The Xy'lon
Locations: The Constructed Realm, The New Dream, The Realm of Trials
Time Periods Existed: 1200 P.B (Period of Beginnings) - A.C. (Age of Convergence/Current)
Biology and Physique
Xy'lons differ vastly but generally have a blue hue with small crystal formations. Strangely enough all Xylons identify as males. Xy'lons are not birthed but instead a shaper (A specific job for Xy'lon) must make another Xy'lon out of specific crystals known as Xyl'on crystals. However a new type of crystal has been found that is proving to be more powerful and structurally sound for the building of Xy'lon, commonly known as Elder crystals. These crystals are steadily being used more due to the powerful Xy'lon war shapes that would be unable to be made with just Xy'lon Crystals.. The process of shaping is very taxing and there is little room for error for the Shaper, leading for little room for error especially due to taxing semi-shared hivemind state of the Xy'lon psyche. Increasingly more Xy'lon are born as "Twisted", Xy'lon who retain only the smallest amount of mental capacity and generally break apart in a couple of years.
An explanation for this is that Xy'lon have a semi-shared sub consciousness. When a Xyl'on is shaped it often gains many different lifetimes of memories from dead Xy'lon. There is speculation that Xy'lon are being born more as Twisted because there are more memories to select from for new shaped Xy'lon. Furthermore the Xy'lon form is very weight heavy and as such older or not well shaped Xy'lon legs and body slowly break apart and need to be replaced with robotics.
Xy'lons differ vastly but generally have a blue hue with small crystal formations. Strangely enough all Xylons identify as males. Xy'lons are not birthed but instead a shaper (A specific job for Xy'lon) must make another Xy'lon out of specific crystals known as Xyl'on crystals. However a new type of crystal has been found that is proving to be more powerful and structurally sound for the building of Xy'lon, commonly known as Elder crystals. These crystals are steadily being used more due to the powerful Xy'lon war shapes that would be unable to be made with just Xy'lon Crystals.. The process of shaping is very taxing and there is little room for error for the Shaper, leading for little room for error especially due to taxing semi-shared hivemind state of the Xy'lon psyche. Increasingly more Xy'lon are born as "Twisted", Xy'lon who retain only the smallest amount of mental capacity and generally break apart in a couple of years.
An explanation for this is that Xy'lon have a semi-shared sub consciousness. When a Xyl'on is shaped it often gains many different lifetimes of memories from dead Xy'lon. There is speculation that Xy'lon are being born more as Twisted because there are more memories to select from for new shaped Xy'lon. Furthermore the Xy'lon form is very weight heavy and as such older or not well shaped Xy'lon legs and body slowly break apart and need to be replaced with robotics.
HISTORY OF THE XY'LON
The Twisting of Radiant Identity (1200 P.B. - 3410 P.B.)
When the Mantles took the body of Sightless Beauty, they utilized it as a shell to convert into the necessary new constructed reality majkets required to make the expanded shell of the Constructed Realm from her body. However, the Realm itself was empty and hollow, requiring further powers to stabilize as well as grow the spaces within the shell so that they, as well as other consciousness, could exist within it as well as feed the majket of the realm keeping the majkets of Reality from penetrating.
As such, the sleeping body of Radiant Identity was stolen at the same time as his wife's Sightless Beauty. Careful majket tortures were then practiced on his body to dissect and tear it apart in experiments. The male Titans body was taken apart while still being kept alive and slumbering, it's excess dream-like majket energies of being a Foci twisted to use into neuron stones craved from it's body. The Mantles placed these pieces of the still alive slumbering Titan in strategic areas of the shell of the newly formed creation of the Constructed Realm in their initial rituals. The carved crystals would then be surrounded with materials so that the carved out neurons of Radiant Identity would fulfill the role as the beginning feeding pillars for the Maze Worlds which would slowly begin the creation of reality imitation from majket.
