Ycon

Ycon

 The Ycon thrive in volcanic, hot environments created for themselves by implanting Ycon nodules under the crust of planets with a hot core. The nodules may stay inactive for a very long time or hatch into so called Children of the Deep. Sort of a living self replicating terra forming device. The outcome is a shattered world with significant crust destabilization and cataclysmic volcanic activity.

They have been engineered living terra forming tools by the Orlans (under guidance of Corfic )[1]

 The Ycon instructions or programming drifted after their Creators' mysterious disappearance. Ycon reproduce by budding and offspring apparently reach instant maturity.

 Even with omputronics translating and comparing their communications with billions of languages on file Ycon are hard to understand. Ycon ramblings seldom seem to attach any relevance to what's said to them even when they acknowledge the presence of others. Ycon receive select memories of their forebears at birth and dead Ycon from millennia ago can speak through their descendants, one of the few times a Ycon will refer to itself as I.

 A central concept to the species is Cehdehu, the hot light in the darkness, which is like a religion for the Ycon. Ycon live for it, and only for it. Cehdehu seems to be positive, connected to them or their spread. Related are the Non, what is not Cehdehu, and Void, what Non that does not become Cehdehu must become Void. Cehdehu seems to refer to the Ycon and anything under their control, Non is other life and planets that the Ycon have not yet violently terraformed to their liking, and Void is anything else, such as space or dust. The Ycon claim that Cehdehu recognizes Non that cannot be turned into Void at a certain time.

Ycon are capable of clearly purposeful action and pursue large-scale objectives. The specific nature of those objectives is not clear;

During the Age of the First League,. The Ycon spread was responsible for the cataclysmic destruction of the Sy Sysra the home world of the Syra, and the almost total extermination of their race. After the Syra find out, they trick the Ycon into an ambush and destroy their fleet of Podships.

 Children of the Deep, which appear to be young Ycon. They appear to be born with their own distinct personalities, but normally the elders catch them and imprint their own personalities into them, transforming their mentality to that of the "elder" Ycon. In effect, they are mentally enslaved by their elders at birth.



[1]Amphibole structures allow them to withstand such extreme environments.

[Note] This is the general background on which I base a new one shot E,O adventure. Once the story is posted I add more info..