Humanity (Xeelee Sequence)

• The Coalition
• The Transcendence

“	Do not remember heroes. Do not speak their names. Remember my words, but do not speak my name. I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythms of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart. And I have a vision of a child. Who will grow up knowing neither family nor comfort. Who will not be distracted by the illusion of a long life. Who will know nothing but honor and duty. Who will die joyously for the sake of mankind. That is a hero. And I will never know her name. Always remember: a brief life burns brightly.	„
	~ Hama Druz

“	What is the purpose of the great churning of human history—all our striving, our wars and our peace, our colonizing and our retreats? Surely it is to explore ways in which humans can become the best we can possibly be. And the Transcendence is the highest expression of that deep ambition.	„
	~ Reath

Summary

Humanity is one of the central species in the Xeelee Sequence, serving as both protagonist and underdog in a vast cosmic struggle. Their role is defined by their ambition, resilience, and relative insignificance in the universe dominated by godlike entities such as the Xeelee and the Photino Birds.

After overcoming a series of brutal occupations by extraterrestrial civilizations, humanity expands into the galaxy with an extremely xenophobic and militaristic outlook, with aims to exterminate other species they encounter. They eventually become the second-most advanced and widespread civilization in the Milky Way galaxy, after the Xeelee. Unaware of the Photino–Xeelee war and the existential ramifications of what is at stake, humanity come to the (unwarranted) conclusion that the Xeelee are a sinister and destructive threat to their hegemony and security, and begins to plan their attack to defeat them.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 3-A | 1-A | 1-A

Key: Interim Coalition of Governance | Within Configuration Space | The Transcendence

Civilization Tier: Transcendent Civilization

Name: Humanity, The Human Race

Origin: Xeelee Sequence

Gender: Varies | Varies | Inapplicable

Age: At least millions of years old | Inapplicable | Inapplicable

Classification: Totalitarian and militaristic human empire | Abstract Consciousness

Kardashev Level: Type VII

Population: At least 30 trillions (It is estimated that at least 30 trillion humans died in the war against the Xeelee)

Territory: The Galaxy | Configuration Space | The entirety of existence

Technology/Abilities:

• The Coalition
• Within Configuration Space
• The Transcendence

• Abilities
• Resistances

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Type 1. They have nanobots to "rebuild" themselves in case they grow old, allowing them to be permanently young), Acausality (Type 1. They are not affected by having their past erased, and no paradoxes happen to them even after meeting/interacting with their past (or future) self), Enhanced Senses (They have image-enhancing software in their eyes. Can see ultraviolet and infrared light. Can see X-rays from the Galaxy's center), Explosion Manipulation, Radiation Manipulation & Heat Manipulation (Via thermonuclear weapons), Disease Manipulation (By manufacturing toxins and pathogens for biological warfare against other species), Magnetism Manipulation (Can prevent Earth's magnetic field from collapsing), Empathic Manipulation (Some people have pheromones that make other humans want to join their society), Cyborgization (As long as there is a piece of them left, their technology can replace what's left with silvery prostheses. They also implant tracking, communications, and system interfaces directly into the nervous systems of pilots), Telepathy (Human leaders across the galaxy can convene in thought), Space-Time Manipulation (Can expand wormholes. Their monopole weapons are zero-dimensional spacetime defects. Starbreaker beams are wounds in spacetime itself), Black Hole Creation (Via singularity cannons, a type of cannon barrel that shoots black holes. Can shoot black holes that have the mass of a city and temperature of trillions of degrees), Energy Projection (Via laser rifles and laser-guns), Gravity Manipulation (Via Starbreakers, which weaponize gravity. STarbreakers fire distinctly red rays of coherent gravity with enough power to destroy stars and worlds. Can use antigravity mechanisms. Their ships have invisible wings of gravitational force used to convert dark matter into energy), Durability Negation (Starbreakers rip apart anything that is material), Dimensional Travel (Via Hyperspace travel, they can slip sideways into extra dimensions), Time Travel (Both humanity and the Xeelee use time travel to fight in space wars. The humans from the future can lay out information to their past selves through time travel technology), Precognition (Due to how their time travel technology works, the humans from the present receive foreknowledge from their future selves, being able to know what will happen up to centuries in advance. The Library of Futures maps a variety of the futures of mankind, allowing them to respond to the future events in their interstellar war, as well as orchestrate the most optimal outcomes of the events), Energy Manipulation (Via GUTdrives, GUT energy pulses, and GUT mass-energy bullets. Can convert dark matter to energy), Matter Manipulation (Macro-Quantum. Created the Monopole weapons by making use of bosons, electromagnetic forces, weak nuclear forces, and Grand Unification energy. Targets affected by a monopole have their very substance torn apart, their atoms dissociated. The Clock of Humanity is a machine that uses the decay of bosons to produce pulses of neutrinos), Antimatter Manipulation (Via antimatter bombs), Physics Manipulation (Their spaceships have a Higgs-based inertia field, which reduces the inertia of the objects that are affected by said field), Cosmic Awareness (The Mach Principle Stations use a sensory system to perceive events near the center of the galaxy from the safety of their solar system), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Can create a pocket universe causally disconnected from the outside universe), Self-Destruction (Can self-destruct to destroy targets), Forcefield Creation & Attack Reflection (They use spaceships clad with Silver Ghost shields, which reflects all but one billion-th of the energy that hits them), Hacking (They can hack alien ships to allow for direct interface and control of them), Non-Physical Interaction, Logic Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3) & Mathematics Manipulation (Could create living logical/axiomatic creatures in order to use natural selection to find new mathematical/logical systems)

