Asteromorphs (All Tomorrows)

The Asteromorphs were a posthuman species that evolved from the Spacers.

After the spacers joined all of their arks into one giant world built from zero-gravity bubbles, their bodies became even more spindly and single digits evolved into whole appendages, but none of those were used for locomotion because their specialised sphincters propelled them through their worlds.

Most of all, their brains evolved. Free from the burden of weight and gravity, their brains expanded beyond the limits of terrestrial organisms and they started to think in concepts totally alien to their posthuman relatives and human ancestors, which led to them developing philosophy and science far superior to that of their ancestors.

The Asteromorphs expanded by building smaller sub-arks and colonised stellar systems to build a new empire of man, but this time they didn't colonise any planets and only lingered in the outer realms of star systems, silently watching their primitive relatives.

When the Second Empire of Man, founded by the Satyriacs and the Killer Folk and by now completely aware of their history with the Qu, encountered the Asteromorphs, they feared the worst. But after the Asteromorphs turned out to not be interested in the Second Empire, they were accepted as incomprehensible, omnipotent forces of nature and left alone. They continued to develop themselves, their giant brains unfolding into wing-like structures and their finger-derived limbs forming an intricate set of sails and legs.

The Asteromorphs destroy the Gravital

After the total annihilation of the Second Empire of Man through the Gravital, the Gravital and Asteromorph empires coexisted for along time, the Gravital inhabiting the planets and the Asteromorph inhabiting the void. But after a civil war in the Gravital Empire, they needed a new enemy to unite against and attacked the Asteromorphs. After a long war, the number of casualties dwarfing that of the Gravital genocide, the Asteromorphs emerged as winners.

After that, the Asteromorphs took the Gravital's Subjects, who miraculously survived the war, and became true creator gods through terraforming and repopulating the Milky Ways planets with the descendants of the subjects.

To prevent another genocide like that of the Gravitals, the Asteromorphs decided to watch over the newly created worlds. They created a new sub-race of Asteromorphs which were able to survive on planets, with long, spindly limbs for walking and smaller brains which nonetheless were still bigger than those of the Subjects descendants. Those creatures were called Terrestrials and still acted under the supervision of the Asteromorphs.

As the new empire was spanning the whole of the milky way, the humans tried to make contact with the indigenous folk of the surrounding nebulae, while still being cautious because of their history with alien invasions, remembering the Qu as well as the invaders that attacked the Bug Facers.

After a time, they found another civilization in the form of a diverse empire ruled by the Amphicephali. Like the posthumans, the Amphicephali had a rich and diverse history and were cautious, but both species finally proved to be mature enough to make contact peacefully. They were the first species to peacefully make contact with humanity, but not the last.

Together, the united galaxies eventually destroyed the Qu, cradled their suns with artificial shells, crisscrossed interstellar space with wormholes and made travel a thing of the past. One day, a researcher rediscovered the Earth, humanity's ancestral home, which had been abandoned 560 Million years ago because it was too far away from the main centres of population.

By the time of the All Tomorrows afterword, all of humanity has disappeared for unknown reasons, Perhaps it went extinct through a war or the empire slowly fell apart, leaving single colonies to meet their own fate. Perhaps, it was a mass migration to another plane of existence. The Author of the book doesn't know.

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Bug Facer (All Tomorrows)

The Bug Facers were a posthuman species that evolved from the Insectophagi. Over the course of their evolution, the Insectophagi's leathery face plates ossified and became a part of their jaws. This, in combination with the reduced digits on their hands, that became pincer-like, lead to them superficially resembling their insectile prey.

Due to a atavistic throwback, some of the Star People's genes resurfaced and resulted in the evolution of an Insectophagus-species with a slightly bigger brain, which allowed them to develop crude stone tools to better open insect colonies.

