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I was so excited when the Terraforma of our colony called for corpi to join the new project she was hatching. Of course, we all knew what it was about - the latest experimental Delve structure - collapsing the planetary mass into tunnels towards the centre until they met at the centre - like inverted normals from each of the 20 faces of a polyhedron, joining them at the planetary core to make a grand junction - so exciting.

Anyway, when I heard our colony was one of the polyhedral hubs, I volunteered instantly, and hatchlings came to my pod almost immediately - our Terraforma takes her job very seriously. The hatchlings apologised as they impaled my body. But, of course, there was a little pain - that's how these things work; I didn't mind.

In the distance, I could see her massive body, and other people were already beginning to fill in the slots on the bulb. Then, as soon as the hatchlings would tear apart and reknit my body to fit in my nook and wire my nervous system to the Terraforma - oh, how beautiful dreams I would be part of - those of the joyous work of delving the new Delve.

I felt so special.

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The Great and Benevolent Intergalactic Empire of Xenotechnological Assemblage, called Xenoth by many, is a multi-galactic spacefaring civilisation of Type III on the Kardashev Scale.

The actual Xenothians have long since evolved away from their original morphology. This morphological deviation can be attributed to the fact that Xenogenesis, the technique by which the Xenothians spread across the universe, is an invasive quantum process which incorporates the target species into the warm fold of the Empire.

Here's how it works:

When the Xenothians come across a civilisation roughly equal to their own in technology, they leave it alone. If attacked, they wipe it out entirely, but unless the other party does not act in a Dark Forest way, the Xenothians do not even try to communicate. They go away.

However, suppose the discovered civilisation is less advanced than the Xenothians. In that case, they use their Time-Mothers to temporally dive into the target species' past and influence that species to either discover the Xenothian Empire or be discovered by it aeons ago. Hence, when the Time-Mothers dream back to the future, the Empire has already changed through the genetic addition of the new species.

The returning Time-Mothers are immediately ritually consumed to protect the integrity of the time-space continuum, and life goes on as usual.

Thus, there's never any conflict, other than just for fun, in the Great and Benevolent Intergalactic Empire of Xenotechnological Assemblage. There's no death either because the Essence-Knowers know all individuals in their continuum, and anyone who dies can be dreamed back into existence.

In Xenoth's Embrace, there's only love.

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These images and the beings they depict were imagined by me, conceptualised using Midjourney, upscaled using Nero-AI, and edited using Photoshop.

Artistically influenced by HR Giger, HP Lovecraft, Hieronymous Bosch, Lebbeus Woods, my personal psychedelic visions, and 30+ years of science-fiction reading.

Description
I was so excited when the Terraforma of our colony called for corpi to join the new project she was hatching. Of course, we all knew what it was about - the latest experimental Delve structure - collapsing the planetary mass into tunnels towards the centre until they met at the centre - like inverted normals from each of the 20 faces of a polyhedron, joining them at the planetary core to make a grand junction - so exciting.

Anyway, when I heard our colony was one of the polyhedral hubs, I volunteered instantly, and hatchlings came to my pod almost immediately - our Terraforma takes her job very seriously. The hatchlings apologised as they impaled my body. But, of course, there was a little pain - that's how these things work; I didn't mind.

In the distance, I could see her massive body, and other people were already beginning to fill in the slots on the bulb. Then, as soon as the hatchlings would tear apart and reknit my body to fit in my nook and wire my nervous system to the Terraforma - oh, how beautiful dreams I would be part of - those of the joyous work of delving the new Delve.

I felt so special.

---

The Great and Benevolent Intergalactic Empire of Xenotechnological Assemblage, called Xenoth by many, is a multi-galactic spacefaring civilisation of Type III on the Kardashev Scale.

The actual Xenothians have long since evolved away from their original morphology. This morphological deviation can be attributed to the fact that Xenogenesis, the technique by which the Xenothians spread across the universe, is an invasive quantum process which incorporates the target species into the warm fold of the Empire.

Here's how it works:

When the Xenothians come across a civilisation roughly equal to their own in technology, they leave it alone. If attacked, they wipe it out entirely, but unless the other party does not act in a Dark Forest way, the Xenothians do not even try to communicate. They go away.

However, suppose the discovered civilisation is less advanced than the Xenothians. In that case, they use their Time-Mothers to temporally dive into the target species' past and influence that species to either discover the Xenothian Empire or be discovered by it aeons ago. Hence, when the Time-Mothers dream back to the future, the Empire has already changed through the genetic addition of the new species.

The returning Time-Mothers are immediately ritually consumed to protect the integrity of the time-space continuum, and life goes on as usual.

Thus, there's never any conflict, other than just for fun, in the Great and Benevolent Intergalactic Empire of Xenotechnological Assemblage. There's no death either because the Essence-Knowers know all individuals in their continuum, and anyone who dies can be dreamed back into existence.

In Xenoth's Embrace, there's only love.

---

These images and the beings they depict were imagined by me, conceptualised using Midjourney, upscaled using Nero-AI, and edited using Photoshop.

Artistically influenced by HR Giger, HP Lovecraft, Hieronymous Bosch, Lebbeus Woods, my personal psychedelic visions, and 30+ years of science-fiction reading.