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Suits

The Voidrunners wear **suits**, pieces of Voidtech that they use to not get crushed by the immense gravity of black holes when entering them, as well as giving them a number of special abilities.

Throughout the game, Rei collects the parts of her teammates' suits from Voidrunner caches. These suits are transformative outfits that gives special buffs to certain of her abilities.

## Suits

### Rei's damaged suit

Broken version of the Tempest Adagio suit. This suit has no special ability. It appears like Rei's default suit but is broken in several places after Rei were thrown from Echo's bloody plane through a vortex and down in a long freefall into the landing site in the Ultravoid.

### Rei's suit

Also known as **Tempest Adagio**. Gives a shorter cooldown to timeslip. Dark-blue suit with a white three-eyed mask and a holographic purple cloak. The full Rei suit is located within a single Voidrunner cache in the Starseed crater, preserved from a previous time-loop that Rei came into the Ultravoid in. Meant to be the Voidrunner Rei's regular suit.

### Erving's suit

Also known as **Aegis Wellspring**. Doubles plasma intake, allowing one to synthesize new shields much quicker. The pieces to this suit are found in five five Voidrunner caches in the Broken Capital. Meant to be the suit formerly belonging to the Voidrunner Erving.

### Verse's suit

Also known as **Redshift Steeplechase**. Gives a speedy edge reducing cooldown on boosts. The pieces to this suit are found in five five Voidrunner caches in the Ironroot Basin. Meant to be the suit formerly belonging to the Voidrunner Verse.

### Pyat's suit

Also known as **The Engine Robber**. Restores shields when hitting enemies. The pieces to this suit are found in five five Voidrunner caches in the Eternal Garden. Meant to be the suit formerly belonging to the Voidrunner Pyat.

### Ghozam's suit

Also known as **Hand of the Unknown**. Doubles damage from single attacks. The pieces to this suit are found in five five Voidrunner caches in the Mirrorsea. Meant to be the suit formerly belonging to the Voidrunner Ghozam.

### Tufte's suit

Also known as **Shepherd's Calling**. Shows the locations of Voidrunner caches when scanning with the multi-tool. The pieces to this suit are found in five five Voidrunner caches in the Luminous Peak. Meant to be the suit formerly belonging to the Voidrunner Tufte.

### Absolution

Also known as **Tempered Absolution**. Combines the abilities of all the suits found throughout the game. Is obtained upon 100%'ing the game. Is the canonical representation of Rei's true form, having once again merged herself with Echo, the part of her that the Starseed split from her when she activated it the first time and starting the time-loop.
Ancient artifact

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The "**ancient artifact**" was a collection of broken parts and blueprints of an ancient Starseed, created thousands of years ago by someone or a group of unknown people, that was discovered by the Voidrunners deep beneath the crust of their planet while they were exploring down there. It was first discovered by Tufte, who, along with Pyat, reverse learned how to and constructed a brand new Starseed from the blueprints and ingredients. They also reverse engineered the technology in order to create all other kinds of Voidtech. The ancient technology emitted gamma rays.
Lernaea squad

**Lernaea squad** was one of Admiral Ames' four away teams, which were sent out to search for the missing First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax of Cyclodorea after the planet's impact with the Ultravoid. While searching for the First Citizen near the healing Hotsprings of Oplontis, the away team crashed their Scuttlecraft due to an unknown signal interference. With most of the crew too injured to continue their search, the Lernaea squad leader went into the waters and ordered his soldiers to join him. He also ordered Yeoman Ro to jump in, however having detected a slow and steady increase in the acidity level he decided against it.

Later, when the away team had been killed, Rei came upon them while looking into the four teams' status for Ames, and found them dead. She reported her findings back to Admiral Ames. While there, she listened to the Lernaea squad leader's field report voice log.

## Field report

Lernaea squad, field report. We found no sign of the First Citizen. Our Scuttlecraft crash-landed due to unknown signal interference and many of the crew are too injured to continue searching.

Luckily we landed near the healing Hotsprings of Oplontis. We can all soothe our wounds here.

Yeoman Ro claims their instrumentation has detected a slow and steady increase in the acidity levels. But the crew and I all agree it feels great, and I ordered Ro to jump in with us!

## Trivia

* "Lernaea" is a genus of copepod crustaceans whose members are commonly called anchor worms and are parasitic on freshwater fishes.
Veruki

The **Veruki** (pronounced /vɞˈɹukɪ/ [veh-ROOKIE]) are a humanoid raccoon-like species and civilisation, which has been consumed by the Ultravoid. The vast majority of the Veruki are dead, their corpses littering the Broken Capital and the Ironroot Basin, the only areas that remain of their planet inside of the black hole.

## History

Prior to the Veruki's planet being consumed and split apart by the Ultravoid, their world was invaded by the parasitic alien species known as the Dross. In the capital city, one of the few pieces remaining of their world, the Dross Hive stands tall, like a bony or exoskeletal tower, growing inside and out the top of the tallest building in the remains of the city. The hive has taken root inside of the building and broken through its roof, towering higher than even the building.

