True Harkas
The Harkas species originated as a precursor faction, however, none of their assets are left behind following the events of the Starsong incident as all biological life was eliminated during the incident.
The True Harkas made an agreement with the Cynar to make one of their Cyber Spheres re-seed their species after the incident. This cyber sphere in question was Binary Targos. Despite their extreme differences, both precursor factions have formed alliances with each other and have become quite close.
The original Harkas were much more powerful than current however. Their hivemind ability allowed them to communicate superluminally and even take control of other's bodies, but that was limited to about 3 different individuals simultaneously. They also had psionic powers, allowing them to engineer organisms that could utilise such powers. Some of their bioships could, for example, use psionics to destroy gluons in a target, causing them to undergo a nuclear explosion, even in objects such as Scattershapes.
The original harkas species was a spaceborne creature that could vary uts heat dissipation massively due to the use of a QEN - like symbiotant that allowed them to radiate a perfect amount of heat from their radiator regardless of incomming ray intensity. These required a fair amount of energy, but allowed them to survive in both the outerworlds and innerworlds of almost any star system if they wanted to.
They had to use Cynar Preservers to continue their legacy past the Starsong Incident.
The true harkas were also quite large, growing to a maximum of 50 m, which is about half the size of a scattershape. This allowed them to support a very large brain. Due to being able to modify their own genome, the true harkas made every process of their biology very efficient as well as the organisms they engineered. They emit very little waste but still had an average metabolism rate. This gave them a massive amount of energy to use, primarily in the brain, causing the true harkas to think very quickly and attain hyperintelligence. Any waste they did emit was usually in a very low energy state, in very high entropy (usually as a gas). No other precursor could rival their skills in bioengineering and manipulation of other people.
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