Epigraph

No one theory can account for all the mystery surrounding the symbiotic energy source, creation sparks. Many would argue that the theory of Particle Coevolution is most likely the correct one, but I find that unlikely as creation particles are a finite source, and therefore evolutionarily risky when they are absolutely essential to the dimensional movement, streaming translation, and real-time evolution that our combined-world society depends upon. A much more encompassing but less palatable theory is Particle Appropriation, which promotes that creation particles were initially gathered from a so-far-undiscovered dimensional traveler.

Particle Appropriation is, in fact, heavily supported by the disaster of portal 81, and research confirms that the long-extinct race of Nix could also use creation energy, though admittedly not in the same way, exchanging the streaming translation and real-time evolution for the ability to project a false narrative within another being's mind. This mental and ocular glamouring enabled them to steal a great quantity of creation sparks before the portal to their world was closed and the remaining Nix found and exterminated.

It's no great leap of faith to assume that having failed to do so would have resulted in the end of our own society to the benefit of theirs.

Excerpt from The Origins of Creation Particles: Coevolution vs. Appropriation , Professor Opp