Novus (The New Ones)

## General Overview

An offshoot of the Q continuum the Novus are a group of specialized Q each focused on a specific aspect of their powers and a devotion to one objective.

Known Novus, their focus any known followers (and "heralds") and their domain (if active):

* The Archivist (ACTIVE)
	+ focus: Knowledge and its collection
	+ followers: the archivos (herald: Samantha Aroca (Power: converted into a living data form (no longer requires a projector to have physical presence only need to emerge from/re-enter a device of high enough technological level ))
	+ domain: the archive (stable pocket dimension)
* The One Above All/ The Director (ACTIVE)
	+ focus: N/A (the de-facto leader of the novus)
	+ followers: The Novus (herald: Leogryn Romeli (power: reality has a tendency to bend to ensure his survival))
	+ domain: Adversus Galaxy
* The Gardener (ACTIVE)
	+ focus: Life manipulation (focus on plant life)
	+ followers: Aspects (NOTE: only inactive Novus know to have manifested aspects)( herald: Ratchet, (power: plants act to aid Ratchet ))
	+ domain: "the Garden" (a massive forrest containing example and all plant life in the universe
* the Crafter (ACTIVE)
	+ focus: matter manipulation
	+ followers: creations (herald: (power can maniferst 3 non mechanical constructs up to 1m^3 or 1 simple weapon))
	+ domain: N/A
* Quin (DECESED)
	+ focus: NONE (Rebel Q imprisoned prior to the Novus departure from the continuum later died aboard U.S.S. Voyager after being granted mortality)
	+ followers: N/A
	+ domain: N/A
* The Shepherd (ACTIVE)
	+ focus: Animal life
	+ followers: unknown (herald: Lurai Kir (power: can draw on the lifeforce of those he injures to heal them self))
	+ domain: "the wilds" a star system notable for possessing an antimatter star contains a large ammount of animal species from across the known and unknown universe
* The Creator/The Destroyer (ACTIVE)
	+ focus: creation/destruction of matter
	+ followers: none (herald: Ahnoh Echegaray (power: can alter the Higgs field of an object, effectively altering it's mass with out changing any other properties))
	+ domain: the begining and the end (proto universe contained in a false vacuum collapse )
* The Channeler/The Anomaly (ACTIVE)
	+ Focus: manipulation of spatial/temporal constants
	+ followers:none (herald: Shon Tempest (power: can force matter ahead in time causing it to momentarily cease to exist))
	+ domain: the space between spaces (a pocket universe which contains itself (manifests in our universe as a four dimensional ship) )

## Established History

The Novus are a group of Q who realizing that their war with The Old Ones would eventually result in the annihilation of the universe opted to hide themselves away and work to prepare to rebuild existence when this eventuality occurred.

~2000 years after the start of the war 9 Q began preparations to depart into isolated pocket universes where they could wait till when they where needed. establishing what would eventually become known as the 7 stars station in the Black Eye galaxy and taking the Adversus galaxy (the companion galaxy to the Black Eye) into a pocket dimension where one of the Novus would maintain it to act as a template and starting point for rebuilding reality.

In March 2419, the U.S.S. Warrior encountered a garden in space presided over by an entity which was converting lifeforms int plants. It was not known at the time but was later discovered that this entity was in fact a projected aspect of the Novus known as the Gardener

In December 2419 well helping to rebuild after the void war the U.S.S. Nemesis discovered signs of a galaxy spanning religion within the Black Eye among races who had never had contact worshiping an entity known as the Archivist and focusing at an odd constellation a perfect circle of 7 stars mysteriously visible from every world in the Black Eye.

Upon investigating this constellation and finding it's effective center the Nemesis discovers the 7 stars station a Q outpost where they learned of the Novus and their purpose. They where then granted access to The archives and contacted directly by the Archivist who tasked the crew with moving the pocket reality containing the Adversus galaxy and the Novus titled The One Above All out of the Black Eye, which they did using a derelict Iconian gateway resulting in the creation of the Adversus wormhole.

In April 2420 the Nemesis again encountered Novus activity when they encountered an anomaly a copper fusing "Dyson's star" (a star like formation surrounding a planetary system) inhabited by an construct race. the crew was informed that this was one of the Crafter's creations that has slipped out of his pocket dimension and would be a sign the 'he" would soon emerge.

in early 2452 the c.s.v. redwake and u.s.s. Arizona enbarked on a mission to locate a mythological lost city in the Adversus galaxy upon locating the city it was discoved to be a fragment of the Q continuum which the novus had broken off and was to be used as a base of operations to prepare for the great reset, their plan to restore the universe should aza'lon destroy it. around this time the u.s.s. republic was attacked and apparently destroyed by a teseracting 4d ship and event that was later found to be part of a test by The Channeler to ensure the admiral Tempest was capable of handling the fragment of power necessary to make him a herald and anchor The Channeler you our space time

In the ending days of 5452 the novus use their power in conjunction with the sacrifice of Yejat and Nakarja Hataxi to contain the spirit of the abyss. there has been no contact since and the Heralds have been reporting a waning in their powers suggesting that the novus are diverting a majority of their efforts within our realm to this containment.