Chronicles of The Omniverse Archived The Va'nyrian Consensus - Exploratory Quorum 76

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The Va'nyrian Consensus: Exploratory Quorum 76


Hailing from a galaxy almost 13 billion light years from the Milky Way, the Va'nyrian Consensus is an enigmatic race of pacifist beings who have dedicated themselves to the collection of knowledge and information for the past ten billion years.

Every 100 million years, the Va'nyrian Consensus dispatches an Exploratory Quorum, a group of Va'nyrian knowledge collectors whose directive is to spread to a new unexplored galaxy and gather all knowledge they can gleam from it however small or mundane.

Often cut off from the Va'nyrian Consensus for many lifetimes, each member of a Va'nyrian Quorum is authorized to make binding decisions representative of the Consensus as a whole such as the forming of colonies, habitats, and alliances with other sentient races.

Every one thousand years, the Quorum gathers and contacts the Va'nyrian Consensus proper in order to share with their civilization the knowledge they have thus accumulated and to receive any new knowledge from other Quorums that might aid their own mission.


While the secrets of their home galaxy, history, and their way of life are closely guarded by all members of the Consensus, they are otherwise open and free with the knowledge they've collected throughout the eons and civilizations that come in contact with the Va'nyrian Quorums often flourish afterwards by several orders of magnitude.

The Exploratory Quorum 76 is the 76th expedition by the Va'nyrian Consensus into the vastness of the universe; their mission: To catalogue all of the knowledge the Onyx Galaxy has to offer, with the added hope that within it lie clues to a long held question for their civilization.




Physical Description of a Va'nyrian:



Tall and lithe, Va’nyrians much resemble humans from afar. At closer inspection however, this resemblance falls short. Their internal organ structure is very similar to a human's, as in truth they are a different evolutionary offshoot of a common ancestor, known to the Va'nyrians as the Elo'Rantus or Old Fathers, who were said to have spread traces of their genetic material as seeds to all corners of their known universe before their downfall.


The main differences to human internal organs are the fact that for a Va'nyrian the stomach is mostly vestigial, as they do not need food for sustenance, and their brain activity differs from that of humans. Unlike humans, the Va'nyrian brain is slightly denser and heavier, and is in constant full activity. Under a brain scan, it would seem like the solid light of a star in comparison to the flashes and bursts of human neuronal activity. Aside from these differences, everything else is mostly the same as a human, with the difference that all their systems seem to operate in optimum prime condition, despite their age.


Their eyes too bear mention, as unlike human eyes, they lack the sclera and pupil configuration. Instead, all of the outside facing side of their eyes is one solid and sophisticated receptor. Va'nyrians are able to see on a variety of visible spectra hidden from human eyes. The rest of their face is much like a human's face. Like humans, the Va'nyrian still possess hair on their heads, a vestigial part of their evolutionary past. The skin of a Va'nyrian is smooth and surprisingly resilient. It is also pore less and hairless, as the Va'nyrians do not require perspiration as a method of temperature regulation.


Va'nyrians are also long limbed, their hands possessing five digits like human hands, with the only difference being that their fingers would seem abnormally long to a human, and they are double jointed on a pivot, granting them a greater range of motion. Their feet are considerably different, possessing only three large digits with powerful tendons connected to them, granting them both stable balance comparable to a human's, and great speed in their mobility under low gravity situations. When walking their gait may seem strange and more measured than their feet seem capable to provide.


All in all, Va'nyrians are just different enough to engage that eerie feeling of strangeness in humans at close inspection, but not so different as to seem utterly alien.






Notable Exploratory Quorum 76 Members:


Nilin Gvyhe'arne (Va'nyrian, active) - Supreme StarSpeaker


Gherin Va'tremaeus(Va'nyrian, active) - Head Knowledge Collector and Keeper of the Seed


Xilunexus (Artificial Intelligence, active) - Quorum Coordinator and Keeper of the Seed


Frey'nja Va'tremaeus (Va'nyrian, active) - Systems Curator and Head of Applied XenoTech Research & Dissemination


Diarneus Bevernixian (Va'nyrian, active) - Master of Tongues, Head of XenoPsychological and XenoPhysiological Research & Dissemination


Alaxel "Starbreath" Gyveraian (Va'nyrian, seeded) -Supreme Commander of the Va'nyrian Left Hand (formerly), and Quorum Advisor


Neraxus "Father of Desolation" Abbottrónain (Va'nyrian, inactive) - Founder of the Va'nyrian Right Hand


Grael'Quenoxis (Starhawk, Elo'Nen)


Vlanisava (Starhawk, Khav'Nen)


Vladnixian (Starhawk, Khav'Nen)



Commonly Used Va'nyrian specific Tech:


The Va'nyrian Seed


Va'nyrians as a race found a way to "conquer" death billions of years ago. By digitizing a complete imprint of a person's personality at the time of death, the Va'nyrians have managed to gain a form of pseudo-immortality. It is this ability over all the others that has served to grant them their incredible long life-span as a civilization, where others would falter and fail. Their technology to store and retrieve personality and memory imprints of themselves is coupled with two other key technologies to form the keystone of Va'nyrian society: Direct and communal real-time shared mental states and communications (The Va'nyr), and the Va'nyrian Seed.


