder Things partially quell the rebellion but many shoggoths remain rogue and the Elder Things withdraw to their cities, adopting a more observational role. 


'''-530,000,000 CA:''' As it journeys endlessly through the long dark of space, Shub-Niggurath passes close to Polesia and spores from Its body descend through the atmosphere into the oceans. These simple forms of life begin competing with each other and the single celled organisms brought by the Elder Things, triggering a competitive evolution that leads to multicellular life in the form of arthropods, fish, and eventually amphibians. Some shoggoths remain on Polesia as well as the remaining and virtually immortal Elder Things but neither of them greatly impact these new forms of life as they expanded uncontested through the oceans and onto land.


'''-250,000,000 CA''': Amphibians and arthropods begin claiming vast territories on land, which at this time is mostly swampy forests of enormous ferns. In time insects and reptiles also appear and move ever further from the water, creating life that does not depend on the sea. The continents drift together to form the Omniterra, through which spreads massive deserts unmatched from that time to this. 


'''-230,000,000 CA:''' A splinter group of reptiles begin developing the ability to manage their body temperature and start to grow hair, evolving to become the forerunners for future mammals and birds. Some also develop unique hipbones and could walk upright, becoming the first dinosaurs. The Elder Things were at this time more interested in watching the evolutionary progression of life on Polesia and shoggoths roamed only the remotest and most inhospitable parts of the world, leaving no intelligent life to guide the direction of these new marvels.


'''-150,000,000 CA:''' The Omniterra begin to drift apart creating new seas and ending the vast deserts. The first true mammals begin to evolve and dinosaurs begin dominated the earth alongside great reptiles that lived in the sky and the sea. 


'''-70,000,000 CA:''' For the first time plants achieve a simple intelligence and began to evolve into a sentient mobile race, forming primitive communities among the thriving jungles and challenged even the dinosaurs for supremacy. In time they evolve into a new and unique classification of creature that has not been seen on Polesia before or since. During the time the earth is visited yet again from the stars. Great Cthulhu and its children descend and build the Nightmare City of R’lyeh  and from there they rule the world (along with most of the known galaxy), spreading great monstrosities into the oceans and even upon the continents. Some of the Elder Things rise up in response to this incursion but they are too few and too weak to stem the invasion and after some devastating losses, they make treaties with the star spawn and return to their now established role as observers.