Vaur, The Liminal Queen

Ta'Akaix'Vaur'skiyet'sca Zo'ra, The Liminal Queen
Her brood is identified by scent and their exoskeleton color amongst Zo'ra.


 * Unbound of any type: (RGB 61, 0, 0)
 * Bound Warriors: (RGB 53, 17, 16)
 * Bound Workers: (RGB 41, 0, 0)

Vaur'skiyet'sca is the eldest Vaurca within Tau Ceti space, and more recently, the Zo'ra hive's new High Queen. In diplomatic human settings, she is often referenced by titles which translate poorly into basic. Titles like High Praetor, First of Mother Zo'ra, Grand Executor, Liminal Queen, are all common references to her authority. She oversees the largest Vaurcan settlement, District Nine. Being the Lesser Queen originally chosen to represent the hive, to the galaxy at large, she is the face of Zo'ra. This was not always the case however, as she was originally responsible for ship-navigation upon Titan Prime. Procedure for succession is virtually nonexistent and the revelation of mother Zo'ra's death has catapulted Vaur'skiyet'sca to this status to the displeasure of some Lesser Queens. Vaur'skiyet'sca's time overseeing District Nine has been fraught with peril. Facing famine, human exploitation as well as militant extremists, life in District Nine is uneasy but Vaur'skiyet'sca approaches these problems with long-term goals in mind. She sees the levers of galactic power that revolve around Tau Ceti and the potential if all levers were under her control. In this, she has proven to possess a keen political intelligence, evidenced in handling Sol's occupation with minimal effort. She has brokered deals with countless human corporations, as well as governments and maintains the largest amount of monetary capital of any Vaurca alive.

The Bound and Unbound populations of District Nine and Vaur'skiyet'sca's brood are contractually obligated to work for a number of government and corporate facilities. These contracts run the gamut, from pilots and doctors, to security and technical specialists. They all are infinitely various, and universally low paying. Living standards in District Nine are extremely poor, with a famine that has gripped the entire planet ever since the Sol occupation and subsequent blockade. There may be few Vaurca that make a living outside of the District, but are almost certainly cut off from direct support from their hive.

District Nine itself was a largely unpopulated industrial slum before it was sectioned off as emergency refugee dwellings. Few people lived there, but it is now a far cry from what it once was. District Nine's outskirts are largely unchanged, with phoron gas warning signs and abandoned warehouses and buildings par and parcel. Moving farther in, it becomes slowly apparent that diffuse material, as well as the abandoned buildings themselves, are being repurposed into efficient and spartan housing. Despite this, Vaurca are everywhere within the interior of District Nine, with half-finished constructions universally over inhabited. Traditionally building down, Zo'ra engineers here have built up, creating heaping metal lattices that maximize internal space as living areas. Each of these clustered lattices appears to be more and more completed the closer to the center of the District one goes. There's a noted lack of street lights within the District, with the buildings placed purposefully to block much of what is cast by the surrounding cityscape. Throughout the District, more enmeshed latticework forms the mouth of illegal Kois pits, often obscured from aerial view. Two buildings stand out amongst all of this alien construction, however, with one towering carbon capture factory repurposed by Tau Ceti officials as a phoron gas capturing facility, and the other and more apparent Relay tower at the District's center. This relay was built for the Nanotrasen Corporation and allows the company and its affiliates to listen into Vaurcan telepathic communication. District Nine houses a little over 4 million Vaurca, with the High Queen herself and her Ta population still living aboard Titan Prime.

Vaur'skiyet'sca's VR is the most accessible to outside observation. She has gone to great lengths to make her VR showcase Vaurcan culture to the galaxy. Conceptually, it exists in a large sea of still glass-like water. The sky showcases magnificent celestial phenomena, but most striking of all is the gas giant Sedantis, dominating the skyward view no matter where one would go in the VR. Dispersed throughout the sea are hundreds of interconnecting islands. Each island usually highlights a facet of Zo'ra and Vaurca culture, and from the windows of specialized interface equipment, non-Vaurca onlookers can view the VR as they would any video. Unbound within this VR make themselves scarce when such viewfinders move about, but will usually answer questions if pressed. By the will of Unbound living here, new islands can spring forth from the sea, containing anything that they can imagine. Above all, however, floats the lofty home of Vaur'skiyet'sca.Its soft yellow glow pervades the entire VR and is a fitting digital home for the high queen. A grandiose and large structure, it floats always centrally to the horizon. No matter which direction one may look, they will see it, as if the universe itself revolves around Vaur'skiyet'sca. Curiously, throughout the simulation, a supernal grace and awe tinge all perceptions of the VR. A euphoric splendor that highlights every positive detail when referencing Vaur'skiyet'sca's or Vaurca in general. Outside viewers are often human and skrell historians or are part of a growing human Vaurcan sympathizing movement who have begun to see Vaur'skiyet'sca as a new holy figure, a great unifier that can usher in a utopia for all species within Tau Ceti.