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[[image: ziort.jpg | thumb | right | 256px | Typical relatively spherical representative in a vacuum.]]
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Ziort's volume is a community of creatures that evolved in space, consisting of electrical discharges and inhabiting mainly interstellar spaces. Their mind naturally connects into a single network, if individuals are close to each other. On the planets, they are forced to wear special suits, or capsules, so as not to dissipate in the atmosphere. They are valued in [[Pangalactic Alliance | Alliance]] as first-class scientists, engineers, and researchers.
Ziort's volume is a community of creatures that evolved in space, consisting of electrically charged plasma, and inhabiting mainly interstellar spaces. On the planets, they are forced to wear special suits, or capsules, so as not to dissipate in the atmosphere.  
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== Brief History ==
== Brief History ==
No one knows how the Volume of the Ziort was born, not even the Ziort themselves. Before contact with [[Raharrs | Raharrs]], the Ziort did not understand the need to store historical data, since they essentially had no history. Clouds of reasonable lightning flew through space and watched everything that happens around them. Some adhere to the theory that the Volume of Ziort may be a remnant of the [[Ancients]], which could not or did not want to leave this universe. However, in scientific circles, this theory is not taken seriously as there are too many arguments against it. In particular, knowledge of several parts of the Volume suggests that they are even older than the Ancients themselves.
No one knows how the Volume of the Ziort was born, not even the Ziort themselves. Before contact with [[Raharrs | Raharrs]], the Ziort did not understand the need to store historical data, since they essentially had no history. They do not remember how or when they began being sapient.
Raharrs stumbled upon the Volume by chance - one of the wandering individuals just stumbled upon a research ship and absorbed into it, having lost the ability to intangible existence. This almost resulted in the death of the entire crew, since the newly appeared "on-board computer" did not know how to control the ship and its systems in any way. However, the crisis was resolved in a timely manner, and the citizen had to start working as a ship. But he himself was not opposed to this. In fact, this is the first of its kind to have worked with the Alliance. Subsequently, he led the research team to the site of the space where the Volume itself was located, after which agreements and a peace treaty were concluded with Ziort. The Volume occupies a rather impressive section of this sector (on the order of a pair of parsecs across), but 95% of the Volume is located in the intergalactic space above the Galaxy's ecliptic, away from stars and planetary systems. Upon learning of the existence of such a bizarre form of mind, Ziort's Volume enthusiastically accepted an invitation to the Alliance, awaiting fresh knowledge and research. Soon, the first prototypes of atmospheric container suits were created.
The Raharrs stumbled upon the Volume by accident - one of the wandering individuals had just stumbled upon a research ship and accidentally trapped himself in the ship's computer systems, getting in through the communications systems. This nearly ended in the deaths of the entire crew, as the newfound “shipboard computer” had no idea how to operate the ship and its systems. The crisis was eventually gradually resolved, but Ziort had to continue to serve as the on-board computer. Fortunately, they themselves were enthralled with what was going on, and accepted such a role. Effectively they were the first of their species to work with the Alliance. They subsequently led the research team to the area of space where the Volume itself was located, and formal First Contact was made with Ziort. The Volume occupies a fairly sizable portion of the sector ( roughly a couple of parsecs across), but 95% of the Volume is located in intergalactic space above the galactic ecliptic, away from stars and dense clusters of gas. Upon learning of the existence of an organic form of intelligence, Ziort's Volume enthusiastically accepted the invitation to join the Alliance, anticipating unique and new knowledge. Soon the first prototypes of atmospheric container suits were created, allowing the citizens of Ziort to engage with their new acquaintances fully.
 
There has been debate about their origin almost since their discovery - speculation ranges from theories of naturally occurring organisms at the dawn of the universe that eventually acquired intelligence according to the Boltzmann Brain theory, to theories declaring Ziort to be some extremely old attempt - perhaps even by the [[Ancients]] themselves - to create an unusual type of [[Technologies#Artificial_Intelligence|Artificial Consciousness]].
 
