Athrael's lore

## Athrael Theocracy

**Species:** Athrael

**Place of origin:** Milky Way Orion's arm Sedra System, Vemana moon.

*The Athraels are a highly intelligent, artificially created alien race, which uses advanced technology and has been travelling in space for thousands of years. The Athraels’ characteristic features are similar to humans, straight posture, walking on both legs, and thumbs that can be turned to face the other fingers. They are extremely intelligent due to its especially advanced brain. The Athrels believe that their creators were the Architects, and they are searching for the antidote for their genetic disruption.*

### History

The Athraels has been around for nearly 40,000 years on Vemana, a moon orbiting around the gas giant Eridas. Vemana has a much warmer and more tropical climate than the Earth. Their home had a diverse wildlife and almost paradise conditions, but ten thousand years ago everything changed, the planet's wildlife started dying out without any warning signs and external influences. Various animals and plants became extinct and the Athraels were struggling by infertility. After this event they are started doing genetic research by which they identified an artificial gene. This gene uniquely characterizes their species and Vemana's biosphere, the Athraels realized that their genetic disintegration was a planned process, they are artificially created.

Using their advanced technology, they began searching their ancestors, the Architects, to find out what is their purpose and to reverse their destruction. Thousands of exploration vessels have been launched which have identified many alien species, ecosystems and planets. Additionally, more and more evidence, signs, ancient buildings, stations and ruins have been found of the lost Architect civilization.

The Athraels' faith is built around the Architects, who they see as gods. According to them, the ancient creatures were experimenting with life and created many intelligent species for different purposes. They believe that the intellectual development of the species can be divided into several steps, the first step is to recognize that they have been created, the second is to realize that they are not alone - there are numerous sibling species - the third is to find out the purpose of their own being; after reaching the third step, it is possible to move to the fourth step, where they can meet and return to the Architects.

The Athrael civilization is divided into several Orders, each of them is governed by a High One who directs his followers according to the dogmas of the given state. Above them stands the Patriarch, the highest-ranking High One and the head of the Athrael Theocracy.

The currently alive Athraels can't reproduce themselves in a natural way and they are only clones from seventy-two ancient pure genetic lines, they mostly just look similar, but they differ in their thinking and behavior. They often tattoo themselves to make them look more individual.

### Technology, weapons

The Athraels has been travelling in space for thousands of years. With their highly developed warp engines and space bending equipments they also reached the distant areas of the Milky Way, and established several colonies and research stations around the galaxy. Their extremely fast ships are equipped with elemental particle breaker Radion, Polaron weapons, and paralyzing Neutron torpedoes. Their vessels’ vulnerable armor is compensated by strong shield fields.

Athraels have the ability to create black holes and time distorting phenomena with their most advanced technology solutions as well.

### Economy

Thanks to thousands of years of technological development, the Athraels have found a solution to transport raw materials by breaking them down into their elements then teleporting them from one point to the other. Unfortunately, besides the ores, the organic materials are not suitable for teleporting. The ores are extracted from asteroids by Drones, then transported to nearby Mass Transmitters, from where they are teleported to their central stations called Central Pyramids at specific intervals.