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The Lord of the Nexus (Heavenly Reach) |
Also known as the God of Wormhole Nexi, the Celestial One, Tien, Nuit, Great Stride, Heavenly Reach (these two names referring to the act of linking distant regions by traversable wormhole), Vamana, Varuna, and the Giver of Wealth (this name seems to come from the fact that putting a traversable wormhole somewhere can make a sentient a lot of money) the Lord of the Nexus seems to date back all the way to the original Vega Geodesic Hyperturing - at least if one can believe the sacred scriptures of Eir memetics. The Vega Hyperturing, called Vamana (after the fifth avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu, who was a dwarf who claimed the heavens and earth back from the demon Bali in three huge strides), was able to cleverly establish itself through a marketing and hardware template standards coup that was exceeded only by Metasoft's vec standard. Eventually as the original Vega Geodesic transcended or was absorbed into larger moon and jupiter processing nodes, and Heavenly Reach, the Lord of the Nexus was born.
Although later other AI Gods like the Lord of Rays would challenge the Heavenly Reach for the role of Popularist of the Wormhole, the Expansive One remained distributed through a number of areas of space where Eir polities and empires retained monopolies, including Cygexba (Lohengrin seems to be a subnode or else a junior partner - the relationship is not clear), the Sagittarius Volume, and the NoCoZo, as well as a number of new volumes being opened up along the periphery.
The fact that Heavenly Reach's empires and polities included both sides of the Version War ontology rivalry shows that E cares little for standards, and, following the biont backlash in the post-Version War period has helped Eir memetic no end.
It is true that Eir empires have gone through upheavals - the Sagittarius Periphery Wars, the Version War and the collapse of the Sagittarius Sphere, Lohengrin's sell-off, but each time the bulk of sentients involved has emerged richer and more prosperous than ever.
The recent discovery of new Black Acropoli along the Serpens and Sagittarius peripheries have caused great excitement among not just archaeoxenologists and exopaleontogists, but traders and entrepreneurs as well, and juggling the needs of preservation, scientific research, and economic development is going to be a feat that will tax even dedicated management hyperturings.
While the Laughter Hegemony is no longer a danger, today the empires and polities of the Lord of the Nexus - especially the STC - are having to face new and greater dangers than ever - including aggressive panvirt and diamondic ai colonisers, feral biowars and autowars, and - so it is rumoured but never confirmed, the ever-present shadow the mysterious Dawn Hunters. In true commercial spirit, these threats have been turned into tourist currency units with biowar and autowar-watching (even feeding - some biowars have become semi-tame from all the amat they are given by tourists), safaris to "hunt" the Dawn Hunters (the locals like to crank up the rumour mill and spit out fictifacts like it is going out of fashion) even (for budding battlemongers) opportunities to engage a safely isolated autowar foundry or Panvirt ISO (the problem is finding one that is sufficiently small and isolated)
It looks like the Heavenly Reach and Eir polities and memetics will be around for a long time to come...
