| Class: | Non-corporeal energy life form |
| Hab: | Migrating through deep space, colonizing solar systems |
| Fre: | Extremely rare |
| Num: | Innumerable; more a collective field than individual bodies |
| Lair: | n/a |
| Size: | n/a |
| Move: | Fast as a radiowave |
| Def: | Non-corporeal; collective all-permeating entity |
| Att: | Absorbs radiation |
| Int: | Unclear; utterly alien, but possibly genius |
| Spec: | Possibly |
| Posns: | None; negative value |
(Sorry, I can't remember the story and author who deserve credit for the Waveries.)
These are an energy life form, living, cohesive wavelengths. While they are believed to actually be intelligent, their thought processes are so utterly alien that no productive communication has every been achieved.
SEE also the similarRadiation Leech.
Waveries are initially attracted to high-powered radio or other signal transmissions, but can feed off of quite a range of energies. Luckily, they only operate near the radio portion of the energy spectrum.
Waveries are mutable, although transformation takes time; various configurations absorb different energies. They can feed upon radio and radioactive energies, electrical sparks and arcs, but thankfully they do not dine visible light or the minute traces of bioelectrical energy utilized within the cells of most carbon-based life forms. Some speculate that the Waveris could, in fact, dine off of these other energies but choose not to; perhaps they "farm" material civilizations, cultivating us to produce delectable energies.
It is debated how much of an effect infestation by Waveries has on a planet's electromagnetic sphere; some fear that waveries are responsible for the loss of atmosphere-protecting electromagneticospheres of many a once-lush planet while others suggest that symbiont Waveries actually reinforce the environment-protecting electromagnetic shell. It is likely that different colonies of Waveries have different effects; whether this is due to innate species differences or due to mutable cultural differences is under debate.
Once the waveries infect an environment, be it a ship or a world, it simply is not possible to transmit large amounts of wave-energy. This spells disaster to higher technologies. Infested ships must be destroyed. Infested worlds can be quarantined, but safe access to and from such a world is dangerous and expensive; some advocate cleansing such worlds, because, as high as the cost of that might be, in humanitarian as well as economic terms, civilization simply cannot accept the risk of the spread of the plague of waverie infection.
To expunge an infestation of waveries, it is necessary to completely eliminate all electrical activity, enough so that the waveries lose hope of any further food. This can take some time. Alternatively, it may be possible to flush them out with a thorough blast-shower of incompatible cross-waves.
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