Resistance to Fire Manipulation (Their skinsuits protect them against fire hot enough to carbonize humans), Radiation Manipulation (Their skinsuits protect them from gamma rays and other hard radiation from the Galaxy's center. They are genetically engineered to counter radiation damage to their cells), Gravity Manipulation (Can fill people with a fluid that lets them survive at 27 times Earth's gravity)

All previous abilities, plus Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2), Abstract Existence (Type 1. Due to Configuration Space being abstract, its inhabitants are of a similar nature, such as disembodied consciousness), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1), Causality Manipulation, Reality Warping (As inhabitants of Configuration Space, they can manipulate it to an extent, which is an abstract and Platonic world that trivializes the multiverse into unreality. They can manipulate the history and reality of the lower worlds)

All abilities from The Coalition, plus Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2), Abstract Existence (Type 1. The Transcendence is the essence of mind, an abstract and ultimate unity of consciousness, and yet still being greater than it, beyond human imagination. It encompasses ideas, beliefs, and understandings), Omnipresence (Locations in space or time are irrelevant for the Transcendence. It is everywhere and nowhere. It encompasses all of space), Acausality (Type 5. It transcends notions such as causalities and consequences. Even infinite tasks themselves are trivial compared to the Transcendence's nature. It is eternal and unchanging), Causality Manipulation (The Transcendence can change the past and manipulate the chains of causality of the universe. Can retroactively erase people, making so they never had existed at all), Resurrection (Can bring the dead back to life)

Attack Potency: Universe level (Considers GUT energy technology as "antiquated", "obsolete", and "primitive", whereas GUT energy is the energy that has once driven the expansion of the universe itself. Can release pulses of GUT energy and shoot bullets of GUT mass-energy) | Outerverse level (As inhabitants of Configuration Space, they share its characteristics and can manipulate it to an extent, which is an abstract and Platonic world that triviliazes the multiverse to the point of unreality) | Outerverse level (The Transcendence has its superiority described as a discontinuity, a step change, being of a completely different and qualitative order of reality compared to everything that came before, with there being no commonality between it and the lower realities that it trivializes. It transcends space, time, and causality)

Power Source: Planets and Stars | None notable | None notable

Industrial Capacity: The Coalition makes use of every possible resourceful planet and star across the Galaxy.

Military Prowess: The Coalition is fully militarized, with every facet of it being cultivated and curated for war. Their war with the Xeelee has lasted millennia and has led to the deaths of 30 trillion, with no end in sight.

