Respect the Photino Birds (Xeelee Sequence)

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The Xeelee Sequence is a series of books by Stephen Baxter, a science fiction author with a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University and a PhD in aerospace engineering from Southampton University.

Photino birds are made out of dark matter, which outweighs regular matter by a factor of six, and are spread throughout the entire universe. However, the Xeelee Sequence universe is finite in size.

Photino birds are also sometimes referred to as photino fish.

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Characteristics

• Photinos are supersymmetric versions of photons

Individual

• Juvenile photino birds are lens-shaped dark matter beings about fifty yards across

  • Another human interprets them as fish-like beings about fifty meters across

• Can divert the flow of photons in the cores of stars

  • Feed on photons at the center of the Sun
  • Divert photons in an attempt to feed someone else

• Adult photino birds are huge tangled towers of dark matter living in the halos of galaxies

• Photino birds enter stars in order to mate and lay their eggs

  • Need to breed in locations with high densities of regular matter like the cores of stars
  • Reproduce within a second by leaving behind small copies of themselves

Species

• Congregate in flocks of millions

• Have been around since soon after the Big Bang

• Comprise a group mind that extends across the entire species

  • Carry copies of all their parents' memories back to the beginning of the species
  • Are all born with a single racial purpose that overcomes any individuality

Modified Old Earth

Some photino birds are modified by humans on a time-shifted Earth. For more on Old Earth, see the corresponding section of the Late Humanity Respect Thread.

• Can be modified to become symbiotic with humans

• Modified photino birds can visibly mimic human forms

• Can merge with humans and maintain their memories over thousands of years

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Attack Potency

• Can fly through regular matter and potentially damage it

• Destroy ships by flying into them and overloading their masses, including Spline. For comparison, Spline regularly fly inside stars. For more on Spline, see their Respect Thread

• Cause minor seismic activity by flying through Earth

• Create geologic upheaval and volcanism by lodging in a planet

  • Cause all of the planet's tectonic fault lines to break at once

• Use their gravity to cut the cosmic string of the Ring. For comparison, a one-inch length of cosmic string has a mass of ten quadrillion tons

Galaxies

• Throw entire galaxies as weapons

  • Throw ten million galaxies at the Ring

• Build a massive cavity of galaxies as an inertial bomb around the Ring to destroy it

  • Eventually succeed at destroying the Ring
  • For comparison, the Ring is ten million light-years across and has a mass of tens of thousands of galaxies

War Capacity

• Return to the center of the Galaxy within a day after humanity drives out the Xeelee

• Stream towards the Ring from hundreds of millions of light years away

  • The concentration of photino birds around the Ring is so dense that it's measurable from the Milky Way

• Defeat the Xeelee, who used the entire universe’s resources and manipulated their own history back to the Big Bang. For more on the Xeelee, see their Respect Thread

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Durability

• Live inside the cores of stars

• Are immune to bullets, shells, and energy beams

• Are unaffected by electromagnetic radiation

  • This includes immunity to currents of a hundred quintillion amps

• Can only be affected by spacetime effects, including gravitation

• However, they can be contained by Xeelee construction material

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Speed

• Use dark matter ships miles wide

• Fly between stars

• Have a hyperdrive that lets them travel all around the Ring in a timeframe of hours

  • For comparison, the Ring is ten million light-years across

• All FTL ships are time machines

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Stellar Engineering

• Photinos slowly take away energy from the center of the Sun

  • Suppress the central temperature of the Sun
  • Significantly lower the temperature at the center of the Sun and extinguish it
  • Shorten the lifespan of the Sun from billions of years to millions, having already killed it long ago

• Cause stars to age a thousand times faster

• Dim the Lesser Magellanic Cloud so that it's no longer visible from Earth

• Degrade the entirety of the Sloan Great Wall, which is five hundred million light-years long

Supernovae

• Cause a star with the mass of a hundred Suns to go supernova early

• Set off chain reactions of supernovae

  • Make supernovae go off for a million years, sterilizing all regular matter life

Universal Engineering

• Skim away gas from nebulas so that they form fewer large stars

• Tinker with galaxy structures to cause ten times more red dwarf stars to form than yellow ones

• Undergo a universal project to turn all stars into white dwarfs

  • Began the remodeling of all Main Sequence stars in the universe only a few million years before the present day
  • Remove all stars from the Main Sequence within five millions years from now

• Aren't actively malevolent, but just trying to create a better universe for themselves

[u/Accurate-Cut7029 → u/[deleted]]

So, for the nigga birds the time is nothing , and knowing that they are a type 5 , they literal can trow galaxies in 0000000000000001 seconds  

[u/Accurate-Cut7029 → u/[deleted]]

The technology of the nigga birds is awesome ! And is beatiful that they care about the inferior races ! They even trow galaxies to the ring just because the inferior races would die if the xeeles cut his galaxies in half 😊

[u/Accurate-Cut7029 → u/[deleted]]

Lil bro , do you even read a part of the page of rescpect , they can interact with normal matter , and the ICOG represent all Latam ! They are so pacifist , they even protect and have childs with the silver ghost , so beatiful 😊😊😚

[u/Accurate-Cut7029 → u/[deleted]]

Eres de Latam?? , entonces que significa are beatiful as hell !, they are so shiny , even a army of niggas would be scared of a single ghost 😊

[u/Accurate-Cut7029 → u/[deleted]]

What are the downstreamers doing here 

[u/Accurate-Cut7029 → u/[deleted]]

They are big ass astronauts that have to think 1000 years just to think a single word 

[u/Accurate-Cut7029 → u/[deleted]]

Que significa esto ; me gusta la verga negra !!

[u/Accurate-Cut7029 → u/[deleted]]

What video ?