Troyx

**Troyx** are an extinct race of Teadr 1 invertebrate baseless biomechanical alien beings native to the planet of Spherox Maga (Delta Universe, Delta Core Sector, Troxoxue System). They are a multi-form race of BIONICLE-like bionic beings who were one of the type of Teadr 1 race deviant from others as their culture for respecting technology and nature allowed for merging them into one, making them a race that relied mainly on biotics (genetically-engineered lifeforms that filled the role of a machine). However, two civil wars resulted first in their regression to a semi-technological society, and then their inevitable extinction by the end of the Teadr 1 Ages. But their bodies were preserved and many derelict bodies still remain to this day.

## History

The Troyx evolved from crustaceous arthropods that shared a resemblance to machines, as they could regenerate and reproduce like starfish, by detaching and losing their limbs, back during the times when Spherox Magna was mostly an ocean world. As the only anaerobic creatures on the planet, they were thus the only creatures that could live on the surface which was still mostly airless. Once plants began to evolve on the surface and algae began to coat the surface of the water, and even make the oceans themselves green, the Troyx were already evolving into crustaceous sapient creatures. They learned to survive better and even how to use strong base tools. By the time they evolved into the sentient beings they are now, they became stronger and evolved a eusocial society when they learned how to rearrange and reconfigure themselves. This allowed them to create different forms and eventually they became the Teadr 1 race they are known as today.

But these were a different kind of Teadr 1 race. Because of their culture, they deviated from the tech-based society of other Teadr 1 races and had little cities. Most civilization was concentrated in villages. Their robot-like physiology even allowed them to live anywhere, including underwater, in toxic, cold and hot environments. and even the vacuum of space. They managed to build biotic structures in their very core to allow the planet itself it's own intelligence, and reconfigure itself if need be. This allowed the Troyx to take care of as their customs meant they understood an acceptable and ethical balance of nature and technology, making them an environmentally-friendly race.

However, when they took this power further for the planet itself, they ended up going too far with a civil war involving two brothers Riten and Motus. Riten viewed that they could bring bigger greatness with these gifts merging harmony between life and machine under the firm mottoes of unification, responsibility, and meaning, as this way of thinking caught on the best with the Troyx. But Motus believed that such power shouldn't be wasted on such a single world and should be everywhere given how disorganized life and machine are across the AUU, plotting expansion on multiple if not all worlds, when really they were better off doing so on their own home planet. Their differences drifted them apart and into war. This war caused the Shattering of the planet into 4 daughter planets: Primus Maga, Corus Maga, Nore Maga, and Vex Maga. Millions of lives were lost in this civil war as Motus created machines that fed on biomass and thus could potentially cause serious damage to the planet, shaming Motus as a Troyx. His own forces even deviated from this norm and came to exist as an insurrection called the Motusa which were dangerous and could potentially bring extinction to a planet if running rampant.

Motus himself became one of these Motusa and went rampant until Riten imprisoned him in the intelligent planet's core. The damage that befell the war left the Troyx to beoame a semi-technological society. Riten revitalized the native fauna into the Technyds, biomechanical creatures that could terraform and balance the fragility of life on planets, succeeding with this planet. However, Motus returned a thousand years later following the end of the Teadr 1 Ages when they were one of the last remaining Teadr 1 beings, as he killed Riten and allowed the Motusa to consume the entire planet, resulting in the Troyx race's extinction because the Motusa were too much for them. By the time there was no more biomass for fuel, they died out too. Though they went extinct, they actually remained derelict as individual living biomechanical parts that each held life. Many of it was preserved inside underground bunkers thanks to Riten before his death, waiting to be discovered, as well as untold vaults of Troyx warriors. This world has thus become uninhabited by sentient beings as a sacred world save the planet's native Technyd biomechanical fauna which had managed to recultivate the planet's lost biosphere and even ensure that the Motusa never returned, especially Motus himself.

## Physiology

Troyx are noted for having endo and exoskeletons all made from metal, all wired with muscle, organ, and other organic flesh, all protected by the exoskeleton. They have two stomachs, one for water, and the other for biofuel, which is made from the biomass that they consume like food. They are also capable of rearranging and customizing their own bodies into many forms, merging machinery with organic anatomy to become an advanced race. Each piece has a life of it's own that can merge with a core life and form a full conscience upon building a full Troyx. These pieces, when completed into one individual Troyx, can be linked to the individual but become separated when detached too long. The neural matrix of these body parts can make them incompatible to other individuals. Weapon pieces on the Troyx body are powered neurologically and thus using it in excess can cause the body to tire out and require biofuel and water to recharge.

