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[Slomon K'Hara]

Shlomo Slomon Solomon = Peaceful (Spellcheck demands I use Solomon.)
Somnium = The Dream

The Minutiae of the Dreamer and The Hybrid.

The first iteration of the hybrid were the keepers. A being that was standardized by the elements and impacts of human contact on the hive. The keeper roughly had two forms.

The Dreamer.

The energetic essence that controls nomads ships and forms. This made one controlling influence versatile and easy to move more than one form and in some cases small fleets. Rather than a single operating form per mindnode which is akin to wireless networking each hybrid essence replicated within its various forms. Destroying larger mind nodes in proximity to a dreamers ship did not disrupt its ability to control it unlike the original top down architecture of largest ship controls the whole.

Chimerism.

Hybrids for a time could inhabit other casts and vessels. But only from a utilitarian aspect. The first four castes are hard coded in the hives manifestational matrix and the Hybrids became the very first upgrade to that matrix a type of chimeric being that was at home in multiple manifestations.

The Fall of Paradise

When the Keepers assault on Omicron Minor was concluded it was unsure if by retaliation or by chance but history of the hive lends to the idea of a deep strike team sent in by order high command before the actual siege was apparent to the discovered location of the primary hive node and supplanted a caustic and highly disruptive artifact within the energy producing structures of Dur Shurrikun. The Hive city at the time was a new design a hybrid of both power generator and hive compressed within a stasis field.. or powerful energy shield that could not be penetrated by anything known to man. Except nomads who were freely let within.

Within the hive there are countless hive cells where ships and other forms connect and interface within the hive mind.

The relic that was activated polluted the energy stream to the point of disrupting even the Keepers connections to each other.

For a short period at the dawn of the new year it was observe that Nomad ships were fighting themselves and acting irregularly.

Many of the larger hybrids like lamashtu were lost forever and harbinger nearly completely perished in an altercation within the taus to be saved by the Samarran Raiders and the Cult of Sirius who attempted to soothe the damage with cardamine.

The Cardamine granted temporary relief long enough for this small coalition to track down the source of the disruption.. And destroy it.

It was a near defeat, had the die off of vessles continued the Hive would have only been able to shutter itself within Dur Shurrikun until the power source itself shut down.

The Dreamers were put to work, the greatest question was why were the Advisors blind to this threat and the only explanation was that whoever delivered the probe that caused the sickness of the hive had to have been telepathically sensitive.. Perhaps even enough to shield their minds from detection from an entire cast.

This prompted the further integration of advisor empathy and autonomy into the Hybrid matrix. A "Mirror Share" or protected mindshare was created around the hive mind to protect from further artifact probes or ancient master commands they may or may not exist.

The Slomon K'Hara

Created initially as an upgrade to flaws left in their make up by their creators the slomon hybrids were able to mimic human speech and interact more fluently with humanity than before...

The nature of the Mirror share also gave a perceptual lag between hybrids and idiosyncrasies and quirks formed in what you'd call the ID or personality of the being.
In very short order The Khara started to be at odds with the actions of its predecessors and the Aurora Rebellion occurred.

This is still regarded as a mere "disagreement" in strategy between the new generation and the older Keepers that had survived chiefly the Harbinger hybrid.

The notion of differing beliefs and impressions gave harbinger the inclination that sickness had made it permanently into the mind of this new advent of Nomads and we quickly sending them back to "the Dream" or the hivemind either through suggestion or firing upon the young himself.

As with any new wave however the sentiments and opinions cooled.. it was unknown what concessions were made but suddenly for the first time ever complete genocide was removed from the stratagem of the hive. Despite working to complete more Nomad Juggernauts that could in essence cause great harm to planets and even stars if mobilised. The Juggernaut were stored away int he safest corners of the hive waiting for the call to awaken and be used.

In time most of the Kharas activities during the years following were clandestine shying away from direct conflicts.

The Solomon Khara

When Saturnia was created as a perfect hybrid her inclusion into the hive caused a further upset. While furiously protective of her family she echoed the sentiments of the Oracles that the path to power was through peace.. and cooperation. Her energies were devoted to consolidating the hivemind into endeavors such as expansion and fortification. This effort granted much creed to this particular hybrid and it was eventually mature enough to secure the title of the Keeper of Wisdom.

Of course she had accomplished this by restraining Harbinger to the dream Saturnia was able to "retire" the guardians of the fifth wave. Harbinger, ouroboros, Mnemosyne, and Mammentu have since returned to the Dream as permanent dreamers coordinating fleets from Dur Shurrikun instead of subjecting themselves to the outside.

When this shift was complete.. the other half of her plan went into action.. Finding the proteus Tome files within the hive was not easy and the new generation of hybrids were incomplete without the knowledge therein.

Genetic keys and pieces were littered all over sirius and as the situation was seemingly more Dire.. Harbinger was nearly free and when this occurred any attempt to upgrade the current generation would be lost.

The Somnium Khara

It was an act of desperation but required in the eyes of Thomas AKA Three Winds. Harbinger had gotten free and was about to ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL of the prime Juggernaut for..what was to be a combat oriented shakedown. Omicron delta was the target as the stations and humans within where problematic.

Rather then risk a small holocaust of an entire system Thomas offered the completed genetic sequence of Transmutation DNA he possessed. This required the whole of his body though his mind would exist within the dream.. it would be a half life compared to what humans are used to.

The trans dna made it possible for not only the elements of the first four casts to be combined with the hybrids but a massive expansion in the perception of the Hivemind..

Now instead of merely existing beyond the material veil into the quantum soup where most of their power and resources reside the Hive became aware of this dimension of subspace.. the brilliant and chaotic maelstrom of energy often seen going through a jump hole now had an order.. it was perceived that subspace was a diemension in itself and immediately this changed "The Dream" into a thriving world that was growing and expanding and building itself.

The hive mind now fully existed in subspace... as well and this made the Dream a reality to a new generation of hybrids. In this world the Nomads encountered something they had previously only experienced during a massive failure of its infrastructure. Death.

The Nymphs, Neonates, and Methuselahs.

Before dreamers came into maturity almost randomly.. and ID would form and ideas and perceptions would be like cells of the body, and experiences mounted to ten and sometimes a hundred fold the dreamer had enough weight to control ships outside the hive.

The dream at this time was a nebulous hall of records. it took great amount of power and focus to bring forth specific memories or information out of the soup. unless those memories where a part of you of course.

The New Dream was a true diemension. A reality accessible by the transition between individual to have mind.

The New Somnium Khara were born of this world.

They were.. sensitive.. curious.. and often wise beyond explanation. Their appearances were varied. As Hybrids are Chimeric their forms can be changed or do change involuntarily as they mature within the dream and become full formed .

When a Nymph has spent a great deal of time within the dream without Ascending into 3d reality (where we are) they can become a neonate or dream elder. often these elder are working to grow their influence within subspace to become powerful beings in the real world. Also the need for hybrids to inhabit the hive while a part of themselves go to the real world is the prime example of how this new generation works.

A Methuselah or old dreamer is an inhabitant of the dream that existed in the previous iterations of the dream. When the dimensions opened within the dream many of the Advisors Wanderers and Builders transformed to a methuselah of the dream. And often the Somnium or new generation refer to all the old nomads as methuselahs.