Notable Individuals: Michael Poole, Hama Druz, Alia.

Speed: Relativistic+ (Their spaceships can move at 90% lightspeed) with Speed of Light attack speed (Can shoot projectiles at lightspeed. Starbreaker beams propagate at lightspeed) | Immeasurable | Nigh-Omnipresent (The Transcendence encompasses all of space. Locations in space or even time are irrelevant for the Transcendence. It is everywhere and nowhere)

Lifting Strength: Class T (Could throw an asteroid of sixty billion tons at interplanetary speeds) | Immeasurable | Immeasurable

Striking Strength: Universe level | Outerverse level | Outerverse level

Durability: Universe level (Their spaceships can withstand the energy of GUTdrives. Considers GUT energy technology as "antiquated" and "obsolete") | Outerverse level | Outerverse level

Stamina: Unknown | Unknown | Infinite

Range: Kilometers with Monopoles. Stellar with Starbreakers. Galactic with Snowflakes (Snowflake Stations use a sensory system to perceive events near the center of the galaxy from the safety of their solar system) | Outerversal | Outerversal

Technology/Equipment:

• Laser-Guns: They have access to laser weapons that shoot projectiles at lightspeed.
• Singularity Cannons: Cannon barrels that can shoot black hole singularities.
• Starbreakers: Starbreakers are weapons that fire distinctly red rays of coherent gravity with enough power to destroy stars and worlds. They also rip apart anything that is material.
• Monopole Weapons: An object with the size of an atomic nucleus, a monopole is composed out of a series of layers with differing properties. They make use of bosons, electromagnetic forces, weak nuclear forces, and Grand Unification energy. These monopoles are used as spacetime projectiles to bypass Xeelee defenses. Targets affected by a monopole have their very substance torn apart, their atoms dissociated.
• Snowflakes: Stations that use surveillance/sensory technology, providing data on both hostile actions of the Xeelee, as well as any possible insurgances within the population of the Coalition on galactic scale.
• CTC Computers: Composed out of a number of FTL capable probes travelling inside a series of tubes in millisecond long time loops, the CTC computers are capable of getting answers to the computational problems in zero time. Such capabilities are possible due to the nature of acausal time travel.
• Library of Futures: The Library of Futures is one of the key elements of the human war effort against the Xeelee. The Library of Futures maps a variety of the futures of mankind, allowing humans to respond to the future events in their interstellar war, as well as orchestrate the most optimal, of the possible for them, outcomes of the events.
• Gravastar Shield: The Gravastar shielding system was the response to the basic time travel foreknowledge. By creating a pocket universe around a given region of space, one that is causally disconnected from the outside universe, one can prevent this type of time travel based foreknowledge from working. The reason for this is the fact that all of the possible wordlines terminate on the event horizon making up this shield, making it thus impossible to predict future events which are, at least partially, influenced by the events happening below said horizon.
• Clock of Humanity: A machine the size of a star. It uses the decay of certain types of subatomic particles, called W and Z bosons, to produce pulses of neutrinos.

Intelligence: Supergenius (Humanity eventually became the second-most advanced and widespread civilization, only below the Xeelee. Even one of their very first/oldest technological achievements involved the manipulation of GUT energy, the energy that has once driven the expansion of the universe itself. They can create a pocket universe causally disconnected from the outside universe, as well as create a library of futures that maps a variety of the futures of mankind, allowing them to respond to the future events in their interstellar war, orchestrating the most optimal outcomes for them. Even teenagers could build miniature wormholes in their basement. A single human in a laboratory could develop living logical/axiomatic creatures in order to discover new mathematical/logical systems) | Nigh-Omniscience (The Transcendence is cognizant/aware of the universe as a whole, of all space and time. It has a full understanding of all the physics of the universe, which includes four-dimensional structures and other higher dimensions)

Weaknesses: The Interim Coalition is extremely corrupt, inflexible, and intolerant to proper change in anything but war, and even in the matter of war it must "follow the doctrine." This leads them to committing bafflingly incompetent and self-destructive tactics for no discernible reason. | None notable. | None notable.

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