== Biology ==
== Biology ==
There are no analogs of citizen Ziort known to the Alliance. This energy mind is a unique miracle of the universe, and its structure still remains a mystery for the scientists of the Alliance. However, given the fact that one Citizen is able to fully provide power to almost any device in which he moves in, up to the spacecraft, there is a theory that what the raharr see and the rest is only a three-dimensional projection of the true Citizen of Ziort, a creature of four, and maybe five. In the space inaccessible to three-dimensional creatures, Citizen Ziort keeps a certain “bag of energy” from which she draws strength for her existence.
There are no analogues of the Ziort citizen known to the Alliance. This energy-based intelligence is a unique wonder of the universe, and its structure is still a mystery to the Alliance scientists. It is technically established that their ‘anatomy’ consists of powerful electromagnetic fields and ionised plasma, but there is no obvious structure, and the plasma does not behave as it should under given conditions, and seems to be more a consequence of the creature's existence than a proper part of it, a kind of waste byproduct. The plasma is made up of 100% hydrogen and seems to be generated from nothing. Given the nature of Ziort's citizens, it is unclear whether this is a violation of the laws of thermodynamics.


Ziort in its natural state is not able to exist near large accumulations of matter or gas with high pressure. Contact with solid substances provokes the so-called scattering effect, where an individual literally explodes with a powerful electrical storm that burns everything up to 10 meters around them. This happens at the contact of the center of the individual with any matter of sufficient density, regardless of its state of aggregation. The saturation limit of the area of ​​space that citizens of Ziort can occupy without dispersion was determined to 0.001 atmosphere. The only exceptions are metals and their derivatives. Being conductors, they are almost transparent for individuals at any density, and rather large in volume pieces of ore or mechanisms are able to “absorb” an individual who is evenly distributed over his new “body”.
Ziort in their natural state are unable to exist near large clusters of high density matter or gas, contact with solid substances triggers the so-called dissipation effect - the individual literally explodes with a powerful electrical discharge of several gigavolts. This happens when the centre of the individual contacts any matter of sufficient density, regardless of its aggregate state. The saturation limit of the area of space that can be occupied by Ziort citizens without dissipation has been determined to be 0.03 atmospheres. The only exception is purified metals. Because of their conductive properties, they act as channels that attract and ‘suck’ an individual inside themselves. If the physical volume of the metal object is not large enough, the process generates strong induction currents in the object that can eventually melt the object (which in turn provokes a dissipation effect), but if the mass of the object is sufficient, the Ziort is able to ‘fit’ there completely.


[[image: ziort_container.gif | thumb | right | 256px | Containment capsule, standard non-specialized version.]]
[[image: ziort_container.gif | thumb | right | 256px | Containment capsule, standard non-specialized version.]]
In this state, citizen Ziort becomes capable of safely interacting with a solid substance, but loses freedom of movement in return, and the only way to get out of a metal object is to destroy it into rather small fragments that are unable to hold the essence in themselves. Citizen Ziort, however, acquires full electromagnetic control over his body. If it is some kind of mechanism like a robot, it no longer requires a power source or a control program, the Citizen directly controls the servos and mechanisms of the robot. When in need, a citizen of a Ziort can change the form of even solid objects without any drives or even just hinges, bending the iron itself with powerful magnetic fields. However, this method of movement is regarded as tedious and annoying, not to mention the resulting magnetic fields of monstrous power (Up to 5 Tesla and higher, depending on the scale, magnetism and hardness of materials) around the body of a Citizen.
In this state, the Ziort Citizen becomes capable of safely interacting with solid matter, but instead loses freedom of movement and becomes a prisoner of the metal structure. If the object that captures the Citizen is a mechanism instead of an inert piece of metal, the Citizen usually gains the ability to manipulate the electronic components of the mechanism (those that did not burn out during the entry process), ‘manually’ simulating the supply of power and control signals to the appropriate circuits. Ziort's citizens demonstrated the ability to operate highly complex structures without much concentration on effort. Unfortunately, over time it became clear that this ‘confinement’ leads to a fatal outcome - the exact time depends on both the abilities of the individual and the technical features of the occupied object (in particular, the expected energy expenditure to ensure functioning), but in general, sooner or later, after several years, the intensity of the currents observed in the occupied object begins to fall rapidly, the Ziort citizen stops responding to stimuli, and then all electrical activity disappears altogether. Attempts to maintain life have not yielded any results, and attempts to connect the body to power generators may have even accelerated the process, probably due to the increased volume of metal in the system. Apparently, after being imprisoned in metal, a Ziort citizen loses the ability to generate energy for his existence, by whichever means, and spends the rest of their life on accumulated reserves, spending them, among other things, on controlling their new ‘body’. Calculating the energy required to run some of the mechanisms for that length of time implies that the citizens of Ziort have truly gigantic reserves of energy..... .. but in that case the dissipation effect would have to be considerably more destructive, releasing energy many orders of magnitude greater than that observed. It's also not clear where exactly they store these enormous amounts of energy.
Driving in cars is an extreme and usually avoided option. For regular interaction with the material world for citizens, special containment capsules were invented, preserving vacuum conditions inside themselves and allowing the citizen to interact with body systems through electrical discharges directed to special electrodes.
 
