Due to overexploitation of their home planet's resources they almost went extinct, but were saved by stumbling upon the technology of the Virtual Endless, causing them to worship them as gods. The Vodyani developed on a poor planet called Tchinomy.The Lumeris are able to colonize new systems using dust (instead of with colonizing ships) and gain bonuses to trade companies as well as reduction to dust inflation, which allows them to more efficiently buy out system improvements and spaceships with dust. The Lumeris are an amphibian race that focuses on trading and dust acquisition (dust is the collection of nanobots and nano-computers created by the Endless and used as the currency by today's factions who lack the ability to understand it and manipulate it).They are also able to enslave other populations, increasing their FIDS output, but reducing their Approval (happiness). The Cravers gain 150% bonus to FIDS resources (Food, Industry, Dust and Science), but slowly deplete the planets that they inhabit, turning them unproductive and reducing their FIDS output to 50% after a certain time. The Cravers are always at war with other factions and are incapable of signing peace unless the Militaristic party has no representation in their senate. The Cravers are an aggressive hive-like half-machine half- insect race created by the virtual Endless who used them as a weapon against the Concrete Endless.
The Sophons have a unique ability to gain a research bonus to the technology that they are researching proportional to the number of factions that haven't yet researched the chosen technology. For Sophons, the universe and life are something to be looked at with awe and to be studied and understood.
They pursue scientific advancement as a constant goal, often to the point of recklessness, having once blown up their own moon.
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