One thing led to another and they evolved into the civilization known as Bug Facers, which, like most sapient species, passed through consecutive cycles as agrarian (in their case hive-farming) empires, colonial endeavors, industrialization, massive world wars and finally, globalized world-states.

But in their history, they, like the Star People before them, faced an alien invasion. Not much is known about the invaders, and after many orbital and terrestrial wars the Bug Facers managed to fend them off, but they introduced many lifeforms native to their homeworld to the Bug Facers' world and induced them with a strong inter-species xenophobia.

This xenophobia led to them listening to the communications of their fellow posthumans for forty million years before finally joining the Second Galactic Empire.

Over a timespan of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonized other planets.

A stereotypical bugfacer and two Subjects

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Bug Facers were the first species to be attacked by the Gravital, but also the only one that survived the onslaught. Through genetic engineering, they were made into the Subjects.

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Satyriacs (All Tomorrows)

The Satyriacs were a posthuman species that evolved from the Hedonists.

After millions of years in which the Hedonists lived in constant pleasure, cataclysms shaked their planet and their continent, no bigger than Iceland, was expanded into bigger landmasses roughly the size of Australia. The same cataclysms produced vast amounts of ash which blocked out the sun and led to the decline of most plant life and therefore also most of the Hedonists.

Only a few fast-breeding mutants survived and managed to repopulate the world with many species. One of them were the Satyriacs, sapient creatures which had a "tail" made out of pelvic muscles which gave them an almost dinosaurian stance.

For a while, there were three empires, then two, before all of them split up into myriads of countries, which later reunified into one world order. Like their non-sapient ancestors, the Satyriacs once again loved life and enjoyed it to the fullest in their newly built paradise, with festivals, concerts and orgies every week.

But they also probed into the sky and eventually established contact to other posthuman species, at first the Killer Folk, later the Tool Breeders. Together, they founded the Second Galactic Empire.

During the following ten million years, other posthumans joined in on the communications, including the Modular People, Pterosapiens and Asymmetrics. After another 20 million years, the empire also included the Saurosapients, Snake People, Symbiotes and the Sail People. Only after forty million years, the Bug Facers joined in.

Over a timespan of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonized other planets.

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Satyriacs, along with all of their cousins, were quickly wiped out by the Gravital as part of their interstellar conquest.

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Sail people (All Tomorrows)

The Sail People were a posthuman species that evolved from the Finger Fishers. They developed long skin similar to a flying membrane-spanning from their arms and elongated fingers, but unlike some other descendants of the Finger Fishers, they didn't use it for flying, but for sailing on the oceans of their homeworld.

With their arms used as sails, they developed dual tongues to catch their prey, and later evolved them into manipulative organs to use tools. Because they needed to navigate the endless oceans of their homeworld, they developed a good memory and eventually sapience.

Due to their planet being mostly covered in water and land only existing in form of islands, the populations of the Sail People were scattered and developed many different tribes who mostly went to war with each other. There were nomadic tribes who lived as pirates and warrior societies that fought endless wars, making this species very violent.

Only when one of those tribes developed industrialisation to develop better weapons, they needed a state society to support it. With this came a more enlightened way of thinking and the idea of peace between tribes spread across the planet and eventually unified the Sail People.

Because of their violent nature, hunting still is a popular sport among Sail People.

They belonged to the third wave of posthumans joining the Second Galactic Empire founded by the Killer Folk and the Satyriacs.

Over a timespan of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonized other planets.

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Sail People, along with all of their cousins, were quickly wiped out by the Gravital as part of their interstellar conquest.

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Symbiotes (All Tomorrows)

The Symbiotes were a posthuman species that evolved from the Parasites. Many of the parasite species and their hosts evolved from a parasitic to a symbiotic relationship, with the symbiotes offering their hosts heightened senses in exchange for their blood.

This led to a kind of arms race where many species of symbiotes and hosts developed, each having different biological weapons and advantages, making them attractive for each other. There were symbiotes with extremely efficient eyes and noses or venomous saliva, and hosts with long running legs, strong bodies or specialized heads with more blood vessels and insulating fur for symbiote nesting. Many species of symbiotes were only compatible to certain species of hosts.

