Cronus

## General Overview

To this date, there has been no recorded contact with the Cronus.

The Cronus were an extremely advanced race of *"living machines"* which existed in the Black Eye Galaxy (M64) approximately 500,000 years ago.

Very little is known about Cronus society as their technology is so beyond Commonwealth understanding, it has proven to be extremely difficult to analyse accurately with no real surviving records of their existence recorded.

As a result of this, only minimal observations have been made. However it is believed that the Cronus were the race of *"living machines"* who were referenced by V'Ger (Voyager VI) in the 2270's. V'Ger was a colossal entity which had formed around the remains of an Earth probe known as Voyager VI.

According to the records recorded by the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701, Voyager VI had been pulled into an anomaly shortly after leaving Earth's solar system. A heavily damaged Voyager VI was believed to have emerged on the far side of the Milky Way.

Voyager IV was repaired by *"living machines"* who were believed to be the Cronus due to their similar technology as observed when the U.S.S. Callisto encountered a surviving Cronus station in the Tau-1 System of the Black Eye Galaxy (M64) in 2419.

The Callisto crew boarded the station, which was anchored between a collapsing star and a black hole. The station proved to also be a massive generator, using the energy of the black hole itself to create a stable field which would prevent the companion star, and itself from being crushed by the Black Hole.

The technology aboard the station proved to be beyond the understanding of the Callisto crew however several smaller vessels with the same basic design as "V'Ger" itself were discovered. These vessels were able to grow in size as they acquired more information, theoretically growing as larger or even larger then the 78 kilometre size that V'Ger had been.

However the presence of the away team inadvertently caused the destruction of the station when the station computer diverted power away from the gravitational field to additional life support for the away team, causing the station to slide into the Black Hole and destroying it.

Another station of Cronus design was discovered in the Erestis System in the Tau Quadrant by the U.S.S. Nemesis in 2420. The station appeared to suspended inside a Particle Fountain and had been discovered by the Blud Clan of the Condemned. This station was capable of manufacturing intricate copies of various ships and was in the process of being used by the Blud Clan to produce an army equipped with the stolen U.S.S. Generation's warp drive.

In September 2421, the U.S.S. Republic discovered the planet of *"Linnis"*, an artifically created world that served as an experimental hub for the Cronus's experiments with a naturally occuring *Tesseract* found in the Ymir Protostar Cluster.

In October 2421, the U.S.S. Nemesis encountered a Cronus station that had been hijacked by the Umojan in an attempt to create living machine drones they could use to supplement their depleted forces. during this encounter a group of Cronus AI "embryos" where transferred into one a tricorded by the stations AI to act as a lifeboat. these AI's eventually developed to sapience and joined the consortium.

## Impact

Despite the fact that the Cronus are considered extinct, their impact has continued to affect many different species in the Black Eye Galaxy, including the Black Eye Consortium and Highborn Republic, who have investigated and converted their advanced technology.

In March 2452, the Chioni Collective, accidentally compelled to complete the work on Eternity Station by remnants of the Iconians, revealed that the station was actually a beacon, able to summon a Cronus into the Black Eye Galaxy, proving that the Cronus were not extinct.

## Connection with the Q Continuum

As discovered by the U.S.S. Republic in March, 2452, the Cronus are not extinct and are native to the Black Eye Galaxy, existing at one point as organic beings themselves. As one of the first races to evolve within the Black Eye Galaxy, the Cronus possessed an advanced culture with technology far beyond modern standards.

Despite this, it is believed that their original planet and civilisation was devastated by an entity known as "Q" that accidentally irradiated their planet in the process of trying to end his life almost 500,000 years ago. Despite this Q, later known as *"Quinn"* being punished by The Q Continuum for his actions, the Cronus were left devastated as the continuum could not undo the damage inflicted on their planet. This led the organic Cronus to slowly develop bio-technology to allow them to survive on their decimated home planet, the planet which would later be known as Insidea and never fully recovering from the devastation.

This led to the Cronus developing a single-minded desire for revenge on the Q Continuum for their actions at the expense of all over aspects of their culture. At some point, the Cronus encountered *Voyager VI,* a *National Aeronautics and Space Administration* probe which appears to have fallen through a *Black Hole* into the Black Eye Galaxy. The **Cronus** repair the probe, modifying it into the colossal entity known as *V'Ger*.

The purpose of *V'Ger* was to investigate new knowledge to destroy the Q completely, learning as much as possible and then returning to the Q's original home planet of origin, instilled as a desire to return to the *"Creator"* which the Cronus believed to be the same world as where the probe had come from. In the 2270's, *V'ger* finally reached Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy and upon completion of it's mission as a type of Cronus probe, sent a signal to the Cronus before transcending the physical reality, something which some Cronus had learned to do through a form of technological evolution.

However, the Cronus themselves never received the signal to alert them that Earth was *"infested"* with humans, a lesser evolved form of the Q as they had been sealed away in a subspace domain by the Q Continuum for successfully capturing and killing a Q female, leaving the Continuum to ponder the monsters they had created through their people's continual interference in other cultures. The death of a Q sent shockwaves through the Continuum with containment seen as the only option, similar to what they had done to Aza'lon and *The Void Mother*.

## Notes

* The Cronus were first referenced in the U.S.S. Callisto episode; *"Tau"* on the *15th April 2019*
* The name *Cronus* was given to this species by the U.S.S. Callisto in 2419. *Cronus* was a Titan, father of the God Zeus in Greek Mythology.
* V'ger first appeared in *Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)*