Or'gh'nan'lui (Oraygonian), as individual/culture
Yor'reighol'ah'nan'lui (Oreygola'nanlui?), as interstellar collective
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COLLECTIVE SUMMARY
IC 1101, the Oraygonians home galaxy
They are, by any metric, the oldest known active intelligence in the universe, having arrived at our local group under 10-20 million years ago (?) — their civilization is at least 2-3 billion years old. There is archaeological evidence to support a continued presence within the Milky Way since at least 497,000 CE (known waypoints: Earth; and a moon of Thestias, a gas giant around Pollux visited by humans in 2790 CE).
Their brief, enigmatic contacts with humans on Earth (7000 BCE, and 1947 CE) was a minuscule event in a survey spanning epochs. They departed from human contact in 2010 CE to "solve a civil war”. Their current status and return ETA are unknown.
Origin
The supergiant elliptical galaxy IC 1101, approximately 1.05 billion light-years from the Milky Way.
They have no "territory" as the younger races understand it. Their mobile city-ships, if that is what they are, drift in the profound darkness between galactic arms or within the halo. They are drawn to regions of astrobiological interest or historical significance, treating the entire Milky Way as a living museum.
Known Settlements:
· The Lost Draconic City of Kamm Anoris: An artificial, starfish-shaped artificial world 175,000 km across, orbiting a white dwarf in the Draco Dwarf Galaxy.
· The Or’Op Vault: A planetary sanctuary in the halo of the Triangulum Galaxy.
Description
Massive, centipede/grub-like entities with small, functional insectoid wings. Carnivorous. A "young" individual, Y'haahrln'zhun Ur'u'bos (935 years old at first contact), stood over 9ft tall and spanned 20ft in length when it spoke to a Chalcolithic Iraqi king in 6984 BCE, according to Y'haahrln'zhun himself amongst the revelations of its second coming, about 1947 CE.
Defined by a foundational, species-wide trauma — the Patricide of the Dragons. This event, the murder of their creators over agonizing eons, scarred them permanently, and took them to the vicinity of the Milky Way. Now the ultimate non-interventionists, out of a deep-seated, traumatized reverence for the "natural" order of evolution. The Flagredunn (The Unrelenting Force) are an Oraygonian heresy based in the northern galactic halo. They reject the principle of non-interference, periodically descending to strip-mine galactic disk worlds for elements scarce in the halo.
Spacetravel
Theorized to be a form of Pulsed Kugelblitz Drive / Spacetime Metric Manipulation that allows for effective trans-galactic travel at γ >1000 speeds. Their in-system mobility is effortless and silent, suggesting control over inertia and gravity that appears magical. The energy sources required are of a Kardashev III scale, likely involving direct harvesting of the missing black hole at the center of IC 1101 / Vacuum Energy Extraction.
Relations
Unknown to the galaxy at large. Flagredunn branch is suspected to exist by the Qire and by proxy, the Dominion.
Non-interventionist galactic-scale power. Inscrutable, patient, traumatized, paternalistic.
Unknown fleet size.
Unknown personnel size.
Unknown objectives other than to preserve the "natural" evolutionary tapestry of the Milky Way.
Unknowable degree of historical interference.
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