#infomorph

Šaṭranj: RGB austroraptor, a photographer who especially loves taking photos of phenomena that cannot be seen with the baseline human eye. Homosexual & neutrois

After meeting during a joint research mission on an anomalous eyeball planet, Jupiter and Brigali became colleagues at the Hōkūleʻa Orbital Spatiotemporal Institute (HOSI), and invested their efforts into studying the potential of wormholes that would bypass liminal subspace. During a procedure involving creating a wormhole with modified properties, the bridging protocol seemingly ceased to function, with the central gap in the HOSI's toroidal structure gaining no physical alterations. It was only when an exasperated Jupiter drifted into the gap to examine it that something did manifest: a branching inter-universal wormhole, at the exact spot where Jupiter was hovering. Jupiter's neural system was flooded with countless new inputs from alternate versions of themself, now referred to as the Parallel Jovians. The Parallel Jovians, based on their universe's similarity to Jupiter's own, could communicate with, swap places with, or appear near Jupiter. The sudden influx of extra-dimensional life-forms with previously unobserved capabilities caused considerable damage to the Institute and its personnel, and left Jupiter incapable of continuing work in the field for the foreseeable future.