Xakt, Queen of Corpses

Ta'Akaix'Xakt'yagz'isk Zo'ra, Queen of Corpses

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A large Vaurcan junkyard, filled with scrap from Titan Prime, and many other craft throughout Tau Ceti.

Her brood is identified by scent and their exoskeleton color amongst Zo'ra.

Unbound of any type: (RGB 91, 31, 0)

(RGB 91, 31, 0)

Bound Warriors: (RGB 121, 71, 0)

Bound Workers: (RGB 81, 21, 0)

Placed upon the desert planet of Luthien, Xakt'yagz'isk's brood has quickly monopolized the planets cheap labor work-force. Xakt'yagz'isk originally oversaw all matters concerning tech and tech implants aboard the Hive-ship. Xakt'yagz'isk's brood contains mostly bound, a much higher percentage than any other Lesser Queen. She also supervised Reclamation, the process of reclaiming the implants of dead Vaurca, making many Zo'ra associate Xakt'yagz'isk with death. Upon Luthien itself, her brood has thrived, creating massive kois fields that pose little risk to their surroundings. The fungus burrows into the silt-like sand of the desert, and finds little purchase, but grows all the same. The sands make it harder for the plant to grow uncontrollably, allowing large-scale cultivation. Armies of bound Ka work tirelessly in the sweltering heat of the blooming desert, exporting tons of kois throughout the system. Unbound Ka and Za also find work with several exotic florae, or weapons testing labs scattered throughout the planet, respectively. Others may field massive scrap yards, full of debris from across the galaxy, searching for exotic tech that may catch the Queens' eyes. The single largest employer of Vaurca however, would be the Getmore Corporation, who source their refined kois products here. The massive plantations that cover the desert sands of Luthien are dwarfed only by the processing plants themselves. Since landing, Xakt'yagz'isk, with support from her Getmore suppliers has created several Uta'ka'yat or All-Factories. According to Vaurca claims, these All-Factories can fabricate any complex or simple part using revolutionary mass production techniques and are limited only by their size.

One of the machines the All-factories employ are Electromagnetic Shaping Machines, complex Vaurcan devices that can control the Lorentz force and polarity of materials with such precision that, even normally magnetically insignificant materials can be microscopically and macroscopically manipulated and shaped. Because of this, any material can be fed into an ESM machine and shaped into a preloaded design without any parts actually touching the material. On the construction of said devices, Vaurcan engineers have shared breakthroughs in the use of solid metallic hydrogen, showing Getmore and Nanotrasen even more uses for these room-temperature superconductors.

As for Xakt'yagz'isk herself, she is uncharacteristically distant, often too busy or wrapped up in her own projects to care about what the rest of the galaxy is doing. Her current focus has been ramping up industrial capabilities for Luthien and pouring over ancient schematics and technical data from Titan Prime. She sees the overall suffering of unbound Zo'ra throughout Tau Ceti as distractions from the primary goal of fixing the hive ship. Her efforts in this are not in vain, and over the years has made measurable progress in repairing the damaged Titan. To her, the events of the last five years were a failure of planning, one that must be fixed quickly if the hive is to succeed. The unbound of her brood largely share this approach and rarely attempt to make personal attachments to any of the alien inhabitants of Tau Ceti. This thinking is exacerbated further by the knowledge of mother Zo'ra's death. To Xakt'yagz'isk, they are the last of their kind, and she cannot suffer the unknowable intentions of xenos to decide the fate of Zo'ra. Xakt'yagz'isk was the first Lesser Queen of the Zo'ra to denounce K'lax independence. She knows better than any Zo'ra alive the nature of K'laxan innovation and why they were worthy to be vassalized in the first place.

Xakt'yagz'isk's VR is scarce from a first glance compared to all other Zo'ra Queens. The few unbound here inhabit a blank slate, a type of physics and engineering program that models reality to exactness. Here, ancient and new technologies are built, virtually. Complex mechanisms and constructions are laid out in organized grids, littering the featureless void with countless engineering projects. Each a 'working' solution to the overall problems that the Zo'ra face. Xakt'yagz'isk rarely manifests herself here, with the few notable times when a Zo'ra claims to have built something 'K'lax-like.'

Of her brood, there are two noteworthy Xakat'kl'atan, acting as the ideal teachers for newly born Za or Ka.

Ka’Akaix’Rytzk Zo’ra

Ka’Akaix’Rytzk Zo’ra was the mind behind Kokz’oni’kozi - implanted biomechanical augments that can serve as personal or localized hivenet receivers in an extremely short radius, but powerful enough to allow the augmented and nearby vaurca to enter virtual reality. While in prototype, weaker externally worn headgear was successfully utilized, and functioned as intended as long as they are moderately nearby to a pre-existing hivenet receiver, Rytzk's concept, however, miniaturized the headgear into an implant, and made use of advanced vaurcesian networking technology to streamline the connection and disconnection from the Virtual to be seamless, limited only by signal strength. These advancements also increased network safety throughout the hive, causing each Vaurca to have a unique digital identifier, similar to an extranet IP address. Perhaps inspired by the Lii'dra as an object lesson, these advancements by Rytzk were invaluable in regulating information flow between all members of the hive. Aside from this, Rytzk also devised many ergonomic implants used by many vaurca today. Many Vaurca seek to learn from Rytzk and master the natural and ingenious methods of implementing technology into the regular unbound while retaining their signature versatility.

Za'Akaix'Cimm Zo'ra

The Vaurca responsible for a number of the more practical vehicles employed by all Vaurca hives. Known to some human historians as the Vaurca equivalent of Nicoli Tesla, Cimm battled Yix of K'lax when the challenge came to designing the first hive ships. Ultimately losing, Cimm faded from interhive prominence before dying under mysterious circumstances just before the hiveships were first launched. Whatever the case may be, Cimm's neural socket was spun up within Virtual and sent with the departing hiveships just-in-case the K'laxan design would break down. Cimm became a master of ideal forms while alive, and is credited for the creation of nearly all practical designs of earthmovers as well shuttlecraft and larger dropships. They are particularly famous throughout the hives for the creation of Da'loks. A Da'lok is a one-wheeled multi-use vehicle that maintains a personal gravity field around itself. This allows the Da'lok to travel across land (even ceilings), sea, and air with little difficulty and is employed by Vaurca to this day as personal and commercial transports. Cimm is infamous among the Zo'ra hive for their sour disposition, yet this does not stop new Vaurca from seeking tutelage under them.