Fiction:The Spacions/History

History:

I.	Early phases The creature phase of the Spacions was nothing special. On the other hand, once their anatomy had stabilized and their brain was fully completed, they developed at a speed unmatched by any known species in their sector. Their Tribal and Civilization stages were the shortest ever known. In only 20000 years, they went from living in caves to traveling in space (the average being around 500 000 years). Such speed came from not only their intelligence, but also their naturel inclination towards cooperation to acquire a maximum amount of results and knowledge in a minimum amount of time. Thanks to this, their history has very little conflict in it. The few wars they did have were extremely short and arguably more beneficial then hindering, as they lead to the development of new techs.

II. Ascension and Isolation When they began forming a Space Empire though, the story was quite different. The Spacions never considered other species as their equals, even other Space Empires were nothing more than new data, new possible experiments. They had a total disregard for the lives of other species no matter how advanced. Science and results were all that counted. They did not hesitate to use them for experiments and toss them away when they no longer needed them. This led of course to conflicts with the said empires, in which the Spacions always prevailed. Indeed, though they initially had little weaponry due to their lack of conflicts, they quickly understood they would need a lot of it for their “interactions” with other Empires. And so they massively transitioned their tech to fit military purposes, creating an arsenal that quickly surpassed that of any neighbor. Nonetheless, these repetitive wars were starting to annoy the Spacions. They occupied too much of their time and demanded too much attention, drawing them away from their sole purpose of existence: science. So, eventually, they decided that these hindering wars had to be avoided somehow. The solution they found was to isolate themselves completely, never again revealing their existence to “lower” creatures that could not understand their purpose or their convictions. This event was named the “Isolation”. The first step to hide themselves from sight was to massively centralize their Empire. By concentrating all their population and infrastructure in one place, they would be certain that no Empire would find them by chance. But the Spacions couldn’t agree on which planet to use for the centralization, so instead they opted to not chose any at all and build a unique colonial space station that would fulfill all the requirements they needed. After three centuries, the station was complete. They called it “The HomeCore”, and it was the pinnacle of Spacion technology. The greatest minds of the Empire and half of all the Empire’s resources had given birth to a monumental space station that would protect all the Spacions, while hiding them from unwanted attention.

III. New methods Although they didn’t want to fight other Empires, the Spacions still wanted to exploit them in order to continue their experiments, and so they started a vast program to organize the abduction of test subjects. They focused their technological research on stealth in all its forms: ships, communications, etc…In a few decades they had implemented a vast network of observation and kidnapping of alien species. Sometimes it was just used for an individual, sometimes an entire city, sometimes more. There were also some exceptions to the isolation. Indeed, when an alien scientist showed promise, they would contact him and share some of their knowledge in exchange for his services. But even that was mostly an experiment in itself, and it often lead to the death or insanity of the said scientist. In the end, these methods were still considered a bit too risky and had to be used with care. This led them to seek a new, more reliable way to study others. They eventually developed the idea of “proxy species”. The Spacions would submit an alien species to their complete control and use it as a proxy Empire to directly impact the rest of the galaxy, without revealing themselves. The slave Empire would “affect” a test subject empire (contact, invade, infect…) and the Spacion would observe the results and gather the data. But brainwashing an entire Empire and submitting it is complicated even for the Spacions, so instead they created a new species that would naturally obey them: the Phytoworms. With them, the Spacions could control their sector and extend their territory without revealing themselves. Other Empires saw in the Phytoworms nothing else but a violent, cruel species that acted like pirates, never suspecting the identity of their masters or their motives. As time passed, the Spacions became a myth in their sector. A story people tell children to scare them before bedtime: “don’t get up at night or the Spacions will kidnap you!” No one believed in their existence anymore.

IV. Unquestionable superiority Even after they had been forgotten, however, the Spacions were still wary of anything that could unveil their secret existence, and they were particularly worried when they discovered the Yovion Empire. The Spacions had started to widen their gaze, sending stealth probes outside of their sector and into the ones next to it. In the sector closest to them, called the Haok sector by its locals, they discovered a species far older than theirs, and nearly as advanced: the Yovions. This species was able to accumulate the knowledge of other Empires and adapt it to their own, making them stronger and smarter as they expanded. The Spacions hated this as it was the opposite of their own way of developing: their knowledge came from no one but themselves. Still, they realized the Yovions were probably the biggest threat to their secret. Should this rival Empire expand in their sector, they may have the power and intelligence to uncover the identity of the Spacions, and so they had to be stopped preemptively. Usually, if the Spacions didn’t like an Empire, they would simply send the Phytoworms to destroy them. But the Yovions were far too powerful for the slave race to handle. For the phytoworms to win, they would have to be given upgrades the Spacions did not want to risk giving. So the Spacions opened a project for a new slave race, one specifically adapted to wipe the Yovions, and they had the perfect candidates: the Ganorians. The Ganorians were a very unique species that the Spacions had been observing for a while. They now went a step further and kidnapped them to alter their genetics, turning them into living, breeding weapons that would overwhelm the Yovions without emotion or remorse. Once the Ganorians were unleashed on the Yovions, the results were immediate. They fulfilled their role perfectly and wiped the neighboring Empire slowly but surely. Of course, the Spacions had added some of their own tech to support the Ganorians and make sure the enemy couldn’t understand or predict them. The Yovions were destroyed without ever discovering who was really attacking them, and the Ganorians were marked as one of the Spacions greatest successes. After this event, the Spacions became confident no one could ever discover them, even less surpass them. This confidence led them, in the future, to be far less careful about potential enemies. For who could possibly challenge them now?