Seeders

The Seeders spontaneously evolved on the planet that contained the first world crystal at the dawn of the Multiverse.

The Seeders were a long lived race and as they grew they developed Magitech, a technology that drew its power from the world crystal.

The Seeders developed space travel but never developed FTL travel, at near FTL speeds their magitech systems could not maintain contact with the world crystal, so instead they developed stasis, further extending their already long lifespans and allowing them to explore the multiverse at sub-light speeds.

For several generations the Seeders explored the multiverse, seeking other sentient life without success. They discovered that their world crystal had a maximum range, beyond which their magitech would fail. They had explored the entire accessible multiverse without discovering another form of life. Disappointed they returned to their home world.

The development of the Seeder homeworld had been massively accelerated by the presence of the world crystal.

Research was commenced on how to create life and the Seeders learned a method for seeding world crystals. The seeders then began the second exploration, seeking suitable systems to place a seeded world.

Around the time of the start of the second exploration early worlds that did not have world crystals started (ever so rarely) to develop life.

The Seeding initially went well, but the Seeders soon learned that the crystalline sentience of the world crystals lacked any moral dimension. Many of the worlds they had seeded were decending into chaos. The Seeders then modified their seeding process, with a plan to shift the balance in favour of order. The seeds now contained instructions to create the Titans, providing the juvenile world with a built in guidance system.

With the Chaos problem 'solved' the Seeders accelerated their exploration.

The Seeders then discovered that their Magitech systems could utilise the energies of a seeded world once the world crystal developed sufficiently. This discovery led to a third wave of exploration, wider than before as their ships could now travel further.

The Seeders seeded millions of worlds and sporadically checked on seeded worlds to see how they were progressing.

During the 5th Exploration, the seeders encountered the first world they had found that had developed life in the absence of a world crystal. The dominant lifeform on this world would become known to the Seeders as the Phage.

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