Greetings, people of OA

[Drashner1]

I have another question regarding the setting - are there any groups of individuals in OA who hoard resources, but live comparatively austere lives in an attempt to survive past the heat death of the universe for as long as they can?

Sincerely,
Rho Ophiuchi

The Negentropy Alliance are the largest and most described group (empire actually) that does this. Also the Eternal - although it's not a civilization or group per se.

The Efficiency Maximization Paradigm is an extremist faction of the Negentropy Alliance that split off and took things much further.

The Technorapture Hypernation has re-engineered their capital system such that it's good for trillions of years, so presumably they have some interest in this area, but it's not clear how much.

Note that in the case of the empires and various polities in the setting we are doing a slow rolling review and update since some elements of the setting have evolved since they were first written. If some element of them seems out of step with other stuff, ask us about it and we can clarify.

At a more general level Matrioshka Hypernodes have operational lifetimes of 10 trillion years or more (in theory - nobody's done it yet) and the vast majority of the population is virtual and even if not all running in hypernodes may be using processors (or can move to processors) that have high efficiency and long operational lifetimes up to and including deep time scales.

It's also been discussed (but not yet written up IIRC) that some groups may migrate into black holes to 'time travel' into the deep time future and meet everyone else who takes this tack across the universe.

Finally, as mentioned in my earlier post, the archai can create new universes and so may have the option of 'immortality by migration to greener pastures' although it doesn't look like they've done that yet and its unclear whether they would bring along their various client populations if they did - even assuming those populations still exist into the deep future - at least in any form recognizable to the current Terragen population.

Hope this helps,

Todd