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A Gen II Ikeitian

And an excuse to drop disjointed lore notes I took about them on you

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The inevitable issue the ikeitans had encountered was that time took its toll. The need to innovate was pressing. First gen ikeitans were mostly in the space of growable helper vessels that had a complexity sprawl in their uses in the sectors they had been employed. Contrary to some propaganda, intelligent ikeitans were incredibly welcomed by the locals. They were mostly integrated and treated as just any other species. Of which would make the betrayal by Dozin's avatar against the ikeitans all the more traumatic.

quick list of components
-Etheric vanes that enhance mobility. The first use of etheric came about as a product of an optimization method found by researchers operating under the Ivikurmajan Accordance in the aftermath of the custodian crisis and in the lead up to the project of claiming the rubble for the war against gods.
-The vessel is lined in grasers and disintegration clouds
-There's also hanger bays for the small thrall vessels that are used as bio mechanical enforcers and executive actors. Every ikeitan outside of the polyp vessels by human standards is a carrier.
-The "plate" added onto the outer skin layer that handles a lot of hyperspace tapping as a conduit system. Due to how shielded ikeitans are; the plate isn't as soft as one thinks. It is extremely sturdy material layered over an area that was more a vulnerability before.
-They are fairly maneuverable with a lot of inertial forces that pervade the vessel, of which are handled a range of ways with multiple fluidic layers.
-There are cavities throughout the ikeitan mainly used for thralled crews, biomechanical entities working as a direct automated part of the ikeitan and more open cooling areas for the internal biocomputation the ikeitan minds are capable of.

Overview
The growth of the ikeitan is a phased growing design. The polyp form consists of multiple organ systems, of which include the sturdier "frame" system of tendrils and hardened biometals that include the synthesizers used to produce the soft tissues of the vessel. The inner cavities, “optical nerves” (nerve-like filaments that are fiber-optics) and more “robotic” parts of the ikeitan all creating the broader being. The ikeitan is so large s usually, there are multiple “brains” in different parts of an ikeitan that create the executive acting super intelligence that an ikeitan is.

Multilayered Metamorphic Alloys
These "soft tissues" are also a more silicate form of biometallics that gets layered up with harder webbed patterns that are generated in countless patterns to make any attack form never truly perfect, as once a pattern is found to better defend against a strike or laser, it shifts the patterns to better suit defending against that attack as a form of metamorphic alloy. These metamorphic alloys aren't immune to particle or beam attacks but can make multiple strikes using the same method ineffective. For the Ikeitans are so advanced they network between vessels in the local brigade to cross-modify their hulls to reinforce defenses in real time. These hull layers are not the only defense layers of course, as they mainly exist to analyze your lasers to a degree. They aren't naive enough to think missiles can be stopped with adaptive alloys.

Cthonic Beams
The legacy of whandl thermocrystal technology has far reaching consequences. Sulfuric synthesized crystals able to cause a burning interception beam that "singes" the target with electric interference is the main point of these kinds of high energy chemical lasers, they're the PD and a means to make your own targeting systems disarray. Such beams get used outside of ikeitan technology but the ikeitans have integrated them as an external interceptor system as part of the cooperation antidoninist whandl have done with the ikeitans (multiple members of multiple species including some utanguis cooperated with the ikeitan during the exodus)

Singularity Arrays
The actual offensive beam systems come in the form of graser systems first developed in the custodian invasion as a means to penetrate custodian enforcer drones. They cross-connect and combine into a singularity point in some arrays as a means to produce a micro-singularity (or micro Blackhole) that self-detonates in a horrifying pulse of radiation. The nature of the beam system is not entirely clear, they are not gamma ray weaponsno but instead somehow seem to be a primitive form of gravity weaponry. Such weaponry is usually seen as a heavy mount weapon meant to be a "god killer" by breaking physics against them. These are not nearly as advanced as the gravity lasers used by the custodians, but they have proven advanced enough to be an answer against custodian drones. The composers are believed to have given data to the ikeitans to make this tech and the ikeitan wars that broke out after the custodian invasion came about not long after. The composers had been given much hostility by dozinists due to that consequence, but the composers had insisted their actions ensured the survival, vitality and vigor of prospect space and the higher harmonious transcendence. And they also gave dozinists similar tech when they feared the ikeitans might get too out of hand. Dozinists and antidozinists alike remain deeply wary of composer machinations to this day.

