Currently, the Eternal Light Realm, which has rejoined the alliance as an independent observer zone, is recognized as the hometown of the Giants of Light.
Although it is not uncommon for races to adjust, scale, and modify their body size, within the Alliance, "Giant of Light" is widely used as a synonym for the Eternal Light Clan. This special ethnic group with polymorphic body shape, regular traits, and rational and civilized organizational structure usually has the following characteristics:
——Activities outside the Eternal Light Realm are restricted. A well-known characteristic of the Eternal Light tribe is that they cannot maintain their activities for a long time in their original form (that is, their most common colonial form) on planets with atmospheres outside the Eternal Light. This leads them to either imitate the form of the dominant local civilization creature, or to try to find a "competent person" in the local area for auxiliary activities - which they traditionally prefer to call a "human body". As of now, the White Tower considers this ability to be a subcategory of possession spells.
---Soul fusion with other independent minds. Although the unique possession spell of the Yongguang tribe usually does not change the physical state or racial characteristics of the "human body" itself, once a Yongguang tribe decides to use it as a long-term possession object, they often regard it as an eternal light. A member of the clan, a close comrade or partner. When faced with danger, the Yongguang tribe will undergo some kind of integration with their "human body" or other tribesmen. This kind of "one body and one heart" is often necessary in the inadaptable environment mentioned above, and many Yongguang tribe have also been observed to engage in "one body and one heart" and fight. It is particularly emphasized that the new individuals that emerge after the integration are regarded by other Yongguang tribes as a brand-new integration that inherits all the experiences, memories and concepts of the original body at the same time, and needs an additional new name. This shows the ambiguous side of the Yongguang tribe's individual existence. However, it is also common for them to be unable to fight together when they have different opinions (sometimes even between the incarnation of the Yongguang Clan and the original body). Theoretically, it is indeed possible for all the Yongguang clan to merge and become a single individual, but that would obviously involve huge cost and coordination issues.
——Variability of form. The body shape of the Yongguang tribe has been one of the most misunderstood matters among the public for a long time. Although the outside world generally regards their colonial form as some kind of "prototype" and is usually much larger than the average size of the intelligent races in the alliance, in fact There is no specific size limit for the Yongguang tribe. They can freely assume corresponding proportions ranging from hundreds of meters to half a meter in height. The theoretical upper and lower limits have not yet been clarified, and the actual limitations seem to depend on the performance of the clothing they use and the Yongguang tribe's own mastery of the clothing. Once stripped of their unique colonial techniques, they can literally be treated as light.
——Indefinite life span. Although the Eternal Light Tribe has a distinctive "infancy period" (approximately 4,000 standard sidereal years in the Kingdom of Light), which is reflected in its reproductive form, they will stop using similar substances after they grow to a certain stage. Developmental phenomena of life. But that doesn't mean they can achieve true immortality. Multiple cases have proven that when the Yongguang tribe encountered serious damage while fused with the colonial costume, its essence as light was also damaged, and in extreme cases, it no longer showed vitality. Another form of "death" that may occur, according to what the Yongguang tribe has announced to the outside world, is the sudden extinction it faces after "losing its faith in light", which externally manifests itself as the petrification reaction of colonization. Despite this, there are very few cases where the petrified colonial equipment has returned to its active state, so this performance can only be judged as the "incapacitation" of the Yongguang tribe. Only after the clothing is ashes and annihilated, can it be concluded that the Yongguang tribe that the clothing matches is completely dead.
——Extreme maneuverability and limited sight range. Even if they travel long distances across astral levels, many Yongguang people will not use flying equipment other than colonial equipment. Usually they transform themselves into a light mass state to travel at near or super-light speeds. It should be noted that the maximum flight speed of this form can exceed the current conventional racing spacecraft in the alliance. Therefore, when detecting the Yongguang tribe in high-speed flight, any non-special spacecraft should stop maneuvering to avoid life-threatening collision accidents - not every Yongguang tribe will carry it with them to integrate with other creatures. Life force solidification technology that unites and shares life. Furthermore, while they possess many abilities that are clearly regular in character, beyond-line-of-sight environmental awareness is clearly not one of them. Even though many technologies of the Yongguang tribe obviously have ultra-long-range effects, they still prefer to conduct an ancient-style close combat within sight range.
They are often criticized for their limited field of view and primitive combat methods (which often result in some additional environmental damage). Fortunately, they have excellent physical vision and etheric vision, which are enough to deal with most types of dangers.
The current political and cultural situation of the Yongguang people
As the administrator civilization of the Eternal Light Realm, the Eternal Light Clan lives most concentratedly in a galaxy covered by the infinite energy system "Plasma Spark Tower" and corresponding transmission optical fibers, which is what we usually refer to as the "Land of Light". Official citizens recognized in their country can be divided into three parts:
——Traditional tribe. As the main component of the Yongguang ethnic group, they can be roughly divided into three ethnic groups based on their body color after matching their colonial clothing. Due to their historical factors, this type of Yongguang tribe has retained the original social structure and traditions of rational civilization.
——"Nebula incarnation". The original non-living objects (such as planets, nebulae or specific elemental concepts) mutate to become alive, and then join the eternal light realm after being assimilated and modified by colonization.
