Khann’uhrnta'y-Re (The Adversary), as interstellar collective
THIS ARTICLE IS A STUMP | Last updated January 15th 2026
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COLLECTIVE SUMMARY
Rough region of observed Canutan activity in the Milky Way
Presumed to be millions of years old by Qire reckoning, possibly hundreds of millions. True age unverifiable due discontinuous emergence.
The Qire deem Canutan presence as a largely illegitimate success and thus a fundamental offense to their ethos and the natural course of nature, however their stealth and spread has made this million-year old campaign most fruitless without the Qire themselves reorienting their moral and ethical compass.
Origin
Unknown, possibly indigenous to the Milky-Way, based on expansion geometry.
Primary activity observed between the Norma and Scutum-Centaurus arms of the Milky Way, roughly antipodal to Sol’s current position. An estimated one-sixth to one-third of all potentially habitable worlds in these regions show signs of interference or eradication.
Qire records indicate at least one confirmed Canutan presence in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the distant past. Activity scope beyond the Milky Way remains unknown.
Description
Physical size and mass vary with function.
Canutans are insecto-cancric, possibly fungoid, cyborg organisms exhibiting high-order intelligence, extreme organizational coherence, and long-horizon premeditation. Extensive cybernetic and biological augmentation renders consistent morphological classification impossible.
No obvious dietary constraints. Have repeatedly interfered with indigenous evolution, frequently culminating in planetary-scale extinction events. Canutans are known to cannibalize prior iterations of themselves. Their activity suggests an ongoing search for a superior or terminal form.
They do not constitute a continuous civilization. Instead, they emerge episodically across time and space to audit prior interventions, eradicate divergent descendants, assimilate new developments, and then withdraw.
Spacetravel
Ancient autonomous machines adrift through interstellar space, occasionally anchored to planetary bodies. At irregular intervals, these machines initiate large-scale fabrication of Canutan individuals under archaic directives.
Information transfer between systems is presumed to occur via tightly collimated radio transmissions. Canutans do not appear to have mastered relativistic travel in the conventional sense. Instead, they employ mind-transfer between pre-established waypoints, allowing effective travel at light-speed only between locations previously occupied by their collective.
Relations
Unknown to the galaxy at large.
Functionally expansionist as a consequence of recurrence rather than intent.
Assessed as a potential existential threat to galactic life if left unopposed.
Longstanding and recurring adversaries of the Qire.
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