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 Adaptations are denoted by era (manufacturing date) and iteration (the number of revisions the adaptation has made).
+=== Pricora ===
+The flesh and blood of a Sourcian so to speak, pricora is an XNA structure adapted and genetically grown specifically for a given task. It is adapted by its user as one might change clothes and can be disrobed just as easily by their minds - large ultra-hard self-organizing structures known as maesus, plural maesii.
 === Structol ===
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   * See [[/physics/hardlight]]
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 ===== Variants ======
-  * Genus Adagio - Identified as the closest living equivalents to humanoid life in terms of scope of function
+  * Adagio - Identified as the closest living equivalents to humanoid life in terms of scope of function. Peacetime form, often used externally to the central intelligence and granted independence. Serves as the cultural fingertips of the dominant Sourcian race.
+  * Orthadox - A simple drone involved in the exchange and management of resources.
-  * Orthadox
+  * Advanto - Unknown
-  * Advanto
+  * Aevallis - Unknown
-  * Salaxi Aevallis
+  * Uraxi - One of the simplest forms of life resembling Sourcians, Uraxi are simple slimes akin to pricora able to occupy water systems. They are often farmed as a source of subsistence and are thought of as barely more complex than fungi or plants.
-  * Maevallis
+  * Salaxi  - A form of life similar to Sourcians, Salaxi are equivalent on their terms to cattle or rodents - using dense hydrocarbons to form prehensile gellatine liquid bodies of Viscoelastic polymers. While conventionally farmed, they have in the last few thousand years demonstrated cognisance similar to that of humanoid species and as such there is a current ethical quandry within the Sourciana. They are often lobotomized or kept as companions. Sometimes referred to as "crudes".
-  * Maexalli
+  * Maevallis - 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.
-  * Kolossallium
+  * Maexalli - Unknown
-  * Amelliaus
+  * Kolossallium - Large permanent structures on planetoids, commonly involved in functional terraforming. Sometimes referred to as hives or stacks.
+  * Amelliaus - A limbed fighter-craft, able to walk and manipulate its environment.
   * 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.
+  * Lillius - 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.
+  * 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.
-=== Warfare Variants ===
+=== Warfare Variants (WIP) ===
 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.
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 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.
+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 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.
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-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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