They saw a galaxy without death, in which entropy was banished for all time and the people lived in continual and everlasting peace. In that epiphanic, brilliant moment, they foresaw a new order to the galaxy in which the mechanisms of the natural world could be reorganized to sustain a perfect, pure, and eternal existence. All of humanity’s deeper knowledge of the Empyrean comes from them and the few Empyrean renegades who have sought safety and solace in human space.įrom them, we learn that the Architects were the first to recognize the truth of the existence of Cyriss. These Keepers returned with a deep understanding of the Empyrean philosophy and the events that precipitated the foundation of the Hyperuranion. In time, some of these Keepers would leave Cyriss Prime to return to human space and lay the foundations of passive diplomacy between the two peoples. While the differences in these articles of faith between the human Cyriss worshipers and the Empyreans were shocking to the new arrivals, some among them, the most zealous among the Keepers, actually consented to join the Empyreans and become part of the Great Constellation. For the Empyreans, Cyriss is all things, and all things are Cyriss this permeates every aspect of existence, an existence to be protected at all cost. To them, Cyriss was not a goddess whispering to them the hidden secrets of the universe but was instead a permanent state of being to be perfected and meticulously maintained. The Empyreans recognized Cyriss as the divine essence of the galaxy, of which they were a part. When humans first arrived in the Cyriss galaxy as refugees of an apocalypse engulfing their world, the Keepers tell us that humanity had already come to know Cyriss as the Clockwork Goddess.
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Those who refused to accept the Empyreans’ proposition were banished or destroyed, leaving a Hyperuranion free of outside influences and orthodoxy. The Empyrean cause required complete purity of thought and form. Upon their arrival on a new world, the Empyreans would offer a simple proposition: Join them in the Great Constellation and become one with Cyriss for eternity…or die and face oblivion. Human explorers have found ruins from extreme antiquity left by these pre-unification, pre-Empyrean alien cultures, and they are as diverse as the many worlds they once flourished on.Īnd yet the clarion call of the Architects bound all these races together so tightly as to convince populations to stand by as the Empyreans committed acts of genocide against their own people. Instead, they are made up of an array of xeno species whose civilizations are said to have once spanned a thousand worlds across what would become the Hyperuranion.
Their fanaticism for their cause is all the more remarkable because the Empyreans are not originally constituted from a single intelligent species. Their guiding philosophies and beliefs so completely dominate every aspect of their civilization that it remains little changed in the countless millions of years since they came to dominate the galaxy and create the Hyperuranion. Many even chose to eschew their physical forms completely to join the Chorus of the Great Constellation. Effectively immortal, the Empyreans have shed their flesh for a permanent mechanistic existence.
They are so ancient as to defy human comprehension of time itself, both individually and collectively. The Empyreans are alien to the human consciousness in every sense of the word.
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