These crystals would grow within the Maze Worlds fostering the growth of the life on the surfaces as they were intended; helping jump start the natural cycle of evolution and life as well as the further creation of more worlds as excess materials broke off from the maze worlds to slowly collide and grow in the natural formation of planetary systems and star systems. They would additionally be used as the gateways by the Mantles during their rebellion as well as later by the Kurlik Empire during the Mantles rule; as with the proper knowledge majket could be practiced from within the Maze Worlds to transport in-between the Realms.
A Desperate Decision (75 G.A.)
Despite the use from the Kurlik of the crystals in the Maze Worlds to create the Realm of Trials, little of their majket was used to altered the already intended purpose of the crystals of Radiant Identity. However in 75 G.A. (Golden Age of Realms) Vincent Raven, in his desperate quest with those that had chosen to follow him, on their travels to find the tools necessary to defeat the Taint as well as ferment rebellion and explore newly found Maze Worlds, would eventually fall on the living world maze crystals. Utilizing the newly found emphatic abilities that Vincent Raven had learned with his fellow followers in the fight against Taint, he was able to create the first production line of Xy'lon tasking some of his followers to the carving and shaping of the first Xy'lon. These Xy'lon were the most rudimentary and simple, unable to do much more than hard labor. Their giant looming forms, crudely cut from the crystals, were embodied with human emphatic resonating energy to encourage the dormant mind into singular thought and autonomy as well as to influence its loyalty. The creation of the Xy'lon would galvanize further forces to Vincent Raven, allowing him to create the much wider reaching human resistance organization of the Spirit Core with the demand for both those in who had naturally learned emphatic abilities as well as research into it.
This research would culminate roughly from the first production of Xy'lon as items of labor, into the second production as the potential fodder and assistance in many Outer Worlds of the human colonized worlds that now supported the brunt of the Crimson War. They found that the creatures had the tendency to break apart easily, the initial production models being to big and heavy to last much longer then a couple dozen combats. The newer smaller production of "roughs" would be slowly employed more and more throughout the years of the war; however, would never be produced as widely as the later production three models as the production of Xy'lon proved to still be overall slower to follow directions, had trouble with command decisions, and numerous other such determent issues that the human resistance considered too risky for full usage in battle.
The Beginning of Diplomatic Complexity (160 G.A. - A.C.)
The smaller models called "roughs" were deployed sparingly starting in 85 G.A.. However, as connectivity between Xy'lon as a race had still to be determined by Vincent and the Spirit Core, their time spent would be on finding more effective methods of usage for the Xy'lon. In undisclosed Spirit Core research, a methodology was found informing of a specific carving method of new Xy'lon that led the Spirit Core to begin not only slowly producing more efficient model productions as seen in generation three, but also a greater success rate of carving Xy'lon as "Twisted" Xy'lon shaping numbers grew becoming more common in the shaping process of Xy'lon. The establishment of the new Female Human "Deity" was the establishing point of these more "conscious" Xy'lon tapping into their sexual identity as "males" that were able to be tied via unknown Spirit Core sciences. Rose, newly cured from taint and former love interest of Victor Raven 13, would be used empathically as the center for the new shaping methods to be employed by future Xy'lon "Shapers". The culmination of this would lead to the eventual creation by the Xy'lon of a female lead government comprised mostly of Emphatic female Spirit Core Members and the start of the "Sister Governance" of the Xy'lon Matriarchy.
The Xy'lon would only expand rapidly from here, proving to be a powerful tool near the end of the Crimson War as wide swaths of Crimson Empire territory was given and defended by the Xy'lon Matriarchy, especially in regards to the defense against larger Taint forces. The Xy'lon proved seemingly impervious to the physic infection of the Taint, and their crystal bodies and weapons proved especially effective against the biologically based Taint. At the end of the Crimson War, in the Treaty of Valhalla, the borders of the Xy'lon Matriarchy were given by the U.W.F. and it's allies declaring them "Independent", although little of the government is really such. Despite this, a total of four civil wars sense the establishment of the Xy'lon Matriarchy have been fought as tensions have grown among Xy'lon and diminishing crystals harvesting locations for new Xy'lons to be shaped found. Their varying views have expanded on their role in the universe as well as the control and mismanagement of their government by other female alien races. Because of this, the Xy'lon people, themselves, acknowledge the fact that they have little control over the way their own government is run.
