Fiction:Union of Mecholife/Members1/Ravir Standing Republic/Physic

The Ravir are a semi-hive mind life form. They have a network of thought, with the smarter beings holding more power, but all beings being independent of each other. They can come to spread their network of through to ever life form on a planet, sapient or not. This network allows them to completely control and engineer the biosphere of any planet they inhabit, and usually spreads to only the strongest creatures on such a planet. The rest are replaced by pre-existing Ravir life.

Besides their network of thought, the Ravir have no ability to feel pleasure. They cannot feel anything related to pleasure either. Anger, joy, annoyance, greed, all these things are born of pleasure. Since they have none, they do not have such feelings. Not anymore. They lost such feelings to VR, when it crushed their civilization. They can still feel things that are truly pure and not pleasure related. The best relationships in the Ravir are "Pure Love" relationships, for love is not pleasure, it is separate. Pure Hate can also be felt, as can sorrow and fear. But besides Pure Love, Pure Hate, Sorrow, and Fear, the Ravir cannot feel emotion. They have no greed, no mercy, no anger, no need for revenge. Those petty feelings are fueled by pleasure, and without it they cannot exist. The Ravir only ever go to war for logical reasons like food or being attacked, though they can feel sorry for lesser species and enter war to help them.

The Ravir are not soulless, merely different. Without emotions they rarely lose their heads in any circumstance, making them excellent at fighting without hesitation, for they will size up their enemy and attack if they think they can gain something from it that they need. They do not take things out of greed, out of wanting them. Only needing them. The Ravir, lacking most emotions, think in rational patterns, never getting emotional. However, some things can get them angry, for solid, rational reasons. VR is among those few things, as is being attacked by another species or empire.

The Ravir are ruthless. Without emotion they do not understand how individuals can be willing to die for others, only the rare few (1 in a million or more) that can feel True Love understand such irrational feelings. The rest look at such things as irrational but brave. They don't have any concept of mercy though, because to them anything that is an enemy needs to be killed, or it could someday take revenge. From the oldest to the youngest, the Ravir make sure not one of their enemies survives to haunt them later. They have learned from their past, and do not make such mistakes twice.

However, the Ravir can also choose to not kill an enemy. If they do so they will offer you a lifeline: connection to the Ravir itself, the network of thought that connects them with a bind greater then any emotion (or so they believe). Those who accept survive, those who do not are killed without hesitation or mercy.

The Ravir are strange, they always have their reasons, and rarely explain those reasons to others. They are secretive, preferring to remain a mystery rather then allow others to truly understand them.