Only one member of the Veruki, the female Lyris, seems to have survived whatever killed off the species, safe for Taragon Danderpaws, however he later died willingly, joining the mycelium network of Umbra. For a time Lyris' husband, Morys, remained alive too, until he died and Lyris had to bury his body under the sacred Forest Altar in Ironroot Basin. Whether this mass extinction event was caused by the Dross or the Ultravoid, or the Dross are native to the void, is unknown.

When the Ultravoid was made stable by the deactivation of the Starseed by Rei, the sole survivor of the Veruki, Lyris, seems to have finally moved on from her trauma.

## Anatomy

The Veruki are humanoid, short and stocky and covered in fur of different dark colors, including black and purple. Some Veruki even have a mix of different fur colors, including Lyris who had a black head, purple ears, and purple arms, hands and torso. They have long bushy tails, in the case of Lyris a gray-ish one, and also sport a pair of cat or raccoon-like ears. In general, there Heads are very raccoon-like. Inside Lyris' apartment there is a photograph of her and her loved one pouring water into a bucket in the Forest Altar of the Ironroot Basin, and in it the husband appears to have a more gray face while hers is black. Veruki's eyes are large and cat-like, with dark vertical pupils. Lyris' eyes are bright neon yellow, and it is possible that it is the same for all other members of the species.

Veruki have five-fingered hands and seemingly three-toed feet or foot paws when covered in skin and fur, however their skeletons have five toes on either feet.

## Members

* **Lyris** – Female Veruki and sole survivor of the Dross invasion and planet's consumption by the Ultravoid.
* **Morys** – Lyris' deceased husband, under the sacred tree in the Forest Altar in the Ironroot Basin.
* **Tarragon Danderpaws** – A Veruki who wrote a journal of his experiences in the Ultravoid. Eventually befriended the Umbra ... and later gave his life to join the mycelium network.
* **Nansi** –
* **[[]]** –
* **Fanarys Fieldguard** –

## Trivia

* The species' name, The Veruki, resemble the Japanese *tanooki* “raccoon", which is not a coincidence, as the Veruki were made to look like a large kind of humanoid raccoon.
Starseed conduits

The **Starseed Conduits** are pieces of advanced Voidtech that helps with running the Starseed. In order to even be able to activate the Starseed, the connection of all Conduits to the Starseed must be up and running. The Starseed is meant to be able to be controlled from any Conduit, however an error meant that this was not possible, instead launching Cyd into a terminal calculation loop from which she could only be freed from by ordering her to abort the calculations at the Conduit closest to the Starseed.

Aside from being a form of control console or terminal for the Starseed, on their own they collected environmental data from the different regions of the Ultravoid that they were set up in and ran energy frequency calculations. They also functioned as teleport pads, repair stations and info hubs. It also seems that they siphoned Starseed energy to the Starseed.

A C.Y.D. node was located at every conduit for easy access to Cyd. If a Voidrunner scans for Starseed Conduits via their multi-tool, it is also these nodes that they technidally check for and lock on, after which the multi-tool will indicate hollgraphically where the node/Conduit is located.

Catrgory:Voidtech
Cyclodorean palace

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The **Cyclodorean palace** is a location in the Mirrorsea tegion of the Ultravoid. It is a structure that is embedded through a small cloud "island" or "clump" found at the top of a tall cloud plume in such a way that the top and bottom of it protrude out of opposite sides of the island. The structure once served as the imperial palace of Cyclodorea, and as such as the home of First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax.

The way that the palace juts through the cloud allowing the bottom to poke out of one side and the top out of the opposite one allow for the player to travel around on both the topside and underside. When viewed from the general Mirrorsea area the palace seems to be oriented horizontally but the void's strange gravity makes it so you can stand, walk and jump on the palace as if it had normal Earth-like gravity, with the horizontal axis becoming vertical. This goes whether you are on the top or bottom of the palace.

There is a long straight round tunnel, possibly a well or other structure, connecting a chamber on the top-side and the bottom, which Rei can jump through to get to either side. Both ends have enemies and cords to grind on. The palace also hides one of Ghozam's Voidrunner caches and along with it an Voidrunner audio log and a piece of his Voidtech suit.

## Trivia

* The reason we know this is the palace of the Cyclodorean empire is that the model for the area in the game's files is labelled "palace".
Ahrric

In-game

**Ahrric** (pronounced /ˈɑːɹɪk/ [AH-rick]) is an Umbra who dwells within the Eternal Garden in the Ultravoid and is expected by his species to give up his life and become one with the mycelium network as a new Elder, however he is not ready to die yet and is depressed and fearful at the prospect of having to go through the Ritual. On the day of the Ritual, with the Voidrunner Rei's help, Ahrric is allowed to live his life and following his passions for a longer time.

Ahrric is currently the gardener and keeper of the Eternal Garden, and is growing the next gardener in his house in the form of a sporeling. Ahrric is an artist and poet. Many of his poems are scattered across the Eternal Garden and the Luminous Peak, and was discovered and read by Rei.

## Physical appearance

Ahrric, like other Umbra, is a tall and lanky humanoid fungus. He is exactly 12 feet tall (c. 366 cm). He has a pair of eyes that glow bluish-white. A part of his face protrudes out, resembling a large, long form of nose, snout or muzzle, but it seems to be covered by some sort of unknown equipment. He is able to speak, but no definite mouth is visible on his body.