The Va'nyrian Seed is the name given to the sum total of the network where inactive Va'nyrian personalities are stored. It is an active source, a network where all past Va'nyrians exist in an interconnected sea of personalities known to the Va'nyrians as the Aman'Teran, or Voice of the Old Ones. Once a Va'nyrian's physical body dies, an instant transfer of their digitized consciousness is sent to the nearest connection to the Seed via the Va'nyr link, where it joins the Aman'Teran. An individual Va'nyrian consciousness can choose to retain their own individual identity and most choose to do so for at least a limited time. During this time, they might serve as advisors in their roles before death, may actively participate in the Consensus as if they were alive, or could simply dedicate themselves to talking to their loved ones or engaging in a hobby such as sifting through data the Quorums gather for a few millennia. An individual Va'nyrian in this stage of their "afterlife" is referred to be "seeded". Many prominent past members of Va'nyrian society tend to choose to be added to the "Local" Seed a Va'nyrian Quorum carries with them in order to advise them in their mission and feel that they are still important.


After a period of time that varies with each individual, a Va'nyrian personality's sense of individuality begins to wane, until it eventually disappears altogether and the personality becomes a part of the Aman'Teran, where all of its life experiences are disassociated and free to become a part of any Va'nyrian who taps into it. Once an individual personality becomes a part of the Aman'Teran, it is considered to be "inactive". With time and the coaxing of the Keepers of the Seed, an 'inactive' personality can be pulled back from the mass of the Aman'Teran and its identity as an individual restored should the need call for it.


The Va'nyr


The lynchpin of the Va'nyrian Consensus' continued peace and utopian like society, the Va'nyr is the core aspect from which the Va'nyrians derive their own name. The product of thousands of years of genetic and Pico-scale mechanical engineering, the Va'nyr link consists of two parts. One is a piconite construct injected into a Va'nyrian fetus in vitro and allowed to develop and replicate in tandem with the fetus' development. By the time the fetus has developed into a full grown Va'nyrian child, the construct has developed itself into a powerful receiver and transmitter capable of broadcasting to a range of several hundred AUs without external assistance. The second part to the Va'nyr link is a gene which expresses itself as a biomechanical interface that connects the Va'nyrian's brain with the mechanical aspects of the Va'nyr. The gene also carries a kill switch command that any Va'nyrian can activate at will terminating both themselves and the secrets to the Va'nyr within.


With the Va'nyr, The Va'nyrians can communicate wordlessly with one another, both privately and communally, interface with virtually all of their original and modified technologies, and communicate with their Starhawks. It is the cornerstone of their governmental system, where each and every Va'nyrian has equal input into their policy making, allowing for a total and direct democracy.


Many outsiders incorrectly assume that the Va'nyr is limited to a facsimile of spoken thought, a notion the Va'nyrians are content to not dispute. In reality, with the Va'nyr, a Va'nyrian can at will share every single sensation they can experience with one another as if it was being experienced by all communicating parties. Along with the Va'nyrian Seed system and the method for digitally extracting perfect personality imprints, The Va'nyr rounds up the known Va'nyrian technologies that they as a people have resolved to never share with any other civilization under the penalty of death and banishment from the Aman'Teran.


Common Methods of Space Travel


The Starhawks


Early in their history of interstellar space travel, the Va'nyrians came across a peculiar race of extra-planetary beings. Dubbed by them as the Tsrea'Nen which roughly translates into Hawks of the Stars or Starhawks for short, they are a peculiar race of extremely long lived sentient space faring creatures. With a life span measured on a cosmological scale, it is not uncommon for a Starhawk to live longer than a billion years.


Their overall shape is reminiscent to that of a Terran manta ray or devilfish, although considerably wider around their centers. Their bodies are composed of a peculiar organometallic compound that thrives and rapidly expands itself in the presence of highly energized cosmic radiation, and to this day remains the strongest radiation resistant material the Va'Nyrians have ever encountered. Almost 90% of their external surface area is covered with protuberant nodes which are directly connected to an internal system of crisscrossing interconnected pathways whose primary purpose is to shunt energy around to and from a central organic battery which powers both their metabolic functions and their propulsion method. This organic battery takes up to 40% of a Starhawks volume.


Starhawks travel through space by directly manipulating the energy in the vacuum around them into an enveloping field of energized particles that distort space-time, causing them to practically exist in a separate, massless state of quantum superposition while they move through real space, allowing them to move through space at extreme relative velocities.


They achieve natural FTL travel by projecting a secondary distortion field outwards and colliding into it, effectively generating a short lived tailored wormhole in space-time allowing for nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, utilizing the energy nodes covering their body to simultaneously harvest the vacuum energy of the space they're moving through and re-purpose it to maintain the distortion effect that keeps the wormhole stable. The larger the initial energy expenditure, the farther each individual jump can be.