According to approximate calculations, the amount of energy that Citizen Ziort can give out at any time is equal to the amount of energy released by one star during one year. Remarkably, however,, Ziort cannot consciously dispose of this ocean of power, taking from it only relatively small portions necessary for a particular moment.
Even before the lethal property of absorption was discovered, developments were already underway for a more functional way for Ziort citizens to interact with the Alliance, leading to the invention of containment capsules. Inside them, the Ziort Citizen is contained in a vacuum, interacting with the capsule's systems through electrodes created from semiconductor composites that allow the citizens to interact with them without causing an ‘ absorption’ effect.
There is a version that "bags" can stick together with each other, which explains the unification of consciousness of several closely located Citizens. The “bag” apparently does not self-replenish, or does so very slowly, since the Citizens who had spent considerable time on managing cumbersome mechanisms began to complain about “turbidity of consciousness” and “fear of dissipation”.
 
Also, most likely, the terrible electric storm that occurs when Citizen Ziort disperses in the atmosphere is the flow of unrestrained energy from the bag, which has time to seep into our measurements for that trillionth fraction of a millisecond while the bag is connected to the three-dimensional space by the dying Citizen. The energy "bodies" of Ziort also need to be replenished with photons, for reasons not yet understood. Ziort, who entered the mechanism directly, do not feel the need for photons, apparently absorbing them directly by the surface of mechanisms. Gowever, “pure” citizens who use a suit for being in the atmosphere, without the access of photons to the “body” quickly lose their ability to control mechanics and communicate. In this regard, all suits are forced to leave the most important and fragile part of the suit - the capsule of the content - without a protective reservation, as well as to make it transparent. However, very few people are aware of the vulnerability of pure Ziort to the lack of light, and the structure of their spacesuits is considered a simple designer sophistication.
Nothing is known about the way the citizens of Zyort reproduce, as all attempts at questioning were not understood by the interviewees. From indirect and leading questions, a rough picture emerges that Ziort citizens somehow divide like protozoa, but attempts to find out the details run into the same psycholinguistic barriers.


== Military doctrine ==
== Military doctrine ==
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== Society (general mentality, special features) ==
== Society (general mentality, special features) ==
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In Ziort, the views are aimed at inert knowledge and observation of the universe, the accumulation and exchange of this knowledge as the only value available to Ziort. However, sometimes there are individuals who do not follow this philosophy and wish to actively intervene in the processes of the Universe for the sake of interest, desire or boredom. Usually, they are declared outcasts and sometimes even destroyed (Assistance to the Alliance in scientific research, however, is not considered intervention, rather as a new form of knowledge and information sharing). Such outcasts are seen more often after contact with the Alliance, but nevertheless, even with such a significant (by the standards of Ziort) increase in dissidents, it is almost impossible to meet a citizen of Ziort who is not a scientist at any laboratory.
In Ziort, views are directed towards inert perception and observation of the universe, accumulating and sharing this knowledge as the only value available to Ziort. However, there are occasionally individuals who do not follow this philosophy and wish to actively interfere with the processes of the universe for the sake of curiosity, desire, or boredom. They are usually declared outcasts, sometimes even destroyed (Helping the Alliance in scientific research, however, is not considered interference, but rather as a new form of knowledge and information exchange). The number of such outcasts has increased substantially since contact with the Alliance, but even with this substantial increase in dissenters, it is virtually impossible to find a Ziort citizen who is not a scientist in a laboratory.
The interest to biological civilizations and the desire to cooperate with them are experienced mainly by active and curious representatives of Ziort, while the richest in experience representatives prefer to float far above the ecliptic in space, showing little interest in communicating with material creatures.
 
