Fiction:Union of Mecholife/Members/Worldforest Mind


 * Extinct

The Worldforest Mind is a massive, interplanetary mind, made up of trillions of trees, each one just another part of the mind. It yearns to learn, it wants to know everything, and has created a symbiotic relationship with the Meta to better learn. It houses them and in return they teach it, and aid it in spreading from planet to planet. It is a peaceful being, it does not need anything but energy from a sun and dirt to grow in, and it wants nothing more then to learn everything. It has never been to war, and doesn't intend to do so ever.

Appearance and Form
The Worldforest Mind is a massive, interplanetary forest, made up of trillions of different trees, all interconnected via philotic connection and instant telepathic communication. The mind itself is immortal, but each individual tree lives about 5-9 thousand years of age. The trees themselves look like simple, red-barked, fern-leaved trees. Excepting, of course, their immense size. A singe tree can grow up to 500ft tall, with a base between 90 and 120ft around. Some trees can even become "forest trees", where a single tree, by spreading it's roots and sprouting new shoots, has grown to be an entire forest in size.

The Worldforest reproduces using seeds. The seeds are, surprisingly, very tiny, only a centimeter across. They are perfect spheres, jet black, and coated in a black tar-like acidic substance that is a self defense method. The trees can fling these seeds high into the air above them, and then the seeds stick to whatever they have hit and start to grow. They can be imbued with energies to speed growth to the point they become an affective weapon, using their fast-growing roots to rip, crush, and break apart enemy ships, or to form a solid wall to defend friendlies. Yes, the seeds can be very dangerous indeed. They are collected in larger seedpods, which can be thrown into space if it looks like the trees are losing. They then become dangerous mines, ready to spit out thousands of tiny seeds that grow into 90ft trees in only a matter of minutes, which destroys the ship that is unfortunate enough to be hit.

Elemental Power
Even the Worldforest Mind doesn't know much about this power, but it does know that there are only 7 types.
 * Fire- Fire Element burns and melts, consuming life in its greed. Fire, which gives off warmth and light to protect and defend.
 * Fire can melt ships and burn enemies. It also burns the tree using it, and as such is not used often.
 * Water- Water Element, which drowns and erodes the soil. Water, which brings life and greenery to the world.
 * Water can be used to slice through ships and irrigate farmland and trees in need of water. Can be used to drown enemies as well.
 * Wind- Wind Element, which blows over trees and freezes the heart. Wind, which creates trade winds and spreads seeds.
 * Wind can be used to literally blow ships out of the sky. This rips apart trees and can freeze them solid if the wind comes from the upper stratosphere, but is an effective and dangerous weapon. It can also be used to help regulate a planet's temperature, creating tropic planets for the Worldforest to live on.
 * Earth- Earth Element, which crushes and buries. Earth, which builds and gives nutrients.
 * The Worldforest can pick up and thrown stones and dirt clods at enemies. They can also use this to build up defensive walls and hills.
 * Lightning- Lightning Element, which incinerates and electrocutes. Lightning, which energizes and defuses stress.
 * Imagine a tree without leaves, crackling with lighting-bolts between the branches. Thats what a tree using lightning element looks like. Similar to fire, lightning burns off the leaves a tree, and does heat damage to the living tissues of the tree.
 * Sound- Sound Element, which deafens and shatters. Sound, which brings music into the world.
 * Sound can be used to deafen enemies and shatter steel and stone and glass with ease. Uses a lot of power though.
 * Shadow- Shadow Element, which cloaks death and hides hate. Shadow, which shelters the small and weak.
 * Shadows can be used to hide things. That's about it for shadows...

NOTE: All elemental powers cannot be used in space. Water freezes, fire can't be lit, earth needs stone or dirt nearby, wind needs an atmosphere to work, sound needs air, and Shadows need A)light, and B)something to hide or create a shadow. Lightning is the only one that can be used effectively in the vacuum of space.

