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Worms, liminals, space whales, and now the Oon...
Multiple species defying your understanding of Hyperspace and Realspace. Forms of life that seems incomprehensible to your simple organic form of life. You have this strange feeling that you aren't really the true inheritor species of the universe, after all. Maybe a byproduct of amino acid chains and hydrocarbons left to stew for way too long.
This specific frequency, Eight by Six, is incredibly strong and dominant over its “species”. You'd almost call it akin to something like the Supreme Ruler or Hegemony. The only frequencies it hasn't totally supplanted are ones that it can't take over; a few vibrations that seem to have natural countermeasures, but are also unable to destroy Eight by Six, else they would be dominant instead. Expanding its influence outside of space, it seems this Oon could be making something akin to empire, built in sound and energy instead of steel and citizen. How strange.
While still sufficiently dangerous, you get a better understanding of the Oon and their ways. You could overwhelm a collection of crystals with enough force, or break them physically, as they are quite fragile and glass-like. The crystals are similar to your own artificial lattices that can produce force fields and similar plasmatronic energy manipulations. You relay this information to your military forces, so they can work on countermeasures to any future engagements. Regardless, you don't fancy fighting them much again.
Of course, attempts to understand the Oon “genome” requires less a geneticist then a geologist. Might as well be pointless for your eugenic program; the Consortium didn't lie to you so much as exploit your own drive. Still, there are surely some useful applications to the crystals; they seem to have some innate use in boosting Starseeing abilities, and may even act as some defense from the Worms unique abilities. The Threemind gives you a few ideas.
>Hunt small crystal clusters to gather them for your own use (Will reassign Water-Gathering Fleet)
>Declare War on the Oon
>Make a prototype weapon out of the ones you have (Security Gauge +2%)
>Improve relations with the Oon's strongest Signal; Eight by Six Degrees
>Support a lesser signal to encourage healthy competition among the species
>Attempt to copy the conversion signal
>Ignore them for now and focus on your own concerns
