Original Question:

Hey i'm just curious about something to do with the Cree'ar. I was wondering if there was an R&D for the portal things used by the Cree'ar in their invasion, or if maybe you could give a short explanation or the like.

Also second was just a quick clarification that the things that attacked Kashan were reavers or Cree'ar?


My Answer:

There is not exactly a Cree'Ar R&D. Their Arbiter craft create wormholes for their fleets so the concept is there. The Black Dragon Empire, however, I believe does have a wormhole system in place for their worlds prior to abandoning [them] and I believe I mentioned that it was the Cree'Ar association with BDE that allowed them the specs or a way to create wormholes for troop movements.

You might look for a BDE R&D but I think the BDE technology is about breaking down someone and putting them back together as a husk or daemun. The Cree'Ar would not want to be turned into Daemun using BDE technology directly which is why they simply were shown the concept and took it from there.

Reavers do not use wormhole technology. They utilize BDE's conventional warships left behind since only daemun/assembler technology would follow the Taj into the Tion Cluster.

Therefore, the attackers on Kashan are Cree'Ar. I don't know if you have ever seen this old Sci-Fi series but think "Sliders". But instead of a vortex-like wormhole sliding between dimensions, it is a shimmering (hard to notice) glassy [orifice] that appears to have the enemy step out of... you can look at a wormhole directly and not see it unless something else was in it's way separating the slight shimmering of the orifice making it stand out.

I said, "Spider-like" creatures and to give you an idea of what I was thinking of, you have to have been a player of Starcraft. The Protoss had a heavy influence on Ahnk in creating the Cree'Ar. There was this cybernetic spider that shot plasma from a cannon that swivled 360° made of up crippled Protoss or dead Protoss... I don't remember the story.

Well, in this instance, these things are called Tek’a’tara and they also are created reanimating the corpse of dead enemy or cripples or whatnot (point is the Nexus (basic element of Cree'Ar technology) uses biological material to create these things (not all Tek'a'tara are warriors or soldiers...they do menial work as well)... but this sort of limited their numbers..this need for biological material. So now, using Force Energy instead of dying/decaying biological material, they can animate inert materials to create these cybernetic servants which, the more force energy they can collect, the near seemingly endless numbers of these soldiers they can make.

It is these new numbers that are stepping through the wormholes and striking all over Kashan in large numbers.



Further Clarification: Tek'a'tara (in my opinion) do not all look like the Protoss Spiders in Starcraft. They can have different looks for different functions because not all Tek'a'tara have a soldiering function but are also servants, slaves, workers, etc... The Tek'a'tara I have written attacking in Cataclysm do look like the Protoss Spider thingies...


Disclaimer: Ultimately anything Cree'Ar rests with Ahnk's final judgment as they are his creation. What I have described and written represents only my understanding of what Ahnk has written so far and the reference material he has written about the Cree Ar (which, truth be told, should probably be made public (if it hasn't already) because it really is awesome).

Original Question:


The Reavers, would they be like the Firefly ones or more like the Daemun soldiers R&D?



My Answer:

Imagine the madness of the rage victims of 28 Days Later, except, instead of rage, it is the absence of the Taj and his "overmind" or all-knowing-controlling network which have quite literally made them quite mad.

The base programming is one of survival and there is some semblance of AI logic... which keeps the highly virulent part of them (those biological parts of mutated Phage/BioLogic which, I imagine are extremely virulent) [in check].


The techno-part of the Reavers allows them to operate ships to some ability (like Reavers of Firefly) but they are not strategic masterminds or anything like that. They simply overwhelm or mass against enemies reliant on their ability to kill or infect them.

I was just making it up as I go... so I am not setting any hard-fast rules here... just gave an overview and leave enough space for people to put their own tweaks on them if they want.


Clarification: I may not have really answered the question but a Reaver is half/half. They retain some daemun qualities.

They have their own network to communicate with each other (through Daemun tech-side of things and they are sensitive to holonet frequencies. If you use a holonet in their space, they will know it and know where you are. Will they be close enough to do anything about it or are they inclined to do anything about it is anyone's guess.