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Nebulites
Cosmic archivists who remember what the stars have forgotten
All Eras · ~1,000,000 BC – Present"From dust and light we arose, when the dying star scattered its heart across our cradle. In that moment of cosmic violence, we found unity, and in unity, we found awareness."
— Elder K'thara Nyx, Cos'mere Conclave
The Essential
The Nebulites exist at the borderlands of cosmic possibility—neither truly energy nor fully matter, their bodies compile starlight the way other species digest food. Tall, slender humanoids standing nearly three meters high, their metallic skin pulses with bioluminescence that flickers like diagnostic readouts when they experience strong emotion. Their emerald eyes perceive spectra that would blind lesser species, reading the electromagnetic fingerprints of events that occurred millennia ago.
Born in the stellar nurseries of the Orion Nebula approximately one million years ago, the proto-Nebulites drifted as diffuse consciousness patterns until Supernova Hathryn-β detonated in catastrophic brilliance. The dying star's violence initialized them—merging scattered awareness into unified sapience. They remember this moment the way you remember your first breath: viscerally, fundamentally, as the boot sequence of their entire civilization.
They do not observe history. They are history—living archives whose quantum-crystalline neural networks store the rise and fall of civilizations as personal memory.
As the galactic historians and mediators of the Celestial Concordat, Nebulites have compiled the most extensive archives of cosmic memory in existence. Their 3,000-to-5,000-year lifespans grant them the patience to witness stars mature and empires crumble. They serve as founding members of the Aethernebula Alliance and the Galactic Historical Preservation Council, their neutrality valued—and suspected—by every major power.
Most remarkable is their biological propulsion: specialized organelles that manipulate gravitational fields, allowing individual Nebulites to traverse interstellar distances using their own bodies as vessels. No ship. No fuel. Just flesh that has learned to negotiate with spacetime. This capability, achieved independently in 12,580 AD, made them the fourth species to crack faster-than-light travel—and the only one that didn't need a cockpit to do it.
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In the Stories
The Nebulites serve as the silent witnesses threading through the Lumen Universe's deepest mysteries. Their archives hold records the Elders have sealed, knowledge the Nexum would kill to suppress, and prophecies that speak of a Cosmic Convergence no other species has foreseen. When they finally choose to speak, civilizations listen—or fall.