In one forest area, there evolved a species of symbiote that didn't have any biological weapons, but extremely efficient brains. They developed sapience and controlled their hosts like riders, and over time they began to totally dominate their hosts through tactile and olfactory signals.

This symbiote-host-civilization developed countries, fought wars and eventually led to a globalized culture. They also developed technology which could do some of the things that hosts previously did, but they still used hosts out of tradition and efficiency. A single symbiote often had different hosts for different tasks.

Some of their technologies was olfactory television and radio listening to signals from space. They also excavated ruins of the Qu and Star People and found out about their heritage, which led to them joining the Second Galactic Empire founded by the Killer Folk and the Satyriacs as part of the third wave of newcomers.

Over a timespan of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonized other planets.

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Symbiotes and their hosts, along with all of their cousins, were quickly wiped out by the Gravital as part of their interstellar conquest.

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Asymmetric people (All Tomorrows)

The Asymmetric People were a posthuman species that evolved from the Lopsiders.

Within a few million years of the Qu's department, the Lopsiders regained sapience and developed a civilisation. They built flat, bunker-like buildings which were entrances to vast underground cities, and they developed space travel. On the other planets of their solar system, they found similar conditions to their homeworld, but gravity wasn't as strong as they knew it.

After millennia of experiments, they managed to bio-engineer themselves to fit their new homes and evolved into the Asymmetric People. Their shovel-like toes evolved into eight feet, their grasping arm was elongated even more and their asymmetric faces were made three-dimensional again.

Paralleling the history of their Martian ancestors, the Asymmetric People fought a war against the Lopsiders. But differently from their ancestors, the Asymmetric People exterminated the Lopsiders and began to expand beyond their territories. On their way, they also found the remains of the Star People and the Qu and used them to develop their technology even further.

They belonged to the second wave of posthumans joining the Second Galactic Empire founded by the Killer Folk and the Satyriacs.

Over a time span of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonised other planets.

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Asymmetric People, along with all of their cousins, were quickly wiped out by the Gravital as part of their interstellar conquest.

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Pterosapiens (All Tomorrows)

Petrosapiens are a race of crystalline humanoids from the planet Petropia.

Biology

Anatomy

Petrosapiens are silicon-based lifeforms slightly taller than Humans with skin made from a diamond-like material. They have four-fingered hands, and toeless feet. Male Petrosapiens have a spike on the back of their head and two to six additional ones on their back, while females do not.

There are many different races of Petrosapiens.[1] One notable race is the Surface Petrosapiens, who are lean and thin with square bodies and limbs. Their sharp edges are chiselled like carefully crafted sculptures.

Another known race of Petrosapien is the Subsapiens, who are much larger and have wide bodies with thick limbs, with some having crystalline growths on their foreheads resembling pompadours.

Although their crystal skin is traditionally blueish-green, Petrosapiens can come in other gem-like colors and shapes depending on their race.[1] For example, Crystalfist has purple skin and Negative Diamondhead has pale purple skin.

Powers and abilities

While jewel-like in appearance, Petrosapiens have crystalline bodies that make them incredibly resistant to most physical attacks, such as a Piscciss Volann's bite. For Omni-Enhanced and Omni-Kix Petrosapiens, their natural durability is increased thanks to their respective armors.

Petrosapiens are able to shoot crystalline shards at rapid speed and alter their bodies into crude tools, including blades that cut through most materials.

Petrosapiens can manifest large, almost mountainous formations from either their projectiles, walls, or the ground itself and manipulate them under their control to the point of making them explode or levitate. They can even generate and retract these formations, such as giant spikes, from their own bodies.

Petrosapiens possess superhuman levels of strength due to the nature of their bodies, enough to make their shredding appendages especially devastating.

