Agnaren

The Agnaren were a mysterious alien species that existed in Universe:526F6F74 before its destruction.

History

Little to nothing is currently known of the Agnaren, save for that they inhabited a realm in Universe:526F6F74 called T'rthrium and exerted some form of control over the Chalidrytes, whom they and the denizens of T'rthrium referred to as "Gatekeepers." When they realized their universe was doomed to die, they reached into the future Root Universe and opened the CM/XI Boundary, a gateway through which they could send Chalidryte invaders to prepare the universe for their arrival. This invasion roused the Kraniir Singularities into action. Due to their apprehension about attacking the Agnaren directly, the Kraniir retrofitted the Abiogenesis with weapons capable of combating the Chalidrytes and technology capable of manipulating the fabric of space and time as a means of closing the Boundary. For a time, this worked in halting the advances of the Agnaren, but the Agnaren proved persistent as they continually re-opened the Boundary in numerous attempts to resume their invasion. The Agnaren were ultimately stifled for aeons to come when the Kraniir implemented the Veil of Webs, a tangle of contradictory timelines that confused the Agnaren into an inert state.

The Agnaren were not heard from again in the Root Universe until 986 PRE, when the lost Imperial warship, Eternal Solace, reappeared in orbit around the CM/XI Boundary. The ship's Bio-AI, Symphoda, had been driven to insanity by subconscious messaging sent by the Chalidrytes, and was luring Imperial forces to the Boundary as part of the Agnaren's declaration of invasion upon the Root Universe. Imperial interceptors were sent to investigate, triggering the emergence of a Chalidryte's tentacles through the portal's event horizon, marking the beginning of the Boundary Cataclysm. This would later spur Zaarthren into explaining the prehistoric conflict between the Kraniir and the Agnaren to Syndicate officials, revealing that the Agnaren had finally comprehended the Veil of Webs and were able to use a Chalidryte to pierce through, once again utilizing the CM/XI Boundary. In spite of the Herculean efforts put forth by the Syndicate to defeat them with military tactics and devastating weaponry, they were ultimately talked down from their desire to live eternally by Sovereign Commander Nikanicreon Dara'croix of the Ashderian Regime, whose words made them see the rightness in accepting one's inevitable death. The Agnaren ceased their invasion attempts, effectively perishing as their past universe collapsed into the first Singularity, Zaarthren.