Editing Xeelee Sequence (section)

===Snowmen===
{{Topquote|What connections? Gravity?"<br>
''“That, and quantum wave functions, and, and – I can see it, I can’t say it! The ancients understood. If you use complex arithmetic to extend most theories of cosmology—"''<br>
''“Just tell me what happened."''<br>
''“The Snowmen had a defensive system. They found a way of manipulating these cosmic linkages. A way to use them as a weapon."''<br>
''“How?"''<br>
''“Does it matter? I guess you learn a lot in thirteen billion years.''|A group of Coalition scouts try to understand how the Snowmen technology works, from Resplendent.}}
So who are these guys? Well, they are believed to be amongst the oldest species in the Milky Way Galaxy, how old? They are older than the [[Old Ones]] but still considered a junior race when compared to the Xeelee. They developed at a time when the Galaxy itself was no more than a disc of smoke, illuminated here and there by hot-spot protostars; a time when there were scarcely any heavy elements to form planets. At some point in their evolution, they turned themselves completely towards the philosophy that to record events - and only to record - was the highest calling of life (They are similar to the Watchers from Marvel except older). Out of all the respectable titles given to an ancient race like the Precursors from [[Halo]], Xeeleeverse Humanity unlike most Sci-Fi settings, have given these poor geriatrics a very delicate name...[[Derp|The Snowmen]]...(don't expect any Frosty the Snowman reference here). The Coalition being xenophobic pricks, however, [[retcon|retconned]] the Snowmen off the face of the universe and stole all their technology to the point where nobody knows ''what'' they actually look like, nor their purpose and origin.

The structures they left behind were very important for mankind in their war against the Xeelee, the Snowmen took apart their world and rebuilt it as a monstrous storage system that was shaped like a tetrahedron. This structure was built around the remains of a black dwarf. It measured over ten million miles along the edges of its circumference or roughly 16.1 million kilometres. They used all the material at their disposal to freeze as much data as they could in an artificial structure via the near-optimal use of matter; by recording information right down to the thermodynamic limit set by the background temperature of the universe. As the universe cools down they can store more data. To better explain this, the tetrahedron structure is basically a [[Blackstone Fortress]] on steroids that are also used as a research station that can manipulate cosmic linkages, distort gravity fields as a defence whilst also having a global-manipulation weapons system. How it maintains its structure in the gravity well of the star remains unknown. While possessing about the same mass as the Earth, it has been puffed out like candy-floss; filled with struts, threads and whiskers of iron, like delicate scaffolding. The Coalition uses these structures as their Galaxy-spanning watch stations that spy on the Human population for any rebellions or warn Earth of any Xeelee attacks from the Galactic center. Of all the cool names the Coalition could have given to these ancient structures, they just so happen to give it another delicate name...[[Herp|The Snowflake]]...(yeah either Humanity in the Xeelee Sequence are so retarded they can't even think of any imaginative names or Stephen Baxter has a very dark sense of humour since he's British). Despite these remarkable feats, the Snowflake however cannot defeat the Xeelee, as it would be the equivalent of pointing a [[Lasgun]] against a Necron [[Monolith]].

It remains unclear if the Snowmen still exist. It is speculated that a dully-glowing globe of purple, miles wide, embedded beneath the planar skin of the Snowflake is believed to be what remains of them. As no complete exploration of the Snowflake has ever been done, other such spheres may exist in its structure. The Snowmen are basically the [[Malal]] of the Xeelee Sequence.