Asuryani - Asuryani Technology: No other intelligent race of the Milky Way Galaxy has ever replicated the Aeldari's unique approach to technology, nor have the Aeldari applied knowledge from the "primitive" races that have inherited the galaxy in the wake of the fall of their empire. The brutality and ignorance of Mankind appalls the Asuryani, whilst in return the aloof arrogance and fickle nature of the Aeldari race fosters little trust in others.Asuryani technology adheres closely to natural biological shapes and structures. This is quite understandable, as there is no real difference between technology and nature in the Aeldari mind -- they are a single process by which the Aeldari imbue living things with function and functional things with life.The materials the Asuryani use in their engineering are complex and varied ectoplastics that can be formed into solid shapes under psychic pressure. In some respects they are more like living tissue than inert substances, growing and reacting to their environment in a similar way to plants. The completed device or artefact may work in a conventional manner, but it is always operated by psychic means.The greatest of the materials the Asuryani employ is called wraithbone: an immensely resilient substance that is grown rather than made, more resilient than adamantium and far more flexible. When a wraithbone construct is damaged, it will gradually repair itself, a process that can be accelerated by the psychic chanting of an artisan known as a Bonesinger. Because of this, the greatest Asuryani war-constructs and the craftworlds themselves are made almost entirely from wraithbone, giving them extreme durability and strength.As part of their potent psychic inheritance, one ability common to many Asuryani is called psychomorphism by the Human magi biologis of the Adeptus Mechanicus. In crude terms, this gives the Asuryani the psychic ability to shape matter and create simple artefacts from basic raw materials.More complex items can be made by several individuals with the ability working together or with the aid of forging machines that enhance the creative process. Asuryani can also move small objects using a form of psychokinesis and it is by this means that they build their most sophisticated devices.Some Asuryani can influence the structure of growing matter by a form of empathic telepathy. This empathic ability may have been particularly important during the early development of the Aeldari race, enabling them to promote the fertility and fruitfulness of edible crops and reshape the growth of trees to make simple shelters.During their primitive evolutionary stage, the Aeldari undoubtedly benefitted greatly from these abilities. The first Aeldari villages and towns are supposed to have been living structures grown from trees, often covering many square Terran kilometres and reaching high into the air. Structures like this can still be found on worlds colonised by the Aeldari Exodites in later times and aming the ruined cities of the lost Crone Worlds of the Aeldari Empire in the Eye of Terror.Because of their natural psychic abilities, the Aeldari learned how to make and shape raw materials at a very early stage of cultural development. By means of their mental abilities they were able to refine materials and shape the resulting metals and stone into whatever they desired. Asuryani technology thus has a very ancient history and the pace of its progress was closely tied to the slow overall evolutionary and cultural development of their species.There was never a sharply defined industrial phase of Aeldari history, as there was for the Humans of Old Earth during the Age of Terra, but rather a steady growth in competence and knowledge over a very long period of time.A particularly Aeldari aspect of all their technology is that its forms often adhere closely to natural biological shapes and structures found in the living world, as noted above. This is quite understandable, as there is no real difference between inorganic technology and nature in the Aeldari mind as there is to Humans -- they amalgamate into a single process by which the Aeldari imbue living things with function and functional things with life.