However no one really knows since much of the story of Artemis is shrouded in mystery. There are so many questions and very few real answers, or instance:-
- How is that Aardvarks called Artemis and Aramis appear through out history?
- What caused the schism between the half twins Artemis and Aramis?
- How exactly can you have a half twin?
- Why is that Aramis is always the evil twin?
While full answers will probably be known, even to the Aardvarks them selves, I have pieced together some clues. Here are the answers I’ve drawn from these clues.
It seems that the two Aardvarks may have at one time been one and the same! Maybe Artemis was made from the ego part of the original entities mind and Aramis came from the id? This would make him a real monster from the id, and there is no doubt that he is a monster!
If this is the case then how could such a thing happen?
Well given that it seems that the twins are scattered through out both time and space, but the twins in each age have some knowledge of what has happened or will happen to the other twins, I can only come to one conclusion. The twins where split from a single entity and scattered by some cataclysmic event, the only event which could throw them so far and wide is the big bang it’s self!
But if the twins where split at the start of time, how could they have knowledge of events through out time? That can only be explained by the fact that the original single entity had access to time travel technology. This explains it’s knowledge of the future as well as it’s being at the beginning of time it’s self.
My speculation is therefore that at some point on the distant future the single entity attempted to travel back in time to the very beginning of space and time, or maybe even before the beginning, this is of course impossible. If time did not exist then, how could it travel before it?
Maybe that very attempt is what actually triggered the big bang. It is impossible to ever find out if this is the case. However, I have managed to find what I believe to be the approximate point in history when the original ‘parent entity’ left the regular flow of time heading for the big bang. I’ve located this point by the fact that the Artemis Aardvark that was alive in the time of the island empires of man (at the very end of mankind’s age of empires) and was an engineer on the star freighter Catch 22, seems to have no memories of any future copies of him self. This must mean that the parent entity had left the regular time stream at this point. No other copies of Artemis (and probably Aramis) seem to lack this knowledge, this shows that the parent entity was interested in the reoccurrence of Artemis and Aramis through out time and had studied the stories of them.
Part of the story of this Artemis can be found here in the archives of an ancient library known as the world wide web.
It is also possible and again probably impossible to find out, that the parent entity was a very long lived, maybe non-corporeal being like those members of humanity which evolved beyond form at the ends of the great ages of silver, golden and diamond dreams.
Since the entity had left the normal flow of time by this point, the Artemis here can have no memories of future events. In this age of island empires, there is no record of Aramis. What does this mean?
Could it be that Artemis finally dealt with the menace that had been dogging his live’s up to this point? Could he ever actually do this, since if my theory is correct, Aramis and Artemis are just fragments of the same entity?
It is also possible that Aramis was ‘laying low’ in this version of him self and that as such history did not record him. This seems unlikely given the lust for power and destruction that he has shown in all of the other versions of him self.
Another, much darker explanation is that he simply was no around at this point history. If this is the case, there can only be on explanation that I can think of this and that is that he left with the parent entity for the distant past. This seems incredible, but to me it is the only thing that makes sense (if time traveling Aardvark’s can ever make sense).
Could it be that Aramis knew of the entities fate or even was the cause of it? Could it be that Aramis actually created him self along with Artemis?
History will probably never know the answers to these questions.