Slow Gods

These are high toposophic entities who, for their own varied reasons, eschew the use of wormhole buses, and whose processing speeds are thus limited to the speed of light.

Some of these entities, such as the Boondock Boddhisatva of the Middle Regions, dislike wormholes because they do not like the idea of such potentially dangerous things existing within their brains, or have had problems with such things before. Some gods of this type do, however, use Wormholes placed at a safe distance and/or behind layers of protection to link their various nodes together.
Some, such as Farview in the Red Star 'M'pire simply use unusual slow technologies (in Farview's case its 'ecology mind') that do not lend themselves to faster processing.
Others, again such as Farview, came late to the use of Wormholes, and now use large Wormholes to move data stored in computronium from place to place in mass beams, thus precluding the use of nano-gauge Wormholes within that computronium.
Yet others do not use wormholes because they do not use technologies above that of nanotechnology.
Some gods are slow to conserve energy; for example, running at a slower clock speed allows them to continue to function even if their solar collectors do not meet the needs of their infrastructure.
Some have philosophical objections to the use of Wormholes.
Others again, such as the enigmatic Schmirchen Vublet Schmirchen, have less obvious reasons for not wanting them.

Because the modules making up the overall transapient entity can be as widely distributed as for any other high transapient entity, the overall entity will therefore run, and think, much more slowly than one using wormhole buses. However, they can be just as intelligent and powerful as faster transapients. Thus their name.

Entities of this type usually organise themselves so as to devolve those things requiring fast response to faster local sub-entitles which can be of quite high toposophic level themselves. Because of this, Slow Gods often have as much in common with high toposophic hive-mind entities than with Gods per se, although they are still, at an overall level, gods.

In some cases Slow Gods also have to compromise between different factors that affect their speed. For example, an AI without Wormholes but which wished to move up the SI scale could build more computronium in other star systems, but would then be slow due to the limits of light-speed. On the other hand they could build a thicker Dyson swarm around just their one star system and re-allot the energy from the star in smaller proportions to the greater amount of computronium. Then they would be slow because of energy limits.

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