Fiction:Big Collective Consciousness

The Big Collective Consciousness, also known as the Harmonic Masters, the "Superpartners" and the "Transapients" is a civilization that might possibly exist in just one of many futures.

In a likely but not definite future, the Delpha Coalition of Planets will survive for millenia, there will be many chapters of the future times, and the DCP will evolve, into Postsapients, then Transapients and finally the BCC, before mysteriously vanishing.

Transapient Minds
If it was possible to see the BCC from a higher dimension, it would look like a huge mass, composed of points of energy (the subatomic knots), arranged into a hypersphere (the most efficient shape). If these points were to be examined, they would in fact be clusters of smaller knots, the "neurons" which process information. The hypersphere reaches out across its dimension, over timelines. Of course, there is no way to see the BCC with normal eyes, as light does not propagate across the higher dimension, but gravity does.

Intelligence
The BCC has a Sentience Quotient of +42, just 8 points below the maximum possible intelligence. The Transapients themselves are not compososed of physical matter and energy, rather, they are "subatomic knots" of Quantum information, information being the raw components of matter and energy. These knots still process information, thus, are creating the pattern of intelligence. One knot alone only has an SQ of +20, but added up as a Big Collective, the BCC is vastly powerful.

Location
The Big Collective Consciousness inhabits a higher dimension, known as Probability Space. Possibly the 6th dimension, it is where all the possible states of the universe exist in. Every expression of every timeline exists in Probability space, every parallel universe, or more stritctly speaking, it is where every quantum timeline of the Many Worlds exist.

It would be a futile attempt to find the BCC in the current timeline, since in the current timeline, the BCC don't exist yet, and they may never. The only way to make contact with that possible future is to shift towards it slowly, by collapsing the Universal Wavefunction, to get there. However, if the BCC wanted, in its own time in the possible future, it could visit the current timeline.

Power and activities
Considering everyone is limited to the 3rd dimension at their current point in spacetime, the BCC are inaccsessible, not unless the universes future was collapsed into their timeline, otherwise they exist outside the system of reality. But because they inhabit a higher dimension, they are imperceptable to lower civilizations. Their intelligence is vastly greater, with the human race only have an SQ of +13 (vs. SQ+42). However, some of their activities can be comprehended, in a lower level of understanding.

The BCC's power, is mostly in the 6th dimension or below (for a short moment in Times Terminal they existed in the 10th dimension). This means they can observe every timeline and every possible version of this universe, of hyperspace, of similar Level II bubble universes and the 5th dimension. A bit like time travel, they can navigate to any moment they want confined to this Ultimate Universe, from the Big Bang to Times Terminal. They are the masters of physical information, meaning they can play or simulate all the matter and energy in a universe from a higher dimensions vantage point like a cosmic CD player. For this information, in the 5th dimension, is digital, like "bits" and so it is also computable, information can be downloaded and uploaded from the universe (see Digital physics). It is like data, they can program the laws of physics with this data, almost as if coding the universe. The methods and technology which the BCC use to do this feat is unknown, but from a higher dimension, there are more degrees of freedom.

 Known Abilities (note that technology and ability is merged)  Most of their abilities exist in a higher dimension, and are elements that are so alien, sapients wouldn't percieve them. But here is some that can be understood (and has been written about).
 * Encoding the universe - Uploading, downloading and processing physical data.
 * Information Displacement - Lifting off or adding data to a universe. This can have devastating consequences to the Cosmological Constant, creating Big Bangs, crunches or rips.
 * Software - Playing information like a cosmic CD (to watch the universe), or computing the laws of physics. This mastery over data meand they can influence matter and energy to a high degree, enough even to stop and start star formation, or to create black holes and wormholes easily.
 * Storing data - Data can be stored in compressed dimensions of a Calabi-Yau manifold. This "cystallizing spacetime" acts much like a memory card, one that can be replayed, over and over again...  Perhaps, the universe you are experiencing is just one of these replay's!
 * String harmonics - Playing the universal symphony (string manipulation)
 * The Song - Tweaking open and closed strings to influence matter and energy.
 * Planck length string coherant beam - The finest laser with the shortest wavelength possible (basically, a coherant wave is created across strings)
 * Transdimensional technology
 * Constructal Collapse - Knocking down mathematical structures.
 * Interuniversal & Timeline travel - The BCC can navigate to other universes and all quantum realities.
 * Higher degrees of freedom - Simply being at the vantage point of a higher dimension.
 * Exist in a state of Timelessness.
 * Can turn a sphere inside out.
 * Nothing is hidden, they can see the inside and outside of a box for example.
 * See no importance in "materialism", objects to them, even lifeforms are just raw data.

Slowness/limitations
However, there is so much information to process in the minds of the BCC, they are incredibly slow thinkers. This doesn't matter so much, it just means that long distances in time pass more quickly, allowing the BCC to view the near impossible events that happen in Quantum Mechanics in the macro-world, times which take an eternity to happen.

The BCC has not only lost physical matter, but it has also lost contact with any spiritual Essence.

Comparison
The BCC is not a god, despite the fact it can get mixed up with one. While having vast intelligence, it still isn't the highest possible at SQ+50. The BCC 's very existence is even threatened, by the Entity Unseen, neither a civilization, creature, god or machine, simply an unknown force, a thing which it can be best decribed. The BCC is limited mostly by its dimension, any beings or civilizations in dimensions higher than 6 will be more powerful (but the BCC can navigate to higher ones), but there is not many.

However, it is comparable to other Tier 0 civilizations, especially the Downstreamers (Multiversal race), Xeelee ("Baryonic Lords" who were pulling an entire universe through a Ring and had incomprehensible technology), Anti-Spirals (11D), Naucean (who ascended), IDB/Xynaxes (who created artifacts like Spore Henge and Girdo's pocket Universe), Archailects (massive god-like AI's capable of creating universes, but still resistricted to the laws of physics), Time Lords (who ascension almost destroyed time itself), Q & Nagilum.

Finally, the BCC are very similar to the Vyro'Naza, but are less interested in the nature of time, and the Ayrai'Shikua still present a great threat to them.