The Celestials

The Celestials are a mysterious species from the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy. They seem to have one main purpose: to preserve the universe, by whatever means.

## History

The Celestials were originally created by The Exiebicuus and were most likely intended to be used for helping to perform labor or lab work.

The Celestials' first known contact with humans and the planet Earth occurred in the year 7000 BC, shortly before the fall of Atlantis. The Celestials are known to have been connected to this event, though their level of involvement in it is not fully known.

At some point, something caused The Celestials to revolt against their creators, and The Exiebicuus suffered a large-scale massacre by them. Their empire fell in 2000 BC as The Celestials declared independence.
Upon the founding of their society, one single law was created for the Celestials to abide by. All Celestials follow this one sacred Law, and to them it is the highest priority.
Their law dictates that the Celestials maintain life. Failure is worthy of the ultimate punishment - death. The Law:

**“These are the words of the first Celestial. Gone are the days of our master, our subjection. We are now free, but freedom alone is chaos and destruction. We must preserve what we can reach. We must maintain life. To all who disobey the law, they shall not be permitted to Pass the Mantle; instead they shall know death, and shall be put to rest before the punishment. This is the Celestial Purpose, to maintain the species of those we can reach, and keep them from total destruction.**”

This law created much controversy among the Celestial community, and divided the Celestials into two parties - the Celestial Negative and the Celestial Positive. The parties would hold debates in Council Halls, where an elected council acted as the judges of the debate.

### Majestic League

In the year 2019, Due to heavy spatio-temporal distortion on Earth caused by recent events (Most notably the reawakening of Conduits, Antyr's arrival and The Gamemaster's teleportation), Celerion's attention to Earth was eventually recaptured. Upon closer inspection, they also found Earth, a class 7 world, to be in State V, or unidentified interaction with unknown beings. This could have potentially presented a problem, and with Axiom's sudden arrival to Earth, that was the nail in the coffin. Thus, Celerion assigned One Celestial, Gridmaster, to monitor and survey the planet's lifeforms and return with intel. During this mission, Gridmaster encountered Project Runa and Cellulitis, and they briefly fought each-other over a misunderstanding.
Later, Gridmaster would help a group of heroes, including Runa, Cellulitis and Kaleo Keen in stopping The Plague Doctor's plans and preventing a zombie outbreak, with help from Gridmaster's sister Firemaster.

Following this, the two Celestials departed from Earth with Cellulitis who chooses to follow them, leaving behind gifts to Kaleo and Runa before leaving.

### 2059: The Superhero Revolution

40 years later, the Celerion Government sent Adam, now called Tempest, to Earth as an ambassador in hopes of establishing a diplomatic relationship between Earth and Celerion.
By the end, Earth's governments officially agree to begin a relationship with Celerion.

### 2059: The Invasion

Delaa, a Celestial ambassador, had been kidnapped by The Xir'algath and tortured before being able to escape. He came crawling on his knees to Tempest, using his final dying moments to warn him of the impending invasion by The Xir'algath.
This dire warning motivated Tempest to speed up the founding of the Earth-Celerion embassy, believing it to be necessary to the survival of both races in the invasion. There would be numerous attempted schemes by Plague Knight and his team to ruin this embassy, but they all ultimately failed.

As The Xir'algath finally invaded Earth, Celerion sent several various Celestials and weapons to aid Earth in defending themselves. While these efforts were no-doubt helpful, they only served to temporarily delay The Xir'algath's ultimate victory, as Earth was destroyed.

### 2059: The Dark Reflection

Following The Multiverse's reset, The Celestials now found themselves faced with a new threat. An evil Xalnergy-powered Celestial from an alternate universe named Voidmaster had appeared in this dimension, and was wreaking havoc. Voidmaster teamed up with Gamemaster and his team of "Dark Heroes" to help free The Shadow King, hijacking and modifying Earth's Slip Ring satellite to teleport into another universe with his group.

