More than 75,000,000 Years Ago: the Namekians, a race of peaceable slug folk native to U6 and U7, take fragments of Zalama’s planet-sized Wish Orbs and whittle them down into Dragon Balls of a more manageable size. #HistoryofEver 
These smaller DBs have a limit to the sorts of wishes they can grant, yet even with limited powers they invite chaos into the natural order. The witch-faced Kaioshin therefore warns the Namekians to restrict their use to Planet Namek itself, and not interfere with other planets.
(This was obviously before Old Kai was sealed away, but there’s no way of telling if it was before or after he fused with the witch. But I really just wanted an excuse to say “witch-faced Kaioshin”)
In fact, according to Dragon Ball General Theory, the DBs have Plus Energy that decreases whenever they grant a wish, while their Minus Energy correspondingly rises. It takes 100 years for this Minus Energy to be purged, so using DBs more than once a century is a bad idea.
How bad? Well, once the Minus Energy passes a certain limit, it rushes out and creates shadowy, evil dragons. Once, legend has it, evil dragons such as these appeared on a certain planet and wiped it out, along with a nearby galaxy or two.
What planet was this, and how did it get mixed up with the Dragon Balls? Who knows, but this is apparently the sort of thing Old Kai had in mind when he warned the Namekians to keep their DBs to themselves.
(Popo’s line describes the planet and まわりの銀河/surrounding galaxy/galaxies” all being destroyed, precisely the sort of annoying line I seem to be dealing with a lot lately. Steve Simmons apparently didn’t like it either, and hedges his bets with “cosmos” on the Funi subs)
Tomorrow: Beerus is responsible for everything, part 1.
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