The Twisting of Radiant Identity (1200 P.B. - 3410 P.B.)
When the Mantles took the body of Sightless Beauty, they utilized it as a shell to convert into the necessary new constructed reality majkets required to make the expanded shell of the Constructed Realm from her body. However, the Realm itself was empty and hollow, requiring further powers to stabilize as well as grow the spaces within the shell so that they, as well as other consciousness, could exist within it as well as feed the majket of the realm keeping the majkets of Reality from penetrating.
As such, the sleeping body of Radiant Identity was stolen at the same time as his wife's Sightless Beauty. Careful majket tortures were then practiced on his body to dissect and tear it apart in experiments. The male Titans body was taken apart while still being kept alive and slumbering, it's excess dream-like majket energies of being a Foci twisted to use into neuron stones craved from it's body. The Mantles placed these pieces of the still alive slumbering Titan in strategic areas of the shell of the newly formed creation of the Constructed Realm in their initial rituals. The carved crystals would then be surrounded with materials so that the carved out neurons of Radiant Identity would fulfill the role as the beginning feeding pillars for the Maze Worlds which would slowly begin the creation of reality imitation from majket.
These crystals would grow within the Maze Worlds fostering the growth of the life on the surfaces as they were intended; helping jump start the natural cycle of evolution and life as well as the further creation of more worlds as excess materials broke off from the maze worlds to slowly collide and grow in the natural formation of planetary systems and star systems. They would additionally be used as the gateways by the Mantles during their rebellion as well as later by the Kurlik Empire during the Mantles rule; as with the proper knowledge majket could be practiced from within the Maze Worlds to transport in-between the Realms.
A Desperate Decision (75 G.A.)
Despite the use from the Kurlik of the crystals in the Maze Worlds to create the Realm of Trials, little of their majket was used to altered the already intended purpose of the crystals of Radiant Identity. However in 75 G.A. (Golden Age of Realms) Vincent Raven, in his desperate quest with those that had chosen to follow him, on their travels to find the tools necessary to defeat the Taint as well as ferment rebellion and explore newly found Maze Worlds, would eventually fall on the living world maze crystals. Utilizing the newly found emphatic abilities that Vincent Raven had learned with his fellow followers in the fight against Taint, he was able to create the first production line of Xy'lon tasking some of his followers to the carving and shaping of the first Xy'lon. These Xy'lon were the most rudimentary and simple, unable to do much more than hard labor. Their giant looming forms, crudely cut from the crystals, were embodied with human emphatic resonating energy to encourage the dormant mind into singular thought and autonomy as well as to influence its loyalty. The creation of the Xy'lon would galvanize further forces to Vincent Raven, allowing him to create the much wider reaching human resistance organization of the Spirit Core with the demand for both those in who had naturally learned emphatic abilities as well as research into it.
This research would culminate roughly from the first production of Xy'lon as items of labor, into the second production as the potential fodder and assistance in many Outer Worlds of the human colonized worlds that now supported the brunt of the Crimson War. They found that the creatures had the tendency to break apart easily, the initial production models being to big and heavy to last much longer then a couple dozen combats. The newer smaller production of "roughs" would be slowly employed more and more throughout the years of the war; however, would never be produced as widely as the later production three models as the production of Xy'lon proved to still be overall slower to follow directions, had trouble with command decisions, and numerous other such determent issues that the human resistance considered too risky for full usage in battle.
The Beginning of Diplomatic Complexity (160 G.A. - A.C.)
