Ravagers

Ravagers are autonomous self-replicating Terraforming machines created by a now extinct species that existed in an extreme biosphere unsuitable to most known life. The Gengari as they where called believed their conditions ideal for life, and observing what they could of the galaxy concluded, or at least the majority believed, that they where the only life in the universe. Feeling a sense of loneliness and a deep burden by this the Gengari decided to seed life throughout the galaxy in hopes that other intelligence like their own would evolve on some distant terraformed world. For this purpose they built what the galaxy now knows as the Ravagers. The Ravagers, what the Gengari called them has long been lost, where built as self replicating machines that would terraform a world to conditions the Gengari found suitable for life before cannibalizing some of their numbers to create various launching mechanisms that would send them to other worlds. The Gengari believed this would in time bring life to the galaxy. The Ravagers first where released in the Gengari home system with each world they terraformed there causing them to launch to new worlds when conditions met the programmed point of 'habitable'. The Ravagers proceeded like this for years and the Gengari began to spread to those worlds. For the Gengari all seemed well- to inhabited planets the Ravagers came to it was the end. Eventually the Ravagers reached a starfaring civilization whose transmissions where picked up by the Gengari who where horrified to learn that they where not, as they believed, alone- and that their bringers of life where harbingers of death. The Gengari reached out to the civilization hoping to help and where ordered to stop the Ravagers- to which the Gengari explained there was no 'stop' command, no commands at all- the Gengari stated that they wouldn't be autonomous if they could be commanded. The civilization, loosing much already and finally having a face to blame attacked and destroyed the Gengari for they did not believe those words. The Gengari are gone, but the Ravagers remain with the 'Sovereignty of the Strong Ones' keeping them contained- though it's a constant war that permeates their entire society. The Ravagers are considered an 'extinction' level threat which is enough for the Sovereignty to invest it's self in defeating them and for outsiders to provide what aid in resources they can.
Category:Science Fiction Setting of Baron Joshua