Interlude?

Writing is in my mind, again. It's been a while.
I wrote something on Sufficient Velocity, based on Worm and NETTG.

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The Fermi Paradox: If there are, statistically, several civilizations out there, why can't we find any sign of them?
Perhaps they were eaten by space worms. Perhaps they destroyed themselves, or perhaps....

Imagine a planet, completely black. In fact, Vantablack - so black it looks like a lump of dark matter, not radiating anything, for all intents and purposes. 
You might speculate that this is in order to maximize the utility of some sort of an astronomical situation, such as, oh, say, nine suns in it's sky, although perhaps you would need to travel quite a bit to see them all. 

Now, if someone really strong were to poke at the planet's surface with a really tough stick, you'd find out that the surface is composed of some type of a black goo. The unfortunate someone might find out that the goo pokes back. 

Let's speak of something completely different, for a moment: Such as a lifeform - not an organism, since it's not necessarily organic - capable of proving the multiverse theorem by the virtue of existing in several worlds - parallels - universes, simultaneously. This lifeform or entity, if you like, has a nasty habit of blowing up a large number of parallel planets it inhabits to generate sufficient energy to throw it's massive bulk towards other planets, a large enough number to approach "all of them". 

Just because it digs into a very large number of parallels, doesn't mean that it's interested in all of them. Especially if one of the parallels appears to contain a completely empty planet. 

Imagine the planet explodes under you. If you're tough enough to survive it, and smart enough, and capable enough to find out this was because someone harvested it for rocket fuel... you might get angry.
If you're angry enough, smart enough, and strong enough, you might find a way to harvest your solar system's suns for energy, figure out a way to pierce through the membrane keeping universes apart from each other, and chase after the perpetrator on a quest for vengeance....