Weave of Logos

A snapshot of the inside of the Weave of Logos

> Welcome to the Weave - that's your world, in the sky, there.
>
> Sermos, Io of Earth

The Weave of Logos is the name given to the marachol web existing within the Barolith containing the Expanse.

## Lore

After many failed expeditions into paradox space, the Io had deemed it an impossible feat to see what was on the other side of the rifts that they could produce. Whilst most entities crossing through a rift found themselves in an inescapable chaos realm, the Io had the ability to access it with only their Formidaph half, leaving their Soma half as a beacon to be followed home into reality. On the planet Sentrigaal, however, the Io Logos continued developing routes in.

Sentrigaal was known for its advances in neural networking, and had built a society around the collection and usage of information, which was used as currency by its primary species - the Cellteni. Cellteni (often referred to by offworlders as Sentrians, much like how humans are most commonly known as the Therran in reference to the main name of Earth being Therolex C) were originally similar to Lynx of Earth, though humanoid in stature. As technology advanced, the Cellteni augmented themselves with implants designed to improve lifespan, perception, processing speed, and more. As they replaced more of themselves, their species became essentially extinct, on account of so much being replaced that they were primarily machines, decorated with biological matter. As a result of this, information, schematics, and solutions to mathematical problems became the primary currency, with leaps and bounds being made in the fields of artificial intelligence. Eventually, the Cellteni ceased biological reproduction at all, making use of sensory data and personality matrices to create artificial minds for their children - assembled in synth-wombs.

It was due to the technological evolution of the Cellteni that Logos had access to highly advanced AI growth systems. These would be used to produce an "unthinking" algorithm, named Nyx, which could be implanted within a biological brain to allow it to shield thoughts from the environment. It did this by generating an array of impossibly small paradox rifts around the brain of the user, which would create responses to thoughts. Nyx would read these fluctuations in the Ora, and would subsequently respond with its own thoughts, designed to negate those presented by the user. Nyx could also measure intent, allowing certain thoughts through, but hiding those which the user had no control over. Taking a risk, Logos used Nyx to send both his Formidaph and Soma through a paradox rift that he manifested, and was able to stably exist within the reality he found himself in, and also return through the rift.

As a result of Logos' designs, the Io installed a modified version of Nyx into their citadel carriers, and (after many cross checks to ensure that nothing would go wrong) made the jump to unreality. By negating influence of the species' thoughts, the Io found that they could perceive the true form of paradox space with no interference - as though they were a fully integrated element. Through natural survival instinct, they also gained the ability to maintain themselves and their constructs within the environment without risk of decay. This gave the Io a place to go where they would be safe from hunters in the material plane.

After the Celestial Ark was constructed, and the citadel carriers were refashioned into the first exoplanetary outposts, Logos made his home on the fourth celestial, Arganus. Within its core, the modified Nyx program was placed inside an immense supercomputer with an uncountable number of emitters. The design of this was so that every single organism on the Celestial Ark would be rendered immune to the storm of paradox space, and the Io could still freely make use of their power without risking the collapse of their reality into itself. It was because of this that the Arkane were able to begin populating the Ark, and as a result, the marachol web containing the Expanse was named the Weave of Logos - alongside the modified Nyx program being named the Logos Neural Network.

## Trivia

* Logos' name is pronounced /logɔs/. This is not evident from its spelling, however.
* Nyx was originally going to be named K'nixroth. This was changed to Nyx, as it sounded similar; was easier to remember; and better fit the function of the AI, as a concealer - as though "hidden by night".