Editing Xeelee Sequence (section)

===Squeem===
[[File:Squeem_Ship.JPG|300px|right|thumb|A Squeem Ship.]]
{{Topquote|Everybody walked around on permafrost, down to the equator. The Squeem controlled it, somehow. After all, humans are just big bags of water. We didn’t freeze, nor did the grasses, the animals, the birds, the moisture in the air. Of course rainfall was screwed, because nothing was evaporating from the oceans. ‘They kept it up for a full year. By then people were dying of the drought and the cold. And Earth blazed white, a symbol of the Squeem’s dominance, visible even to all the off-planet refugees and hideouts, visible light years away.|The Squeem unleashing their wrath from the Heavens upon mankind like a pack of [[Dick|dicks]] from Endurance.}}
{{Topquote|Communication with the group-mind Squeem was utterly unlike anything envisaged before their arrival. With no separation between individuals, the Squeem hadn’t evolved to count in whole numbers, for instance. But eventually common ground was found. And despite fears that mankind might be overwhelmed by a more technically advanced civilisation, trade and cultural contacts were initiated.|The Squeem are so connected that they don't count their numbers from Endurance.}}
{{Topquote|Only a few years after first contact Squeem ships burst into the Solar System, in a shower of exotic particles and lurid publicity. The Squeem were aquatic group-mind multiple creatures. They crossed the stars using a hyperdrive system beyond human understanding. They maintained an interstellar network of trading colonies. Their human label, a not very respectful rendering of the Squeem’s own sonic rendering of their title for themselves – ‘Ss-chh-eemnh’ – meant something like the Wise Folk, rather like ‘Homo sapiens’.|The Squeem are so utterly alien in both biology and psychology, that Humanity didn't even know how to spell their name during first contact, from Endurance.}}
(Pronounced as Scheme)

The oddly named Squeem were a race of eusocial hive-minded squid-fishes and were the first alien race to fully conquer Humanity. Despite starting off roughly the same as Humans chronologically with technology equal to us, the Squeem lucked out by discovering Xeelee tech of which they could reverse-engineer. [[Rape|You can imagine how ''that'' worked out when they invaded the Humans.]] 

The Squeem also possessed a form of alcubierre drive in which they form a pocket of spacetime around their spaceship and propel it to FTL. Since general relativity stress that no matter could travel faster-than-light, the hyperdrive of the Squeem - unlike that of [[Star Wars]] - respects the laws of physics and just create a loophole around the concept. After all, [[Lulz|nobody states that ''spacetime itself'' can't travel faster-than-light.]] So whilst the bubble freely propels itself beyond lightspeed, the object within the pocket dimension remains fine as it is, in theory, not violating general relativity. The problem with this is that you can't see jackshit inside of the bubble, relying on precise calculations or you end up [[FATAL|going straight into the heart of a star.]] Fortunately for the Squeem, no one stated you can't ''weaponize'' them. Oh yes, [[Exterminatus|FTL-accelerated cannon-platforms that fire GUT missiles hitting with the pressure and heat of a ''Big Bang''.]]

Nevertheless, due to how unimpressive their base technology is, it didn't take long for the ICoG to completely curbstomp them to the ground and forced them to de-evolve into human-dependent symbiotes, meaning they turn the Squeem into a Galaxy-spanning telepathic communication network, they create a telepathic beacon when swallowed by a human and kept alive by consuming the human from the inside out. Still, their occupation left a nasty scar for Humanity as it led to the freezing of the Earth's oceans, starving/freezing billions in the process and the following memory-wipe of all Humans to the point that they forgot that organisms once lived in the ocean. 

By far the weakest race in the Xeelee Sequence, although this is all relative in Sci-Fi as the Squeem are still powerful enough to kick [[War in Heaven|War-in-Heaven]] [[Necrons]] in the dick and assrape everyone else with their self-improving GUT-driven missiles and stolen starbreaker technology.
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