Hyperspatial Missiles
One of the tech developments that had been mostly an ikeitan innovation is dread inducing. These hyperspatial missiles are a consequence of cheaper hyperdrive tech figured out by the ikeitans and the ability to superposition hyperspace signatures in such a way if they know the hyperspace channels you are on they can launch drones and missiles to pursue you into hyperspace. They would be blind to if a target intercepted them, but the power it has is impossible to ignore. These are heavy suicide drones more than missiles per say, ran by suicidal biosynthetic minds who will eagerly harass your comms (to make it harder to intercept) as they get closer. Their payload is an enigma, but it is known to not be antimatter and instead some form of fusion explosion. The exact nature of the mechanism remains a closely guarded secret. They don't appear able easily hop between hyperspaces like a proper hyper drive can and mainly are meant to pursue on a minor level as they know a second hyperspace jump leads to a ship that can't be tracked even with their innovations.

The multiple layers of living hull and chemical laser PDs are meant to be paired with pretty good maneuvering systems too. Ikeitans are meant to be very powerful vessels by design for a lot of reasons, their catch however, is they’re terrible at attrition. They make themselves these absurdly powerful vessels sure but they also take decades, if not centuries to mature and so they often need to “work with” a lot of other beings under the antidozinist mindset. They can’t really take significant losses which is terrible for occupation type activities. (edited)

And also the supply chains to make all those fancy technologies rely on the cooperation of species some mockingly call “thralls”

Stages of Ikeitan Life

Gestational - Ikeitans early on gestate within the ecological installations. They break themselves and try to figure out which ones are the best, reforming and metamorphically altering in shape as they percolate into the unified polyp form. The gestating process is very strange in its rapid adversarial patterning. Shark gestation is a lose analog but it undersells the kind of adversarial cooperation at play. It foreshadows the rest of their life.

Juvenile - Juvenile ikeitans are young ikeitans that are numerous but often dependent on a pilot and usually not allowed to engage in deployments to the extent adult ikeitans are. The effectiveness of juveniles is less, but even a juvenile ikeitan is a match against most spacecraft in prospect space. To say the least of the more advanced, layered and wise vessels in the near-gerontocracy that the ikeitans have going on. Adult - Ikeitans can produce gametes that get fed to the gestational ecologies as needed, ikeitan gender is not clear but they biologically have no clear axis. Ikeitans seem to follow gender identity even less than utanguis do, as is adult ikeitans are the most aggressive about the antidozinism. They also have the most rogue ikeitans (ikeitans that sympathize with the dozinist symbiosis).

Elder- Elder Ikeitans are jaded by the constant endless skirmishes and "ritual wars" with the dozinists in the vast overlapping volumes that the leviathan societies twine themselves between. They continue the conflict on the belief if they do not, the dozinist treachery will strike them once more. They have the most ikeitan wars veterans and the most flexibility in allegiances- if the custodians returned they would be the first cease hostility with the dozinists temporarily. If the composers interfered too much even, they have temporarily made matches in hell as at least the dozinists share in the myth. The entropy worshipping composers are too nihilistic!

