Creature:Worldforest Mind

=The Worldforest Mind= 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.
 * Water- Water Element, which drowns and erodes the soil. Water, which brings life and greenery to the world.
 * Wind- Wind Element, which blows over trees and freezes the heart. Wind, which creates trade winds and spreads seeds.
 * Earth- Earth Element, which crushes and buries. Earth, which builds and gives nutrients.
 * Lightning- Lightning Element, which incinerates and electrocutes. Lightning, which energizes and defuses stress.
 * Sound- Sound Element, which deafens and shatters. Sound, which brings music into the world.
 * Shadow- Shadow Element, which cloaks death and hides hate. Shadow, which shelters the small and weak.

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.

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.

After Meta
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.