Upon first meeting the Starhawks, most of the theoretical models of physics held by the Va'nyrians were instantly crushed and their then fledgling interstellar empire exploded once they were able to establish a symbiotic relationship with the singular creatures. After a series of early communication attempts ending in failure, the first break through happened when Va'nyrian Knowledge Collectors had the idea to inject a particularly friendly Starhawk with a modified Va'nyr assembly construct. This led to the discovery that not only were the Starhawks sentient, but they also possessed a vast trove of first hand, if instinctual knowledge into the inner workings of energy and the cosmos along with a rudimentary form of intelligence.


Perhaps the greatest discovery for the Va'nyrians came not from this initially connection however, but from their later attempts to bring the first Starhawk into the Va'nyr's communal setting. They discovered that the massive amounts of energy the Starhawk carried and processed within its body served to greatly amplify the range at which the Va'nyr link functioned by several orders of magnitude. Suddenly, the relatively far flung expedition that found them could connect with and hear the voice of the Aman'Teran several star systems away on their home system.


Over a period of thousands of years, the Va'nyrians and Tsrea'Nen (a name they chose to adopt due to their lack of a name for themselves) developed together and learned from one another. With careful biomechanical engineering, the Va'nyrians were able to create habitat and other forms of equipment modules they could attach to the Starhawks without disrupting their functions, and the Starhawk's connection to the Va'nyr caused their mental development to rapidly evolve from a rudimentary herd survival sentience into fully developed individuals whose intellect could match that of their newfound partners.


Their cultures became entrenched, and through both prosperity and war the Starhawks assimilated as a member species of the Consensus, granted all of the rights Va'nyrian society held for themselves. Due to fundamental physical differences however, the Va'nyr was sadly the only gift the Va'nyrians could grant their newfound friends, and the Tsrea'Nen are unable to partake in the pseudo-immortality that the other Va'nyrian advances have granted them. Due to their extremely long life span, this is not a problem for the Tsrea'Nen who simply do not share the fear for their mortality that the Va'nyrians feel for them. Despite all of this, the unnatural passing of a Tsrea'Nen is a great cause for mourning in both species.


There are three sub-types of Starhawk, each of them representing a markedly different point in their development:


The Elo'Nen


The largest of Starhawks, the Elo'Nen are those who have lived on for at least 500 million years, slowly expanding in both size and capacity for manipulating the background energy of the cosmos. Measuring in average around 50 KM of circumference at their widest point, with a "wing span" measuring over 150KM and nearly 100km long from tip to tip, the Elo'Nen often function more as mobile habitats or space stations than starships for their Va'nyrian allies, and house virtually entire cities within them. The amplification effect their distortion fields have on the Va'nyr link is so strong that it is not uncommon for two Va'nyrians standing in opposing sides of a galaxy to maintain in contact with one another with their help.


They are the only ones capable of directing enough externally collected energy into a distortion field powerful enough to enable the longest of wormhole jumps, and as such tend to serve as the mobile bases for the exploratory quorums into the far reaches of the Universe.


Relying on their own stores of energy, an Elo'Nen is capable of generating a wormhole deep enough to traverse the length of a galaxy roughly the same size of the Milky Way from arm to arm and enter the Dead Space beyond on a single discharge before needing months of recharge before they can perform another jump. They can also perform a series of wormhole jumps sequentially to achieve the same feat if time is not an issue but energy conservation is. The Elo'Nen "Grael'Quenoxis" is the Starhawk responsible for ferrying Quorum 76 in their mission to the Milky Way.


The Khav'Nen


The second largest class of Starhawks, the Khav'Nen are those who have reached an age of 100-500 million years. Measuring in average around 20 KM of circumference at their widest point, with a "wing span" around 80 KM and nearly 60 KM in length, the Khav'Nen usually serve as scientific outposts or temporary housing habitats for Va'nyrian terraforming efforts.


With a range several orders of magnitude shorter than the Elo'Nen, the Khav'Nen almost exclusively perform intergalactic travel in the presence of a guiding Elo'Nen, but are capable of travelling between galaxies by chaining together shorter jumps taking them weeks or even months. Due to their small size in comparison with the Elo'Nen and still formidably sized energy cores, the Khav'Nen are the fastest of Starhawks within real space. The Khav'Nen Twins "Vlanisava" and "Vladnixian" are accompanying Quorum 76, serving as scientific and support vessels respectively.


The Tsrin'Nen


The Tsrin'Nen are the youngest of Starhawks, and are comprised of Starhawks from the age of first flight after 50 years of incubation, to those up to 100 million years old about to undergo their metamorphosis into Khav'Nen. Their variability in size is as wide as the variability in their ages. They can be anywhere from a few dozen meters in length, width, and height and only capable of housing a single person, to several dozen kilometers in length, width and height housing hundreds of peoples.


While incapable of inter-galactic travel on their own, a Tsrin'Nen class starhawk is more than capable of relatively fast interstellar travel on its own. Unless actively assisting or carrying a Va'nyrian, they are seldom found straying far from their protective Elo'Nen. The Elo'Nen "Grael'Quenoxis" is travelling with roughly 200 Tsrin'Nen in tow, with many more in incubation.
 
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