——"The chosen one by the light". Cases of life forms from other races transformed into "giants of light". Such Yongguang people often have many unclear characteristics. If they are distinguished by their original racial composition, most of them belong to the Pansapien species. It is speculated that this is related to the preferences of their traditional tribes.
The above three parts constitute the residents of the Eternal Light Realm that the alliance now recognizes. In this unique society, we know that it has at least the following characteristics:
——The monarchy of the weak king and the strong one: Like the characteristics of most second-category civilizations, there is a clear identity and class recognition in the Kingdom of Light. The "King" is the most powerful and wise individual, and the cause-and-effect sequence between the two is currently unclear.
——Honorary family system: Except for the descendants created by the "combination of light" between the two Yongguang tribes, the Kingdom of Light also uses the title of kinship as an honorary title. Usually, "parents" are the founders and leaders in a certain field, and "children" are the successors and improvers. Those who have achieved similar achievements use "brothers" and "sisters" more often. "Parents" have the obligation to govern their "children" until they complete a major task to declare their "adulthood"; "brothers" or "sisters" have the obligation to be kind and help each other. There are cases where the Yongguang tribe and members of other civilizations or races declare each other to be "brothers". In these cases, regardless of the attitude of the other party, the Yongguang clan has always actively fulfilled their "elder brother" responsibilities without exception.
——Voluntary gender differentiation: Although there are similar differences in sexual characteristics in some forms of clothing and self-perception within the tribe, the Yongguang tribe essentially has no real need for gender differentiation. Its existing gender distinctions are presumed to be remnants of social construction from past intellectual periods. At present, the gender determination of the Yongguang people basically depends on their own concepts, so no gender and multiple genders are also possible.
——Honorary currency system: The Yongguang tribe lacks understanding of currency. They are unable to intuit the concept of lack. This is not only due to its historical reasons, but also partly due to its life form close to the ancient laws. The social consensus that it retains is considered to exist based on "treaty". Individuals who have contributed to their society, maintained the consensus morals of the society, abided by treaties, completed difficult feats, etc. are more respected within their society.
——Lifelong compulsory learning system: Schools and research institutions are one of the few facilities retained by the Yongguang people. Due to the limited degree of regularization and the restrictions of customs and habits inherited from the intellectual period, the Yongguang people cannot realize the transfer of knowledge without changing the individual composition. In addition, the traditional master-apprentice concept, which is closer to the White Tower's personal attachment apprenticeship system, has also been partially retained in the Everlight Realm. Yongguang Realm attaches great importance to the concept of "master", and the extent to which it can be regarded as Bu Tianmen can be used as a reference.
——Nationalized talent differentiation method: The Yongguang people usually decide their future development direction after finishing their public school education, and during this period they improve and solidify their colonial clothing, which is usually represented by red and blue colors on the body. , silver or other rare color stripes. The traditional domestic concept is that the red breeding equipment has more obvious ancient law characteristics and can better play the combat function of the breeding equipment; the blue breeding equipment is closer to an ether isolation device, so that the breeding equipment of this group can be protected. The ethnic group maintains stable technological research to pass on the technological heritage of its Age of Reason; since the Silver Species usually do not move alone outside the borders of Yongguang, the information about this type of Yongguang Clan has not yet been clear. However, it needs to be emphasized that with the development of colonial equipment technology and technical exchanges from the alliance, this ethnic classification is currently facing challenges - it is becoming feasible to obtain enhancements in two or more directions at the same time, and we have observed more than one case An individual of the Yongguang Tribe with both red and blue stripes appearing on the body. In addition, there are many cases of blue species performing well in combat and command tasks.
external relations
For historical reasons that we will detail later, the Alliance has a deeply divided impression of the Everlight Realm and its controllers. Modern Eternal Light Realm is willing to share all newly developed technologies after regularization, and will actively share the technology and the right to integrate it with the soul to any "people with a bright mind" - although the current standard for judging this trait is not yet clear. Another common problem is that the Yongguang Tribe's choice of short-term fitness and long-term human bodies may infringe on the sovereignty of other civilizations over their citizens. As you can imagine, this led to many of the social issues we are still discussing today.
Despite facing various challenges, due to their deep-rooted affection for pansapiens and other intellectual civilization structures, the Yongguang tribe is still very happy to serve as the first attack and sharp knife troops on the galaxy front. Core researchers from the Eternal Light Realm Academy of Sciences will even be sent to the forefront of the war zone to assist - this is a situation that is particularly rare in other realms. Another case of close cooperation between the Yongguang clan and the Alliance is the "Guardian of Light", which refers to the collective name for all security work in which both parties work together to maintain the trap zone and supervise the security, peace and development opportunities of the border area without a strong entity. This includes life-saving work. members, order maintainers, observers, etc. The "Guardians of Light" are separate from the Star Level Patrol and are not included in the regular security system. They require separate authorization and are jointly certified by the Everlight Realm and the Central City. Generally held by experienced red species.
Currently, the Eternal Light Realm is friendly and open to the alliance, and the number of its external dispatches is increasing year by year. However, in parallel with this, their overall way of thinking and acting style are showing the characteristics of gradual regularization. In the foreseeable future, we speculate that they will gradually slide towards the conventional species, until they finally become an ancient conventional group that is no different from others.