Ahrric wear garments in dark, muted eartht and cold hues. He has a vest or upper body shirt of some sort seemingly made out of some form of black fur or feathers. This piece of clothing include a tall, pointy hood that he is never seen without wearing.

## Abilities

Ahrric has a way with words and writes poetry.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Questions and answers from Alx Preston. Via the official Heart Machine Discord
Voidrunner shields

**Voidrunner shields** are the primary protection of the Voidrunner suits. In-game, the amount of shields is essentially the player's hitpoints or HP.

A shield is temporiarly lost if Rei takes damage from a regular enemy, such as the Dregs, but can be restored by taking shields from Voidrunner shield kits, which are stored inside of special crates. One shield is lost semi-permanently every time Echo crushes Rei in her hand during the cutscenes that play after every defeat of a Remnant boss, however it can be gained back by using collected Plasma at by Cyd at C.Y.D. nodes, synthesizing new shields for Rei using the Plasma. The amount needed for a shield depends on the amount of shields Rei already have, with every new shield after the first one gained from Cyd incrementing in Plasma cost.
Crater

The Crater (also known as the *Starseed Impact Zone* by the in-game description) is the first area Rei encounters during her journey through the Ultravoid. The Starseed is located in the middle. A Cyd conduit is found at the base of the Starseed.

## Layout

The main part of the Crater is a circular crater, comprised mostly of ashen clouds. It has a lot of ledges with shield kits, plasma boxes, and plasma crystals. There are a few small areas outside the main crater itself, that house the anomalies of this area.

## Anomalies

There are three anomalies in this area. Like all anomalies in the game, they are killed by hitting all their weak points in order. Clearing all of them out initiates the fight with Crater Ouroboros.

*The eyes of the anomalies are included in the amount of weak points. Also, the anomalies are numbered based on how close they are to the Cyd conduit.*

Anomaly #1 - 4 weak points

Anomaly #2 - 4 weak points

Anomaly #3 - 3 weak points

### Massive Anomaly - Crater Ouroboros

When the last anomaly is killed, Crater Ouroboros will fly down and start moving around the Crater. A weak point will appear on its tail, that the player must grapple to. Crater Ouroboros has no attacks of its own, only relying on its untouchable body during phase 3 to damage Rei.

*The amount of weak points includes the initial grappling on the tail of the boss, and the hits delivered to its core.*

Phase 1 - 5 weak points

Phase 2 - 7 weak points

Phase 3 - 10 weak points

## Collectibles

### Voidrunner Caches

There is one voidrunner cache in the Crater. Finding and unlocking the cache rewards the player with Rei's suit, *Tempest Adagio.*

#### Cache #1

The cache is located on a ledge in the Crater next to the area with one of the anomalies. To reach it, the player has to jump on the ledge at the other side of the pathway and double jump to reach the ledge with the cache.
First Citizen

**First Citizen** was the official title of a Cyclodorean emperor or empress, the ruling monarch of Cyclodorea. The last First Citizen was Dungeness Pertinax.

## Residence

Before the planet was comnsumed and mostly destroyed by the Ultravoid, the First Citizen resided in an imperial palace in the Mirrorsea region of the planet, close to the Senate Pavilion. However, the building has been rendered uninhabitable since, becoming a ruin and being trapped in a ball of ashen cloud atop of a high column of ash clouds, high in the air looming over the Senate Pavilion.

## Power

With absolute soverignity, a First Citizen could veto any law and issue any and every law and decree as they saw fit. Still, however, to lessen the burden of ruling an entire planet as a single person, the afirst Citizen had put down a senate to vote on legal and political matters on his behalf. However, the First Citizen still held the power to overrule or control them as they saw fit.

## Responsibilities

The most important functions of the First Citizen was being humble, living a simple life and espousing "the value of wisdom and equanimity above all else," and ensuring the wealth of the Cyclodoreans is used to keep all galaxies in the universe safe and cared for.

## Trivia

* The term First Citizen, as well as the position itself, is based on the *princeps civitatis* ("First Citizen"), an official title of a Roman Emperor, as the title determining the leader in Ancient Rome at the beginning of the Roman Empire. It created the *principate* Roman imperial system.
Pyat

— Ghozam's ... voice log

In-Game

**Pyat** (pronounced /ˈpaɪ.ət/ [PIE-at]) was a male Voidrunner of an unknoen species originating from the Voidrunners' planet. He was a deeply religious and spiritual person, and believed that the discovery of the ancient artifact that paved the way for the invention of voidtech and the Starseed was sent to them by the divine, and that the Starseed was a holy vessel, destined to save the people of their planet. This is why he decided to go with the Voidrunners on their mission into the black hole. However, some time after entering the Ultravoid, Pyat was killed and apparently became the Remnant of the Eternal Garden, Withered Eye.

A lot of the issues that led to the failure of the Voidrunners' mission was seemingly Pyat's fault.

