SporeWiki:Fiction Universe/Inhabitants/Hyper-civilizations

Hypercivilizations, refers to civilizations who are either vastly ancient, who created many things that influence the modern era in their past, or incredibly powerful intelligences and civilizations.

Godcivilizations
God-civilizations, refers to civilizations that are Tier 0, and have technology and knowledge on an unprecidented scale. Unlike the Omnipotent Four, most other Tier 0 civilizations do not interact or communicate with lower civilizations, due to the gap of sentience and the fact they are no use to each other. However, despite this, they are often seen as gods if they are even percieved. The universe is not old enough for the most powerful Tier 0 civilizations to even evolve yet.

Transapient civilizations
Transapient civilizations, refers to various Tier 1/0 to Tier 0 civilizations. They are classed as Transapient, because they have pushed their intelligence well beyond what is naturally possible for worlds no older that a few billion years, using millenia of advanced technology and artificial evolution. Some, like the "Baryonic Lords" have technology unimaginable.

Big Collective Consciousness
The BCC does not actually exist yet in the Sporewikiverse, it exists in the Unobserved Wavefunction that has yet to be determined (see Destinies in time). They existed in a higher dimension, where they could "compute" matter and energy as if it was information, "downloading" and "uploading" it to and from universes, Space-like and Time-like travel (not the same as time travel in its usual sense) and other advanced abilities. They were powerful however, because they existed in a higher dimension with more degrees of freedom. They evolved from the future Delpha Coalition of Planets, as subatmic knots arranged into dimensional hyperspheres, capable of processing the data they gather from the universe.

Da'lan
The Da'lan are digital lifeforms which can control and spread across various technologies. They are highly advanced, the god-race of the cyberworld, which can take control or animate almost any technology into their being.

Inter-Dimensional Beings
Barely anything is known about the IDB. It is believed they create their own pocket universes, where such extremes as hypercomputation are more possible, or universes wher matter and energy is even more stable, giving rise to new chemical structures and life more complex than in this one.

Xyanxes
The Xyanxes were one of the greatest civilizations in the universe, members of the IDB, and left their mark, notably creating sentient "World Sancturies" that spanned galaxies (Fahler), constructing wormholes which stretched across the universe and Spore Henge, which leads to 11 other dimensions. Not much else is known, but it is believed that they were destroyed by the Xhodocto, however, they may have survived elsewhere. It is known that they liked pink geodes.

Thirteenth Tribe
Also one of the great races of the universe, the Thirteenth Tribe were actually, themselves created for a high purpose. They are seen as gods by lower life forms. They have a saying  All of this has happened before...and all of it will happen again. This may mean they exist in a timelike-curve.

Elder Races
The Ancients are mostly Tier 1 civilizations, who still immensely powerful, who's actions influenced the events of the future. They are often seen as very mysterious and enigmatic, some ignoring less advanced species or act as guides. Some have left behind powerful technologies thast can enpower or destroy a civilization that discovers it. Some of the oldest civilizations began during the earlier era's of the universe, although these era's were only short, it is likely to the denziens of the next era of the universe, that this one would appear short, this is due to different perceptions of time.

Krass
The Krass created and setted in motion many things for the SporeWikiverse, including, the Krassio species, and they see Earth, as really the center of the universe.

First Ones
The First Ones are noted for creating various advanced technologies and structures in their millions to billions of years of history, some of which far beyond even the greatest of the modern intergalactic nations. Some guide the young races. Some of the First Ones were responsible for spreading Humans around the universe during their very early history. Other more enigmatic First Ones, live in complete utopias, which do not interact much with lower civilizations.

Naucean
The Naucean were said to have existed millions of years ago, but became so advanced they ascended. They were highly skillfull with nano and biotechnology. However, as little trace of them exists today they are regarded as mythological by many.

Screebles
The Screebles were said to be the greatest non-Tier 0 civilization in the universe, whether this was technological, economical or purely specultion is not known. The last peice of evidence for their existence, is the Screeble's Column, which stated that many had "escaped mathematical oppression" to an unknown world. Whether the other Screebles ascended technologically or became there own end is told in various tales. A popular theory is that they in fact found a hyper advanced life to complex and opted for a qainter, simpler life style, reverting back to an iron-age stage of development.

The Junction
The Junction is an ancient, 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. They are commanded by a race of artificially-evolved slug-like creatures known as the Junction Mind, and is almost entirely of cyborg creatures, known as "Synths". They are experts in interdimentional teleportation, and it said they can tap in and use dark energy, a major but mostly unexplained force (since it is possibly out the universe, on a shadow brane), which they mostly use for teleportation. But using dark energy they can easily change the fate of the universe, or even pull it inside out, however it is unknown what their real capabiliuties are, because most of their activities are unseen, because dark enery is almost undetectable.

Superintelligences
Not all forms of intelligence are similar, and not all form civilizations, althouh some do. They are often called the Technogods.

AI Netspace
The AI Netspace evolved from various matrioshaka brains, Gaia worlds and Quantum computers that decided to link their massive intelligences together across "The Civilization's" power grid of stellar engines, dyson bubbles, megastructures and wormholes. It linked older AI's and the new ones in the Milky Way together, by firing wavelengths of light through wormholes. Their technological framework, arises from The Technoosphere.
 * See: Superordinates of the Technoosphere (AI Netspace).

Eli 88501 the Zeno Non-Turing
Eli 88501 was a hypercomputation node that evolved from less powerful tasking nodes that had evolved to intergrate themselves into spacetime. She achieved the ability to supertask information in their cylindical universe (destined to repeat time for ever in whats called a time-like curve), which meant she could compute and infinite amount of data in a finite time.
 * See:Eli 88501

Ikhtenul Xharn
A huge AI created by the Xhodocto for Universe 66501, it has a Sentience Quotient of +48.7. It is easily capable of creating its own Tipler Universes, where it can compute even better. It can warp reality and has awareness across the universe.
 * See:Ikhtenul Xharn

SE AI Registery Mark 1
SE AI Registery Mark 1 was a complex Stellar Engine in the Destinies in time future, that had become self-aware millions of years after its original inhabitants had left it. The Hafvor evolved, and SE AI became their "god". However, one of the stars in its framework was dying, causing glitches which the Havor were able to save their closed in world.
 * See:SE AI Registery Mark 1

Steve
Steve is a powerful machine that inhabits the supermassive black holes in the centers of many galaxies in the First Gigaquadrant. This may indicate that once there was an intergalactic network of cores, possibly a Xyanxian creation. Steve only appears to those he deams are special, and gives them 42 charges of the Staff of Life as a gift. Steve is never seen outside the galactic cores of galaxies, and can only ever be seen once, ignoring cries for help even during the War of Ages. It is possible that Steve in a black hole intelligence, a powerful computer that uses the Galactic Core itself, and that the robot that visitors will contact is Steve's avatar.
 * See: Steve

Statues of Steve can be found around the Milky Way, often millions of years old. It is believed that Steve was once a person, possibly a great hero, who became connected to the Screebles or more likely the Xyanxes. Somehow he ascended to become a massive galactic intelligence. It is unknown what other powers Steve has, but he mentions that he exists on another plane of existence, owing to his superior processing power.

Gaia Worlds
Some of these are believed to be living planets (The Core), while others are in fact massive supercomputers (Fahler). On the Planet of Whispers, the planet isn't alive, but the biosphere is a massive genetic computer, with gene memory installed, so its inhabitants could be immortal.
 * See:Fahler, Planet Computers, The Core and Planet of Whispers