Ancient - Ancient Ikeitans were the first ikeitans born as ikeitans. While some bioships were reformed to be Ikeitans, others were born as ikeitans. They share a collective trauma in the exodus and tend to look more floral instead of the the more biometallic, sleek form of the gen-3 ikeitans. Do not be mistaken. They often have many layers of authorization to utilize ancient technologies and sprawl tech, with ancient wisdom leveraged in the long term plans to overturn the Dozin worship and liberate those enslaved by Dozin. They wage a slower long game and are most prone to having more openness to peace with the dozinists in the belief they can win through the superiority of their tech and civilizational feats without need to ever fire a single RKM. The disputes among the Urzine are as expected, tense and a more belligerent position continues to take hold in practice due to the weakness being sensed by their Gestalt and Metasyndicate enemies.

Eternal - Ikeitans are biologically immortal and the eternal ikeitan is imagined as a crystallized being. Pure ikeitan, enameled as a blade to piece Dozin itself. Such eternals are few and mostly reclusive, being well alive before even when the term ikeitan was on record. The earliest bioships that became ikeitans through modifications who were around from the time jiwar was full of huddled and afraid utanguis fleeing the failed utopia of the Prospectors nearly two millennia ago.

More Ikeitan Information

he multi-layered Existence of an ikeitan has continued to breed a world of their own in the void they had fled to with the cooperation of those who chose their ikeitian comradery over the corrupted judgement of the eternal avatar. The nomadic fleets had developed antidozinism because the ikeitans who had dozinist loyalties let themselves die because Dozin so willed it. The ideal of destroying Dozin came about as a radicalization from the chaos of the warlords who continued to harass them and the cancer spreading- of which was also done under dozin's evident judgement. The crisis of faith was bad for even devout dozinists, let alone the ikeitans who would end up with the Urzine fleet ascendant due to their combined fleet methods and use of wisdom ideation to attract a broad coalition of beings who wanted new leadership and new values after dozin's atrocities alienated so many. They came to find themselves entranced by the vengeful desire of a war against Dozin. To destroy the god that tried to destroy them- and stop the Dozinists from bringing Dozin into full existence seeing the subservience demanded of it. To worship Dozin, to cede the self. The Urzine fleet culture spread virally.

The ikeitans might be a little mentally unstable but that's just how they are now. Ikeitan crews and vessels are a mix, some are more follower escorts others directly are in and stationed within the ikeitan as task managers and dutiful crews.

An ikeitan does not directly speak with the rest of the group. Their communication is mostly through proxy members and such. An ikeitan doesn't even have a symbiotic pilot, instead one finds computer-like mainframes woven into the body. It's a very intracite system and the access to the central mind. The ikeitan does at times directly speak to a crew member, but it often is about things they can't even begin to understand. It just is a question of thought. The crew mostly feels the presence around them. The upper and lower regions of the habitable cavity are places the crew lives, with microgravity regions and such within the middle chambers and various inertial latches when high g-force maneuvering happens, which is common enough the crew is augmented to handle such force gradients.

Reproduction? The antidozinist was built in iterative growths, from the early phase polyp entities that were further augmented and helped by pilots (polyp ikeitans have pilot helpers as an aide, but more matured ikeitans have no need for them). The ikeitan life cycle is not a cycle per say as the reproductive vector is one of a void ecology organ that gestates the ikeitan polyp more than of direct copulation. The womb installations are closely guarded by multiple layers of secrecy, they aren't even known and cover stories for how it is all done for the selecting process on what genetics to combine and bioengineer are given countless false stories, some made intentionally as absurd as possible or otherwise made to make whoever speaks them sound like a deranged, depraved nutcase. This hasn't stopped some of the biometallics from getting reverse engineered or process methods stolen for other purposes by infiltrators.

However the antidozinist mindset is one of ignition. They aren't inherently distrusting, if anything they're obnoxious in how obsessive their misothiesm can get- especially the younger ikeitans needing to prove their power and loyalty to the elder ikeitans. Some of the elder ikeitans are more jaded about the Dozin conflict, even with the weapons programs the ikeitans have put tons of research and development into in order to defeat Dozin and the "waking of Dozin" they believe will mean something that makes the cancer xenoforming weapons look as little botched science projects the polyps and the incompetent pilot that enables them carry out on asteroids.

