Anomine
Names: AnomineAnom-ine
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
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B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 2The Anomine split two millennia ago into post-physical elevated ones and retroevolved pastoral ones, and have no known construction site for the Dyson generators.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 11The Anomine built the Dark Fortress; the factory that built it has never been located.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 10The Anomine developed through normal biological evolution to FTL and replicator technology, reunited their blocs after the Prime threat, and most eventually went postphysical.
- Ch 10The remaining Anomine live in simple farm villages rather than their empty, perfectly maintained cities.
- Ch 10Sentient Anomine AIs guard the Anomine's information and will not allow retrieval.
- Ch 16The Anomine descend from a once-advanced technological civilization whose ancestors elevated and left the universe; those who remained chose a natural, low-technology life.
- Ch 16The Anomine life cycle runs from neutral youngsters to adult females to elder males, each stage about twenty-five years; few live past eighty.
- Ch 16They preserve history through oral storytelling at gatherings rather than writing, which Gore thinks will distort their history.
- Ch 16Anomine are tall, scale-skinned, antennae-eyed aliens with triple-segment legs and clam-like mouths; skin color shows age.
- Ch 16The remaining Anomine believe they may eventually sink back to simpler minds so the planet can bring forth successors, or may live on in harmony with it.
- Ch 16The Anomine's sophisticated ancestors left their colony worlds, returned, and used elevation mechanisms to become postphysical; those who stayed behind are content as custodians of their life.
- Ch 16The Anomine acquired the Dyson Pair force field generators from the Raiel and moved them using a planet-sized FTL system.
- Ch 20Thousands of Anomine teleport into the plaza in every city as the nova approaches, and the elevation mechanisms offer elevation to the whole species.
Connections
- inAnomine homeworld
- has memberTyzak
- has memberFozif
- related toAnomine citycity AI responds only to Anomine minds
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 16Meeting Tyzak
The Delivery Man lands near an Anomine village, greets the elder Tyzak through a translator, and learns the Anomine reject technology by choice and preserve history through stories.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Gore's elevation
Using the nova's power through the Anomine elevation mechanism, Gore transcends and shares the method with the Firstlife and the Heart, showing an alternative to Ilanthe's inversion.