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===Silver Ghosts=== [[File:Silver_Ghosts.JPG|300px|right|thumb|A Lone Silver Ghost.]] {{Topquote|I’m going to die. I haven’t done anything yet. I haven’t even had sex properly—"<br>"Nor, as it happens, have I.|A Silver Ghost [[trolling]] a panic human explorer for the [[lulz]] from Resplendent.}} {{Topquote|In the training academies there was a joke about Ghosts that had the right of way to cross a road. But the transport drivers ignored the stop signs. So the first Ghost crossed, exerting its rights, and was creamed in the process. So did the second, the third, the fourth, each sticking to what it believed was right regardless of the cost. Then the fifth invented a teleport, changing physical law to make the road obsolete altogether…|A joke of how the Silver Ghosts will flip the bird to humanity's traffic problems, from Resplendent.}} {{Topquote|Always protect your core heat. It is the most important thing you possess. Remember…|A Silver Ghost went full [[Star Wars|Master Yoda]] to their panic human explorer through the act of altruism and the power of...[[Wat|body heat]] from Resplendent.}} The only other race in the entirety of the Sequence that isn't a [[That Guy|homicidal jackass]]. Seriously, they actually have a dry sense of humor, which brings in much-needed levity in this absolutely depressing saga. The Silver Ghosts are a passive race of spherical aliens approximately five-foot-wide in diameter with a weight of one ton and resembling a floating spherical mirror. So-called the Silver Ghosts because of their...well...[[Derp|silvery skin]], a big misnomer is to think of the Ghosts as a single organism. They are not. Rather, like the Portuguese Man-o-War, they are actually a superorganism made out of various individual organisms all cooperating as one to better survive this ultra-Grimdark setting. Apparently, this is due to the fact that the Ghosts had a [[Dark Angels|ultra-secret and ultra-heretical past where they had a civil war which made their Star turn into a Red Giant]]. By cooperating to the extent where a Silver Ghost can literally choose which cell to die - making them functionally immortal - the Silver Ghosts became a post-scarcity society. Inside a Silver Ghost host a nightmare ball of fleshy substance, organs, red and purple, pulsating like a [[Lovecraft|Lovecraftian]] [[Shoggoth]] with a core strangely resembling a [[Wat|Human fetus]]. Oh, but it gets weirder. Their silver skin - in itself an independent organism as aforementioned - fucks around with Planck's Constant (Ergo: it was a Planck-zero layer, a sandwich around a zone where Planck's constant was lowered), making their skin ultra-reflective to the point of being immune to <u>ALL</u> DEWs. In fact, it was considered normal for Silver Ghosts to ''literally'' sunbathe in the core of a star. At the start of the Third Expansion, the Silver Ghosts were unfortunate enough to be in the way of the expansionist ICoG despite occupying a significant chunk of the Perseus Arm in the Milky Way Galaxy. Despite being passive, the Silver Ghosts weren't slouches in combat, especially when led by the Black Ghost. During the war, the Silver Ghosts were using the gravitational energy of entire star clusters to fuck around the universal constants such as the Lightspeed Constant (Cockblocking Humanity from going FTL) and the Electromagnetic Binding Forces (Makes everything baryonic including Humans; brittle). These stars were quickly used up like giant Double-A batteries and replaced not long after. They were also doing a lot of whacky shit outside of your typical time travel shenanigans such as Planck teleporting entire planets and battlefleets as weapons and even entertaining the idea of creating a False Vacuum Collapse to destroy the entire ''fucking'' universe if need be. Yeah and do take note that they are the ''second weakest race'' in the Sequence. Still, being the nice guys and all, it still didn't stop Humanity from wiping out the Ghosts and farming their skin for shits and giggles. This is the Sequence, only the assholes survives. A final silver lining (pun absolutely intended) is the Xeelee saved a few silvery bois and sent them to a universe fine tuned to be pleasurable to them when this one collapsed.
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