Ships and Vessels

 * Treeships- Are large and slow moving ships made by massive trees that can be up to 600 feet long. They live in space, and were once the Worldforests only way to get from place to place.
 * Worldships- Are small astroids and even moons that are covered in Treeships, and capable of moving on their own. They come complete with their own atmosphere and their own environment, and are most often used as waypoints for other travelers.
 * Clouds- Clouds are large clusters of Worldships that are close enough to create their own major atmosphere. They create a blue sky effect, and these atmospheres can be vast, produced by the gravity of the assorted trees. Often, Clouds can be found in systems without habitable planets, and are used to terriform a planet by slowly building up an atmosphere in space and then sending it down to the planet by dropping close to it and literally leaving the atmosphere behind. It takes both Meta and Worldtrees to do this.
 * Wartrees- The largest of the treeships, and of any tree that the Worldforest can produce, Wartrees are thousands of feet long. They are also slow, can't turn well, and are vulnerable to fire. Besides that though, they are damn near unstoppable, like a wall water, like a river that will forever flow. Wartrees have been created for the War for Wental, and have only just been grown. This is the first time in 2 thousand years.

NOTE: All ships and individuals of the Worldforest Mind are vulnerable to fire. They are, after all, made of wood and bark, which burns. They are no match for a solid wall of fire, or for the destructive burning energies of a star.

Weapons

 * Seeds- The seeds of the worldforest, besides being acidic, can be imbued with energies that cause them to grow into 90ft trees in mere minutes. This can effectively destroy enemy ships by having tree roots force apart the metal pieces of ship, and by puncturing the ships hull and releasing the atmosphere.
 * Seedpods- Can fling thousands of seeds at everything around them, or withstand re-entry to spread the Worldforest Mind to new planets.
 * Crushing Power- Trees roots can crush just about anything in time, as can the branches. That's what Treeships and Wartrees do. They grow their roots and branches at exceptionally hight speeds, faster then most ships can escape them, and simply catch and crush the enemy ship.
 * Pushing Power- Those same roots and branches can grow in between metal plating of a ship and force it to break up as the branch/root expands with growth.
 * Elemental Energies- The Worldforest has it's elemental energies or course, which can be used as an effective and destructive weapon.
 * Whiplash- The trees of the Worldforest can bend themselves over in a 'U' shape, and then whip back up and slice through weaker hulled ships. It is risky, as the tree in question could end up breaking in half if it bends to far.

History
We are the ancient and peaceful Worldforest Mind. We have been in this universe for over 3 thousand years, but our history is not one of long forgotten battles, long dead species, or old alliances. Ours is a story of watching others do things, we have never played a part in those pointless wars. We have simply watched and learned, as we always do, and always will.
 * Note, this will be expanded on as time goes on.

The Meta changed us, showed us how to become more active, showed us things like hate, rage, anger... all the things we didn't have. They also showed us the power that such things could bring, but more importantly, they showed us that the power to CONTROL such things it far stronger then just having them.

The Cult of the Damned
We are the god behind the Cult of the Damned. When we learned of the Meta's old enemies, the "NOEI" we went looking for them, with our mind. We found the Iron Giants and thought they were this "NOEI", but we were wrong, and caused great damage to them. We have found an empire that calls itself the "Nobi", and speaks of creatures similar to the Meta, and so we beleive that they are the "NOEI" and the the "E" is really a "B", badly written and damaged by many years of erosion. We have resurrected the Cult of the Damned among them, damning them for their crimes. It has turned out to be very successful, but we have not told the Meta about our part in it, or even about the Nobi. We do not wan them to be harmed, not by our actions or anothers. They are like an older sibling, but one who cannot defend themselves, leaving us to do it for them.

Education
New worldtrees grow with all the memories of the worldforest, and as such do not need to be educated.

Trivia

 * The Worldforest Mind was based off the "Worldforest" from the Saga of Seven Suns.
 * The idea that even plants can be fully sentient is something this user beliefs in.