The Downstreamers

## Summary

**The Downstreamers**, also known as **The Old Ones** are a vastly powerful and immortal race of descendants of humankind from the *Manifold* series. Born in the "primal universe", they are the first and oldest race in the Manifold Trilogy, and are the creators of Manifolds and the descendants of humanity who live some 10^117 years in the future. They survived the heat death of their universe, and seeking to expand their possibilities in regard to the creation of life, reached back in time to send messages to the 21st century, telling their ancestors the "Blue children" of their plans to restructure the Manifold.

## Powers and Scaling

**Tier:** **2-C** | **High 1-A** | **1-T**

**Name:** The Downstreamers, The Old Ones, The Ancestors from The Afterglow

**Origin:** Manifold

**Gender:** Varies, possibly Unknown (Individual Downstreamers are formerly human and retain their mental humanity upon ascension, but as beings of pure information, it is unknown if they still retain "gender" or not)

**Age:** More than 10^117 years old | Inapplicable

**Classification:** Hyperadvanced posthuman civilization, neutrino/quantum consciousness/informational beings | Abstract existence

**Powers and Abilities:**

* Downstreamers
* Old Ones
Superhuman Characteristics, Immortality (Types 1 & 3), Regeneration (High-Godly. Capable of reforming themselves after their informational body/consciousness has been completely destroyed by the wave of unreality), Abstract Existence (They are entities made of pure information, who cannot be distinguised by any means whatsoever, even in principle, across past, present and future), Acausality (Type 5. Perceives causality from a non-linear, acausal state, and later transcended causality as a whole after removing themselves from the timeline's history), Gravity Manipulation, Anti-Gravity Manipulation, Dimensional Travel (Can create wormholes powered up by gravity fields, which allows them to travel through time and different universes), Self-Sustenance (All types), Durability Negation, Matter Manipulation (Macro-Quantum. Can manipulate and shoot quark-nugget matter. These quarks can create gravity strong enough to destroy neutrons from the atmosphere and also bypass conventional matter durability as if it was made of butter), Force-field Manipulation (Can create magnetic fields), Matter Manipulation, Information Manipulation (Capable of sending information across time and universes. Can reconstruct people into data/information), Spatial Manipulation (Can create and fold infinite space within finite structures), Causality Manipulation (Can change events and rewrite history with their will), Power Bestowal (Can turn other people into Downstreamers), Power Mimicry, Information Analysis (Their time portals can analyze information and replicate it), Precognition (Knows every possible event that will unfold in the multiverse, being able to tell everything that will happen by the minimal possible movement/quantum alteration from a single sub-atomic particle), Reactive Power Level (After being destroyed, they can regain their form and transcend into a much more powerful state), Physics Manipulation, Transmutation (Can convert matter into light and vice-versa), Non-Physical Interaction, Existence Erasure (Capable of deleting individuals from existence), Void Manipulation (Can vanish things into unreality), Subjective Reality (Their minds can call universes into existence through their observations), Probability Manipulation (Can alter/affect probabilities through quantum tunneling), Mathematics Manipulation

All previous abilities, plus Immortality (Type 5), Beyond Dimensional Existence (Type 3), Transduality (Type 3), Nonexistent Physiology (Type 2), Large Size (Type 11), Time Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Axiom Manipulation (Created the Manifold which are based on mathematical laws/formal systems)

**Attack Potency: Low Multiversal** ( they can manipulate up to a thousand timelines with nothing but their thoughts. Along with creating technology that can support the impact of a thousand big bangs per second.) **High Outerversal** (They created the Manifold which is a Type-IV Multiverse which houses cardinals up to including a hierarchy of mahlo cardinals, even the Ultimate L.) **Transcendental** (Eventually they created the entirety of Manifold, including all logically possible universes.)

**Speed: Massively FTL+** | **Irrelevant**

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown** | **Immeasurable**

**Striking Strength:** **Unknown** | **Low Outerverse level**

**Durability:**  **Low Multiverse level** (Some Downstreamers, who don’t come from the "Time of Afterglow," are born from naked singularities. They are capable of surviving even when exposed to such a naked singularity at close proximity. They can produce material strictly from their thoughts that can withstand the combined force of a thousand big bangs per second; said material is completely immune to any change in the laws of physics. The Downstreamers as a whole were also fully capable of surviving the heat-death of a universe, though it is unknown to what degree they were weakened as a result of this), likely **High Hyperverse level** (Individual Pre-FVC Downstreamers are intangible neutrino/quantum consciousness/informational beings, which could survive the collapse of an infinitely-layered reality) | **Low Outerverse level** (Reached a new level of existence which was vastly superior to its previous incarnation, transcending the whole of known reality and the "infinite ensemble" of possible universes that arranged due to the Manifold's expansion)

**Stamina:** Unknown | Infinite

**Range:** Interstellar (Pre-FVC Downstreamers are described to be a light-year wide in size) to Low Multiversal (Capable of enacting time-line alteration on at least 1000 non-causally connected universes, and could set up Time Portals made of physics-warping material at will in at least 1000 universes) to Low Outerversal (They have access to the whole Manifoldverse) | Low Outerversal (Capable of controlling and initiating cosmic inflation across the multiverse, in which universes are described as "mere bubbles of foam on an ocean")

**Intelligence:** Nigh-Omniscient (Know how every possible event in the universe will unfold down to the quantum level. Their "brains" are Causal Loop computers, a device which grants them infinite thinking and processing power) | Nigh-Omniscient (The Old Ones are able to comprehend and manipulate the "infinite manifold" that encompasses all mathematical possibilities)

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Manifold Time, Part 4
2. ↑ Manifold Origin, Part 4
3. ↑ Manifold Time, Part 2
4. ↑ Manifold Time, Part 3
5. ↑ Manifold Time, Part 3
6. ↑ World Engines: Creator
7. ↑ Manifold Origin, Part 3
8. ↑ Phase Space: Dante Dreams
9. ↑ Phase Space , 'The Gravity Mine' , p. 756-758
10. ↑ Manifold Time , Part 4 , p. 460
11. ↑ Manifold Origin
12. ↑ Phase Space , 'The Gravity Mine' , p. 755
13. ↑ Manifold Time , Part 4 , p. 445
14. ↑ Manifold Time, Part 2, p. 141
15. ↑ Phase Space , 'Grey Earth' , p. 477 - 478
16. ↑ Phase Space , 'The We Who Sing' , p. 738
17. ↑ Manifold Time , Part 4 , p. 532-533