Anomalous Entities

While the majority of the known organisms and peoples in the sector have been researched and categorized to a reasonable extent, there remain secrets and mysteries that we have yet to unravel and understand. These entities are best handled with caution and respect, and from as much of a distance as feasible for the traveler to allow.

  • «There's way too much shit in this sector for us to pretend we know about so much as half of it, but these things in particuar are way out there past any alien tentacle monster you find planetside. Some of them can't even be confirmed as alive, sapient, or even real. Here there be dragons.» -Omega

Void Monoliths

Starfarers from all walks of life have reported encounters with swarms of polyhedral objects ranging in size from equivalent to a standard humanoid to larger than any known class of battleship, all made of the same unknown black material that was observed to distort light in an area around it. These entities are most commonly referred to as "void monoliths" by the public, due to their geometric shape and resemblance to mysterious objects prevalent in science fiction media. All attempts to communicate have failed, but their responses and other observed behaviors suggest an intelligence advanced enough to be on par with most sapient beings.

  • «The majority of this "oberved behavior" was data recovered from black boxes found in starship wreckage and consists of combat maneuvers and tactics employed by the void monoliths. They can be destroyed, but it sure as hell isn't easy, and there's not much point to it anyways.» -Upsilon

Extreme caution is advised if these entities are encountered, and special notice should be made towards any gravitational anomalies occurring within the vicinity.

  • «These void monoliths seem to be capable of generating incredibly precise gravitics, to the extent of manipulating small objects within the confines of a nearby starship. It's believed this is how they travel from system to system, whether through wormhole generation or warping space similar to the old Alcubierre drive theory. However, much like most shark-like organisms, it seems to be their only means of interacting with the world around them, and their attacks could very well be the results of their curiosity and inquisitive examinations. Not that this will comfort anyone who is subject to them.» -Lambda
  • «They seem to know how to avoid breaking things, actually. At least, that's what I found out when I met one. It was a fighter-sized one shaped like a cut diamond right outside the observation deck, and before I knew it, it actually picked me up and started moving my limbs around. It started bending my arm in a direction it's not supposed to bend, but when I started yelling, it stopped and let go. I got no idea what that was all about, but at the very least I know they're not just being clumsy when they tear ships apart.» -Pi
  • «There's really no way of knowing what they're going to do when you run into them. Telepathy doesn't get through to them(or they're just ignoring us), and even precognitive powers are hit and miss when dealing with them. Some of the eggheads theorized they do it by using gravity to distort time as well as space, but again, nobody knows anything for sure.» -Psi
  • «There's stories going around frontier spacer communities of monolith graveyards. People jump into the system to find a swarm of them floating around a moon or a barren planet or something, and some of them go careening into the surface at flank speed, making a new crater and becoming their own tombstone. But space knows if it's real, or if they're actually dead or not. Take it with a grain of salt, as always.» -Zeta

Saint Elmo's Fire

Named after a luminous meteorlogical event made famous by its occurrence on sea-faring vessels on Earth, this strange phenomenon is observed primarily around highly active stars, in which charged plasma collects on the hull of a nearby starship. While providing a captivating sight, the electromagnetic interference can disrupt ship systems, sometimes in ways that seem as if they were being deliberately manipulated or reprogrammed.

  • «There is in fact a growing body evidence that there is some sort of thought process behind the malfunctions. Prolonged occurrences can result in a ship changing course of its own will, and logs erased and replaced with garbled data that seems to have recurring patterns evident in it.» -Lambda
  • «Some of these "course corrections" have led ships to uncover undetected xenoarchaeological sites. Archive itself was one such discovery.» -Zeta
  • «Hit my ship once. No glitches, but for weeks afterward the crew lost a lot of sleep. Said they kept earing voices and seeing faces staring at them through the monitors. Creepy stuff.» -Sigma
  • «They're trying to tell us something, I know it.» -Omicron

Spaceborne Organisms

While consisting of multiple species across a number systems, many of which have been thoroughly studied organisms which are capable of surviving and propelling themselves in the vacuum of space deserve mention for the potential interactions they may have with starfarers.

  • «The likelihood of life developing in the inhospitable environment of space is astronomically unlikely, and yet we've discovered a disproportionate number of species that have done just that, many with surprising complexity. Bacteria is one thing, but complex lifeforms developing in space demands thorough study wherever it is found.» -Tau

The harsh rigors of space typically give rise to exceptionally hardy lifeforms that are often capable of threatening the integrity of a starship. With the need for durable protection from the radiation and vacuum in space and the lack of anything less durable than asteroids and the occasional other spaceborn organism to provide nourishment, the largest of these creatures can shrug off attacks from ship-grade weaponry and rupture the hull of a spacecraft with sheer strength or powerful corrosives.

  • «The little ones are tough fuckers, too. An infestation of asteroid polyps can pull a ship apart at the seams, and more than one mining crew has lost its life to a hibernating exostalker waking up in the ore collector with a big appetite.» -Epsilon
  • * «Most of them are effectively mindless or at best have a predatory cunning, but a small number of spaceborne lifeforms have shown intelligence that is debatably close to sapience. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity of joining an expedition that went out to study the cryograzers in the Vestigian Oort cloud, and they showed evidence of play activity and complex social structures, as well as a great deal of curiosity in our ship.» -Lambda

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!!!DUSTMEN!!!

so they conveneintly forgot to include this(and I think you can guess why) but the dustmen are real and they're EVERYWEHRE

nobody knows where they come from but anyone willing to listen to the truth knows what they do

they look like us, they can look like anyone, they act like real people until theyr found out and scans can't cathc it but they're empty inside, shells that crumble to dust when they finally go down(its mostly carbon but the chemical bonds are weird and theres other stuff people cant identifiy too)

they infiltrate our societies and enact schemes that are all connected but they make it look like theyre random accidents and stuff so most people cant connect the sdots

something is pulling their strings and wer all fucked wehn it goes down but nobody will see it coming(millennium did and thats why their all dead)

  • «Okay, what the hell is this?» -Omega
  • «I don't think it's hard to tell who came up with this paranoid drivel.» -Lambda
  • «Hey, I had nothing to do with this, seriously! The dustmen are real, yeah, but this guy is just crazy. Millennium was an inside job.» -Omicron
  • «Omicron's stupid, but that's how you know he's not lying. He couldn't have hacked my encryption to post this.» -Alpha
  • «At least their wasted their only opportunity on this ridiculous shitposting effort instead of something more believable than dustmen.» -Theta
  • «Says the government spook. I had a rat in my crew that had to have been one of them. Anything that could kill that many people and make us collapse a bulkhead to space it sure as hell had to be the real thing.» -Sigma
  • «Because the testimony of a drug-addled criminal is so much more credible, I'm sure.» -Epsilon
  • «Does anyone who doesn't have a bone to pick with everybody else have anything to say about this?» -Iota
  • «Well. I dunno if it's related, but I once took a job from an anonymous client(bad idea, I know, I was deep in the red) to smuggle some some "don't ask" cargo over to a contact waiting in the Millennium system. You know what was waiting for us? A fleet's worth of wreckage and THOUSANDS of void monoliths. We noped right the fuck out of there. At that point we didn't give a shit about the privacy of the prick who dropped us into that, so we opened up the cargo to see what it was. Dust. Just carbon, arranged into weird molecular structures. Mixed with other elements the scanners couldn't identify. Sound familiar?» -Delta
  • «Shi'za. That's chilling.» -Omega
  • «Cool story, bro.» -Xi
  • «If there's one thing I've learned sticking my nose into the darkest corners of this sector, it's that the universe is too damn big to dismiss anything as impossible.» -Zeta
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