Creating a Myriad Worlds in My Backyard

The evolution from a single-celled organism into a human took a long and complex journey of roughly four billion years. So how long will it take me to ascend from human to god, armed with all of humanity's knowledge? But with the players joining in, everything seems to have gotten a lot more interesting. Gundam, Ultraman, thirty years east of the river and thirty years west? Devour and evolve, or grow without restraint?