#electronians

Real life context: Being one of my oldest races, they were originally depicted as inhabiting tv-head style robot bodies, causing the originally temporary name of “Electronians”. Many things will be simplified for the sake of convenience.

Electronians are one of the oldest known races in the universe, developing eleven billion four hundred ninety-three million years before the anchor year of 2109. They began as small sea creatures, however due to their nature they quickly overtook the oceans and the rest of their home planet. Their physiology varies greatly due to impacts of their environments*. Kind of like different dog breeds all still being dogs. They’re usually pink, red, or purple in coloration overall, however green hair and eyes are possible (similar to gingers) and rarest blue eyes appear in a very specific sub group.

*They reproduce parasitically, using other animals as hosts. Their young hijack the nervous system of the hosts with the purpose of accessing their senses to collect information. When they were fish, their young would mimic the creatures they observed in this period, as well as retaining traits directly from the host and from previous generations. This allowed easy infiltration of schools. All Electronians have an innate ability to tell when a creature is an Electronian. Some traits gained from one host linger throughout later generations, for example all non-aquatic electronians have the ability to transform their respiratory system to allow them to breathe underwater, such as lungs being converted to a swim bladder. Not all traits of hosts are kept, especially once they advanced past Just Being Fish.

Over time and through for the fun of it sci fi logic, they developed three types of abilities. In order of commonality and purpose within their original habitat: Shapeshifters (shifters) are capable of changes ranging from simply changing color to complete free shape shifting(limited by mass conservation), partially related to genetics but overall being a skill that has to be improved over time. This allowed for camouflage, as well as easier infiltration. Second are those with any form of telekinesis, there’s no real explanation, I just thought it was cool. Rarest are Seers, who are able to telepathically communicate with any other Seer(s). Their connections-Mental Links- are like a phone call: one initiates the connection and the other must “pick up the phone”. They can share things such as memory, active senses, thoughts, ect. When a connection is active, an eye of each of the participants changes to the color of the other. Before The Web Of Seers, the most links maintained at once was 8! Some smaller forms of these abilities are available to all members of specific sub groups. Some mutations of these abilities have appeared, such as Gauthier’s unlimited production of bone and keratin as an offshoot of shapeshifting.

This leads in to Electronian History. Their home planet also had two intelligent species- one more technologically advanced, and the other like a spore tribal stage. A member of the latter once ate a host, causing the baby to attempt and succeed in transferring hosts, unlocking the possibility of breaching these new races. One war and complete assimilation later they replaced the tribal species and slowly worked to do the same to the more advanced one, eventually succeeding. They gained a new host species in a livestock species, space faring technology, as well as an early form of microscopic robots used to repair the body, allowing conditional immortality. As they began to leave their home planet, a group came forward to lead and join all Electronians as they entered the unknown. One of these members was Keqsofos, who’s shapeshifting mutation allowed him to manipulate the bodies of other organic life, an ability that grew with time.

Over time, for various reasons this group slowly dwindled in numbers until the only person leading this expansion was Keqsofos**. He utilized shapeshifting to change in small ways when addressing specific groups as to be more relatable, and maintained a persona of a powerful yet grounded leader (aided by propaganda of course). He pushed for a constant expansion throughout their galaxy, and for mutants such as himself to be placed in higher standing. People were encouraged to hand over their children with these mutated abilities, however the majority went undetected and as an already rare phenomenon were very few and far between.

Up to, 2109 7 “Leaders” were surrendered to Keqsofos, the first being Miss, who he attempted to raise utilizing her skills in his first attempt at making a living weapon, however he gave up on her, abandoning her in her home planet. The second was Gauthier, who he chucked at the millitary and said “raise this kid to be your leader!” Third was Nyoma, then Elorey, Keqsofos’ son Armodeus, Aeron, and finally Maylee. Their reputations all proceeded them (sans Maylee he’s like 7) as (for some) billions of years of propaganda meant to make them these powerful Leaders shifted their public image greatly.

As they spread throughout the galaxy, Keqsofos felt his influence lessen. Being 11.3 BILLION years old at this point, a bit off his rocker and desperate to maintain power, he enlisted Elorey- who had become a very well known engineer- to lead the production of ships that acted as artificial planets, large enough to house their entire population of 85.8 billion. Keqsofos announced an end to their conquest, Gauthier retired, and he introduced this solution to a problem only he had. To his surprise, people weren’t very keen on uprooting their lives, some of which whose family and culture had existed for eons. Gauthier refused to call his armies to assist, so Keqsofos had his personal forces give people the option to either leave to live on the artificial planets, or to die. Roughly 39 billion people were “lost” in the transition, and many children were left orphaned as Keqsofos ordered no child to be harmed (father of the year).

MThis created what was known as The Orphan Planets, Valdell and Domici. All children left orphaned were homes on these planets and cared for by Nyoma and her assistants (largely androids at this period), which is how she gained the standing as The Mother to All. Over time, they became just another set of artificial planets. The rest of the planets put into use are Eadino with a population of ~8.2 billion***, Unasee (the largest and most complex as well as home of Keqsofos) with 7.4 bil, and Seserive (the largest water %) with 6.75 bil.

After witnessing this genocide, Elorey gained a conscious and lead the First Revolution, which failed, and he was made an example of why not to cross Keqsofos’ will, being mutilated on live television, yippie! And kept alive for his skills. Later, inspired by Elorey was the Second Revolution, which built the frameworks for the Final Electronian Revolution, but was seen as a failure in its time, as the majority of revolutionaries were executed or imprisoned. By now Keqsofos had ceased any attempts at maintaining a good public appearance, instead relying on intense policing, power, and what few extreme followers remained. Post-genocide his reputation plummeted, and it took 6822 years for him to finally be toppled and the people freed in the Final Electronian Revolution, lead by Tesla Parthier, Lolite Adalicia, Fafaill, Svaldifari Hanlon, and Lyrid. After this, connection with the Integalactic Union began and the people were able to return to their homes, or live on the artificial planets, as many had known nothing else.

To the rest of the universe, Electronians were like a galactic ghost story. Their home galexy was a ghost town, most planets unable to be explored due to remaining defenses, but SOS signals and warnings to escape continued to be sent out since the genocide. Electronians had avoided or predated the majority of intelligent life, and were thought to be nothing but a myth until the IU was able to gain contact with Armodeus by reverse engineering scavenged communications tech, and attempting contact. Keqsofos was pressured by Aeron and Armodeus to do something to satiate the Union, convincing him to send one or two people they’d so kindly select for him to one of the IU’s colonies as ambassadors. This was done with the intent to allow the growing revolution’s leader, Tesla, to gain more power through the help of the Union, and to topple Keqsofos. This plot eventually succeeded, and shortly after Keqsofos was toppled, upon realizing she would no be able to simply take over his position, Aeron hijacked two of the planets- Eadino and Unasee- kidnapping Elorey and Armodeus in the process. She is eventually defeated and imprisoned by the IU, having gaslight gatekeep girlbossed too close to the sun.

To prevent exploitation of their advanced technology, Electronian IU relations are kept quite tight, and with quite a lot of paperwork. The most well known Electronian in this period was Pilopherae “Pops” Parthier, who’s platform on twitch allowed easy exposure to him. Go grandpa

That is the short of Electronian history and biology, now on to the tied winner of the poll, the Intergalactic Union!

**I could do a whole thing about just him this man is a mess. Megalomaniacal Max Headroom type mf