Voyagers
Voyagers are immense non-sentient space-bourne geovore organisms capable of making interstellar jumps and/or travelling at sublight speeds between star systems.
Description / Specifications[edit]
Most Voyagers seem to follow a generally elliptical body form, though no two are the same, and some are very different indeed. Voyagers are truly massive: in starship terms, the biggest “Mother” Voyagers mass hundreds of millions of displacement tons.
Ingestion[edit]
The species have a voracious appetite for rare minerals and can launch “harvesters” to gather resources. A single mother Voyager is able to launch many millions of harvesters.
- Harvesters are self-contained units able to gather, extract, separate and ingest minerals and metals. Most mass a few tens of displacement tons and rely on their launch velocity (basically gotten from being 'spat' from a mother voyager) to reach their target. They are rugged, have a limited awareness of their surroundings, and are capable of minor course corrections whilst travelling in space.
For the most part, Voyagers appear to prefer to "graze" within planetoid belts.
Environment[edit]
Records indicate that Mother Voyagers were generally reluctuant to approach significant gravity wells, though harvesters did so in pursuit of significant targets.
- There are reports of “Lifters”, a specialised form of Voyager able to descend to a world’s surface, gather up gorged harvesters, and “spit” them back into orbit.
History & Background[edit]
Voyagers arrived in the Distant Fringe around 3730AD and utterly ravaged the region, bringing on an 800-year technological Dark Age. They departed during the 46th century for reasons that are still not fully understood but seemingly connected to the events of Slaver Year (4498AD).
- The species are mysterious and considered extremely dangerous, if not outright hostile.
The last verifiable sighting of a Voyager was by an optical observation in the Mengo system, in Shadow Rift Sector, in 4570AD.
References & Contributors / Sources[edit]
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science