## Trivia

* Pyat's name is a play on "piety", which is an English noun that means "the quality of being religious or reverent." It is a virtue and comes from the Latin word *pietas*, the noun form of the adjective *pius* which means "devout" or "dutiful". *Pietas* in traditional Latin usage expressed a complex, highly valued Roman virtue; a man with *pietas* respected his responsibilities to gods, country, parents and kin.
Lyris

— Lyris remembering the times she has visited Morys' grave in previous time loops

## Game-related information

### Voiced by

Pilar Uribe

**Lyris** is an NPC. She is a female Veruki, and is the only known surviving one after the Dross invasion of her people's planet and its subsequent entrapment and destruction by the Ultravoid. Once the Dross invaded the planet, Lyris was one of many Veruki who forfeited their species' pacifist nature and joined a newly formed military to fight against them. She once had a husband, another Veruki, whom she accidentally killed with an explosive charge set up and activated by Lyris in her attempt to destroy a Dross Hive located in the Ironroot Basin region of their planet.

Following the death of her husband as well as the Starseed's looping of time, Lyris has had a mental breakdown and warped sense of the progression of time, as she kept believing that he was still alive and waiting for her. She clearly suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Following Rei's deactivation of the Starseed, Lyris was finally able to let go of her husband and her grief over his death, and able to move on with her new life in the Ultravoid.

Lyris travelled for a while with Tarragon Danderpaws, including in the Mirrorsea, until Lyris felt she had to turn back.

## Physical appearance

Like other Veruki, Lyris' body is covered in dark black fur, with large, yellow cat-like eyes and pointed ears. Like the rest of her people, she has a long, thick, bushy tail. Her hands, or at the very least the one original hand she still has, has sharp claws like the rest of her kind. Overall, these physical attributes give her the impression of a humanoid raccoon-like creature.

Lyris wears a green hood, darkish blue armor and a black cloth over her mouth.

Lyris lost her right leg and her left hand in her people's struggle against the Dross invasion and now uses a Dross leg and foot and a Dross hand as prosthetics to replace these limbs. Before she repurposed those body parts of dead Dross to replace her lost limbs, she wore a wooden peg leg.
Grav-pad

A **grav-pad** is a circular machine that generates an upwards-oriented blast of gravitational force which can be used to launch things as well as oneself extremely high into the air if they step onto it. Rei can use them to launch her up to places that are otherwise too difficult for her to reach. Grav-pads are only located in the Mirrorsea.
XR Polaris

The **XR *Polaris*** (/pɔʊˈlɑɹɪs/ [pol-LARIHS]) is Rei's spaceship and the main craft that the Voidrunners came to the Ultravoid in, piloted by Rei. The ship crashed into the black hole when they first came there, before the time-loops were started by Rei activating the Starseed, and as a result was destroyed.

The name and purpose of the smaller ship seen in the opening cutscene for *Solar Ash* is unknown, however it is clearly not the *Polaris*, as it would not be able to fit all the Voidrunners at the same time.

## Trivia

* *Polaris* is the name of a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor, designed α Ursae Minoris (Latinized to Alpha Ursae Minoris), commonly called the North Star or Pole Star. The modern name Polaris is shortened from Neo-Latin *stella polaris* "polar star", coined in the Renaissance when the star had approached the celestial pole to within a few degrees.
* It is unknown what "XR" is an abbreviation of.
Declaration of Equanimity

The **Declaration of Equanimity**, officially the **Cyclodorean Declaration of Equanimity**, was an important law on Cyclodorea that stated that "rest is the for weak." Ironically, "equanimity" means "calmness and composure, especially in a difficult situation", which infers "rest."

The law is written on a an ornate scroll which can be found at ... in the Mirrorsea region of the Ultravoid, a former part of the planet Cyclodorea.

Equanimity is an important and valued virtue on Cyclodorea, with one of the First Citizen's priorities being focusing on it.
Senate Pavillion

The **Senate Pavillion** is a location in the Mirrorsea region of the Ultravoid where, in the past, the senators of the Cyclodorean Empire voted on and made important decisions that would affect their government and entire empire. The Pavillion is tall and vast, made out of a limestone-looking material and gold.

## Trivia

* As with the rest of the Cyclodorean architecture, the Senate Pavillion's architecture is inspired by ancient Roman architecture.
Hard light

**Hard light**, also called **solid light,** is a solid form of hologram or “light”, an advanced form of technology that can be used to create glowing, physical constructs out of light that also has physical dimensions and is solid. It is used in certain weapons, including the blade of Rei's multi-tool.

Rei's blade as seen in *Solar Ash*, is not the only example of hard light utilized in the Hyper Light Universe, as the sword of the Drifter, among many other weapons and things in *Hyper Light Drifter*, was made of phase-shifted hard light, and the green regenerative crystals of the western forests of the land in HLD are referred to as "hard light crystals." Certain weapons in *Hyper Light Breaker*, and even the hoverboard featured in that game, utilize hard light technology.

Cyd's projections are another example of a hard light projection.

## Trivia

* Whether hard light can be made to burn like lasers, essentially having the potential to be used in making lightsaber-like weapons as seen in the *Star Wars* franchise, is unknown.
Crater Ouroboros

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**Crater Ouroboros** was a Remnant in the Starseed Crater region of the Ultravoid.

