Editing Xeelee Sequence (section)

===Xeelee===
[[File:XeeleeFront.jpg|300px|right|thumb|A Xeelee Nightfighter.]]
{{topquote|The ancient spacetime-chemistry creatures, having survived yet another cosmic transition, gradually found ways to accommodate themselves to the latest climate, even though to them it was cold and dark and dead. In their heyday there had been no "matter" in the normal sense. But now they found they could usefully form symbiotic relationships with creatures formed of condensate matter: extended structures locked into a single quantum state. A new kind of being ventured cautiously through the light-filled spaces, like insects with "bodies" of condensate and "wings" of spacetime defects. It was the formation of a new kind of ecology, emerging from fragments of the old and new.<br>

''But symbiosis and the construction of composite creatures from lesser components were eternal tactics for life, eternal ways of surviving changed conditions.''<br>

''In the unimaginably far future humans would call the much-evolved descendants of these composite forms "Xeelee."'' |A small tidbit on one of the most poetically beautiful descriptions of the birth of an Eldritch race in literature history, from Exultant.}}
{{topquote|Some believe that by such interventions the Xeelee are maintaining their monopoly on power, which holds sway across the observable Universe. Others say that, like the vengeful gods of man's childhood, the Xeelee are protecting us from ourselves."<br>"...Damn those Xeelee. I should have known they can beat anything we've got. And of course they would police this lithium beacon. It wouldn't do to let us lesser types get our hands-on stuff like this; oh no...|Despite the Xeelee barely notice mankind existence, the human race still go to war with them anyway out of spite from Vacuum Diagrams.}}
{{topquote|We are done with fighting. After all this time, perhaps we humans have learned a little wisdom – and humility."<br>
''"We humans took on the Xeelee. Remarkable when you think about it: savannah apes against a super galactic power. We did them some damage, we drove them out of the Galaxy. But the Xeelee are far more than we ever were; we could never defeat them. And we barely noticed the true enemy, a foe of both ourselves and the Xeelee and everything made of baryonic matter, matter like ourselves—''|A human admitted the Xeelee superior to them in every aspect, from Resplendent.}}
The main "mascot" faction of the entire series, the Xeelee are the undisputed masters of all Baryonic life. They are made from self-propagating, space-time defects that reproduce via Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and were born in 10<sup>−43</sup> seconds after the Big Bang during the Planck Epoch, where the four fundamental universal forces (Gravity, Electromagnetism, Strong and Weak Nuclear Forces) have yet to diverge; ergo physics were still fused under the Grand Unified superforce AKA GUT (Grand Unified Theory). They eventually formed a symbiosis with Bose-Einstein Condensate creatures and allied with the Quagmites, creatures made from Quagma during the Quark Epoch approximately 1 microsecond after the Big Bang. The proto-Xeelee then went to war with the Anti-Matter aliens before winning by tweaking the universal constants so that there was more baryonic matter than anti-matter. Fun fact, that war ''accidentally'' created cosmic inflation.

The Xeelee are so far up on the technological scale that they might as well be gods. Their most notable vehicles are the Xeelee Nightfighters, and in many cases, they are so attuned to their technology that it is difficult to distinguish them from the Nightfighters. These motherfuckers make [[The Culture|the motherfucking ''Culture'']] look shockingly pedestrian and modest in contrast. Not only do they weaponize Time Travel, but they also have the ability to use ''entire'' <u>galaxies</u> as ''literal'' building blocks to create megastructures, such as the Xeelee Ring (or Bolder's Ring to humans). When things get ugly, the Xeelee drop the star-busting pistols and upgrade themselves with gravitational slingshots that can launch a hyperknot of cosmic string, [[Exterminatus|''50,000 light-years in length, with the mass of a hundred billion stars, moving at the speed of light to turn weaponized galaxies into silly string'']]. They are tough enough to laugh off attacks from guns that shoot neutron stars and ''black holes'' at 99.c the speed of light, and they come in the untold trillions. Yet despite all of this, in an interesting flip/subversion of the Cosmic Horror trope, the Xeelee are non-malicious (Especially when compared to the walking insane asylum that is, Humanity) and more of a force of nature than your generic [[Grimderp|"I eat your universe because GRIMDARK!" hentai monster.]] 

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTzjPaytcE| A video demonstrating a Xeelee Nightfighter engaging in Faster-Than-Light travel.]

[[Tl;dr]], these guys are one of the apex predators in all of Science Fiction. They are not to be fucked with.