Description

A Gen II Ikeitian

And an excuse to drop disjointed lore notes I took about them on you

===================================

The inevitable issue the ikeitans had encountered was that time took its toll. The need to innovate was pressing. First gen ikeitans were mostly in the space of growable helper vessels that had a complexity sprawl in their uses in the sectors they had been employed. Contrary to some propaganda, intelligent ikeitans were incredibly welcomed by the locals. They were mostly integrated and treated as just any other species. Of which would make the betrayal by Dozin's avatar against the ikeitans all the more traumatic.

quick list of components
-Etheric vanes that enhance mobility. The first use of etheric came about as a product of an optimization method found by researchers operating under the Ivikurmajan Accordance in the aftermath of the custodian crisis and in the lead up to the project of claiming the rubble for the war against gods.
-The vessel is lined in grasers and disintegration clouds
-There's also hanger bays for the small thrall vessels that are used as bio mechanical enforcers and executive actors. Every ikeitan outside of the polyp vessels by human standards is a carrier.
-The "plate" added onto the outer skin layer that handles a lot of hyperspace tapping as a conduit system. Due to how shielded ikeitans are; the plate isn't as soft as one thinks. It is extremely sturdy material layered over an area that was more a vulnerability before.
-They are fairly maneuverable with a lot of inertial forces that pervade the vessel, of which are handled a range of ways with multiple fluidic layers.
-There are cavities throughout the ikeitan mainly used for thralled crews, biomechanical entities working as a direct automated part of the ikeitan and more open cooling areas for the internal biocomputation the ikeitan minds are capable of.

Overview
The growth of the ikeitan is a phased growing design. The polyp form consists of multiple organ systems, of which include the sturdier "frame" system of tendrils and hardened biometals that include the synthesizers used to produce the soft tissues of the vessel. The inner cavities, “optical nerves” (nerve-like filaments that are fiber-optics) and more “robotic” parts of the ikeitan all creating the broader being. The ikeitan is so large s usually, there are multiple “brains” in different parts of an ikeitan that create the executive acting super intelligence that an ikeitan is.

Multilayered Metamorphic Alloys
These "soft tissues" are also a more silicate form of biometallics that gets layered up with harder webbed patterns that are generated in countless patterns to make any attack form never truly perfect, as once a pattern is found to better defend against a strike or laser, it shifts the patterns to better suit defending against that attack as a form of metamorphic alloy. These metamorphic alloys aren't immune to particle or beam attacks but can make multiple strikes using the same method ineffective. For the Ikeitans are so advanced they network between vessels in the local brigade to cross-modify their hulls to reinforce defenses in real time. These hull layers are not the only defense layers of course, as they mainly exist to analyze your lasers to a degree. They aren't naive enough to think missiles can be stopped with adaptive alloys.

Cthonic Beams
The legacy of whandl thermocrystal technology has far reaching consequences. Sulfuric synthesized crystals able to cause a burning interception beam that "singes" the target with electric interference is the main point of these kinds of high energy chemical lasers, they're the PD and a means to make your own targeting systems disarray. Such beams get used outside of ikeitan technology but the ikeitans have integrated them as an external interceptor system as part of the cooperation antidoninist whandl have done with the ikeitans (multiple members of multiple species including some utanguis cooperated with the ikeitan during the exodus)

Singularity Arrays
The actual offensive beam systems come in the form of graser systems first developed in the custodian invasion as a means to penetrate custodian enforcer drones. They cross-connect and combine into a singularity point in some arrays as a means to produce a micro-singularity (or micro Blackhole) that self-detonates in a horrifying pulse of radiation. The nature of the beam system is not entirely clear, they are not gamma ray weaponsno but instead somehow seem to be a primitive form of gravity weaponry. Such weaponry is usually seen as a heavy mount weapon meant to be a "god killer" by breaking physics against them. These are not nearly as advanced as the gravity lasers used by the custodians, but they have proven advanced enough to be an answer against custodian drones. The composers are believed to have given data to the ikeitans to make this tech and the ikeitan wars that broke out after the custodian invasion came about not long after. The composers had been given much hostility by dozinists due to that consequence, but the composers had insisted their actions ensured the survival, vitality and vigor of prospect space and the higher harmonious transcendence. And they also gave dozinists similar tech when they feared the ikeitans might get too out of hand. Dozinists and antidozinists alike remain deeply wary of composer machinations to this day.