Petrosapiens can regenerate their injuries to a certain extant and extend their arms to superhuman lengths.

Similar to Crystalsapiens, Petrosapiens can survive in the vacuum of space.

Being living prisms, Petrosapiens can deflect and absorb most energy attacks,[1] allowing them to render light and beam-based weaponry useless by simply refracting them. They can primarily absorb light waves such as lasers.[2]

Since Petrosapiens are made out of organic crystals, they are impervious to a variety of elements such as fire, electricity, and magic. Therefore, they are unaffected by the attacks of species such as Pyronites or Weatherheads.

Being diamond-like, Petropsapiens are incapable of aging. Therefore, they cannot be affected by the time rays of a Chronosapien or a Chronian because diamonds do not age.

Correlating with their pyro immunity, Petrosapiens can absorb solar heat,[2] preventing them from developing hallucinations when in an extremely hot environment.

Petrosapiens possess enhanced dexterity, being able to make additional fingers appear on their hands.

Due to the alterations Kevin Levin has made to the Antitrix, Crystalfist is more powerful than ordinary Petrosapiens. He can also shape any crystals he generates into anything he desires, such as tentacles.

Omni-Enhanced Petrosapiens can channel and convert absorbed energy into weapons formed from their arms.

Similar to Fulmini, Omni-Enhanced Petrosapiens can shoot Omni-Enhanced energy out of their arms.

Omni-Kix Petrosapiens can teleport their consciousness through their crystals, allowing them to use their regular body as decoys for opponents. They can also equip katar-like blades on each of their forearms that double as shields.

When under the effects of an Earth cold, Petrosapiens can accidentally sneeze out tiny crystal shards from their mouths.

Weaknesses

Petrosapiens are particularly vulnerable to sonic vibrations. While a stereo blast might cause them to splinter, certain ultra-high-pitched sound waves can cause them to shatter, including a Loboan's sonic howls, an Antrosapien's sonic wails, and an Evolved Sonorosian's Sonic Disks.

The shards on a Petrosapien's back can leave them stuck to a wall or on other surfaces that they get knocked into; this weakness only applies to males because females do no have shards on their backs.

Since their bodies are made of diamond, Petrosapiens can sink in water.

Petrosapiens can be lifted by a species with as much strength as a Tetramand.

Petrosapiens cannot walk on slippery surfaces, such as ice generated by a Polar Manzardill.

Despite being fireproof, a Petrosapien's shard projectiles can be dissolved by an Evolved Methanosian's fire attacks.

Petrosapiens can be blinded by a Lepidopterran's slime.

Petrosapiens can be easily overpowered by a Celestialsapien's telekinesis.

There is a clear limit in how much damage a Petrosapien's body can take before cracking or shattering. Once they break completely, no glue in this galaxy or the next can put a Petrosapien back together again.

Culture and society

The Surface Petrosapiens have built an advanced space-faring civilization. The Subsapiens, meanwhile, fight in violent wars for territory, unaware that they are being manipulated by the Antrosapiens.

History

The Petrosapien race originally dwelled beneath Petropia's crystal surface in underground cities.[3] After several centuries of warfare, a giant hole was accidentally ripped in the surface of Petropia, revealing a universe far beyond Petropia's heretofore self-contained existence.

With the inadvertent discovery of space, Petrosapiens began to stabilize their civilization and they began to explore the surface of Petropia and the rest of the universe.

Due to the infighting between the various races on Petropia, they made it easy for the Chimera Sui Generis known as Vilgax to manipulate them[3] long enough to destroy Petropia using energy from the Petropia Back-up Crystal, which was sold to him by a young Tetrax Shard.

Years after Petropia's destruction, Tetrax learned from exploring the planet's remains what the true nature of the Back-up Crystal was. After stealing the crystal back from Vilgax, Tetraxx made his way to Earth and gave it to Sugilite, the Crystalsapien guardian of Petropia. Arriving to Petropia, Sugilite used his powers to restore the planet itself before being nearly killed by Vilgax.

