Editing Xeelee Sequence (section)

===Monads===
[[File:Monad.JPG|300px|right|thumb|A Monad dreaming realities into existence.]]
{{Topquote|There was no place. There was no time. A human observer would have recognized nothing here: no mass, energy, or force. There was only a rolling, random froth whose fragmented geometry constantly changed. Even causality was a foolish dream. The orderly spacetime with which humans were familiar was suffused with vacuum energy, out of which virtual particles, electrons and quarks, would fizz into existence, and then scatter or annihilate, their brief walks upon the stage governed by quantum uncertainty. In this extraordinary place whole universes bubbled out of the froth, to expand and dissipate, or to collapse in a despairing flare. This chaotic cavalcade of possibilities, this place of non-being where whole universes clustered in reefs of foamy spindrift, was suffused by a light beyond light. But even in this cauldron of strangeness there was life. Even here there was mind. Call them monads.|A great description of how the Monads came to be, better than [[Emperor|someone's]] origin story from Exultant.}}
{{Topquote|The monads considered the bubbling foam around them. They dug into a reef of spindrift, selected a tangle of possibilities, picked out one evanescent cosmic jewel. This one—yes. They closed around it, as if warmed by its glow of potentialities. And, embedding themselves in its structure, they prepared to shape it. The monads enriched the seedling universe with ineffable qualities whose existence few of its inhabitants would even guess at.|The Monads creating the universe with the power of Science from Exultant.}}
{{Topquote|The monads cared nothing for humans, of course, or for quagmites, or Xeelee, or photino birds, or any of the rest of the universe's menagerie at this or any other age. But they liked their universes to have story; and it was living things that generated the most interesting sagas.|This is how uncaring Gods should feel about weaklings, from Exultant.}}
The Monads are Gods (yes Gods with a capital G) they were the ones responsible for creating the Xeelee Sequence multiverse. They are so ''God'' damned powerful; they view both the Xeelee and Photino Birds in the same way the Xeelee and Photino Birds view humanity: totally insignificant less than nothing pests not even fit to kiss their asses. The Monads are literally what [[Chaos]] [[Erebus|fanboys]] think the [[Chaos Gods]] are, except you know, the Monads ''actually'' showed concrete feats to back up their claims. So, feel free to pray to them all you want. But spoilers alert, they won’t be listening.

The Monads are eternal, abstract beings that live in the very fractured structure of the Multiverse or sometimes live in the 'Bulk', which is the space between universes. They enjoy selecting and shaping universes and embed them with complexity. They can create universes with a stupendous number of dimensions, and then slumber through the lifespan of each Universe inside black holes' event horizons for hundreds of billions of years when they aren't awake, and [[what|the entire story is just part of their dreams]]. To simplify this, think of the Monads as a bunch of [[Azathoth]]s if he has an actual brain and self-awareness without the insanity and destruction, or even better they are basically the Downstreamers juniors (Stephen Baxter wrote both the Xeelee Sequence and the Manifold trilogy). But above all else, they take delight in watching the history of sentient life unfold. In a sense, the Xeeleeverse and other universes are like a multiversal Netflix to them. The Monads live in an abstract realm of random geometry, in which entire universes come into existence and disappear almost instantly. They are beyond time and space and the laws of physics. 

They are so above everybody that even the most godlike advanced civilizations like the Xeelee are just pitiful little ants to them, they laugh at the Photino Birds galactic frisbee discs, and they treated Mankind's Galactic murderboning genocide spree like some annoying yet amusing little bed bugs. Hell, they will not even care if whether or not the Photino Birds win as to them, the Xeelee-Photino Birds Universal war is like watching a free epic-drama tv series, and then after all of this, they went on to create another universe for themselves to entertain when the Xeeleeverse ended.