## Anatomy

The Crater Ouroboros is a long-serpent like creature covered in several bony plates everywhere except for its underbelly. It has no long legs and simply hovers among the clouds. Wheras the other Remnants move in a specific pattern, Crater Ouroboros moves in a circle. It has a large mouth and a bright pink tongue. It has eyes on the side of its head with hot pink irises. And long, wavy tentacles protruding from under the creature's head and a little ways further down it's body.
Erving

— Ghozam's ... voice log

**Erving** (pronounced /ɝvɪŋ/ [ER-ving]) was a Voidrunner from a planet who travelled with their Voidrunner team to the Ultravoid in an attempt to destroy it and save his planet from it, however he instead wound up dead inside of the black hole. Erving is a medic and a war veteran, having been involved with three plantary wars, and has seen much death and destruction. Erving owned a pet dog named Darb whom he brought with him on the Ultravoid mission, and who survives him to this day.

Once Rei activated the Starseed the first time inside of the Ultravoid, Erving and the rest of the Voidrunners, including Rei, became Remnants. Erving, who was in the ravaged Veruki capital when it happened, became the ... Remnant. In his place of death his body somehow got trapped in an state of endless suffering, showing ghostly apparitions of the last two moments before his death and his dead body lying down. Following Rei's deactivation of the Starseed, it can be assumed that these apparitions disappeared.

## Physical appearance

Erving was somewhat of an old man. He had a humanoid shape, with black skin, and four white eyes placed in two stack-like rows next to one another on his face. He wore a cloak which was covered in fur on the back, with the cloak also draping over his shoulders and part of his chest, and its hood being drawn over the top of his head. He had a thick broken ring or halo floating around his head, with a pointy rock-like piece floating above his head, pointing upwards. He wore a short cloth skirt, resembling those seen on ancient Roman and Greek warriors a bit, and a belt with a very large, oval-shaped flat buckle oriented vertically at the front of the belt. He also wore large gloves and boots that covered a majority of his legs except the thighs.

Erving's arms, upper legs and most of his torso and back were completely bare, and he had very toned muscles, including pecs and abs.

## Abilities

As a medic, it can be assumed that Erving was highly skilled in medical care and nursing people back to health. It can likewise be insinuated that he had a somewhat rational and scientific mind.

## Locations in-game

On top of a tall building in the Broken Capital. Here, Erving somehow got put into a constant stage of being trapped in the last three actions that he took.

## Trivia

* Zeffermint tea was Erving's favorite drink or tea.
Ovidius Veritas

**Ovidius Veritas** was a Cyclodorean senator and the former Minister of Environmental Security on Cyclodorean Empire. He was fired when he claimed that the waters of the Mirrorsea were rising in acidity levels due to "profitable industries polluting our waters," which were claimed by a newspaper to be false. Ovidius' post was replaced by Jucundus Destroto.

It is unknown whether Ovidius is alive or dead, but it is likely that he either died when Cyclodorea impacted with the Ultravoid or was killed by First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax at his vault, kist as he had other senators.

## Trivia

* The first part of Ovidius Veritas' name may be based on the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, usually known as simply Ovid in English, while the second, meaning "secret" in Latin, could be an indicating of his uncovering of the truth about the rising acidity levels of the Mirrorsea.
Flora

Template:Universe infoboxA vast range of **flora** exist on various planets, varying greatly from place to place depending on climate and conditions.

## Habitats

Within the Ultravoid are the remains of several planets, each having originally had many distinct habitats, each suitable for different species and variations of plants. Unfortunately, nothing but fungi and a very limited number of inedible plants grow within the Ultravoid now, which means many of the plants mentioned in this list are likely no more.

### Veruki planet

#### Ironroot Basin

A forested area of the Veruki planet in which reddish-pink shieldgrass and extremely hardy and tough ironroot trees.

## List of flora

### Veruki planet

* **Bramble** – Plant that bears berries, called brambleberries. May be similar to real-life brambles.
* **Hedgeplier** – Unknown plant
* **Snoresock** – Unknown plant
* **Stickybib** – Unknown plant
* **Tansy** – Grows a fruit called a tansydid. May be similar to real-life tansies

#### Ironroot Basin

* **Ironroot tree** –
* **Shieldgrass** –
Wretched Rei

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**Wretched Rei** is a Remnant in the bloody plane region of the Ultravoid that was created from Rei once she deactivated the Starseed. She is the final boss of *Solar Ash* and is fought against by Echo, being the only part of the game where the player takes control of her.

She was defeated by Echo when she pulled out the parts of the exploded Starseed that had embedded itself through the Remnant's body, and by doing so pulled Rei out of her Remnant stage and merged back with her once again to form Rei's original form.

The bloody plane also seemed to form from the deactivation and destruction of the Starseed, though it disappeared and was replaced by the nornal Ultravoid upon Wretched Rei's defeat. Defeating her also made the Ultravoid stable.

## Physical appearance

Wretched Rei is very large, with long legs and long arms. She never stands up straight and is always seen hunching over. Her body is an inky indigo with (like several of the other bosses) is covered in white bony plates on various parts of her body. A white plate covers her entire face except for her right eye which is a bright pink. She has long, tentacle-like indigo hair that waves back and forth behind her. Where her left arm should be, is a three stringy, tentacle-things that she uses to shoot at Echo. In the center of her chest, is a long rod looking object that can be seen on her backside. Her feet go along with the bony plates and are only small tips, whereas her hands look thin and long.
Gahrrlac

**Gahrrlac** was an Umbra steward who lived in ancient times and who befriended a cosmic racer from outside of the Ultravoid who crash-landed in the Void. Gahrrlac helped the racer repair his ship and escape the Ultravoid, after which he decided to never seek another companion, as they could never compare to this racer.