Using both the Back-up Crystal and his Petrosapien form Diamondhead, Ben Tennyson was able to finish Sugilite's mission and revived the Petrosapiens. As gratitude for saving his life, Sugilite allowed the Omnitrix to sample his DNA, restoring the destroyed transformation Chromastone.

Alternate history

In a different timeline, Petropia was never destroyed by Vilgax because he never arrived on the planet to begin with. As such, Petropia remains intact and the Petrosapiens are thriving.

Long ago, the Surface Petrosapiens split from their Subsapien ancestors and relocated to the surface. Meanwhile, the Subsapiens remained underground in the deep substrata of Petropia. After the two factions became exhausted by their endless civil war, the Antrosapiens launched a surprise sonic attack. The Subsapiens begrudgingly allied themselves with their surface cousins to survive the greatest threat to their species. They constructed a war machine capable of absorbing the Antrosapiens' sonic attacks and redirecting them as a powerful energy blast, successfully dealing a devastating blow to the Antrosapiens.

Petropia would later become under siege by a Fulmini invasion party, leading to the Surface Petrosapiens, the Subsapiens, and the Antrosapiens to join forces and protect their planet. The Fulmini were quickly driven off, and all three factions were finally at peace. Wanting to take a break after their war against the Fulmini, the Petrosapiens went to Appoplexia and used crystal constructs to keep the Appoplexians entertained.

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Modular People (All Tomorrows)

The Modular People were a posthuman species of cell-colonies that evolved from the Colonials.

The core of the Modular People were a species of specialized sapient Colonials whose function was to direct other specialized Colonials. They spread across the planet and adapted other Colonial colonies to work under their control. Thus they formed the civilization of the Modular People.

Eventually, the Modular People built industrialized mega-cities. Every "individual" was a colony formed from groups of different Colonials, with each colony being designed for their purpose. Also, they could split up and form new individuals from their "cells". The only thing constant in all of their protean existence was their mental and cultural unity.

Modular People society was an utopia of equality where everybody was happy to be a part of the whole.

They belonged to the second wave of posthumans joining the Second Galactic Empire founded by the Killer Folk and the Satyriacs.

Over a timespan of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonized other planets.

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Modular People, along with all of their cousins, were quickly wiped out by the Gravital as part of their interstellar conquest.

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Saurosapient (All Tomorrows)

The Saurosapients were a sapient species that evolved from the livestock of the Lizard Herders, while the Herders themselves stayed non-sapient.

Like the planet of the Ruin Haunters, their world was littered with the ruins of the Star People and Qu. While they were seen as natural formations by the earlier Saurosapients, later generations found out what they really were, learned from their writings and adopted the cultural identity as "humans".

Through the ruins, they also learned that their pets and mounts are the biological descendants of the Star People and about their fate at the hands of the Qu. Some Saurosapients developed religions based on this premise, turning to gods to protect them from the forces from outside their planet. Others built on conservatism, while a third fraction decided to develop their technology further, even while there was such a powerful force that could potentially destroy them for this.

An ancestor of the Saurosapients.

After centuries of wars, the progressive fractions won and expanded their spheres of knowledge, influence and activity. After they developed radio communications, they belonged to the third wave of posthumans joining the Second Galactic Empire founded by the Killer Folk and the Satyriacs.

Over a timespan of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonized other planets.

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Saurosapients, along with all of their cousins, were quickly wiped out by the Gravital as part of their interstellar conquest.

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Tool Breeder (All Tomorrows)

The Tool Breeders were a posthuman species that evolved from the Swimmers.

Without the possibility to use fire, the Swimmers always adopted other species symbiotically to use them in place of conventional technology. In this way, they domesticated some creatures even before fully evolving sapience.

