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+=== Structol ===
+A programmable metallic crystal which can be taught to assume a wide variety of complex machines and structures with moving parts, including firearms, limited armor and electronic circuitry.
+  * See [[/material/structol/]], [[/material/structol/applications_by_sourcians]]
+=== Pholar ===
+A form of solid or hardlight, tricking photons into becoming weightless nucleus. It is able to form a variety of shapes, become a prehensile electromagnet, antennae, armor, camouflage and moving structures - though it is not ideal for the formation of seperate moving parts.
+  * See [[/physics/hardlight]]
+=== Supplements ===
 When resources are particularly scarce or military variants are rarely produced, artificial enhancements (supplements) are given to these variants in order to make up for their performance shortfalls. Later, supplements were rolled in as adaptations which do not require training or preparation and can be fitted or added to any Sourcian.
+===== Variants ======
+  * Genus Adagio - Identified as the closest living equivalents to humanoid life in terms of scope of function
+  * Orthadox
+  * Advanto
+  * Salaxi Aevallis
+  * Maevallis
+  * Maexalli
+  * Kolossallium
+  * Amelliaus
+  * Daiclonius - Tactical gunship, electronic & warfare specialist with sentient functionality
+  * Lillius_Amelliaus - A small multi-form fighter with powered-armor characteristics. Able to shed exterior propulsive husk for armor-to-armor combat and exoskeleton in the event of a problem.
+=== Warfare Variants ===
+Sometimes referred to as “The Sourcian Army”, Maevalli are simply a military of one: a single unit acting as a complete comprehensive force of attack and defense for intersolar combat.
+Their composition is thought to be a combination of structol, pricora, maesus and hard-light.
+Their weaponary consists not of conventional equipment but primarily a space folding system which exists in two halves, located on a pair of long extruded fins.
+Used to great effect, these fins can be used to fold space as a high velocity transport system, to reflect high impact attacks (akin to a starship or battleship's main cannon), to cut through objects (by varying the apeture size), an FTL system and by folding the two together, they can act as what in records is directly comparable to a long distance transposition weapon.
+Backup equipment includes a comprehensive electromagnetic manipulation suite which rides a “cloak of hottest matter”, thought to be plasma - in essence, a plasma wake system.
+Secondary equipment includes what matches the description of what is now known to be a hardlight formation system. Descriptions estimate it is used to replicate enemy conventional weapons. Materials akin to zesuaium have been decribed as formable, albiet taking several seconds to form with a half-life of less than 20 seconds - meaning they were not viable conventional weapons.
+An “air to ground” capability has been demonstrated by polarizing the ground negatively beneath a target within a planetoid, triggering high speed lightning strikes through a target. While not particularly damaging, it has great effectiveness in removing what are described akin to distortion based defensive technologies.
+They appear to bend light around their forms, appearing with no true volume but instead a two dimensional silouette of whatever side of the enemy they are seen by, equivalent to a high polarization image of a person. This image seems to warp light from behind it, akin to the lens of a telescope, meaning spacial phenomena behind the Maevallis can be seen from thousands of lightyears through them. This image seems to be warped in some way, making their true position difficult to determine.
+While many will rush to say Maevallis are combat weapons, they are better thought of as representatives or ambassadors, who conduct negotiation using warfare. In the strictest sense, while their attacks are devastating, they “await their turn”. Further reading reveals this to be part of an “honor system”, with this kind of combat as an alternative to intersystem or intercluster mutually assured destruction scenarios (in which the weapons of both sides wipe one another out). As such, they aren't so much weapons as they are the logical conclusion of ritualized gladiatorial combat - akin to animals locking horns to fight over territory or breeding rights.
+Historical suggestion says this is not the natural method of operation for the Sourcian themselves but rather, something that was adopted to deal with the majority of other species in what was at the time, their sphere of known space with Sourcians themselves operating on a concept of mutual cooperation rather than survival of the fittest – which set them at a huge disadvantage biologically during their early days during interstellar exploration with most Sourcian destroyable by even a child. To this end, Sourcian biology's greatest strength is not in its ability to withstand hostile force but for it to stop or end, rather than explicitly die - to germinate from remains as a successor from a predecessor.
+It is widely believed that whatever wiped out the Sourcians destroyed literal armies of Maevallis - descriptions of which in historical records describing the technical difference between the Maevallis and enemy forces akin to any modern high technology nation effortlessly and sadistically wiping out a world of primitives, one by one rather than outright glassing their homeworld: Utterly incomprehensible, god-like and totally outmatching th Sourcians in every imaginable way.
+Genus Aexalli
+Almost thought of as a spy: Aexalli head the battle as an insurgent - copying the form of the enemy and then learning as much as possible about said enemy. It is common to create social ties which ensure there is a hesitation to combat them before they attack a given target.
+It is perhaps best to think of them in their combat forms as a “relative” in combat dynamics to powered-armor. They are best known for their cruelty (a form of psychological warfare) - often going as far as to eat the bodies of enemy dead and hold hostages for amusement, which often become an acquired taste, even while alive.
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