Interest in biological civilizations and the desire to cooperate with them is felt mostly by active and curious Ziort citizens, while the more experienced ones prefer to float in space far above the ecliptic, showing little interest in communicating with material beings.


== Famous personalities ==
== Notable characters ==
* [[Character:Virus | Virus]] - Hired Special Agent (role-playing character)
* [[Character:Virus | Virus]] - Special Agent for hire


== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
* Ziort were invented for the setting, based on inspiration from the Unreal 2 game character as well as the "Virus" and "Titan AE" films.
* Ziort were invented for the setting, based on inspiration from the Unreal 2 game character as well as the "Virus" and "Titan AE" films.
* The virus was the first character created as a member of Ziort
* Virus was the first character created as a member of Ziort
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Typical relatively spherical representative in a vacuum.

Ziort's volume is a community of creatures that evolved in space, consisting of electrically charged plasma, and inhabiting mainly interstellar spaces. On the planets, they are forced to wear special suits, or capsules, so as not to dissipate in the atmosphere.

Estimated life expectancy - Indefinable. It seems that Ziort cannot die otherwise except by violence. There hasn't been a single recorded case proving the opposite.


Brief History

No one knows how the Volume of the Ziort was born, not even the Ziort themselves. Before contact with Raharrs, the Ziort did not understand the need to store historical data, since they essentially had no history. They do not remember how or when they began being sapient. The Raharrs stumbled upon the Volume by accident - one of the wandering individuals had just stumbled upon a research ship and accidentally trapped himself in the ship's computer systems, getting in through the communications systems. This nearly ended in the deaths of the entire crew, as the newfound “shipboard computer” had no idea how to operate the ship and its systems. The crisis was eventually gradually resolved, but Ziort had to continue to serve as the on-board computer. Fortunately, they themselves were enthralled with what was going on, and accepted such a role. Effectively they were the first of their species to work with the Alliance. They subsequently led the research team to the area of space where the Volume itself was located, and formal First Contact was made with Ziort. The Volume occupies a fairly sizable portion of the sector ( roughly a couple of parsecs across), but 95% of the Volume is located in intergalactic space above the galactic ecliptic, away from stars and dense clusters of gas. Upon learning of the existence of an organic form of intelligence, Ziort's Volume enthusiastically accepted the invitation to join the Alliance, anticipating unique and new knowledge. Soon the first prototypes of atmospheric container suits were created, allowing the citizens of Ziort to engage with their new acquaintances fully.

There has been debate about their origin almost since their discovery - speculation ranges from theories of naturally occurring organisms at the dawn of the universe that eventually acquired intelligence according to the Boltzmann Brain theory, to theories declaring Ziort to be some extremely old attempt - perhaps even by the Ancients themselves - to create an unusual type of Artificial Consciousness.

Biology

There are no analogues of the Ziort citizen known to the Alliance. This energy-based intelligence is a unique wonder of the universe, and its structure is still a mystery to the Alliance scientists. It is technically established that their ‘anatomy’ consists of powerful electromagnetic fields and ionised plasma, but there is no obvious structure, and the plasma does not behave as it should under given conditions, and seems to be more a consequence of the creature's existence than a proper part of it, a kind of waste byproduct. The plasma is made up of 100% hydrogen and seems to be generated from nothing. Given the nature of Ziort's citizens, it is unclear whether this is a violation of the laws of thermodynamics.

Ziort in their natural state are unable to exist near large clusters of high density matter or gas, contact with solid substances triggers the so-called dissipation effect - the individual literally explodes with a powerful electrical discharge of several gigavolts. This happens when the centre of the individual contacts any matter of sufficient density, regardless of its aggregate state. The saturation limit of the area of space that can be occupied by Ziort citizens without dissipation has been determined to be 0.03 atmospheres. The only exception is purified metals. Because of their conductive properties, they act as channels that attract and ‘suck’ an individual inside themselves. If the physical volume of the metal object is not large enough, the process generates strong induction currents in the object that can eventually melt the object (which in turn provokes a dissipation effect), but if the mass of the object is sufficient, the Ziort is able to ‘fit’ there completely.

