Rei's species

**Rei's species** is an unnamed near-extinct species of intelligent, humanoid beings from the Voidrunners' planet. Rei is the only member of this species left alive, making her the species' endling, and once she dies, the species will be extinct.

Following the planet's destruction by the Ultravoid, the status of her species is unknown. Although there exists survivors of the planet out in the galaxy who have settled elsewhere after the planetø's destruction, it is unknown if other members of Rei's species are among them.

## History

Nothing much is known about the history of Rei's species, besides the fact that Rei is the only remaining member of it in existence.

It is unknown how the species came to be, whether through natural evolutionary selection or any other means.

None of her kind were on the intergalactic expeditions that her planet's people were carrying out eons ago when Rei first came to the Ultravoid with the other Voidrunners and started the time-loop, meaning that any other member besides her were destroyed with the planet and the other people present on it by the Void.

## Biology

Nothing much is known about the biology of Rei's species. It is unknown whether it has two or more sexes, it is unknown if they need to drink water or eat to survive, however she does need to breathe oxygen, as evidenced when Rei was coughing near a burned, smoking corpse of one of the members of the Cyclodorean Cymothoa squad members in the Mirrorsea.

Rei's species, like the other species from the Voidrunners' planet, have a spectrum of both sexes and gender identities that are not limited to two, for either sex or gender.

### Anatomy

Rei's species are humanoid, slender beings. They have heads whose faces are made of a hard material that makes their face look like a mask of some sort, and they have three glowing eyes, one on either side like humans and a third in the forehead. They have something that resembles a form of "hair", but it is made of a flowing smoke or flame-like material that constantly streams from the back of their head. Rei's "hair" was glowing and white, with undertones of violet and pink. They have ten fingers, divided into five on each of their two hands. They also have toes on their two feet, presumably the same amount as their fingers and with the same distribution as those.

It is unknown if all of Rei's species have the same color. She herself had a body that was mostly light in color, with the bottom part of her limbs being of a darker hue with a gradient going from a lighter violet at the top of the limb to a dark violet to a consciously darker hue the further down the limbs you go. Her limbs has a strange visual effect going on, being covered by pinpoints of light that shift around in placement depending on what angle they are viewed from, making her body look to be made out of the void of outer space, or resembling the optical effect of gravitational dilation around a black hole, kind of like the view of the warping of stars as seen in the film *Interstellar* when the ship is travelling through the black hole.

The activation of the Starseed has the potential to split a member of Rei's species into two halves, one mostly white and one darker in hue.

The body of Rei's species have bones, but their body is also partially made out of a strange substance - referred to as "void goo" by Alx Preston. However, according to Preston, Rei specifically both is and isn't made out of these two things, as she can reconstitute and there is something different and/or strange about her.

## Trivia

* Rei is not of any other species seen in *Solar Ash*, besides, obviously Echo, but being a part of her, she is one and the same one fused back together.
* Since Rei's species is not named, Heart Machine director Alx Preston and PR lead Yiyi Zhang have stated that fans may call it "Species X."

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Questions answers about the Voidrunners' species. Via Alx Preston and Yiyi Zhang at the official Heart Machine Discord
2. ↑ April 23, 2022. Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters **url** and **title** must be specified. Via Alx Preston at the official Heart Machine Discord
3. ↑ Information on Rei's anatomy. Via Alx Preston and Yiyi Zhang at the official Heart Machine Discord

## See also

* Erving's species
* Verse's species
* Ghozam's species
* Tufte's species
* Pyat's species