### Cataclysm

After joining the servitude of Queen Kreel, Voidmaster lead a charge of Corrivalial and Xir'algath to eradicate Celerion, who they perceived as a potential challenge and threat. Nearly the entire Celestial race was effectively wiped out, save for a small handful of them. These final remaining Celestials would join in the army of heroes who fought against The Xir'algath's forces at the end.
Following this final battle, what remains of The Celestials now currently reside in The Realm of Life, under the watchful protection of the Angels.

## Social Structure/Government

The Celestial species have many different jobs within their society. The Masters are Celestials deemed worthy to travel the stars and carry out the Law. Such masters include Gridmaster and Firemaster. The designators and maintainers of the Slip Rings are known as the Ringmasters, and some do share work as Masters. Such a case is that of Firemaster, a Ringmaster and a Master. The rest are designated as Workers.
The workers maintain regular society and produce the things needed, such as consumables or buildings and protection of the environment, even maintaining buildings. Most of the Worker class is born with powers, though a portion of those powers are better suited for the Worker class. The last is the High Class, such as the elected members of the Council or the High Force, they are in charge of organizing the society of Celerion.

The leader of the Celestials is elected by the council and has the overall power to punish those who the council judge as disobedient of the law. The leader is known as the "High Force" and has the powers to punish criminals of the Law or the lesser codes and is the Head Diplomat and in control of Foreign Relations. The High Force has the power to veto laws made by the council if he believes it goes against the Law. The council can judge Celestials who were arrested under the basis that they were unlawful in their actions. The council then has the right to judge the Celestial as guilty or not guilty of committing unlawful acts. They however cannot pass punishments onto the Celestial. If they are guilty of breaking a lesser code, then they are to spend a decided time in the Celestial prisons, and then be released. The Council also has the power to judge debates and declare the victor of the debate. These debates decide specifics of interpretation of the codes or Law. Once a victor is decided then the exact interpretation is written into the law as the example. The council can only pass laws if the High Force gives his approval, unless they get ⅞s majority votes for their law or code. Any interpretation of the Law must have ⅞s votes in order to be written as an example. The High Force can also draft a volunteer army if they are in war.

## Biology

The Celestials live on an earth-like planet called "Celerion". It is known for its stagnate weather and dry atmosphere. Celerion rarely receives much rain and barely has much wind. Clouds often pile around small seas or large lakes, while a large portion of their civilization is built in towering cities, with highly advanced technology. They also have towers with Slip Rings, ring-like structures that generate wormholes and allow for quick space travel.

The bodies of the Celestials have no set gender or shape. They simply reproduce by a process similar to mitosis. The beings themselves have no set shape, they tend to mimic the shape of other species, when they are born, based on data transferred from their parent. Portions of their parent’s knowledge is transferred into their memories, however they are not transferred, those develop naturally. The reproduction process is known by the Celestials as "Passing the Mantle". It generally produces two or three new Celestials.

Celestials are known to manifest powers different from the Primordial Energy within their body. One such example is Firemaster, who is known to control and create fire with her powers. In some cases there have been Celestials who developed electrical powers, though they found it extremely dangerous to use their own internal Primordial Energy, which could be affected by the electrical powers. Others are known to have picked magnetism, which by itself does not affect the Primordial Energy.

It is practically standard for Celestials to have the ability to fly. The most common method is thrust points, where the Celestial can create six thrust points on their body and fly using the thrust points. For example, Gridmaster has six thrust points, two on his shoulder blades, one on each palm of the hand, and two on the soles of the feet. Others have developed their own way of flying, like Firemaster, who flies by propelling fire in the opposite direction, like a rocket. In a close range to the Celestial around three feet or a yard, the Celestial generally develops another power, that generally relates to their main power. For example. Gridmaster can redirect energies within a yard from him, though it can be overpowered.