The story of Gahrrlac and his racer is mentioned in a tome owned by the Collector of the Missing, kept in his library.

## Biography

At one point, Gahrrlac became a steward of the Umbra.

When a cosmic racer, taking a shortcut, crashed into the Ultravoid, she met Gahrrlac. Gahrrlac, who was a warm individual, befriended the stranger, forming a a fulfilling emotional bond that she had never been able to find in her own species. Gahrrlac heleped repair the cosmic racer's ship so that she could escape the Ultravoid. The cosmic racer wrote about her experiences with Gahrrlac on an Umbra tablet. Gahrrlac added a comment in the form of a footnote at the bottom of a page, reading "I shall never seek another companion, none can compare to my racer from the stars."

## Personality

Gahrrlac was warm and caring, according to the unnamed cosmic racer's ancient writings.

## Physical appearance

As with other Umbra, Gahrrlac was most likely extremely tall, lanky and made out of a fungus-like material, with glowing eyes and a long snout-like "mouth." He most likely wore a hooded cloak, too, like most of the Umbra do.
Whispering Sanctum

The **Whispering Sanctum** is a location in the Eternal Garden region of the Ultravoid, and resemble a massive Gothic-ish cathedral. It is located new the far end of the Garden, directly ahead from the entrance of the Garden. The Whispering Sanctum serves as the entrance to the underground Dead Archives. The Whispering Sanctum was built inside of the Ultravoid by the Void native Umbra people, but for what exact purpose is unknown.

To the left of the Whispering Sanctum is a hut that serves as the home of the tender of the Eternal Garden, the gardener Ahrriv.
Imperial Armada of Cyclodorea

The **Imperial Armada of Cyclodorea** was the main military force of the Cyclodorean Empire and thus the entirety of the planet Cyclodorea. It can be assumed that the Armada was disbanded when all Cyclodoreans safe for Admiral Ames had been killed, and all of Cyclodorea safe for parts of the Mirrorsea pulverized by the Ultravoid.

While it still existed, the Imperial Armada served and answered to the sovereign monarch of Cyclodorea, the First Citizen.

The Imperial Armada of Cyclodorea was divided into multiple divisions and units.

Not much is known about the Armada, except few ranks and the fact it has a fleet named the Maverick Fleet.

## Divisions

### Maverick Fleet

A space and air-born combat fleet. Since many officers and soldiers who joined the Maverick Fleet risked dying in battle, it was said that people signed up to be in the fleet "to be disposable so that no one else had to."

#### Away teams

Officers of higher ranks had the perk of having away teams at their disposal, which they could send down to surfaces of planets or on to other ships to carry out missions, inuding rescue missina, espionage or sabotage.

The only known rank of officer who had away teams is the admiral. Individual away teams were called "squads", with a Greco-Latinate name of a Crustaceous species in front of "squad" to identify them. Admiral Ames had four away teams, named, reapectively, Lernaea squad, Gnathia squad, Cymothoa squad, and Argulus squad. The leaders of an away team squad is referred to as a "squad team leader".

Away teams usually had their own personal Scuttlecraft.

#### Ranks

The Imperial Armada of Cyclodorea operated on a ranked system. Certain ranks also had one or more grades, designated as "class", each higher class having seniority over the lesser class versions of the same rank as well as the ranks below the rank itself. An example of this is Captain First Class vs a Captain.

##### Admiral

A high-ranking officer of the Maverick Fleet who has control and authority over multiple parts of the fleet.

##### Captain

The leading officer of an individual ship within the Maverick Fleet.

##### Private

A low-ranking soldier in the Maverick Fleet. May possibly be the lowest rank, just as the rank of private usually is in most real world molitaries.

### Cruestorian Guard

An elite unit of the Imperial Armada that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents for the First Citizens.

## Members

### Maverick Fleet

* Ames – admiral
* Lucius Orbitus – captain first class
* Yeoman Ro – private?
* Grimclaw – private
Multi-tool

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The **multi-tool** is a piece of Voidtech wielded by Voidrunners. It is shaped like a tiny sphere that is attached to the wielder's wrist along with pieces of a "broken" band or bracelet, and can be used to perform several technologically advanced feats.

The multi-tool can be used to scan for anomalies, C.Y.D. nodes and Voidrunner caches, produce a long line of hard-light cable to be used as a grappling hook, project energy slashes for attacks and produce a huge, long blade of hard light for stabbing. When used for scanning, the sphere detached from its place around the wrist and goes into the hand, where buttons on it can be pressed and tiny holographic displays appear around it.

## History

Presumably, the multi-tool was invented some time back, based on the ancient artifact the Voidrunners discovered deep beneath the crust of their planet while exploring down there.