Containment capsule, standard non-specialized version.

In this state, the Ziort Citizen becomes capable of safely interacting with solid matter, but instead loses freedom of movement and becomes a prisoner of the metal structure. If the object that captures the Citizen is a mechanism instead of an inert piece of metal, the Citizen usually gains the ability to manipulate the electronic components of the mechanism (those that did not burn out during the entry process), ‘manually’ simulating the supply of power and control signals to the appropriate circuits. Ziort's citizens demonstrated the ability to operate highly complex structures without much concentration on effort. Unfortunately, over time it became clear that this ‘confinement’ leads to a fatal outcome - the exact time depends on both the abilities of the individual and the technical features of the occupied object (in particular, the expected energy expenditure to ensure functioning), but in general, sooner or later, after several years, the intensity of the currents observed in the occupied object begins to fall rapidly, the Ziort citizen stops responding to stimuli, and then all electrical activity disappears altogether. Attempts to maintain life have not yielded any results, and attempts to connect the body to power generators may have even accelerated the process, probably due to the increased volume of metal in the system. Apparently, after being imprisoned in metal, a Ziort citizen loses the ability to generate energy for his existence, by whichever means, and spends the rest of their life on accumulated reserves, spending them, among other things, on controlling their new ‘body’. Calculating the energy required to run some of the mechanisms for that length of time implies that the citizens of Ziort have truly gigantic reserves of energy..... .. but in that case the dissipation effect would have to be considerably more destructive, releasing energy many orders of magnitude greater than that observed. It's also not clear where exactly they store these enormous amounts of energy.

Even before the lethal property of absorption was discovered, developments were already underway for a more functional way for Ziort citizens to interact with the Alliance, leading to the invention of containment capsules. Inside them, the Ziort Citizen is contained in a vacuum, interacting with the capsule's systems through electrodes created from semiconductor composites that allow the citizens to interact with them without causing an ‘ absorption’ effect.

Nothing is known about the way the citizens of Zyort reproduce, as all attempts at questioning were not understood by the interviewees. From indirect and leading questions, a rough picture emerges that Ziort citizens somehow divide like protozoa, but attempts to find out the details run into the same psycholinguistic barriers.

Military doctrine

The volume of Ziort has no military structure or organization. This does not threaten their appearance, since it is impossible and simply pointless to wage war against them. However, those citizens who get to the planet in costumes are trained in basic knowledge of self-defense and control of small arms, which can be built into the spacesuit, because it is impossible to guarantee the safety of a citizen on the planets and he dies if the suit is severely damaged.

State system

Ziort has no analogues of the state system in the material world. The definition of “anarchy” is most suitable for them, but the energy mind is so different from organic that it means, in essence only among the Citizens of the Volume, there are no principal and subordinates. Everyone lives and develops on its own, and events affecting the whole species are so rare that meeting with Raharr and joining the Alliance is the only such event in the last million years.

Society (general mentality, special features)

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In Ziort, views are directed towards inert perception and observation of the universe, accumulating and sharing this knowledge as the only value available to Ziort. However, there are occasionally individuals who do not follow this philosophy and wish to actively interfere with the processes of the universe for the sake of curiosity, desire, or boredom. They are usually declared outcasts, sometimes even destroyed (Helping the Alliance in scientific research, however, is not considered interference, but rather as a new form of knowledge and information exchange). The number of such outcasts has increased substantially since contact with the Alliance, but even with this substantial increase in dissenters, it is virtually impossible to find a Ziort citizen who is not a scientist in a laboratory.

Interest in biological civilizations and the desire to cooperate with them is felt mostly by active and curious Ziort citizens, while the more experienced ones prefer to float in space far above the ecliptic, showing little interest in communicating with material beings.

Notable characters

  • Virus - Special Agent for hire

Trivia

  • Ziort were invented for the setting, based on inspiration from the Unreal 2 game character as well as the "Virus" and "Titan AE" films.
  • Virus was the first character created as a member of Ziort