The big ball of hot, dense hydrogen and helium was one of approximately 300 billion big balls of hot, dense hydrogen and helium within an elliptically-shaped area about 1,000 light years thick by 100,000 light years across (give or take).
Being as how the distance light travels in a year is close to 6 trillion miles, we're talking a fairly vast area here.
Like all the other big balls of hot, dense hydrogen and helium, it was traveling through space at approximately 10 miles a second, a result of the extremely large, some might say cataclysmic, explosion that had occurred 20 billion years ago.
Also like the other big balls of hot, dense hydrogen and helium, there were a few bits of debris from that explosion caught in it's gravitational field, traveling at the same rate of speed through the same space.
On one particular speck of debris, a largely green and blue orb that was covered primarily in water, the only known lifeforms in the gravitational influence of the big ball of hot, dense hydrogen and helium existed.
Life had popped up on the green and blue speck of cosmic debris around 3 and 1/2 billion years ago, in various forms, and had proceeded to evolve, thrive, die out.
At the moment, the lifeforms that dominated the planet had been around for about a million years. For 95% of the million years of the lifeform's development, they did nothing that distinguished themselves from the other primitive lifeforms they shared the blue and green orb with.
But then something odd happened to the lifeform. It developed a means of expressing itself, of sharing it's thought's with other members of it's species, of exchanging ideas and knowledge.
From that point on it's pretty much been a mess.
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