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Name: The Straumli Blight
Origin: Zones of Thought
Classification: Disembodied superintelligence
Age: Over five billion years old
Population: At least billions (likely much higher due to the population density of the Beyond)
K - Level: At least Type II (much smaller and more primitive civilizations use Dyson swarms)
Technology/Abilities: Exists as sapient information and spreads like a virus through information transfer, takes control of intelligent machines and living creatures that are exposed to it, FTL travel (at least several million times the speed of light) and communications, strategic weapons capable of destroying planetsand stars, extensive use of sapient artificial intelligences and fully automated devices, nanotechnology (mainly used for construction and sabotage), antimatter weapons, forcefields, biological engineering (created the Skroderider race the last time it was active), antigravity materials capable of suspending moon sized structures in low orbit
Weaknesses: Requires high level information transfer to spread itself and maintain direct control over its victims
Industrial Capacity: Built a moon sized structure in less than a year and claimed to be capable of redistributing the mass of entire solar systems, a lesser Power like Old One could build thousands of ships in a few days
Holdings: A significant portion of the Milky Way
Notable Individuals:
Notable OBD Victories:
Notable OBD Losses:
Other: This profile covers the Blight outbreak seen in A Fire Upon the Deep
, which was only around for a year before being crippled by the Countermeasure. The Blight was also active five billion years before the events of the novel, but its size and capabilities back then are largely unknown.
Name: The Straumli Blight
Origin: Zones of Thought
Classification: Disembodied superintelligence
Age: Over five billion years old
Population: At least billions (likely much higher due to the population density of the Beyond)
K - Level: At least Type II (much smaller and more primitive civilizations use Dyson swarms)
Technology/Abilities: Exists as sapient information and spreads like a virus through information transfer, takes control of intelligent machines and living creatures that are exposed to it, FTL travel (at least several million times the speed of light) and communications, strategic weapons capable of destroying planetsand stars, extensive use of sapient artificial intelligences and fully automated devices, nanotechnology (mainly used for construction and sabotage), antimatter weapons, forcefields, biological engineering (created the Skroderider race the last time it was active), antigravity materials capable of suspending moon sized structures in low orbit
Weaknesses: Requires high level information transfer to spread itself and maintain direct control over its victims
Industrial Capacity: Built a moon sized structure in less than a year and claimed to be capable of redistributing the mass of entire solar systems, a lesser Power like Old One could build thousands of ships in a few days
Holdings: A significant portion of the Milky Way
Notable Individuals:
Notable OBD Victories:
Notable OBD Losses:
Other: This profile covers the Blight outbreak seen in A Fire Upon the Deep
, which was only around for a year before being crippled by the Countermeasure. The Blight was also active five billion years before the events of the novel, but its size and capabilities back then are largely unknown.Note: Some links on this page are affiliate links where, at no further expense to you, I receive a small commission should you make a purchase.