Collective Cambrian Clades of the Spirit Crucibles Populations: Substrand Collectives Heartlands: Shuttered Hiveworlds Common Polities: Gestalt States ​ Fierce are the realms of Sanctacaris, clades of the spirit crucibles, builders of grand hives and collectives. In their pursuit of the Demiurge, the manifold collectives meld the minds and knowledge of their populations, creating mental prisms governing every aspect of their rule. Throughout the Union’s northern stars, Sanc

Verdant Clades of the Cambrian Geneweavers Populations: Bioroida Heartlands: Verdant Brambleworlds Common Polities: Primacari Cladelodges ​ The Geneweavers are creators and shapers of life, delighting in the complexity of organic systems, intricate tapestries of growth and decay. Their clades dedicate themselves to every aspect of biology, molding ecologies and organisms for their every pursuit. They are old, the first to leave the Ringworld Cambria and settle along the banks

Ascendant Cambrian Clades of the Electric Spirits Populations: Nullbodies Heartlands: Faceless Cyberworlds Common Polities: Nectocari Nexuses ​ In the pursuit of machine-ascendance, the Nectocaris Clades shed the mortal shell of flesh and blood, inscribing their existence onto circuitry. Their worlds are much akin to machine cities and hubs of long-dead strands of the nanomachines, inaccessible almost entirely to homo sapiens. ​ Driven by urges and desires from deep within th

Cambrian Nomad Clades of the Engineherders Populations: Augments Heartlands: Roaming Worldfleets Common Polities: Megachaira Clans and Chiefdoms ​ Most outsider contacts with the union and mechanist expat clades originate from the Engineherders of the Megachaira. They are nomad smiths and artisans, prolific in trade and scavenging of all things forgotten. ​ Machinery comes alive under their hands, automaton nature sculpted from the detritus of civilizations. Robotic flora an

Arisen Metaculture of Cambria Populations: Nullbodies Heartlands: Heavenly Chain upon the Suneater Common Polities: Essatir Convergence ​ Beyond starfire walls and gravitic bastions, a perfect paradise was built by the Essatiri Metaculture ascendant. All worlds of Trevrizent enraptured in a web of noosphere excellents conjured from the nanite swarms of the system. No outsider has ever set foot on those world since, no lord ever receveived work back from their envoys. The bord

Cambrian Gestalt Clades of Corpus Forgers Populations: Synthetics Heartlands: Facsimile Worldstages Common Polities: Bonded Eldonian Clades ​ The Eldonia Clades build facsimiles of human strands and cultures, a synthesis of greatness they perceive in humankind. ​ Their are worlds out of place and time, banded together in a unity of purpose that the Demiurge revealed. The Eldonia Revelation set all their kin on a path of searching knowledge not merely in technology but the p

Mechanist Union Clades Superior Populations: Bioroida, Augments, Nullbodies, Synthetics, and devolved precursor strands Heartlands: Terraformed Ring Segments Common Polities: Clade Hierarchies ​ The relic ringworld is the single greatest frontier of Gondwana, a stellar habitat worth millions of worlds. Early mechanists arrived on wandering stars to these regions for Cambria alone, and the pure dedication of their Clades Superior have not wavered in all millennia since. ​ Cam

Clades Superior of the Mechanist Union A clade hierarchy of transhuman societies competing for industrial and scientific progress, ever guided by the eclectic purposes and revelations of their nascent technomantic noosphere god, the Demiurge. Many thousand lesser clades are embedded in the six Clades Superior, their governing meritocracy highly de-centralized and ever changing according to mechanisms only those of the Mechanist Union understand.

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

There is no starship more prevalent around the Hallowed Ring as the Agathauma. It is a proud lineage of starships renown for their versatility and good fortune, serving many clades as fief, home to their many thousand souls, and as backbone to the fleets of their Clades Superior. No two starships are the same, yet the lineage Agathauma is lauded for remarkable cohesion in both function and design. Born of an age of strife and isolation, the vessels Agathauma are made to withs