of the Arts and Works of Humankind Three Spheres broadly encompass the collective works of humankind, each pertaining to a different realm of masteries over nature, mind, and technology. High Resolution Image First and oldest is the Biosphere, the totality of all biological life and natural systems, shaping organisms and the worlds they live upon. Second is the Cognisphere, of all sapience and human spirit upon which culture and society are built. Third is the emergent Techno

The basis of human technomancy are the feral nanite progeny of von-Neumann machines. Predating even the earliest human expansion, self-replicating probes from Terra spread throughout Known Space. Countless instances of mechanical evolution produced all manner of robotic wonders, but none so often as the feral swarms with near unlimited potential. Over time, machine cities and automaton worlds grew rare, but the microscopic mechanisms remain ever-present. Wether in shimmering

For a hundred thousand years mankind has held the stars, claimed and shaped their worlds, and imbued them with technomancy. Vast and ancient, the galactic sphere of von-Neumann machinery, arcane origin of the Noosphere Unity, the universal principle of civilization, making manifest the Light, key to an orderly universe. In the unity's light there stands the Mechanist Union, arbiters of technology, artificers of nanomachines, conjurers of electric spirits. Technomantic basti

Cosmos represents the ordered, comprehensible universe in accordance with natural law, commonly also called symbolically “the Light”. Oblivion, or Darkness, represents everything beyond. In the Known Galaxy, Cosmos, the comprehensible order in the universe, is fleeting. The universe tends towards entropy; sentience tends towards eldritch godhood; technology tends towards fracture, singularity, and nanites. For a civilization to last, to reach the heights humankind strives for