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Bright Wave – a respected foremost artist-singer-researcher; pearly lavender skin & gray-aqua carapace, smallish; the foremost bard of her time
Aquari General-In-Consult Dancing Shimmer – sits in council with the Pan-Galactic Imperial military
Dark Zephyr – one of Bright Wave’s close collaborators, Symbias nurturer
Deep Lake – one of the young Aquarii who performed with Bright Wave for the Princes’ classroom
Lead Composer Fleeting Shade – head of the Sendsingers’ Guild, intergalactic starsinger
Councillor Frayed Edge – contributes in the Pan-Galactic Imperial court
Sharp Talon – bandmate of Bright Wave, also an Aquari Aegis
Soft Sand – Aegis volunteer for the action at the lab
Springing Stalk – one of the young Aquarii who performed with Bright Wave for the Princes’ classroom

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Mystvall – primary host to the humans visiting Ombd, generously congenial
Stonepoynte – managed the azulian exchange, gem expert
Xhatter – guide to the flower fields

– have livable interspatial dimensions containing huge neighborhoods connecting to original planetary spaces
– advanced spatial sciences
– they have physically transitive technologies
– names: omitted-vowel 2-plate consonant strings
– name pronunciation varies with relation and origin of the speaker

– so similar to Humans that they are convinced of some relation
– feet, legs, arms, hands, ten fingers & toes, two eyes, nose, mouth, hair, skin
– blue-shade photosynthetic skin
– ingest some foods but expel only air
– statically charged fiber optic silver hair
– rainbow ray-spectrum irises with black pupils on a black field
– additionally elongated humanoid features
– the young incubate in a separately nurtured sac
– but are born and mature similarly to human children who grow in size and ability
– raised communally and in relation

– non-hierarchical and role-shifting
– with respect to dynamically meritocratic collectively recognized Voices of Authority
– power sources linked to constant communication and ideation
– can operate social connectives
– exploratory mentality; philosophical, conversational

– possess a communicative mental common realm known as the aetherscape behind closed eyes
(instead of dreaming or sleeping)
– the inward eye and the outward eye
– light speech, sound speech
– mind and greater mind

– they tesser, tying the universe in knots so to speak, according to laws humans haven’t yet discovered
– their advanced physics are spatial, but not time or multiversant
– are sometimes informed by Sea Voices

– culturally open source and transparent
– they ignore almost nothing and avoid qualitative ranking
– they’re constantly torrenting and trunking
– all have full access, and breadth of familiarity is encouraged
– overlooking people is uncommon, people are known

– they communicate with their technology, some of which possesses individuality
– often part of how they communicate with each other

– physical architecture is modern curvilinear with smooth projection surfaces
– they create elaborate energetic environments
– have created

– population-wise, they haven’t colonized more than the 4 planets called home
– yet, linked Vedani star maps are unbeatable after their aeions of exploration

– epiphenomenal consistencies with individual awareness
– names: common, special, essential

– may only be perceived and known by those willing to acknowledge or believe in them
– something or other defines each one; can be difficult to define, yet the definition is the consistency
– have various powers of influencing probability
– rules are rules to them, but they each have their own
– if you start to question the rules of the Kao-Sidhe, you start to sound like – well, them

– varimorphs; can manifest from among a set of shapes according to their essence
– unlike dragons, whose variety of shapes are all draconid, the shapes these people can take are wildly dissimilar, and linked by a personal logic that once understood, defines that being’s character
– similar to an elemental, but slightly more untethered and specific
– self-defining gender/thing identification

– interplanetary and interdimensional, depending on type
– have been around and everywhere since forever
– while only perceived by the receptive, are yet intrinsic to their environments

– they make strict trades and bargains in aid and favors
– visit with each other in conglomerations, courts, associations, and communities

– originating from one planet, named Alisandre
– ten fingers, ten toes, bipedal, mammalian, skin of varying shades, eyes, nose, hair
– names: varyingly multinomial and interplanetary
oxygen breathing, semi-aquatic, spacefaring
– inventive, regulatory, imaginative
– tactical and diplomatic
– prolific and diverse

– the Human-led Pan-Galactic Imperium now inhabits 49 planets in 26 galaxies
– in collaboration with the other sentient citizens
– myriad planetary cultures and peoples now dating to 1000 years since sole home planet
– a wide scattering of established cultures with agrarian roots on various planets, to city cultures and interstellar wayfarers