The smaller models called "roughs" were deployed sparingly starting in 85 G.A.. However, as connectivity between Xy'lon as a race had still to be determined by Vincent and the Spirit Core, their time spent would be on finding more effective methods of usage for the Xy'lon. In undisclosed Spirit Core research, a methodology was found informing of a specific carving method of new Xy'lon that led the Spirit Core to begin not only slowly producing more efficient model productions as seen in generation three, but also a greater success rate of carving Xy'lon as "Twisted" Xy'lon shaping numbers grew becoming more common in the shaping process of Xy'lon. The establishment of the new Female Human "Deity" was the establishing point of these more "conscious" Xy'lon tapping into their sexual identity as "males" that were able to be tied via unknown Spirit Core sciences. Rose, newly cured from taint and former love interest of Victor Raven 13, would be used empathically as the center for the new shaping methods to be employed by future Xy'lon "Shapers". The culmination of this would lead to the eventual creation by the Xy'lon of a female lead government comprised mostly of Emphatic female Spirit Core Members and the start of the "Sister Governance" of the Xy'lon Matriarchy.
The Xy'lon would only expand rapidly from here, proving to be a powerful tool near the end of the Crimson War as wide swaths of Crimson Empire territory was given and defended by the Xy'lon Matriarchy, especially in regards to the defense against larger Taint forces. The Xy'lon proved seemingly impervious to the physic infection of the Taint, and their crystal bodies and weapons proved especially effective against the biologically based Taint. At the end of the Crimson War, in the Treaty of Valhalla, the borders of the Xy'lon Matriarchy were given by the U.W.F. and it's allies declaring them "Independent", although little of the government is really such. Despite this, a total of four civil wars sense the establishment of the Xy'lon Matriarchy have been fought as tensions have grown among Xy'lon and diminishing crystals harvesting locations for new Xy'lons to be shaped found. Their varying views have expanded on their role in the universe as well as the control and mismanagement of their government by other female alien races. Because of this, the Xy'lon people, themselves, acknowledge the fact that they have little control over the way their own government is run.
Generation One
Production Period: 77 G.A. - 185 G.A.
XY'LON IVORY Crafted as large 14 foot or so tall forms, the Xy'lon Ivory's were a bright white as the initial crystals cut from the Maze Worlds were of a brighter white hue. It would not be until the emphatic energy begin forming on its own via shaping processes producing the shared racial memories naturally in the crystals, visually showing itself as the blueish hue. The Xy'lon sub-consciousness no longer required the emphatic input from Vincent's followers, instead able to reproduce naturally off naturally thanks to the majket of Radiant Identities slumbering power. However the tie Vincent and the Spirit Core had left by tying the Reborn Rose as a Deity and the rest of the Circle of Ten Deities, feeding off the emphatic energies of the Xy'lon. Initially crafted in experimental phases, by Spirit Core members and used on the outer rim rebel fleets and planets that Vincent Raven had assembled. This lead to the more official creation of the Spirit Core as now the followers of Vincent were able to use the created Xy'lon Ivories to heavily produce weapon shipments, Capital and Corsair class ships for the heavily taxed rebel and U.W. forces barely holding off Crimson Empire forces. As the Xy'lon Ivories were the quickest to become Xy'lon twisted due to their weight, the Ivories additionally due to their lower level of independent thought would be used the Xy'lon military. Their limbs chopped, and sometimes their heads and legs replaced with weapons, and other technology. These initial advances into weapons would further define Xy'lon weaponization by the Xy'lon military of shaping of Xy'lon, and the advance of the philosophy from the Xy'lon themselves of body modification into weapons. |
Generation Two
Production Period: 83 G.A. - A.C. (Current)
XY'LON ROUGHS
