because im burdened with nacene lore lololol:::::::
as it currently stands the nacene are kinda the keepers and maintainers of likeee quantum realities or likeee idk matter,,,, what keeps the universe and dimensions running,,,,,,,,, they refer to the things they manage as “the strings”, they dont typically have names either :)
their lives get portrayed in different ways to lesser beings to help them understand, similarly to the Q. janeway sees the nacene envisioned as like a person with many hands endlessly working on an elaborate quilt that goes on forever,,,,, and the nacene handling the strings as academy cadets taking exams. the doctor sees the strings as an bodiless orchestra playing rather flatly but consistently for eternity
the nacene we see in the series aka the Caretaker and Suspiria are a faction of the nacene that chose to break away from order and the strings to explore the universe,,,,
should also say that their “realm” is called Exosia,,, suspiria mentions it in Cold Fire but she claims to go there in her off hours and that idea got retconned a little bit in favor of the idea that theres a gatekept single access point to Exosia that is currently locked (until janeway opens it as the chosen “key holder”) suspiria is subsequently labeled as a liar lmao. (good for her)
theres a civil war going on between the maintainers of the strings called “the others” and those that chose to leave Exosia called “the exiled” the others have prevented the exiled from reentering exosia and thereby prevents them from sustaining their immortality (thus why we see the caretaker “die”)
ummmm other nacene include the Light hes supposedly the leader of the exiled, he might be dead he keeps getting mentioned. WELL SEE.
then theres phoebe whos an exiled impersonating janeways sister, got thwarted in the last book, shes a girl with an agenda.
suspiria is EFFECTIVELY dead. winks mysteriously. i like to think shes just living out what little life she has left before dying like her mate hohoho. i doubt itll be addressed conclusively in this book
and Vivia whos part of the others, hates phoebe, also looks like phoebe though. ummm phoebe named her :) shes just trying her best good for her. set to KILL currently lmao