There, in the distance, was the Caltiskan sun, kept from being sucked into the black hole near it for uncounted millennia by an ancient science.

Beyond that gateway, in that other universe, a battle has raged for uncounted millennia.

The Mecs were at once sophisticated and simplistic: inorganic cybernetic beings that had reached the top of the evolutionary chain--and atrophied there for uncounted millennia.

But uncounted millennia of local legend contradicts this.

For uncounted millennia the gnomes have been smiths and miners.

So now, for the first time in uncounted millennia, there are groups of Eloi who can subsist quite independent of the Morlocks.

For the first time in uncounted millennia, (*) found itself in the presence of a hunger even more demanding than its own.

Impressive technology, the Zin'za's captain ceded, particularly given that by all accounts the responsible civilization had been dead for uncounted millennia.

However, the customs of uncounted millennia are not fast set aside.

You see, uncounted millennia ago the Shinju made a pact with Chaos.