Olyix

The Olyix are a highly religious alien race whose culture revolves around a journey to the end of time to unite with God. They are extremely technologically advanced and seem to dominate the Milky Way.

Description
The Olyix's most notable trait is that each individual mind inhabits five bodies at once. Each Olyix body forms part of a "quint," whose brains are quantum-entangled with each other. All five bodies think as one being, regardless of the distance between them. It is unclear if this evolved naturally or if the Olyix engineered this trait into themselves.

Anatomy and Physiology
An Olyix body is based on five-fold symmetry. The body is roughly oval-shaped, with five stumpy legs emerging from the bottom. A fleshy "skirt" around the midsection can be used to form tentacles for manipulating objects. The head, with a single golden eye, emerges from the top of the body. The skin is translucent and the tissues within are mostly purplish. Olyix bodies are no taller than humans, but they are much heavier, averaging 150 kilograms (330 lbs).

Reproduction & Life Cycle
Olyix bodies are extremely long-lived, but not quite immortal. When bodies die, they are replaced with a new one grown by the Olyix's supervising onemind. Olyix quints are not dependent on any one body and thus are effectively immortal unless all five bodies are killed before any can be replaced. Because of this immortality, no new Olyix individuals have come into being for millennia - there simply is no need.

Beliefs
The Olyix believe that the universe is in a cycle of death and rebirth. At the end of the current universe, all beings will coalesce into the God at the End of Time. The Olyix believe that this event is billions of years in the future, yet each Olyix hopes to live and travel until they meet the God and join with it.

The Olyix's religion, however, is much more sinister than they let on. While they present themselves as peaceful nomads, they actually wish to take every other sapient being in the universe with them, by force if necessary. Members of species conquered by the Olyix are "cocooned" using advanced biotechnology, leaving them nearly immortal but effectively comatose. The Olyix are highly reluctant to actually kill anyone during these conquests, but they will do so without mercy if they feel that they must.

Additionally, it is strongly implied that the Olyix's religious beliefs are correct, and that the God at the End of Time sent a message to the past ordering the Olyix to begin their crusade.

Homeworld
The Olyix inhabit an area of warped space-time simply called the Olyix enclave. Time within the enclave flows millions of times slower than it does outside - only seconds pass in the enclave while millennia go by outside. The Olyix created the enclave in order to reach the end of time faster, and it can be brought into sync with normal space-time when necessary. It has a single fixed entry point of unknown nature and location, and Olyix arkships also contain wormholes leading to the enclave.

The Olyix enclave's contents and internal volume are unknown. It is presumed to contain, at the very least, the Olyix home planet and a fleet of millions of ships.

Technology
Olyix technology is highly advanced, much more so than that of the humans they encounter. They specialize in biotechnology, using it to modify their own bodies and those of others. Unlike humans, they have access to true wormholes, allowing for instant interstellar travel. This is accomplished via negative energy, which can be used to manipulate space-time.

Olyix use fusion and antimatter for simpler power sources, but can use "gravitonic drives" when more power or speed is required. These drives presumably use negative energy.

Most Olyix weapons are fusion or antimatter explosives. Their spacecraft wield gamma-ray lasers or negative energy beams that can collapse targets into singularities. For anti-personnel weapons, Olyix use either lasers or a gun that projects a halo of ultra-thin, razor-sharp wire.

Biotechnology
Olyix biotechnology centers around devices called Kcells. Kcells are artificial cells that can be integrated into virtually any organism. Kcells are always under Olyix control, and Kcell implants can be remotely activated to "cocoon" non-Olyix users. Kcells can even be used to place an Olyix brain inside a human body, creating a loyal infiltrator whose discoveries are instantly conveyed to the rest of its quint.