Fiction:The Junction

"We control...the forces of nature...We control...the universe's expansion ...We control..this universe...It is ours...to command...Obey us...or prepare...for your ultimate...suppression..."

- The Junction Mind

The Junction is an immense and powerful interdimensional empire, composed of a massive variety of both allied and enslaved species, in an eternal mission of gathering all kinds of technology and resources for themselves, not caring for whatever happens to their original owners. The Junction has conquered countless races in the past, and will suppress any species that may try to stop them.

Overview
The Junction is an ancient empire, billions of years old, expanding through several different dimensions. They are commanded by a race of artificially-evolved slug-like creatures known as the "". The Junction is almost entirely of cyborg creatures, known as "Synths". They are experts in interdimentional teleportation, and most of their technologies are powered by dark energy.

The Junction is known to attack civilizated worlds, brutally turning all of their original inhabitants into synths and sucking all the resources of the planet, turning them into poisonous deserts after several years have passed. Because of this, they are often seen as an evil and malevolent force of dictators.

History
The Junction are a very new civilization in the First Gigaquadrant, and much of their history is unknown, however, The Junction and the Delpha Coalition of Planets have been in some communication for some time.

Old universe
They came from a disintergrating universe, one far older than the prime universe. Stars had long ceased to form, and the last few were mere moats of decaying iron floating in a sea of near-nothingness. Black holes had long evaporated and even the proton had decayed. The last few races sought any few traces of heat they could find, changing their bodies into the perfect heat absorbers, being near-perfect spheres and having their physiology adapted to conserving energy. But even time had almost ceased in the tired universe, with so much little energy to extract it took long timescales to even think a single word. As the last dead iron stars turned to seas of subatomic particles sucked into the void, the last few races were about to succumb to the death of heat, until they chanced upon a jitter in the darkness. Like moths to streetlight, the last lifeforms in the universe - as they were turning to dust themselves, reached an object of immense age. It was a cosmic string, one stretched and coiled into a higher dimension. As they watched their very atomic structures crumple like dry paper, they were forced to "climb" the cosmic rope, up, up into a higher dimension, beyond even the multiverse. They had entered another space, a shadow brane which runs parallel to the rest of the multiverse, its influence causing expansion in the universes of the multiverse to speed up, known as dark energy. The brane was timeless, and contained energy that had very little interaction with them (the shadowverse was as much a void as their previous home). The races could only percieve the cosmic string, which they called "Junction". They found the cosmic rope descended into other universes as well, some were too incompatable, but one, was just like their's, but still young and warm.

New universe
The Junction as they now called themselves, observed the universe. For the first time they saw stars that glowed, with a connection to dark energy they had a lot of power in their hands. But they were not alone, something The Junction were not used to. They realized they were in competition for resources just like how ones of their own kind would once fight to the death over the slightest scrap of heat. They realized they needed to assimilate new technologies and adapt them with dark energy. They met a few civilizations of interest, The Catharsis, another discoverer of dark energy, the Grox who are considered their competition, the DCP who have become aqainted with. But as they stretched into the universe, the inhabitants stretched into their's, one of them, an AI from the Technoosphere, Exodium, seaks to control the expansion of the universe to create pure order, and if thats means taking the shadowverse as its then Exodium shall try...

Second Coming

 * Second War of Black Fog

The Junction, learning about, joined the later stages of the. Considering Shu'ulathoi a threat to their whole empire, the Junction decided to aid the allies into the destroying the forces of the Corruptus. The Junction also took part of the final battle, where it clashed with the Xhoustoe and Xhonet. After Shu'ulathoi was defeated, the Junction left without saying anything, leaving their plans a mystery.


 * Annihilation

During the events of the Annihilation, the Xhodocto destroyed Dimension 0, which caused the Junction to feel fear for the first time in billions of years. The colonies at the teleported the entire galaxy away, disappearing from existence, while other Junction forces were saved by the Vyro'Narza.

Conflicts of Borealis


The Junction is currently fighting the Second Borealis Galactic War, maintaining their position of respect for the Vyro'Narza. First guarding a Database, while tempted to conquer it themselves, the Junction had small intervention in revealing the 's future. They would eventually come in conflict with the, who would be aided by the , who made the Junction leave the Borealis Galaxy temporarily.

Dark energy
Dark energy (not to be confused with the essence of the same name) forms the basis behind The Junction's technological trump card, and is used by the Junction as their main power source. Dark energy is though to exist on shadow braneworlds (a higher dimensional membrane the multiverse is attached to) anchored to our braneworld, meaning it has a very powerful force universally. Due to this, the Junction's control over dark energy could allow them to literally reshape the entire universe if they wanted to. However, they don't have any reason to do that, as there wouldn't be any benefit from it, and it is unknown how much control over dark energy they really have.