Rei, the newest recruit of the Voidrunners' team, wielded a multi-tool when she traveled into the Ultravoid to aid her in her mission to use the Starseed to collapse the black hole and save their planet. The multi-tool came in handy for her on the mission, allowing her to scan for anomalies and C.Y.D. nodes in each region of the Ultravoid, and serving as a weapon.
Nimblejack

**Nimblejack** was a Veruki salesman of seeds and owner of the store Nimblejack's Seed Emporium.

## Biography

At one point this Veruki has opened up a seed store called Nimblejack's Seed Emporium which sold seeds for all kinds of fruit-bearing plants popular among the Veruki. They hanged an asvertising poster for the store in a Veruki capital city which can still be found in city now that it is broken and located inside of the Ultravoid.

Nimblejack's fate is unknown, but since Lyris is the only Veruki Rei encounters, they are likely dead, either from the Dross invasion or from hazards of the Ultravoid.

## Physical appearance

Like other Veruki, Nimblejack most likely had a body resembling a large humanoid cat raccoon hybrid being, with a large rounded head, a long gray bushy tail, a mostly dark body, tall pointy black ears, a pair of large yellow cat-like eyes, five-fingered hands and three-toed paws.
Argulus squad

**Argulus squad** was one of Admiral Ames' four away teams, which were sent out to search for the missing First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax of Cyclodorea after the planet's impact with the Ultravoid. Following faint signals of the First Citizen's original call, they spent two days searching non-stop with no sleep, causing the crew members to be extremely tired. However, luckily they found a heavy industrial grade signal scanner. Trying to keep the machinery operational, they fell asleep, and then the signal scanner cracked from rust corrosion and fell on their bodies, crushing them to death.

## Field report

Argulus squad, field report: Discovered faint signals of the original call from the First Citizen. We are so close.

We spent the past two days searching non stop with no sleep. The crew members are extremely tired.

Luckily we have found a heavy industrial grade signal scanner. The crew say they are too drowsy, but I told them we have to keep working and get this machinery operational.

## Trivia

* "Argulus" is a genus of fish lice - a form of crustaceans - in the family Argulidae.
Time-loop

The **time-loop** was an event brought about by Rei's activation of the Starseed which lasted for thousands of years. During this time, inside of the Ultravoid certain things and events kept rewinding and repeating over repeatedly, always starting with Rei's entering of the black hole and her activation of the Starseed which would send her back and make the events of the timeline repeat. Both her actions and thoughts would repeat every time, as well as that of other denizens trapped inside of the Ultravoid, with slight variations. Some beings within the void have however been able to notice that everything isn't as it seems but without quite being able to pinpoint time repeating as the reason. Rei was almost always completely oblivious to it herself, however she did notice that the Rust Dagger Remnant was familiar, being much in the shape of her own Wretched Rei form that she would spawn at every activation of the Starseed. During the very last activation, Rei's half, Echo, finally managed to convince her of what she was doing which led Rei to instead shut down the Starseed. The real reason Rei kept turning it on was her inability to see the truth. She lies to herself about the fact that her planet was already destroyed and had been for a long time.

Some things remain
Ghozam's species

**Ghozam's species** is an unnamed intelligent, humanoid species originating from the Voidrunners' planet. The only known member of the species was Ghozam. Following Ghozam's death, the status of his species is unknown. Although there exists survivors of the planet out in the galaxy, who have settled elsewhere after their world's destruction by the Ultravoid, it is unknown if members of Ghozam's species are among them.

## Anatomy

Ghozam's specie is humanoid in shape. It has greenish-blue skin and a pair of tiny black beady eyes.
Elders

The **Umbra Elders**, or simply the **Elders**, are the ancient, wise, quasi-dead leaders of the Umbra, who has become part of the mycelium network when they died but whose consciousnesses can still be accessed where their respective bodies reside and be communicated with, their voices being able to be projected somehow and be heard. The Elders' bodies are located in the Elders' caves.

In order to wake up an Elder, the Spore Song blessings must be recited before an Elder's body.

The Umbra revere the Elders and respect their orders to a large degree, as evidenced by Ahrric's going along with the ritual of dying even if he was unwilling. Though all Umbra in the mycelium network share their thoughts with one another, they are not all of "one mind", having differing opinions, including opinions about the fate of Ahrric.

The Elders, of which there are five in total, all have grandiose-sounding titles rather than given names like those of the gardeners, like "Ahrric". These title names include "the Keeper of Rites" and "the Antecedent." It is unknown what they were called whilst fully alive.

To become an Elder is something an Umbra chooses, becoming specialized. Before deciding to be an Elder, their bodies are similar to that of regular Umbra, like Ahrric. In order to become an Elder, an Umbra must die and become one with the mycelium network.

Elders are extremely wise, said to "know all" by Ahrric. However, this may be a reference to how they know everything in the collective memories of the beings who have joined the mycelium network throughout the Umbra's existence rather than everything there is to know in the universe.

### Known Elders

* The Speaker for the Silent
* The Keeper of the Rites
* The Tender of the Garden
* The Collector of the Missing
* The Antecedent
Broken Capital

The **Broken Capital**, by the Veruki simply referred to as **the Capital City** (also known as the **Ravaged Veruki City** by the in-game on-screen subtitle when you first enter the area) is the second area Rei encounters during her journey through the Ultravoid, and one of the only two regions of the Veruki planet that remain in existence, both of which eist as regions of the Ultravoid now. A Cyd conduit is located in the center of the city.

