Description
The company known as VARIAtech has upgraded to something far greater than what it once was. Something potent...undefined. All members of the Consulate have ascended through the technological Singularity, and have become part of a single utopian pool of willpower and matter. Much remains to be discovered about the ubiquitous technology company in their new form, but what is known for sure is as follows:
1. VARIAtech is no longer a group of individual beings. All minds part of of a communal pool, which can inhabit any VARIAtech incarnation whenever such manual control is necessary. Where the repository for these billions of minds is, or how they come to inhabit the creations of the Consulate remains unknown. While they do have certain agents and loyal contacts who exist outside of the Consulate, to act independently, most people who join VARIAtech no longer have bodies.
2. VARIAtech creations are all made of some strange substance which has colloquially come to be known as 'Unimatter'. It is a black, crystalline substance that seems to have a mind of its own. Its most prevalent properties are the fact that it tends to reform itself no matter how blasted apart it is, and it can change its shape and machinations at will. It is a common sight to see VARIAtech 'equipment' merging or dividing into different forms to fit new purposes.
3. Through vaguely understood notions, VARIAtech creations seem to have the ability to open wormholes at will when inside of 'real' space.
4. All VARIAtech creations seem to be both digital and arcane in nature; the unmistakable taint of the Outer Gods can be sensed on them.
Aside from this, very little is known about how the company got this new power, or what its intentions are. At any rate, they are universally regarded as a threat to the status quo of the civilized universe. They have been observed trying to infuse cultures with extremely advanced technology, only to see those cultures break down into bloody chaos as a result. The consistency of this outcome seems to hint that this may be intentional.
1. VARIAtech is no longer a group of individual beings. All minds part of of a communal pool, which can inhabit any VARIAtech incarnation whenever such manual control is necessary. Where the repository for these billions of minds is, or how they come to inhabit the creations of the Consulate remains unknown. While they do have certain agents and loyal contacts who exist outside of the Consulate, to act independently, most people who join VARIAtech no longer have bodies.
2. VARIAtech creations are all made of some strange substance which has colloquially come to be known as 'Unimatter'. It is a black, crystalline substance that seems to have a mind of its own. Its most prevalent properties are the fact that it tends to reform itself no matter how blasted apart it is, and it can change its shape and machinations at will. It is a common sight to see VARIAtech 'equipment' merging or dividing into different forms to fit new purposes.
3. Through vaguely understood notions, VARIAtech creations seem to have the ability to open wormholes at will when inside of 'real' space.
4. All VARIAtech creations seem to be both digital and arcane in nature; the unmistakable taint of the Outer Gods can be sensed on them.
Aside from this, very little is known about how the company got this new power, or what its intentions are. At any rate, they are universally regarded as a threat to the status quo of the civilized universe. They have been observed trying to infuse cultures with extremely advanced technology, only to see those cultures break down into bloody chaos as a result. The consistency of this outcome seems to hint that this may be intentional.