Dark Energy Stars
Dark energy stars, are astrphysical objects that are externally almost indistiguishable from black holes, but internally, they are an entirely different animal. They have an event horizon which is similar in some ways to a superfuid, infalling matter becomes part of the superfluid.

However, as material passes through, the proton is forced to decay quickly, creatinf an incoming flurry of radiation. Virtual energy is also forming at a faster rate poppong in and out of the void. Spacetime, unlike a singularity is being pushed out by negative pressure, so its is reasonably calm inside.

The Junction have made use of dark energy stars. Living within the bubbles, they have access to a rain if infalling energy, and as the bubbles expand they join, making a "habitat" or colonies for the Junction races. Outside each star, orbit vast cities of assimilated technology and huge fleets.

Void bubbles
The Junction are capable of creating rapid localised expansions in space and time itself, both for creative and destructive purposes. Creatively, they can use void bubbles for an advanced form of warp travel, but destructively they can cause space to rapidally expand and contract back again, causing chemical structures to be severely altered. Such void bubbles can be on the microscopic scale (used as a form of nanotechnology), or can be the size of an average sapient to over the size of a star. In combat, void bubbles could be used on lifesize structures too, as well as destroying enemy fleets or colonies.

Teleportation
Probably the technology the Junction values the most is their interdimentional teleportation. By using colossal dark energy reactors, the Junction is capable of creating safe portals to other dimensions which may remain open for hours or even days. They are, however, unable of teleporting bewteen two points in the same universe, one of the technologies they hope to find and obtain while investigating this universe.

Essenses
Unlike most advanced species, the Junction lacks any kind of control over elemental essenses like psionic, chaos, entropy, etc. The nearest thing to an essense in the empire are enslaved creatures who already used the essence before or the Mind's psychic powers.

Allies
"Ensure...survival..."


 * - Worthy ally...cooperate...ensure survival...
 * - Emperor's name...echoes through time and space...cooperate...ensure survival...

Neutral
"Study...observe...contain..."


 * - Rivals...must be...contained...
 * - No more use...suppress...
 * - No more use...suppress...
 * Tahar Empire - No more use...suppress...
 * - Temporary cooperation...but not...allies...

Enemies
"Suppress...dominate...advance...in the name...of the Junction..."


 * - Danger...obstable...must...overcome...OBSTABLE...!!!
 * The Grox Empire - Synthetic race...must be...suppressed...
 * - Corrupted minds...must be...contained...
 * - Threat to plans...must be...suppressed....

Quotes
"It is said that this mysterious yet powerful civilization uses dark energy, which makes up most of the universe. It is something our's and nearly everyone else still searches for. If so, they will have very few if any competition, and might be one of the strongest civilizations known.  However, since they use the universes "dark stuff", they themselves will be almost invisible to us."

- DCP

"No god? Tell that to the race of gods."

"SAVIORS!"

- President Ekrixx of the KGGC

"They are so intelligent and powerful... Wow."

- Commander Eko of the Tahar Empire

"LOSAS"

"COMIN FROM DA BIGGEST LOSA EVA"

- Zr'Ahgloth in response to Dark Zr'Ahgloth's quote

"Rather powerful for 3 Dimensional beings... I hope to play a role in this races' future."

- Vyro'Narza

"You destroyed my children...You'll all DIE!!!"

"A great alliance equal to our own. This alliance deserves to stand by us for eternity."

- The Catharsis

"These... things wish to learn all that there is to learn. That in and of itself is not evil. However, their methodes are brutal, and we refuse to bow to suck monstrosities as the Junction Mind. They will find out the hard way or the easy way, it is their choice."

- Dylan

"Beings as evil as any other... they can be used. They can be of use to me. All they need to do is wipe out all biolife in the universe, I will have no anger towards them for it."

- Masuri

"Interesting creatures. I wonder what they would do if force fed Demonic Energy?"

- Arukas

"Oh,another race like us.I shall propose an alliance.Yessss."

- Controler of the Bachyeon Empire.

"Upon looking at them, I fear we may become mere resources for these technomaniacs. Final assessment: Do not contact them."

- Zhormandrevus

"Junction... masters of the universe... yet still... not safe... from... me..."

- ???

Trivia

 * The idea of the Junction being capable of reshaping the universe, creating void bubbles and using dark energy stars, as well as using cosmic strings to escape the old universe was created by Wormulon.
 * The Junction is mainly inspired into the Combine, the main antagonists of Half-Life 2.