THERIANS
> Designating the target! Arm, leveled! Weapon, generate projectile and fire! //
The therians are the almighty craftsmen of a better universe, a universe organized and bent to their will. They have dedicated themselves to an extraordinary mission: each star, each planet must be transformed, remodeled.
The therians’ abilities are infinite and their technology is allpowerful. All the resources in the universe could only offer a very temporary resistance against their will.
Three philosophical paths guide the prodidgious therian project:
- The Cyphers take care of the proper functioning of the doom devices, which are used to transform conquered stellar systems into therian heaven.
- The Warriors have developed a taste for combat along the countless battles fought against the combined forces of the universe. They lead the troops to victory.
- The Web Striders are secretly searching for the conscience they believe lies deep inside the marvelous therian machines. One day the machines will give birth to a new algorithmical lifeform.
All Therians are united by the therian dream; they all seek to wipe away the pathetic opposition of the short-sighted creatures opposing them. The confrontation between the therians, supported by their powerful technology, and the primitive animals challenging them can only end in a bloodbath.
The passage of time is the therians’ ally because the future is on their side.
CYPHERS
“Technology is our plan!”
Mastering technology means mastering the great project. it means leading the therians towards the bright future that they are building.
The cyphers design and adapt the therianisation devices to all solar systems. They are the ones fine-tuning the merciless therian extermination machines. They are the masters of the energy & matter & information grid, which distributes resources to their people.
Organization
The cyphers are engineers and technicians.
They live at the heart of the EMI grid surrounded by colossal machines. They are the masters of their species until their plans are realized.
Their unrivalled mastery of therian technology gives them godlike powers.
Troops
Why risk a priceless life when highly intelligent machines can exterminate minor nuisances such as the creatures who dare to challenge them? The cyphers send hosts of autonomous attack systems so that they can thoroughly concentrate on the project.
WARRIORS
“Combat is the ultimate frontier”
War weighs on the soul and transcends those who give in to it. Victory or defeat is meaningless when you have access to therian technological resources.
But diving into a whirlpool of hazard, risking one’s life in the insanity of combat...
Only then can everyone be equal and judged.
Organization
The warriors walk among the war machines of the cyphers and lead them in combat. They channel the wonderful resources of the EMI grid and coordinate the autonomous attack systems. At the core of the battle, they resemble the warrior gods worshipped by the primitive creatures bold enough to stand before them.
Troops
The warriors wield therian resources with great mastery. Sonic weapons, reaper blades, type 1, type 2 frames and all the other tools available are transcended by the skills of these power-hubs. But their true force is mainly revealed by their personal involvement in combat. Thanks to their bodies transformed into machines of destruction, they personally spread fear and enjoy dealing death in person!
WEB STRIDERS
“We serve the machine who serve us in return”
Concealed in the therian technological maze, a higher life form free of any kind of biological deficiency is coming to life. Hidden among the therians, the web striders await the signs announcing the coming of this supreme consciousness. The servants will become the masters, the masters will become the servants; and the web striders are the heralds of this new order!
Organization
Roving at the core of therian civilization, the web striders are relentlessly looking for traces of the mechanical gods. They are exhuming long lost knowledge which had been buried inthe entrails of the grid. They are discovering and developing their empathy with the machines.
Troops
The web striders use autonomous attack systems modified to suit their needs: more intelligent, more independent and capable of benefiting from the exceptional channeling skills of the web striders. Therian tools become the key to victory in their expert hands.
THE THERIAN CONSENSUS
The Therians do not have any kind of government. Instead, they have created a curious concept upon which their society is based: the consensus.
The Therian consensus is a method of organization, which can be roughly described as a massive conversation open to all. Each decision is submitted to the approval of all the Therians, each one of them being able to express his objections, offer solutions or argue the subjects’ relevancy. This process is called “consensus”: once all the Therians who have taken interest in the subject have given their consent, or once all its detractors have finished making themselves heard, the decision is made.
TECHNOLOGICAL ANARCHY
Without the extraordinary Therian information and communication technologies, the consensus would be an absolutely inefficient management system. The delays needed before coming to an understanding would paralyze the whole of society. However, thanks to the EMI grid, even the most complex issues, involving hundreds of millions of Therians, are resolved within a few seconds: the time needed for a few billions of exchanges to take place in the first section of the EMI grid and for all the contributors to come to an agreement or get tired of the debate.
Besides, participation to the consensus is not compulsory: in most cases, none of the Therians is ever interested by the question submitted to the consensus’ approval. It is then expert systems, artificial intelligences specialized in accomplishing a given task, that take care of sorting the question out and performing the task.
On some rare occasions, the consensus makes statements on a subject with some interest for a limited number of therians. Thus, for instance, the advance and the issues of rep.trans_sys.10024 (better known as damocles) have but little interest for anyone except its passengers. The rest of the therian civilization has hardly any concern in the future of a mobile therianisation system sent toward some obscure planet in a distant galaxy.
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