Gosei Text Back Up

1/11An artificially created people, <Blank> were created in the unknown distant past by an unknown creator in order to help answer questions.  While the current status of the creator is in doubt, but <Blank> has always maintained a defensive stance throughout their history.  First contact by the Oni occurred during the Maneater Wars when a rogue clan found a hidden base full of them in a dormant state;  awakening them with the intent to use them as weapons, <Blank> instead killed all hostiles in the facility in self-defense and peaceful contact was made later by friendly Oni forces.  Though maintaining a neutal stance for the duration of the conflict, the unknown status of their creator resulted in their decision to align under the Oni as a client race for mutual survival.

Currently, <Blank> serve in the role of 'brain' in the small alliance.  While Draconians and Watamashi collect and store knowledge, <Blank> helps utilize all that information to advanced their shared technology base.

These were originally back burner in Voyages, but had inspiration by DB’s remark about allowing an immortal race that had no ability to reproduce.

So, was going to rework my android client race for the Oni anyways, but this gave me a valuable seed.  Base build is they were first encountered when the Oni reached the Shell world.  Not pacifists in any sense, they can only defend due to hardwired programming - ie, they will not fire first, but will retaliate.  Have some Maneater Wars fluff for this for later inclusion.

They are immortal in sense that as long as their core back up on their homeworld remains, a new physical shell can be manufactured to house copy in field.  However, this would mean memory loss, and since no ftl radio, they carry memory storage hardware to make regular backups.  These can later be uploaded to group access servers...race’s backstory is they were originally created as a tool to learn and gain knowledge.  Have more details, but basic fluff.

Thing is, their shells are restricted.  Yes, the tech has inspired some Oni advancements, but it’s unreplicatable, so only hardware able to make physical Shell bodies for them exist on the homeworld.  In exchange, though less advanced ones can be made as needed, not unknown to see bodies that, to casual observer, look like an organic being.  They would still read as artificial on scans, of course, for balancing.

Since emotion is one of the knowledge things they observe, some either have become good at mimicking it or are actually expressing it.

There has been some research into uploading minds into their collective, but it’s stalled for questions of morals and ethics - and issues with risks over loosing Oni lives in project with current population problems.  They also question if such a mind, if upload was successful, would still be counted as their original species or as the artificial one.

Though I hadn’t planned to detail much as I knew I would start wiping an actual race up, here’s what I’ve got
- frail race from low gravity world that was to afraid to interact with offworlders as lightest touch was potentially fatal
- they sacrificed their home system to build Laihiala as a safe, mostly sealed environment
- they build the first gen precursor drones to gain knowledge of what’s outside their closed off home
- in classic fashion, seen in Trek and other canons, when Gosei ancestors begin to show early signs of sapience, a group panics and tries to shut them down in a way that triggers the defense protocols
- survivors, not enough to maintain a viable population and not having other tech to counter this, decide to digitize themselves as part of the Gosei matrix while manually removing references to their race and the actions that wiped them out from the databanks
- as time goes on, Gosei continue to evolve as they continued to gather and store knowledge
- Oni first reach Laihiala
- Maneater Clans are repulsed, but non hostile clans are allowed to settle
- Maneater Wars, Gosei do not take a side but defend themselves as needed
- Oni give the native machine race the name Gosei
- time continues to present day, Gosei settle in as allies of Oni and help as needed, along with other client races, to help run the state due to Oni population issues
- a Gosei is given a specially constructed shell and dispatched to the \*Defiance\* to both babysit Hikari and give the folks back home a neutral, unbiased way to gather information on the big four of Federation, Command, Gollar, and Ragon and the war so they can use it to make better decisions

<@356859837189062658> <@!297503553453555713> <@!440627681571373057> alright, minus the extra zeros, here’s my updated timeline while still keeping to spirit of DB’s words about keeping the Oni as is.

* + 15k\*\*
	Oni first become interplanetary.  Yes, I do count moon landing.
	\*\*12k\*\*
	Using pure sublight methods, Oni have been colonizing nearby star systems.
	\*\*10k\*\*
	Oni are first introduced to Skrim technology.  How, I’ve not decided on, but could be self invention, purchased from someone, or straight up stolen.
	\*\*8k to 5k\*\*
	The ever present Maneater Wars.  As the rebellion had primary access to Skrim, they had advantage over the scattered and not unified Maneater Clans.
	\*\*5k\*\*
	Insectoid race that goes on to build what evolves into Gosei first leave their homeworld’s atmosphere.  Instead of exploring beyond their system, they first begin dismantling it to craft a Dyson shell.  They are aided by various drones which are the precursors to the probes they’ll eventually send out to get information.
	\*\*4k\*\*
	Group of creators trigger defense programming of proto-sentient Gosei ancestors.  Race is effectively eliminated and survivors grant their creation the mercy of not knowing by physically erasing themselves from the records.
	\*\*3.5k\*\*
	Oni reach the shell and name it Laihiala and the more evolved drones as Gosei.  This is also when Gosei are first introduced to Skrim tech.

> Biofuel - basically, eat and drink and stomach analogue digests it.   Idea is this being main
<@!426802996890828820> this ties into a non power related Tech - healing.   Basically,  when damage is detected, swarms of nanites repupose consumed manner for a repair job.   At Max,  was picturing it as fast as a human heals,  and just as unable to heal Kia wounds (like, say,  a. 50 cal between the eyes).  Gosei are only more durable in sense that not every injury that would disable a human would disable them,  like being able to walk off being shot in the shoulder.

If a projectile is present, system will add it's mass to fueling process.   If not,  fully stomach driven.

Note,  while limbs can be attached,  they can not be regrown.   Head,  or equiv,  damage is usually bad,  as mentioned above,  due to location of main brain analogue.

Idea was to minimize issues regarding a supply chain and potentially incompatible parts to keep unit ICly maintained, while at same time still allowing for damage to be sustained,  ways for damage to be irreparable,  and even KIA moments.

They also have this
> Solar - just standing in light.   Not most efficient,  but can generate enough to count as emergency power