Later, this evolved into full fledged genetic engineering, with the Tool Breeders creating everything they need for their daily life from other lifeforms or later from stem-cells.

Their technological advances include:

Heart-like creatures that pump nutritional fluids into living buildings and machines

Shell-like buildings

Bio-luminescent lights

Cephalopod skin-televisions

Medical sea-squirts

Oxygen-filtering crustaceans for breathing under water

Mollusk-derived rifles that shoot out specially-modified "bullets"

Brain-augmented hunting-fish hardwired to return kills

Living starships

Living radio arrays, through which they made contact with the Satyriacs and the Killer Folk.

During the following ten million years, other posthumans joined in on the communications, including the Modular People, Pterosapiens and Asymmetrics. After another 20 million years, the empire also included the Saurosapients, Snake People, Symbiotes and the Sail People. Only after fourty million years, the Bug Facers joined in.

Over a timespan of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonized other planets.

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Tool Breeders, along with all of their cousins, were quickly wiped out by the Gravital as part of their interstellar conquest.

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Killer Folks (All Tomorrows)

The Killer Folk were a posthuman species that evolved from the Human Predators.

The evolution of sapience went hand in hand with the reduction of the thumb claws and saber teeth of the Predators, which are still present, but smaller and more fragile. Regardless, the Killer Folk still had predatory urges, which showed in their religions.

Their religions almost always centered around the art of hunting and war, with frequent orgies of violence and sex being part of their lifestyles. The best hunters and warriors were seen as nobility, and nomadic warriors gathered annually to hunt their life-stock, domesticated from their former human prey.

In an industrial revolution, one nation-pack of Killer Folk developed factory farming, organized state structure, secularism and new technologies, and the entire population got divided into progressive factory herders and conservative hunting states. This almost led to world wars more than once, but the Killer Folk managed to survive and unite again.

With this history, the world of the Killer folk has more buried dark ages, ruined cultures and fallen kingdoms than any other world. Eventually, through radio communication, they made contact with the Satyriacs and together they founded the Second Galactic Empire, which was soon joined by the Tool Breeders.

During the following ten million years, other posthumans joined in on the communications, including the Modular People, Pterosapiens and Asymmetrics. After another 20 million years, the empire also included the Saurosapients, Snake People, Symbiotes and the Sail People. Only after fourty million years, the Bug Facers joined in.

Over a timespan of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonized other planets.

A rare instance of a direct invasion by the Machines, on one of the shore cities of the Killer Folk.

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Killer Folk, along with all of their cousins, were quickly wiped out by the Gravital as part of their interstellar conquest.

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Snake People (All Tomorrows)

The Snake People were a posthuman species that evolved from the Worms.

After a climate change happened on the homeworld of the worms, the cooler climate made it possible for life to reclaim the surface world. Animals branched into millions of surface species, among them a group of worm-descended mammalian tree-snakes.

Eventually, one species of tree-snakes evolved sapience again, using spirally coiled brains and a single hand at the end of their tails, a remnant of their ancestors feet.

The Snake People's development mirrored that of their distant human ancestors, including several agricultural world empires, followed by industrial revolutions, social experiments, world wars, civil wars and globalisation.

The cities of the Snake People were tangles of pipe like tunnels, branching, three dimensional railroads and windowless, hole-like buildings. The cities were totally devoid of any plazas and open areas because of the species-wide agoraphobia of their inhabitants.

Their art includes books and vibrational ground-music.

They belonged to the third wave of posthumans joining the Second Galactic Empire founded by the Killer Folk and the Satyriacs.

Over a time-span of about 80 million years, the Second Empire developed, through the combined effort of all members, into a galaxy-spanning empire, even though the members never met each other personally, and all of the species colonised other planets.

Though they were prepared to face an alien invasion, the Empire didn't think about an invasion from other posthumans, and so the Snake People, along with all of their cousins, were quickly wiped out by the Gravital as part of their interstellar conquest.

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