Board Thread:Planning/@comment-4844180-20130721230302/@comment-4068313-20130722020935

As for the Anathema, I have an idea (based off of both Undead and Avet's ideas). I think we should have the Anathema as nanobots that "eat" energy out of things by assimilating them and turning them into basically synthetic versions of what they once were. Once all the energy was "eaten", they would coalesce the assimilated stuff into a single massive shpere and then release all the energy of that sphere to stop the heat death. They could regenerate via nanobot replication, they wage war using assimilated races and ships, and they synthesize planets to the core to gain the energy (which would lead to many planets losing habitability due to becoming synthetic wastelands). Generals of the Anathema would be the equivalent of routers, minor controllers that input signals from Sunt himself. The ships could have major versions of these routers so that Sunt's commands can be spread across the galaxy quickly and effeciently.