The Ancient God, also known as the Sleepers or Sleeping Gods are a race of gargantuan beings that only traveled the stars in the ancient past though now what's left of the race wander aimlessly on their former colony worlds, taken care of by their former servants the Lumani.
Biology[]
The giants are tall bipedal creatures about several meters tall, dwarfing any manmade edifice. They appear to be asymmetrical creatures of various forms and features, with various eyes either being two or even one.
The Sleepers appears to be at first unintelligent brutes, only drawn to anything that falls in their path. They are psychic creatures, though it appears that they attempt to communicate with will lose their minds, causing mental stress and sometimes results in death. Only the Lumani are immune to their telepathic noise. The Lumani who serve as their stewards use pacifiers, glowing orbs of light, to lull the Sleepers away from locations and back to sleep.
History[]
The Ancient Gods history span over a hundred thousand years reaching a point where they developed advanced science and technology. At some point the gods for thousands of years they began to realize that their society was stagnating, and thus began looking to the stars to further their progress.
Then a disease known as the Sleep Sickness struck their species, causing many of their kind to fall victim to a slow death that deteriorated their minds and physical bodies. Despite their scientists best efforts, there was no cure to be found. So faced with the possibility of extinction, the giants decided to focus all their energies in finding a way to preserve their knowledge and culture.
This led them to create new species as intelligent as themselves but more versatile and adaptable. The younger uninfected gods were sent out to the galaxies, taking the gods knowledge and Lumani servants. Wherever they landed they would seed worlds with new lifeforms to carry on the gods inheritance. The Ancient Gods were confident that their scattered people would create a multitude of new species. However the gods did not calculate the virulence of the Sleeping Sickness, and slowly the homeworld began receiving reports that their colonies that all the gods were now carriers of the virus. Eventually communication with the colonies ceased, leaving the Ancient Gods on the homeworld cut off. One by one those Ancient Gods left on the homeworld died until only two were left.
However the gods on the homeworld persisted in their work to create a new species to carry their own legacy, For millennia they toiled in their labs creating a humanoid woman known as Kah-Lee that served as a new vessel for the gods, becoming a new goddess to the Lumani servants.
Likewise on Perdita, the Ancient Gods continued their work, seeding two neighboring worlds Ran and Taya with humanoid life before succumbing to the Sleeping Sickness. After which their Lumani servants used the pacificers on their masters to lull them to the Valley of the Sleepers for their safety.
When the Ran first colonized the planet Perdita, they discovered the Sleeping Giants and believed that the planet was home to the gods of their ancient tales. Upon encountering the giants they discovered that they wee highly feral and attacked anything that crossed their paths. To avoid unwanted destruction upon New Salomar, their settlement, the Ran adopted a policy that their Lumani neighbors had with the giants, in that to avoid disturbing them at all costs.
Over the decades, conflict between the Ran and the Tayan began to form, due to the latter's aggressive plans to convert the wilderness of Perdita. Despite many times by the Ran to try to form a peaceful cooperative relationship, the Tayans rebuffed them with warnings that reinforcements from Taya would come to wipe out the Ran and their Lumani allies.
One of the most recent disputes was over a damn that the Tayans built cutting the water supply of the Ran and Tayan. After negotiations failed to convince the Tayans to allow the water to be freed, the Ran rather than move towards war, decided a more passive aggressive approach by destroying the dam. Unfortunately the act was seen regardless as an act of war by the Tayan. In the aftermath of the flooding of the river from the damn, both groups found that they were missing a members of their people, both being a son and daughter of the leaders of their colonies.
The Lumani who had also lost their own tribemate, attempted to use their deaths as martyrs for peace between the tribes, but was rejected by the Tayans. However it was soon discovered that using technology of the Tayan satellite their tribemate was located on the far south of the planet. The anomaly struck all tribes to be odd, when they were soon attacked by a Silent Giant which attempted to communicate with them using its telepathy. In order to prevent the Ran and Tayans from harm, the Lumani chieftain used a Pacifier to lead the giant away. Back to the matter of their children, both Ran and Tayan decided to put their differences aside to locate them. The lUmani grudgingly agreed to assist though had plans to make sure the rescue mission was a failure in order preserve the secret of Perdita.
Culture[]
The gods were a highly advanced culture, as they progressed to the stars it lead to the creation of starships and portals known as jump holes to cross space.
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