The Nomad Vagrants — The Confluence

[Vagrant.Daeira]

The Bystanders - A danger within.

Amazement. Although darklings are often seen as a unity just like us, they devide themselves into countless pieces, each having their own community, metal husks, and even spheres they claimed. The Bystanders form a connection between them all, supporting each piece with materials that are needed to push their advance within our voids. Their presence can often be noticed in the Wonderous Void and the Void of Creation, as they grew a tight net of paths they follow, connecting every inhabited sphere and dark metal husk there is.

Affiliation

Confusion. The craving for power has often corrupted darklings' minds, it appears this piece of darkness learned from the mistakes of their predecessors and are loyal to noone besides themselves. They may tolerate smaller beings in close proximity to their homes, but enforce superiority even towards other darklings once a grown metal monster could endanger those islands of hope. This case of double standards angers the darklings of cruelty, who in spitfire with the banishers. Interest. Each community seeks to dominate our voids and are hindered in their actions by the neutrality of the bystanders, preventing their evolved alloydrones from swimming limitless through our voids. They seek no direct conflict with any of the other dark communites scattered around the infinite voids, this way they expand their territory by thousands of spheres and metal growings, each offering potential shelter in case of a hostile entity approaching their drones. Only few, less present groups that focus their power on spreading hatred and destruction dare to align their fireworks with the Bystanders' drones.

Evolution

Even the light had to begin growing at some point, just like any being wandering this dimension. At their beginning their husks were small in size, able to perform efficient at several different tasks. As our community saw the need for bigger, more powerful lights, they evolved with us. Not long ago, the dark race didn't see the need for armed husks, as there were little conflicts between their internal communities.

The Bystanders may attempt to preserve neutrality, but many times they have shown us that their steelskins evolved towards specified warforms, capable of spitting fire equal to even the elder light. Once they discovered the remains of our great creators, they began to fight each other. Unity breaking from the inside. Although this slowed down their progression on gathering knowledge that was meant for the light to discover, their metalbeings had to adapt to the everchanging situations this way. Frustration. The Bystanders began to construct even bigger husks that inflict pain to the light even while I am singing to you, brethren. Anger. What was once used to annihilate their own kind, is now seeking the extinction of the light. Scarcity of those creations once meant a huge advantage if one could be annihilated, but tides have changed, they reproduced in huge numbers, outnumbering the light in some cases.

Solution

The Bystanders' desire for neutrality is admireable, yet naive. As time passes, one has to chose a side. Face assimilation, one way or the other. Joy.

Follow, adapt, evolve.