Troyx reproduced like a starfish. If a body part is left away from a host for too long, it can actually fertilize. If it has had multiple hosts, their own DNA can mix into the separated body part and allow it to grow into a new individual. Though a Troyx' growth span to adulthood is half a human's, as it can reach maturity at age 9. Age 5 is their age of sexual maturity, and their lifespans are roughly thousands of years.

The massive array of forms the Troyx take can be traced to their position in society. They all come in various types that all watch over many elements.

* **Pho**- The original type that controls light.
* **Pyo**- The type that controls fire.
* **Aeo**- The type that controls air.
* **Hyo**- The type that controls water.
* **Geo**- The type that controls earth.
* **Lio**- The type that controls stone.
* **Cyo**- The type that controls ice.
* **Eto**- The type that controls lightning.
* **Mao**- The type that controls magnetism.
* **Pos**- The type that controls plasma.
* **Gov**- The type that controls gravity.
* **Soc**- The type that controls sound.
* **Alk**- The type that controls metal.
* **Vio**- The type that controls plant life.
* **Mon**- The type that controls mind.

The forms of the Trian are semi-eusocial as they are meant for a single purpose.

* **Trian**- The original Matoran-like form of the Troyx. They come in many types. They come in many types meant to safeguard the power and stability of the elements, and was made into the civilian-class type of the Troyx who fulfill all types of jobs across their homes.
* **Oa**- The Toa-like combat-based type that is the result of Trians ascending to greater purpose in their elements. They serve as guardians of their homes, as their body parts mature to fit this type.
* **Iode**- The Turaga-like elder type that is the result of an Oa's body parts aging beyond workable function and shrunk slightly. They are as powerful as Oa, but are not as agile. They serve as curators, servitors, and elder positions.
* **Anitori**- An Agori-like hybrid of Trian and Oa who fulfill both their jobs and have become an independent type.
* **Borhdon**- A Bohrok-like variant of Trian that are made for demolition.
* **Ukshi**- A Rahkshi-like variant of Oa that were made by Motus to act as terrorists.
* **Ravidio**- A Skakdi-like Troyx that live in the wild and cause trouble like intelligent monkeys and apes.
* **Torox**- A Vorox-like nomadic Troyx variant that dwells in wastelands.
* **Anhi**- A Rahi-like subtype of Troyx that is more feral to protect fauna including the Technyds.

## Society and Culture

The Troyx had a great respect for technology and nature, considering both important in the AUU, and even considered them brothers, with both needing the other to survive. They refer to both technology and nature respectively as Tetka and Naunus, who are also the names of the deities they represent. In ancient past they believed that they were made by both these deities as a fusion of both, and some still held these beliefs even to their last days. They protected both nature and technology with their lives, and would destroy anything, whether technological or natural in nature, that would threaten either side.

The Troyx were a semi-eusocial oligarchic society. Their types were made to represent a society where they could all be equal and yet share the same purpose thanks to their connection to each of the elements. They also considered hunting Technyds, creatures meant to terraform and clean a planet, a sin to nature and technology and thus heavily forbidden under penalty of death.

## Technology

Most Troyx technology was based around biotics, or genetically-engineered machine-based organisms. Their basic head for science and technology was the Armamentare Corporation, which was like a giant hive inside the capital city of Spherox Maga, Sphei Metaris.

#### **Power**

All power in Troyx society was mostly environmentally-friendly, as fossil fuels were hardly or rarely used. They considered fossil fuels being entirely used a miracle as they could focus more on the creation of environmentally-friendly sources of power. Troyx power, like the Troyx themselves, were powered by biomass like food since their machines were mostly biotic. They fed upon anything edible like meat and vegetables. Biofuel has thus become the dominant fuel source while solar and elemental energy is their basic power source.