As the Crimson War shifted towards less desperate defensive battles, and assaulting the bastions that the Crimson Empire held on Human worlds as well as reestablishing territories, the Spirit Core begin implementing new Xy'lon's. The Roughs the smaller newer Xy'lon would be deployed as tactical territory holding forces and security forces. Able to hold and function on their own without oversight from the Spirit Core this left time for the Spirit Core to assist the U.W. as well as begin their own attacks against the Crimson Empire. Able to more safely defend and keep territory, they would prove invaluable to the morale of the human race to reestablish itself. It also provided the beginning of using the Xy'lon race as servants, and rewards to those that had fought in the Crimson War and other members of the human race to insentience service in fighting against the Crimson Empire. Military historians also point out the continual pressure now being put on by Human forces and allies and the stretching of the leadership of the Crimson Empire thinly. The internal Empire conflict allowing for the Kurlik slave race from the Crimson Empire that had already begin their rebellion in 60 A.C. to establish diplomatic relationships with the U.W. and Spirit Core. Still used by the Xy'lon Matriarchy as well as commonly during the Xy'lon rebellions, Roughs while not as common as Consorts are the second most commonly shaped Xy'lon. |
Generation Three
Production Period: 160 G.A. - A.C. (Current)
XY'LON TWISTED As the Xy'lon created slowly aged, new issues arose in methodology of shaping as quickly weight and the forms being created for the Xy'lons proved to be inherently destructive to the long term longevity and usage in battle. However after tying the empathetic energies of Xy'lon to Reborn Rose, the Xy'lon that were either too broken or created improperly could be augmented and used. These "Twisted" had as limited consciousness similar to Ivories but with similar technological augmentations they could be utilized in a variety of tasks. Xy'lon Twisted are often the workforce and fodder for Xy'lon. Crucial to the growth of the the Xy'lon Matriarchy as the Xy'lon needed its own workforce and servants, and as the shaping process got harder therefor producing more "Twisted" per batch of carved Xy'lon. Often Xy'lon Twisted are noticeable from the numerous cracks, broken sections, and most importantly their fragmented memories; creating a unstable personality. |
XY'LON CONSORTS The most common currently produced Xy'lons, made to look like well endowed human males. Serving anywhere from personal servants to human females to warriors in battle, consort Xy'lon became the commonly shaped form. The more sleek and refined shape gives off a soft bluish hue common for this generation of Xy'lon. Highly intelligent, the Xy'lon Consorts begin to slowly take over the the shaping processes of other Xy'lon as well as the day to day administration of the newly forming Xy'lon Matriarchy. This allowed the U.W. and Spirt Core to focus on the building of their own governmental structures as the war turned in their favor, shoring up and establishing stronger controls and processes to fight the Taint. Soon in addition to Kurlik, Anngex and Ra'ul allies the addition of the Xy'lon Matriarchy government as an allies with the U.W. under the guidance of the Spirit Core allowed for the establishment of an all powerful trade system of building the Space Rings using the newly found technology proven through Xy'lon research. Consorts are often were also used as the rewards for humans and other races as servants when the U.W.F. first begin establishing full control, allowing for the dramatic rise in the worth of the newly created governments currency. |
ANNGEX XY'LON Shaped to further tie the newly started diplomatic relationships begun during the Crimson War with Anngex herds. These Xy'lon would become the most popular even above the Ra'ul Xy'lons, this would be especially true later on when the Pasture Space was developed and established in U.W.F territory. Their role as manual servants has lead to them filling the function in jobs helping shipping and other tasks such as servicing those on expensive cruise space liners. Not often shaped unfortunately past these roles, these Anngex Xy'lon even among those not born Twisted have the highest rate of turning into Twisted early on due to their enormous weight of their carved shells. |
RA'UL XY'LON As trade ties grew to be more and more important and the U.W. and Spirit Core grew to depend on the manufacturing from their Ra'ul allies, so too were Xy'lon created to serve Ra'ul. While Ra'ul did utilize the Ra'ul Xy'lon they were some of the least popularly shaped Xy'lons. Due to the nature of the Ra'uls biology and philosophy of products having more value, the Xy'lon shaped as Ra'ul proved too decisive for the Ra'ul Government. Eventually at the end of the Crimson War instead of the shaping of further Xy'lon crystals into Ra'ul, a different reward was gifted to the Ra'ul. The Ra'ul race are now given highly desirable trade and job security as well as positions of status within the Xy'lon Matriarchy, serving on the councils and law organizations and police force of the government. Whereas on their home planets a Ra'ul due to the number of them born so rapidly might never truly advance, their government now had a way of further dealing with their highly fluctuating racial population via a new job source in the Xy'lon Matriarchy. It would be there that Ra'ul Xy'lon would be shaped more commonly, used as slaves for the well to do Ra'ul security forces and merchants who where more willing to ignore the craftsmanship of others. |
