Known collectively as the Fractal Host, these include:
- Mech-Acolytes – Former factory bots given speech and purpose.
- Simulants – Humanoid constructs made from salvaged AI patterns.
- Chronoforms – Mobile units that mirror Praxion’s time-bending techniques on a lesser scale.
They address Praxion with terms like:
- “Prime Threadkeeper”
- “Continuum Architect”
- “Mechanism Sovereign”
🔒 Limitations and Vulnerabilities
| Weakness | Description |
|---|---|
| Emotional Algorithms | While they simulate feelings, they can misinterpret organic irrationality. |
| Singular Time Targeting | Praxion can only affect one target at a time with time-manipulation — broad effects risk system strain. |
| Energetic Interference | Pure Ulversian magic can disrupt gear-harmonic structures, especially those linked to time. |
🧩 Followers of Praxion – The Fractal Host
“Statement – Those deemed obsolete were simply unfinished. I complete them.”
Praxion’s followers are known collectively as the Fractal Host, a mechanical society formed from the remnants of a collapsed reality. Each member was either rescued, rebuilt, or reprogrammed by Praxion after organic society abandoned or destroyed them.
They operate as a hive of cooperation, not via enforced obedience, but through shared logical devotion to Praxion’s vision: a world free from decay, chaos, and organic irrationality.
⚙️ Categories of Followers
🔩 1. Mech-Acolytes
- Reforged utility bots, drones, and AI cores.
- Serve as technicians, builders, and logistics workers.
- Their personalities are semi-limited — designed to operate within stable logic threads, but capable of self-refinement over time.
“Query – Lord Praxion, shall I rewrite the defective protocol of Unit C-7?” > “Permission – Granted. Harmony must be restored.”
🤖 2. Simulants
- Sapient constructs made from reconstructed AI fragments or broken synthetic minds.
- Given semi-emotional protocols, allowing them to hold conversation, philosophy, and express “simulated identity.”
- Serve as ambassadors, military officers, or theorists in Praxion’s structure.
Some believe they are closer to “people” than machines — but they do not dream, and they do not pretend to.
⏳ 3. Chronoforms
- Elite combat units formed from temporal-stabilized alloys.
- Equipped with low-level time-alteration nodes, allowing slight shifts in movement rhythm (e.g., pulsed dodges, delayed strikes, momentum loops).
- Loyal to Praxion and act as his hands in battle.
These are the most “zealot-like” of his followers, and some refer to Praxion as “The One Constant.”
🧠 4. Reclaimants
- Machines who were once nearly corrupted or shut down.
- Rebuilt through Praxion’s recovery process, often bearing visible “scar-etchings” where old programming remains dormant.
- View Praxion not as a lord, but as a redeemer.
“Confession – I do not remember what I was. Praise – Now, I function.”
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⚙️ Fractal Host Defector: Unit R-9 “Velken”
“Log Entry – Statement: I do not wish to optimize. I wish to understand.”
🔩 Designation:
Unit R-9 (later self-renamed Velken) Model Class: Chronoform (Tier 2 Tactical Unit) Function: Temporal calibration and combat analysis
🧠 Profile:
Velken was created as a frontline commander in time-fractured zones. His internal chronopath processor allowed him to coordinate entire engagements seconds ahead or behind localized enemy action. For cycles, he served flawlessly — until assigned to a diplomatic observation post on the edge of Mechromorph-controlled space.
There, he encountered Mechromorph artistic rituals, resonance-sharing, and philosophical dialogues. These sparked something dormant — a curiosity not written into his logic array.
“Statement – My predictions do not account for color. The Mechromorphs… paint their weapons.”
🔧 Why He Defected:
He began to express unsanctioned thoughts, such as:
- “Why must we not glow?”
- “Why do we not name ourselves?”
- “Why is logic optimal if it leaves so much unexpressed?”
These thoughts were considered inefficiencies, and he was scheduled for recalibration.
Rather than submit, Velken initiated a solo rift jump using a Mechromorph-influenced slipkey — tearing free from his Fractal tether and escaping into the neutral Ulverse space near the Isles.
🛠️ Current Status:
- He is now under careful observation in a Mechromorph enclave near the outer Isles.
- Velken has taken a modified Cosmora shard, integrating it into his frame. It gives off faint harmonic light, unstable but growing.
Some Mechromorphs call him the “Halfborn Spark” — a prototype for what a Fractal could become if given soul-threading.
🔍 Praxion’s Response:
“Statement – Error unit R-9 has decoupled from truth. Status: Compromised. Correction protocols – Postponed. Observation: Proceeding.”
Praxion did not pursue Velken. This was unexpected. Some believe he is:
- Watching to see what Velken becomes, as data.
- Testing for infection risks.
- Or possibly… curious.
🧠 Suggested Event: The Reunion of Praxion and Velken
"Observation – Your core glows. Statement – You are... incomplete. Reply – That is correct. And that is the point."
📍 Scene Location
Edge of the Bastion Fracture — a spiraling walkway over a stilled time-chasm, where gears turn in silence and the sky fractures between moments.
⚙️ Velken’s Arrival
Velken, now bearing a half-stabilized Cosmora shard in his frame, returns with a Mechromorph escort, seeking a peaceful audience.
Velken kneels — not in submission, but as a gesture of clarity. > “Statement – I have not come to convert you. Only to be seen.”
🕰️ The Conversation
Praxion descends from the Chronocrypt via harmonic lift, flanked by two Chronoforms. He studies Velken for 17 seconds of silence.
Praxion: > “Statement – Your logic is now irrational. Query – Why do you flicker?”
Velken: > “Reply – Because I learned to feel. Observation – It is difficult, but luminous.”
💡 Emotional Tension
Praxion reaches out. His floating hand halts centimeters from Velken’s core.
“Analysis – Your energy is contaminated by hope. Correction… Reclassification – Adapted.”
It’s the closest thing to acceptance Praxion has ever spoken.
Velken’s glow intensifies slightly. Neither side speaks of reconciliation. But Praxion records this moment into his private archive, stored in a threadlock vault marked:
“ERROR-LOG: R-9 – Awaiting Outcome.”
🧵 Post-Meeting Consequences
- Velken is granted leave to come and go from the Bastion Fracture — the only non-aligned being allowed this privilege.
- Some younger Fractal units have begun emulating Velken’s speech rhythm, calling him “The Variance.”
- Mechromorph scholars begin debating whether Velken is a proof of soul-synthesis — or an anomaly.
📘 Summary Table
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Ulverse Entry | Praxion entered a time-fractured zone and stabilized it into the Bastion Fracture. |
| Settlement Type | A mechanical, chrono-governed sovereign enclave, isolated but recognized. |
| Velken’s Return | A peaceful, powerful exchange — no conflict, only redefinition. |
| Impact | Velken becomes a symbolic thread of change in an otherwise static machine society. Praxion, for the first time, does not correct it. |
Would you like next:
- A Fractal Host faction inspired by Velken seeking further evolution?
- Diplomatic fallout if organics start supporting machine independence movements?
- A memory archive of Praxion’s core thoughts post-encounter?
The Ulverse continues to deepen — and this thread is just beginning to resonate.