The Cascadians
From the Vortex worlds comes a new threat to the enemies of the Ether, the servants of Time itself - the Cascadians. Only recently appearing from planets that have seemingly appeared out of nowhere - the Cascadians launch assaults on the corrupt races such as the masters of unlife and Ylataran Nexus. These new defenders of the Ether are merciless, ruthless and have nothing but contempt for those that may corrupt the Etherium - past, present and future.
In the Ether - time runs differently for the Vortex of Time itself is as sentient and alive as any of the species of the Ether. The vortex itself is much like a river with time flowing in all directions; to an outsider this anomoly would cause confusion at the least, and complete insanity at most. The Vortex at some unknown point decided it needed agents to ensure the chrono-stability of the Ether and stabilise and fix itself or ensure events came out in it's favour - as the Vortex does surely have a sense of self-preservation.
In the beginning The Vortex ensured events would occur that would allow the genesis of a new Ether-species, the Cascadians. This species would evolve to be directly connected and tapped into the energies of the Vortex itself giving them a mastery of Time and allowing them to be free-agents of the Vortex. The Vortex designed a world out of the chrono-energies and this world was such that it would allow the co-existence of millions of different and unique time-lines that could exist in a perfect harmony. As such where one Cascadian was born, millions followed. Every Cascadian was simply the same entity co-existing as millions of seperate time-lines across the convuluted dimensions of the homeworld. After these events transpired they were perfectly designed beyond even the Vortex's own expectations; the scalpel precision of their minds, bodies, culture and civilization made them both perfect agents and perfect soldiers of Time.
As events transpired against Time itself, the Vortex would use it's ability of co-existence further to allow the homeworld to exist across time and space in dimensional-bubbles, this meant that dozens of Cascadia's existed at vital points in space and time, appearing when needed to perform duties to preserve the Time-lines. At current, it is thought that fifty or so Cascadias exist across the Etherium - many right near hot-spots of anti-chrono areas such as the anti-matter worlds of the 3rd Masters Of Unlife systium and the Nexus worlds of Orbilite. To the other protectors of the Ether - these worlds have become known as the Guardian Worlds and many races such as the Tolathians and Iaethlein who see the importance of such a race have gladly allied themselves with the Cascadians to ensure chrono-stability.
Procreation for the Cascadians was an advanced process that followed in the homeworld's system of birthing. The Cascadians were allowed a new time-line to be born from the Cascadian template, each time-line co-existing in perfect harmony due to their inner-biology formed from the energies of the time vortex itself. To allow the co-existence, the Vortex created the flesh and sinew of the Cascadians from a chrono-material that acts as a living time-bubble, effectively shielding each other against the effect of them living beside each other.
Cascadians have thin, wirey and tall bodies - a common appearance to Etherium races. One of the most unique features of their bodies are that they have three eyes on the rounded head - each one seeing a different time-stream. The top eye see's the present, the bottom left see's the past and the bottom right see's the future. This special temporal-sight allows the individual Cascadian to survive, however - since they are all effectively living time-bubbles, they cannot see how events can pertain together as they cannot communicate with each other effectively - this can cloud the possibilities, and can make for their greatest weakness.
From the Vortex worlds comes a new threat to the enemies of the Ether, the servants of Time itself - the Cascadians. Only recently appearing from planets that have seemingly appeared out of nowhere - the Cascadians launch assaults on the corrupt races such as the masters of unlife and Ylataran Nexus. These new defenders of the Ether are merciless, ruthless and have nothing but contempt for those that may corrupt the Etherium - past, present and future.
In the Ether - time runs differently for the Vortex of Time itself is as sentient and alive as any of the species of the Ether. The vortex itself is much like a river with time flowing in all directions; to an outsider this anomoly would cause confusion at the least, and complete insanity at most. The Vortex at some unknown point decided it needed agents to ensure the chrono-stability of the Ether and stabilise and fix itself or ensure events came out in it's favour - as the Vortex does surely have a sense of self-preservation.
In the beginning The Vortex ensured events would occur that would allow the genesis of a new Ether-species, the Cascadians. This species would evolve to be directly connected and tapped into the energies of the Vortex itself giving them a mastery of Time and allowing them to be free-agents of the Vortex. The Vortex designed a world out of the chrono-energies and this world was such that it would allow the co-existence of millions of different and unique time-lines that could exist in a perfect harmony. As such where one Cascadian was born, millions followed. Every Cascadian was simply the same entity co-existing as millions of seperate time-lines across the convuluted dimensions of the homeworld. After these events transpired they were perfectly designed beyond even the Vortex's own expectations; the scalpel precision of their minds, bodies, culture and civilization made them both perfect agents and perfect soldiers of Time.
As events transpired against Time itself, the Vortex would use it's ability of co-existence further to allow the homeworld to exist across time and space in dimensional-bubbles, this meant that dozens of Cascadia's existed at vital points in space and time, appearing when needed to perform duties to preserve the Time-lines. At current, it is thought that fifty or so Cascadias exist across the Etherium - many right near hot-spots of anti-chrono areas such as the anti-matter worlds of the 3rd Masters Of Unlife systium and the Nexus worlds of Orbilite. To the other protectors of the Ether - these worlds have become known as the Guardian Worlds and many races such as the Tolathians and Iaethlein who see the importance of such a race have gladly allied themselves with the Cascadians to ensure chrono-stability.
Procreation for the Cascadians was an advanced process that followed in the homeworld's system of birthing. The Cascadians were allowed a new time-line to be born from the Cascadian template, each time-line co-existing in perfect harmony due to their inner-biology formed from the energies of the time vortex itself. To allow the co-existence, the Vortex created the flesh and sinew of the Cascadians from a chrono-material that acts as a living time-bubble, effectively shielding each other against the effect of them living beside each other.
Cascadians have thin, wirey and tall bodies - a common appearance to Etherium races. One of the most unique features of their bodies are that they have three eyes on the rounded head - each one seeing a different time-stream. The top eye see's the present, the bottom left see's the past and the bottom right see's the future. This special temporal-sight allows the individual Cascadian to survive, however - since they are all effectively living time-bubbles, they cannot see how events can pertain together as they cannot communicate with each other effectively - this can cloud the possibilities, and can make for their greatest weakness.