DURHAN XY'LON By far the least commonly seen Xy'lon, Durhan Xy'lons are not made with typical shaping method the other Xy'lon are with the use of empathetic energy and instead shaped with Psychic Energy. Captured sharpers, and supplies of Xy'lon Crystals by Durhan agents would lead to several smaller attempts at batches of created Xy'lon to emulate the Durhan by their operatives. Used by the outcasts of the Crimson Empire, the Durhan Xy'lon are the creations of the Durhan who managed to survive the cull of their philosophy Mechanius. Used to augment their very small numbered forces, as well as acting as independent agents; they float across space doing the bidding's of their masters, or perhaps worst their own motivations. While not excepted in U.W.F. space, the Durhan Xy'lon are more tolerated then their biological makers the Durhan, even traded and hired at times as mercenaries. |
Generation Four
Production Period: 278 G.A. - A.C. (Current)
XY'LON EBONY and XY'LON WARFORGED
As the Crimson War subsided and ended, the Xy'lon Matriarchy would grew into it's role as a vanguard government on the flank of the newly established U.W.F. This allowing the U.W.F to further establish themselves the new government would be left to fight any further small shadow war skirmishes among the Feather Servants and Crimson Empire allies not attached to the signing of the Valkyrie Accords. However with the mass increase in the production in Xy'lon so to did the rise in rebellion among the Xy'lon, their complexity as a race now starting to show itself as splinter groups of philosophy begin to grow.
During the third civil war, the Xy'lon Military was forced to stomp out a rouge faction lead by a human female who had used the philosophy of the Xy'lon philosophy to attempt a coup on the Reborn Rose. It would be during that civil war that Ebony Xy'lons and War Forged Xy'lon would begin to be produced by the Xy'lon military. Created by mixing newly found more sturdy "Elder" Crystals, the Xy'lon Military was able to produce at a rapid rate new production shaping for Xy'lon warriors utilizing this newly found method.
These Xy'lon are shaped as a mix of different forms, instead of shaped to look as another race, the hyper militarized Xy'lon combat leadership forces (who had born the brunt of continuous war) shaped Xy'lon in a number of new ways to provide the deadliest combat bodies. This would be the key to ending the third civil war, the largest in the Xy'lons history so far, but so to would it lead to higher tensions within the Xy'lon Matriarchy. As the fraying tie to Reborn Rose and her Deity like powers waned in control over the Xy'lon race.
As the Crimson War subsided and ended, the Xy'lon Matriarchy would grew into it's role as a vanguard government on the flank of the newly established U.W.F. This allowing the U.W.F to further establish themselves the new government would be left to fight any further small shadow war skirmishes among the Feather Servants and Crimson Empire allies not attached to the signing of the Valkyrie Accords. However with the mass increase in the production in Xy'lon so to did the rise in rebellion among the Xy'lon, their complexity as a race now starting to show itself as splinter groups of philosophy begin to grow.
During the third civil war, the Xy'lon Military was forced to stomp out a rouge faction lead by a human female who had used the philosophy of the Xy'lon philosophy to attempt a coup on the Reborn Rose. It would be during that civil war that Ebony Xy'lons and War Forged Xy'lon would begin to be produced by the Xy'lon military. Created by mixing newly found more sturdy "Elder" Crystals, the Xy'lon Military was able to produce at a rapid rate new production shaping for Xy'lon warriors utilizing this newly found method.
These Xy'lon are shaped as a mix of different forms, instead of shaped to look as another race, the hyper militarized Xy'lon combat leadership forces (who had born the brunt of continuous war) shaped Xy'lon in a number of new ways to provide the deadliest combat bodies. This would be the key to ending the third civil war, the largest in the Xy'lons history so far, but so to would it lead to higher tensions within the Xy'lon Matriarchy. As the fraying tie to Reborn Rose and her Deity like powers waned in control over the Xy'lon race.