Fiction:The Junction

"There is no god, only the mind."

- A synth

The Junction is an 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.

Overview
The Junction is an ancient empire, possibly billions of years old, expanding through several different dimensions. They are commanded by a race of artificially-evolved slug-like creatures known as the "Junction Mind". The Junction is almost entirely of cyborg creatures, known as "Synths". They are experts in interdimentional teleportation, and most of their technologies are powered by dark energy.

The Junction is known to attack civilizated worlds, brutally turning all of their original inhabitants into synths and sucking all the resources of the planet, turning them into poisonous deserts after several years have passed. Because of this, they are often seen as an evil and malevolent force of dictators.

They have reached this dimension looking for new kinds of life and resources, and their current location is the.

History
The Junction are a very new civilization in the First Gigaquadrant, and much of their history is unknown, however, The Junction and the Delpha Coalition of Planets have been in some communication for some time.

Old universe
They came from a disintergrating universe, one far older than the prime universe. Stars had long ceased to form, and the last few were mere moats of decaying iron floating in a sea of near-nothingness. Black holes had long evaporated and even the proton had decayed. The last few races sought any few traces of heat they could find, changing their bodies into the perfect heat absorbers. But even time had almost ceased in the tired universe, with so much little energy to extract it took long timescales to even think a single word. As the last dead iron stars turned to seas of subatomic particles sucked into the void, the last few races were about to succumb to the death of heat, until they chanced upon a jitter in the darkness. Like moths to streetlight, the last lifeforms in the universe - as they were turning to dust themselves, reached an object of immense age.

It was a cosmic string, one stretched and coiled into a higher dimension. As they watched their very atomic structures crumple like dry paper, they were forced to "climb" the cosmic rope, up, up into a higher dimension, beyond even the multiverse. They had entered another space, a shadow brane which runs parallel to the rest of the multiverse, its influence causing expansion in the universes of the multiverse to speed up, known as dark energy. The brane was timeless, and contained energy that had very little interaction with them (the shadowverse was as much a void as their previous home). The races could only percieve the cosmic string, which they called "Junction". They found the cosmic rope descended into other universes as well, some were too incompatable, but one, was just like their's, but still young and warm.

New universe
The Junction as they now called themselves, observed the universe. For the first time they saw stars that glowed, with a connection to dark energy they had a lot of power in their hands. But they were not alone, something The Junction were not used to. They realized they were in competition for resources just like how ones of their own kind would once fight to the death over the slightest scrap of heat. They realized they needed to assimilate new technologies and adapt them with dark energy. They met a few civilizations of interest, The Catharsis, another discoverer of dark energy, the Grox who are considered their competition, the DCP who have become aqainted with. But as they stretched into the universe, the inhabitants stretched into their's, one of them, an AI from the Technoosphere, Exodium, seaks to control the expansion of the universe to create pure order, and if thats means taking the shadowverse as its then Exodium shall try...

Teleportation
Probably the technology the Junction values the most is their interdimentional teleportation. By using colossal dark energy reactors, the Junction is capable of creating safe portals to other dimensions which may remain open for hours or even days. They are, however, unable of teleporting bewteen two points in the same universe, one of the technologies they hope to find and obtain while investigating this universe.

Synthetics
While the Junction uses a very amount of different synthetic species, some are almost universally used in all in and out-world missions of the empire.

They can be seen here.

Dark energy
Dark energy (not to be confused with the essence of the same name) is used by the Junction as their main power source. By transforming it in particles of exotic matter, the Junction possesses a very plent amount of energy. Their ships are fueled with dark energy, as well as their weapons and reactors. The Junction can be considered obsessed and highly dependant of this kind of energy.

Dark energy is though to exist on shadow braneworlds (a higher dimensional membrane the multiverse is attached to) anchored to our braneworld, meaning it has a very powerful force universally. Due to this, the Junction's control over dark energy could allow them to literally reshape the entire universe if they wanted to. However, they don't have any reason to do that, as there wouldn't be any benefict from it.

Essenses
Unlike most advanced species, the Junction lacks any kind of control over elemental essenses like psionic, chaos, entropy, etc. The nearest thing to an essense in the empire are enslaved creatures who already used the essence before or the Mind's psychic powers.

Allies
"They have earned the Mind's respect."



In good terms
"We may spare them."


 * Tahar Empire
 * Tahar Empire

Neutral
"..."


 * Dracogonarious Empire
 * The Vyro'Narza
 * Anyone not considered an ally or enemy fits in this category
 * Anyone not considered an ally or enemy fits in this category

In bad terms
"You will not interfer with us."


 * The Corruptus

Enemies
"Prepare for total suppression."


 * The Ayrai'Shikua
 * The Grox Empire

Quotes from others
"It is said that this mysterious yet powerful civilization uses dark energy, which makes up most of the universe. It is something our's and nearly everyone else still searches for. If so, they will have very few if any competition, and might be one of the strongest civilizations known.  However, since they use the universes "dark stuff", they themselves will be almost invisible to us."

- DCP

"No god? Tell that to the race of gods."

- Ayrai'Shikua

"SAVIORS!"

- President Ekrixx of the KGGC

"They are so intelligent and powerful... Wow."

- Commander Eko of the Tahar Empire

"LOSAS"

- Dark Zr'Ahgloth

"COMIN FROM DA BIGGEST LOSA EVA"

- Zr'Ahgloth in response to Dark Zr'Ahgloth's quote

"Rather powerful for 3 Dimensional beings... I hope to play a role in this races' future."

- Vyro'Narza

Trivia

 * The idea of the Junction being capable of reshaping the universe was created by Wormulon.