Vetju, Iron Queen

Ta'Akaix'Vetju'tenx'sil K'lax, Iron Queen

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Vetju pilots the Klo’zxera to its final resting place. Viewed is the Klo’zxera seconds before its impact with Trets polar ice cap.

Her brood is identified amongst other K'lax by their scent and exoskeletal color.

Unbound of any type: (RGB 11, 84, 31)

(RGB 11, 84, 31)

Bound Warriors: (RGB 21,81, 51)

Bound Workers: (RGB 33, 63, 33)

If Ta'Akaix'Zkaii'xay'yil K'lax could have a polar opposite, it would be Ta'Akaix' Vetju'tenx'sil K'lax. The oldest K'laxan Vaurca within known space, pragmatic Vetju'tenx'sil and her brood do not busy themselves with the expansion of the hives colonies. Instead, her brood recycles and melts down parts of the hive ship as well maintain the technology that all K'lax enjoy. It was Vetju'tenx'sil who plotted the great hive ship Kloxa'xia to its final resting place. Much as they did when they entered the system, Vetju'tenx'sil used Trets environment to land the gargantuan craft on the ground. The Kloxa'xia impacted the northern pole of Tret, obliterating its ice cap and cushioning the impact of the monolithic vessel. It is from here that Vetju'tenx'sil makes her home. Within the bowels of the earth and the ship, billions of tons of plasteel and technology are melted down into lakes of molten metal heated by the miles long dismembered engines of the great Kloxa'xia. Though the ship may have landed, its engines burn still at the center of a sea of ice. Ignited with residual heat and flame from two thousand years of travel.

"In all things, do not waste potential." Is the creed of Vetju'tenx'sil's brood. Unbound Ka and Za often have specialized jobs within her brood. Almost universally involving maintaining or creating technology in some way. A Bounds work typically involves dismantling and recycling complex machinery. Perhaps more than any other brood of K'lax, Vetju'tenx'sil's spawn tend to be distrustful of outsiders, belaying their queen's hatred of the Zo'ra. Vetju'tenx'sil maintains a hatred of the Zo'ra, nursed by the ages long wounds she suffered at their hands during their hives first conflict. Her wounds led Vetju'tenx'sil to lose some of her lower body, which were replaced with inferior mechanical duplicates. This has led her to be defensive at times in matters involving outsiders. This was shown most recently by being the only dissenting queen from their agreement with the Unathi Hegemony. To Vetju'tenx'sil, the K'lax cannot achieve their full potential under the heel of other powers.

Her VR is one of a grand design, dubbed Klo'vtak which translates roughly into Foundry. Here, immaculately intricate constructions coat a massive underground complex. Within the walls are countless dwellings, with the light from each illuminating the cavern in a dull green. K'lax here work tirelessly to achieve engineering miracles and recreate them in reality. From the walls extend pylons of stone and metal all leading to a floating central complex, A virtual recreation of the famous K'laxan neutron forges. Each massive in their own right, historically they had to be suspended by massive anti-gravity pylons to hold the weights that are put under astronomical pressure and heat within the forge. The forge is named such, as it squeezes out all electrons and positrons within material put within the neutron forge, and creates a tremendously dense ingot of neutrons. These ingots are the hallmark of master K'laxan engineering, with the hulls of the hiveships themselves made from alloys derived from the materials. K'lax that dwell or train here have endless resources to pursue any engineering topic at hand. The joy of work is instilled into their very being even before they are born. It would be rare to find a K'lax that could be considered lazy, or does not enjoy working of her brood, no matter how monotonous the job may be.

Of her brood, there is one master, who, may very well be the most widely known master to all hives. The legend of Yix is one of the few that transcends even hive barriers.

Ka’Akaix’Yix K’lax

Ka’Akaix’Yix K’lax has been known throughout all hives and broods, unanimously, as one of, if not the best engineer of the entire vaurca species. Their kinetic sense, spatial awareness, even down to their imagination, deftness and slight of hand combine into an incredibly smart and skilled worker. While bound could perhaps do a job faster, simpler and in a more basic manner, a bound workforce under orders from Yix could design, and have designed, some of the greatest current structures and technologies in the modern vaurca era. Perhaps their greatest achievement would be the design of the first Neutron Forges, massive metal pyres that heat matter to impossibly high temperatures and pressure. So much so that atoms break down into particles, and particles break down into quarks - which the Neutron Forge can selectively reassemble into whatever desired, effectively making it a matter printer. These were most effective stationed in orbit around the Sedantis gas giant, where they would scoop up gasses to produce workable materials. The story of Yix’s discovery is famous throughout the hives and is told to young borne within VR to alight the first fires of their curiosity upon birthing. It recounts how Yix came upon their discovery as they first looked into the open sky of Sedantis surface. In the starfields above Yix, they saw emptiness, a vast gulf of darkness between the pinpricks of light. And as they looked, it dawned upon Yix that this dark gulf existed in spaces between all things, that space itself is vaster than even what matter itself is used to. Yix knew that atoms are made of mostly empty space, near limitless chasms of nothingness between motes of electrical charges. But until Yix saw the surface sky of Sedantis, he did not know truly, that they are one and the same. It was Yix's discoveries that eventually led to the hiveships, and the creation of an answer of how to escape the foreseen doom of Sedantis.