Hyperspatial Missiles
One of the tech developments that had been mostly an ikeitan innovation is dread inducing. These hyperspatial missiles are a consequence of cheaper hyperdrive tech figured out by the ikeitans and the ability to superposition hyperspace signatures in such a way if they know the hyperspace channels you are on they can launch drones and missiles to pursue you into hyperspace. They would be blind to if a target intercepted them, but the power it has is impossible to ignore. These are heavy suicide drones more than missiles per say, ran by suicidal biosynthetic minds who will eagerly harass your comms (to make it harder to intercept) as they get closer. Their payload is an enigma, but it is known to not be antimatter and instead some form of fusion explosion. The exact nature of the mechanism remains a closely guarded secret. They don't appear able easily hop between hyperspaces like a proper hyper drive can and mainly are meant to pursue on a minor level as they know a second hyperspace jump leads to a ship that can't be tracked even with their innovations.

The multiple layers of living hull and chemical laser PDs are meant to be paired with pretty good maneuvering systems too. Ikeitans are meant to be very powerful vessels by design for a lot of reasons, their catch however, is they’re terrible at attrition. They make themselves these absurdly powerful vessels sure but they also take decades, if not centuries to mature and so they often need to “work with” a lot of other beings under the antidozinist mindset. They can’t really take significant losses which is terrible for occupation type activities. (edited)

And also the supply chains to make all those fancy technologies rely on the cooperation of species some mockingly call “thralls”

Stages of Ikeitan Life

Gestational - Ikeitans early on gestate within the ecological installations. They break themselves and try to figure out which ones are the best, reforming and metamorphically altering in shape as they percolate into the unified polyp form. The gestating process is very strange in its rapid adversarial patterning. Shark gestation is a lose analog but it undersells the kind of adversarial cooperation at play. It foreshadows the rest of their life.

Juvenile - Juvenile ikeitans are young ikeitans that are numerous but often dependent on a pilot and usually not allowed to engage in deployments to the extent adult ikeitans are. The effectiveness of juveniles is less, but even a juvenile ikeitan is a match against most spacecraft in prospect space. To say the least of the more advanced, layered and wise vessels in the near-gerontocracy that the ikeitans have going on. Adult - Ikeitans can produce gametes that get fed to the gestational ecologies as needed, ikeitan gender is not clear but they biologically have no clear axis. Ikeitans seem to follow gender identity even less than utanguis do, as is adult ikeitans are the most aggressive about the antidozinism. They also have the most rogue ikeitans (ikeitans that sympathize with the dozinist symbiosis).

Elder- Elder Ikeitans are jaded by the constant endless skirmishes and "ritual wars" with the dozinists in the vast overlapping volumes that the leviathan societies twine themselves between. They continue the conflict on the belief if they do not, the dozinist treachery will strike them once more. They have the most ikeitan wars veterans and the most flexibility in allegiances- if the custodians returned they would be the first cease hostility with the dozinists temporarily. If the composers interfered too much even, they have temporarily made matches in hell as at least the dozinists share in the myth. The entropy worshipping composers are too nihilistic!