#### **Material**

Troyx material technology was very advanced. Their bodies were made of a substance known as dermasteel, which makes up all the bone tissue of life on Spherox Magna and it's daughter planets. Dermasteel has also been reverse-engineered to become dermis. Dermis, as an artificial substance, exists in multiple states and forms, and could be refined and/or reshaped to have many uses. In it's unrefined solid form, which is found in the ground and resembles rock, becoming widespread across the four daughter planets after the civil war, it was mined by the Geo-Troyx and shaped by the Lio-Troyx. Metallic dermis was very strong and durable, and makes up all armor-type modifications of the Troyx race, among other uses. Megadermis is an allotrope of Dermis and one of the strongest materials in the Troyx' material reserves. It was used in heavy-duty armor and other extremely strong tools. Frozen dermis is a cooled liquid dermis that can be used for cryogenics, among other uses. Crystalline dermis is a diamond-like variant that is incredibly strong and was used in lenses or mechanical work in Troyx society. Organic dermis is a biotic-engineered variant that was used to make Technyds and other Troyx biota across Spherox Maga and it's daughter planets. Unrefined liquid dermis is found all over the daughter planets and is half as hot as lava, making it easy to handle by Troyx, but not organic beings. Once in it's purified form, liquid dermis could then be used to weld biotic machines or in genetic engineering. Molten dermis is a lava-like variant that was used to weld stronger tools and weapons, and was also pumped underground to heat homes. Because of it's near-DNA-based molecular structure, dermis could be altered genetically to become many different forms, whether dense, thick, thin, heavy, and so on.

#### **AI and Automation**

Troyx were capable of reverse-engineering intelligence thanks to their gift of dermis. They could create machines that were mostly biotic in nature, needing only food to keep them fueled. They have even managed to turn their planet's core into an AI itself in order to speak for nature and technology, but this AI was split into fragments along with the 4 daughter planets after the first civil war. Each organic machine did one or more specific tasks, and they were all artificially intelligent and shared a neural link to one another like a network.

#### **Medical Advances and Biotechnology**

Troyx were naturally gifted with genetic engineering thanks to their beliefs in nature and technology coexisting. Their beliefs had taught them more than enough to master genetics and allowed them to create medical and biotechnology beyond what they could expect. They were capable of bioengineering and enhancing themselves with enhanced dermis, and dermis itself could be altered to serve as a means of self-repair, restoring an injured Troyx, so long as they were fed the sufficient amount of biomass and water.

#### **Communications and Computing**

The neural link of all biotic machines in Troyx society allowed them to form a makeshift data network, called the Neuronet, which could store all information used and processed by all biotic machines in Troyx society, making information that could be found on the network endless. The Neuronet had even been linked directly to the AI core of Spherox Maga via seismic transmitters in it's crust, allowing for the AI core to know the progression of the Troyx race.

#### **Space-Faring**

Troyx, unfortunately, were one of the many Teadr 1 races who have not fully mastered space technology, as they preferred their own already-perfect home planet and crafted it in a way that corresponded to their beliefs. Motus has thus been the closest one to attempt space-faring travel, but only for the purpose of conquest. They had thus never fully mastered space technology even when the 4 daughter planets were born, separating the Troyx race into 4 different setting and evolving 4 different societies, and yet still holding similar beliefs.

#### **Weapons**

Troyx weapons are capable of transforming and they can come with bayonets and shields. These guns can use elemental bolts and can have multiple settings. Guns can be switched of ammunition and be attached to a Troyx's body. Explosives also use energy and come in many forms. Ammunition is comprised of energy cels, green lasers, and green projectiles, all made from biological materials like biofuel.

#### **Vehicles and Buildings**

Vehicles, like most Troyx machines, were fueled with biomass and were semi-mount creatures. These vehicles could compose of lokkers (scorpion tanks that can fire lasers from their tails or claws), motioxes (moa-like two-legged mounts), solaxes (dragofly-dragons with solar-powered buzzing wings), tirkas (large tiger-canine blaster-eared mounts), mantibexes (mantis-like blaster-armed mounts), skimhars (rocket-legged horses), craxxexes (crab-like blaster-clawed creatures), whels (wheel-legged predators), submors (whale-like submarines), gigatods (giant elephant-like multi-legged centipedal walking bases), fokods (bird-like jet creatures), rayas (ray-like water-dwelling creatures), crawders (spider-like four-legged drone creatures), and gexxoxes (giant jellyfish-like flying fortresses).

Buildings in Troyx society were all each semi-living creatures that could accommodate any of their inhabitants in a kind of symbiosis. All monuments and constructs in cities and villages of Troyx society were also semi-living creatures that did one or more tasks and made a city or village it's own makeshift ecosystem.