Sphere-Builders

The **Sphere Builders** -- also called "**the Makers**" -- were an extra-dimensional species, native to a reality completely separate from the Prime Reality. They sought to enter the Prime Reality, though they were unable to survive in this universe. They were one faction within the Temporal Cold War, seeking to prevent their defeat at the Battle of Procyon V.

## Physiology

Though fairly humanoid in appearance, the Sphere Builders were completely hairless, with smooth yellowish skin. Their eyes were shades of pale blue.

While in the Prime Reality, they suffered from severe cellular degradation -- eventually causing them to completely disintegrate. Despite this, they had several powerful abilities -- they could pass through solid objects, and could use this to destroy any piece of technology by reaching inside it. Virtually all weapons fire passed through them harmlessly, except phasers set at a rotating frequency of 32.6 tetracycles. Sphere-Builders were also capable of generating blasts of energy from their hands.

Within their own universe, Sphere-Builders had the capability to examine time streams, including each alternate timeline, of other universes. It was due to this ability that the Sphere-Builders were able to learn that -- in the 36th century -- the United Federation of Planets would defeat them at the Battle of Procyon V.

## History

In the 22nd century, the Sphere-Builders began to construct a network of Dyson spheres in the region of the Beta Quadrant known as the Delphic Expanse. These spheres began to alter the region, isolating it behind thermobaric clouds, and reconfiguring the laws of physics to be more congruent with their home dimension. As such, the Sphere-Builders could survive within the Delphic Expanse despite the wide variety of spatial anomalies that posed a grave threat to all other lifeforms.

The Sphere-Builders began appearing to and guiding some local species, native to the Delphic Expanse. Beginning in 3033 CE, they helped the war-torn Xindi find resource-rich planets to colonize and inhabit, allowing them to rebuild from their devastating civil war. Similarly, the Triannons revered the Sphere-Builders as god-like entities.

The Sphere-Builders manipulated the Xindi into preemptively becoming enemies of Earth -- convincing them through fabricated visual records that humans would destroy the new Xindi homeworld. The Xindi constructed a weapon, based on Sphere-Builder designs, to strike at the planet Earth. A prototype was launched. However, other factions in the Temporal Cold War opposed to the Sphere-Builders and the leader of one such faction warned Captain Jonathan Archer that there was a larger weapon being constructed.

As the *Enterprise* NX-01 entered the Delphic Expanse, bent on preventing the destruction of Earth, the Sphere-Builders enacted other schemes -- including sending Xindi-Reptillians back into Earth's history to release a bio-weapon. This scheme was stopped, and the *Enterprise*'s headway into their territory began to make gains against the Sphere-Builders. The Xindi-Primates and Xindi-Arboreals began to doubt the Sphere-Builders -- and so they set to manipulating the Xindi-Reptillian leader Commander Dolim into acting against Earth without the rest of the Xindi Council.

Ultimately, the *Enterprise* NX-01 still managed to disrupt the sphere network, forcing the Sphere-Builders back into their home dimension and out of the Prime Reality.

## Source

The Sphere-Builders are derived from *Star Trek: Enterprise*. For canon information, please visit Memory Alpha.