Portal:Ghorax

"You can never truly destroy us, mortals. Organic or synthetic, we will always return in the form of a new incarnation to continue our roles. Soon, your fate will be judged."

- Admiral Norpobzy

The Harbingers were a powerful species that inhabited the Milky Way Galaxy for thousands of years. Until their recent extinction, they were the most feared civilization of the galaxy.

Overview
The Harbingers of Omni 01 are a collective intelligence. Their raw form is purely a collection of cybernetic materials that parasitically attaches itself to an organic being. All Harbingers are linked to one another - they generate microwormholes inside a metallic compartment that transfers radio signals to other Harbingers. The Harbinger language as a result is only heard as a series buzzing, electronic sounds.

After implanting another organic being, the Harbinger takes complete control of the mind of the individual, turning them into another Harbinger. This is their only means of reproduction, and as a result, when they invade other civilizations, they frequently take prisoners for conversion. However, they can only perform this conversion in secured, controlled areas.

Technology
The Harbingers are a highly advanced empire having incredible technology. They had built an empire surrounding the dangerous galactic core. At the time, no other species were able to defeat them as they were unable to approach the Harbingers' main strongholds due to the gravity wells of the area.

Military
On the ground, their siege force primarily consists of enormous tripods about 400 meters tall. These machines are cabale of firing streams of molten metal - they were engineered to be able to attack large metropolises.

In space, their fleet primarily consists of enormous dreadnauts about three miles across.

Conversion
Harbingers reproduce by implanting other organic beings. These cybernetics overtake the minds of the organic, turning them into a thrall.

The conversion process takes time. First the Harbinger attacks different brain functions, trying to redirect their thoughts to carry out other actions. As the Harbinger overtakes them, the organic being begins resemble their original appearance far less until they become a grotesque, warped version of themself.

Colonies
Harbinger colonies around the Galactic Core Zone will be giant space stations enclosed in a protective forcefield against the intense gravity wells. However, they will capture and destroy planets as need be as even they need to establish themselves outside the core to carry out their tasks. They will often invade garden planets with species who had recently achieved space travel (such as Earth) in order to not only take advantage of the planet's resources, but also the local species itself to create more Harbingers.

History
Soon enough, the Harbingers deemed the race, known as the Omni, too powerful and proceeded to destroyed them. Originally, they had planned to destroy the Milky Way in one swift blow by building a device that could split the Locubrermour in two. A rogue Harbinger named Gro'zorg along with an Ancient adventurer destroyed the machine though Gro'zorg perished. It is said that after these events, the Harbingers were forbidden from attempting to destroy galaxies again.

Although the Harbingers' attempt to destroy the galaxy was foiled, they would eventually destroy the Omni after several thousand years. There is currently not enough evidence to prove that the Omni went extinct as some of them may have survived by leaving to other galaxies. The Harbingers still persisted back in the Milky Way, constantly warring with powerful empires such as the Karnasaur Meritocratic Federation.

Sometime in the late 1980s, the Harbingers attacked the planet Earth to create a ranch that could replenish their numbers. This event known as the War on Earth resulted in the endangerment of the human race, but remained a critical turning point in the Harbinger Wars.

The Harbingers at one point also attacked the vast Delson Hegemony, reducing it to only a shadow of its former size. They were however stopped at the Delson Homeworld by the combined Delson/Scorpio Ultimus forces at the Delson city of Galiana (City).

Eventually, the Harbingers had become very weakened after thousands of years of empires trying to fight them. The Karnasaurs had dealt major blows against them for the past several thousand years, but were unable to finish the war themselves. Sometime later, the Dhragolon Federal Monarchy and the Eteno Imperial Triumvirate had developed the tech to safely approach the galactic core (aside from entering the core itself) which allowed them to combine forces to destroy the Harbingers' empire. This also lead to the forced retreat of the Harbingers threatening the Delson Hegemony, to try, in vain, to halt the Dhragolon/Eteno advance. This left the Harbingers as nothing more than a group of renegades.

One year before the Fourth Age, the last remnants of the Harbingers in Omni 01 had disappeared with the exception of Renr Gron. The Fourth Age would begin and a new Galactic Senate was formed, but little did mortals know of the consequences of their actions.

After the death of Renr Gron, the Harbingers became officially extinct. A new civiliation that will take their place remains to be chosen.