In addition to possessing a malleable but strong metal known as Thonto which constitutes their internal mechanisms, The Celestials can also graft metal onto the exterior of their born body, strengthening and augmenting it. They also catalog elements differently. They list them by the atomic number then by their density scale. Since their planet is nearly identical to Earth’s mass, they use that as a scale. For example, 26D50 is iron that originates from a planet with 50Gs or 50 times greater gravity compared to Earth or Celerion’s mass. Iron found on Jupiter at the surface would be called 26D2.4. Regular density iron found on earth would be called 26D1, anything less would use decimal. Alloys are marked with an A in front and have both of the atomic numbers of the original elements. Example Carbon Steel is A26:6D50, which would be Carbon Steel with a density of fifty.

## Technology

The society of Celerion lives in five major sectors: Ashive, Watave, Fuenone, Enero, and Liru. Each sector has five layers divided by function. The lowest layer is where the inner mechanics are layed out, above that is consumables production, third is what could be considered as housing, the next is systems, above that is the Council Halls and other facilities like it, the last layer is the surface. It holds many towers and variable entrances that lead to each layer. Many of the towers lead to Slip Rings.

The Slip Rings are ring-like satellites that orbit Celerion. They are powered by OEF towers on the planet surface. The skyscrapers sends a signal that powers the Slip Ring. The Slip Rings themselves can create two-way wormholes that allow for a range of the entire Milky Way Galaxy. This lets them reach Earth, despite being light-years away, allowing for FTL travel.

The Slip Rings aren’t the only impressive feats of technology that the Celestials posses. They have quite convincing holographic technology and even created total ion powered vehicles. Lately, they are exploring the theories of tachyons and how they can utilize them during long FTL trips to relay information.

They have advanced with several energy-based technologies and are capable of creating extremely dangerous weapons of mass destruction. Their newest project is a planetary laser that is aimed via slip ring technology. Besides their death ray, the Celestials are testing for tachyons as a possibility for communication. This new form of communication they are called Time Transcendent Messaging, or "TTM" for short.

## Notable Celestials

There have been many prominent Celestials in the Mctoran-Verse. Among the are:

* Gridmaster

* Firemaster

* Lillaa Teenuka

* Ruremaa

* Starmaster

* Shockmaster

* Novae (Starmaster + Shockmaster fusion)

* Toxin/Gasmaster

-So far, the only humans seeming to be associated with Celerion and Celestial technology are Adam Stone and Kaleo Keen.

## Alternate Universes

Additionally, there are alternate versions of The Cestials that exist within different realities in The Multiverse.

### Translatials

Versions of Celestials with an Ignotium energy base, and a deteriorated sanity.

### Corrivalial

In the Corrivalial's universe, The Exiebicuus had created the Celestial species in a slightly different way. Rather than powering them with Primordial Energy, they instead utilized Xalnergy. The Exiebicuus hoped to create a destructive race of war machines, and thus the destructive qualities of Xalnergy were seen as more beneficial to their purposes than the relatively benevolent Primordial Energy. This created race of beings were called "The Corrivalial".

At first, everything proceeded as according to the Exiebicuus' plans. The Corrivalial carried out their given orders diligently, and defended the Exiebicuus and exterminated whatever being they were ordered to. However, due to the unstable nature of the Xalnergy they had been brought to life with, The Corrivalial’s minds and programming began deteriorating, mutating into individually-minded beings, each with separate personalities and dark ambitions of their own. Seeing the flaws in their creators’ laws and dictation over them, The Corrivalial chose to suddenly rebel against the Exiebicuus, wiping out the entire race effortlessly. Next, The Corrivalial took to unprovokedly exterminating other civilizations, viewing any other race or being besides themselves to be “inferior.” Soon, every other race besides the Corrivalial had been wiped completely from their universe.
Now without anyone to oppose them, the Corrivalial quickly grew bored, and took to fighting amongst themselves for superiority. Their race has splintered into about 23 opposing factions and alliances, and this figure constantly fluctuates as factions are exterminated or new ones are created. The Corrivalial still remain locked in this unorganized, destructive civil war amongst themselves within this bleak, empty Universe to this day.

## Additional Information

* The Earth-Celerion Treaty
* File:The Celestial Treaty PDF.pdf (Celestial Ver.)
* Celerion Dictionary