## Layout

The Broken Capital is made up of two different sections. The first encountered one is the ruins of the capital, with many buildings and floating platforms sitting atop the sea of ashen clouds. Past the fountain area, the real capital rises, with most of its buildings still intact, and lots of grind rails. All of the anomalies in this area are found on top of buildings or floating platforms.

## Anomalies

There are four anomalies in this area. Like all anomalies in the game, they are killed by hitting all their weak points in order. Clearing all of them out initiates the fight with *Forgotten Thresher*.

*The eyes of the anomalies are included in the amount of weak points. Also, the anomalies are numbered based on how close they are to the Cyd conduit (unless discovered before activating the conduit).*

Anomaly #1 (before the Cyd conduit) - 5 weak points

Anomaly #2 - 4 weak points

Anomaly #3 - 4 weak points

Anomaly #4 - 5 weak points

## Collectibles

### Voidrunner Caches

There are five voidrunner caches in the Broken Capital. Finding and unlocking all the caches rewards the player with Erving's suit, *Aegis Wellspring.* Players will know that a cache is nearby if they see a voidrunner sigil.

#### Cache #1

The first cache is found right as the player enters the Broken Capital. After the intro text disappears, immediately head right and you should see the voidrunner sigil on a tree. Keep moving in that direction, and you will find the cache on a ledge.

#### Cache #2

When entering the fountain area leading to the main part of the capital, there is a shortcut on the right of the entrance. Open that shortcut and the voidrunner sigil will be on the wall beside the window. Jump out of the window and follow the the platforms until you see sludge on the wall. Climb the sludge and you will reach the cache.
Lore texts

There are several notes, journal pages, Voidrunner recordings and more that constitute the **lore** of *Solar Ash*, and which can be listened to and/or read throughout the game as they are discovered, helping to form a more cohesive image of the history of the different places that got trapped inside of the Ultravoid, as well as their peoples, and also the past events that led up to the fates of the Voidrunners within the Void.

Some of these inspectable objects give the players mere descriptions or excerpts of their contents, while some are entire documents or journals.

## Voidrunner voice logs

Voice logs are found within voidruner caches, machines hidden in all areas of *Solar Ash.* All voidrunner voice caches in an area originate from a specific voidrunner, and finding all voidrunner caches in an area rewards the player with the voidrunner's suit.

## Tarragon Danderpaws' lost journal pages

*Main article: Tarragon Danderpaws' journal*
## Veruki Capital City texts

### Nimblejack's Seed Emporium advert

*Main article: Nimblejack's Seed Emporium advert*
## Books

### Excerpt from *How to Win Money and Influence Bureaucrats*

*Main article: How to Win Money and Influence Bureaucrats*
### Book about Lancel the teddy bear

*Main article: Book about Lancel the teddy bear*
### Trystero stamp game manual

*Main article: Trystero stamp game manual*
## Cyclodorean Senate documents

### Senator's folio on the Edict of Cyclodorean Liberty

*Main article: Senator's folio on the Edict of Cyclodorean Liberty*
### Declaration of Equanimity

*Main article: Declaration of Equanimity*
## Other Cyclodorean texts

### Letter from Senate to Industrial Sector worker

*Main article: Letter from Senate to Industrial Sector worker*
### Note from Domitius D'Luxe to the Eiders Towers staff

*Main article: Note from Domitius D'Luxe to the Eiders Towers staff*
Echo

— Echo to Rei
"*I was someone once, but no longer. Now I am merely an Echo.*
— Echo to Rei

* Portrait
* Introduction Trailer

**Echo** is one of the two halves of Rei that was split from her original form by the Starseed upon its first activation inside of the Ultravoid, thus creating the time-loop. For eons, Echo was plagued and tormented, as Rei was being able to accept her planet was gone and re-activating the Starseed, and Echo spent all that time attempting to convince her to deactivate it instead.

When Rei was finally convinced to deactivate and destroy the Starseed, Echo saved Rei by pulling her out of her Wretched Rei form and re-merged with with her to form her original form.

## Physical appearance

Echo appears as a white giant, with arms that are cut so that only parts of them remain, and a torso whose chest is pierced by a massive, long, golden blade. She drips purple blood.

## Personality

Echo, seen as initially threatening, is eventually revealed as concerned and eager to save Rei from the time loop. She has witnessed the loop a multitude of times already and foresees not just Rei's future, but also her own suffering, to which she refers to proceeding each battle against a remnant. Echo warns Rei, and further grows more and more tiresome and aggravated the more she does not listen and trust her. In the climax of the story when Rei decides to destory the Starseed, Echo experiences a moment of shock, as this becomes the first moment where she no longer knows what happens next; thus, Rei has broken the time loop. In efforts to rescue Wretched Rei, Echo demonstrates the tenacity of a true heroine. She understands saving, rather than slaying, the final remnant, is the only way to truly save her broken, other half. After releasing Wretched Rei of her pain, the two halves merge at last. Together, they live in harmony and possess a greater understanding of the Ultravoid, or in other terms, their new world.
Pavilion vault

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The **pavilion vault** is a protective vault located underneath the Senate Pavillion in the Mirrorsea region of the Ultravoid, which used to be part of the planet Cyclodorea. It came to be the final resting place of First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax and was used by him to hoard and guard his vast treasure.