Fiction:Valdron Collective



History
The story of the Valdron has been well kept in the time of their collective, and it has been used to calculate their futures and plans ahead...

Early History
The Valdron once did not take the shape of machine organisms that they now possess, rather, they were force to adapt to the situations set around them. Born orbiting amongst a dying star, they were forced to advance themselves as they passed through the stages of evolution. The massive radiation and magnetic energy scorching their world, force their organics to seek safety behind shields of metal that hence was once their skin. This radical change morphed their anatomy and physiology completely, leaving them a mere shadow of their former selves, in which is "grafted" into their cybernetics and exoskeleton.

Civil War
Only a decade after the forced symbiosis to the machine, the masses could no longer be contained with their pleas and outrages, as the crumpling planet struggled to maintain its united government. From this, erupted a bloody civil war that lasted a century. the war was fought between what would later become the 4 most important factions known to the Valdron. They were The Nous Collective, The Gaia Protectorate, The Uranus Exploratory, and the Hephaestus Conglomerate. From this conflict, rose the advances necessary for eventual space conflicts and warfare, but to those fighting amongst their kin and their foes, it was a tool to kill. Many smaller nations and ideas were lost to time, as the war machine of all four factions raged on, claiming and losing territory but it eventually would reach a breaking point, in which one faction would take control of them all. Manipulating the fields of energy that were used to balance the environment, which had once been scorched by the sun, the Nous Collective threatened to overload the power limits of the machines, and with that power, they gave all other factions a single ultimatum: Kneel to the collective, or perish in the fires. The major factions, realizing the territory the collective had gained years since, were force to put down their arms and kneel before the collective, once again,, unifying Artia

Beginnings of the Collective
Once the Collective had assimilated the other factions into itself, it began a process known as "The Connection". This first involved raising the 3 other faction leaders to the position of councilors, served to advise the emperor of the collective. Then, using a technology similar to that of what is used to connect the exoskeleton to the Valdron body, all of the minds in the entire extant species were intertwined and connected, forming essentially, what is known as a hive mind. This allowed for the latest information and details to be given to the Collective's leader, whom from this point on took on the name of The Central mind. The Central mind then granted all of his species autonomy, and allowed them to live their normal lives, but if required, the Central mind could connect with anyone and control them, making each member of the species an important link in the chain of knowledge. The Central Mind then turned his thoughts to expanding the collectives territory, and set his councilors to begin work on colonizing their home system

From their home system to beyond
The process of converting their home system was a feeble task, no life was able to survive beyond the sun's deadly grip and colonies were seeded in less than a few decades. After to colonization of their system, they immediately went to work, developing their technology to reach the stars. Decades onward, the Valdron finally set out to the stars, and sought to take what they believed to be theirs, the planets and beings on them, were their sovereign right. The Valdrons marched forth, conquering people after people, species after species in their quest to ensure their legacy remains true and forever. As the decades and Centuries, even Millennia went on, as the collective grew and expanded, taking species as allies or protectorates, or enslaving them to drive their industrial machine, all the while fortifying and advancing their worlds and their sciences.