Ancient - Ancient Ikeitans were the first ikeitans born as ikeitans. While some bioships were reformed to be Ikeitans, others were born as ikeitans. They share a collective trauma in the exodus and tend to look more floral instead of the the more biometallic, sleek form of the gen-3 ikeitans. Do not be mistaken. They often have many layers of authorization to utilize ancient technologies and sprawl tech, with ancient wisdom leveraged in the long term plans to overturn the Dozin worship and liberate those enslaved by Dozin. They wage a slower long game and are most prone to having more openness to peace with the dozinists in the belief they can win through the superiority of their tech and civilizational feats without need to ever fire a single RKM. The disputes among the Urzine are as expected, tense and a more belligerent position continues to take hold in practice due to the weakness being sensed by their Gestalt and Metasyndicate enemies.

Eternal - Ikeitans are biologically immortal and the eternal ikeitan is imagined as a crystallized being. Pure ikeitan, enameled as a blade to piece Dozin itself. Such eternals are few and mostly reclusive, being well alive before even when the term ikeitan was on record. The earliest bioships that became ikeitans through modifications who were around from the time jiwar was full of huddled and afraid utanguis fleeing the failed utopia of the Prospectors nearly two millennia ago.

More Ikeitan Information

he multi-layered Existence of an ikeitan has continued to breed a world of their own in the void they had fled to with the cooperation of those who chose their ikeitian comradery over the corrupted judgement of the eternal avatar. The nomadic fleets had developed antidozinism because the ikeitans who had dozinist loyalties let themselves die because Dozin so willed it. The ideal of destroying Dozin came about as a radicalization from the chaos of the warlords who continued to harass them and the cancer spreading- of which was also done under dozin's evident judgement. The crisis of faith was bad for even devout dozinists, let alone the ikeitans who would end up with the Urzine fleet ascendant due to their combined fleet methods and use of wisdom ideation to attract a broad coalition of beings who wanted new leadership and new values after dozin's atrocities alienated so many. They came to find themselves entranced by the vengeful desire of a war against Dozin. To destroy the god that tried to destroy them- and stop the Dozinists from bringing Dozin into full existence seeing the subservience demanded of it. To worship Dozin, to cede the self. The Urzine fleet culture spread virally.

The ikeitans might be a little mentally unstable but that's just how they are now. Ikeitan crews and vessels are a mix, some are more follower escorts others directly are in and stationed within the ikeitan as task managers and dutiful crews.

An ikeitan does not directly speak with the rest of the group. Their communication is mostly through proxy members and such. An ikeitan doesn't even have a symbiotic pilot, instead one finds computer-like mainframes woven into the body. It's a very intracite system and the access to the central mind. The ikeitan does at times directly speak to a crew member, but it often is about things they can't even begin to understand. It just is a question of thought. The crew mostly feels the presence around them. The upper and lower regions of the habitable cavity are places the crew lives, with microgravity regions and such within the middle chambers and various inertial latches when high g-force maneuvering happens, which is common enough the crew is augmented to handle such force gradients.

Reproduction? The antidozinist was built in iterative growths, from the early phase polyp entities that were further augmented and helped by pilots (polyp ikeitans have pilot helpers as an aide, but more matured ikeitans have no need for them). The ikeitan life cycle is not a cycle per say as the reproductive vector is one of a void ecology organ that gestates the ikeitan polyp more than of direct copulation. The womb installations are closely guarded by multiple layers of secrecy, they aren't even known and cover stories for how it is all done for the selecting process on what genetics to combine and bioengineer are given countless false stories, some made intentionally as absurd as possible or otherwise made to make whoever speaks them sound like a deranged, depraved nutcase. This hasn't stopped some of the biometallics from getting reverse engineered or process methods stolen for other purposes by infiltrators.

However the antidozinist mindset is one of ignition. They aren't inherently distrusting, if anything they're obnoxious in how obsessive their misothiesm can get- especially the younger ikeitans needing to prove their power and loyalty to the elder ikeitans. Some of the elder ikeitans are more jaded about the Dozin conflict, even with the weapons programs the ikeitans have put tons of research and development into in order to defeat Dozin and the "waking of Dozin" they believe will mean something that makes the cancer xenoforming weapons look as little botched science projects the polyps and the incompetent pilot that enables them carry out on asteroids.