On the subject of trivia about aliens I made up:
B-3-K is an observer construct of the Cluster, which is from the same space opera 'verse as the Mo'e-Mo'e, so here's some trivia about it that nobody wants or asked for.
- B-3-K and the Cluster also originated from that online roleplay I was involved in. While there it was an antagonist, an inscrutable alien presence bent on exterminating all life in the universe simply to see if it could, this current version is more of a neutral, if rather snarky and condescending, observer.
- My original version of B-3-K was a herald construct, and her purpose was to appear on worlds targeted by the Cluster and inform them of their impending extinction using a form they would recognize. She was a lot of fun to write for, since her only apparent mood was "sarcastic condescending asshole" and she could say whatever she wanted since any attempt to shut her up would be potentially catastrophic. (Not that it would achieve anything anyway, since she also wasn't alive in the first place and the only way to get rid of a construct is if the Cluster deletes it for some reason.)
- Clarke's Third Law is entirely in effect when it comes to the Cluster; it's so mind-bogglingly advanced by the standards of the rest of the setting that nobody has any idea how it can do the things it does, and some suspect that it may even predate the formation of the universe entirely.
- I've always deliberately refused to come up with an actual explanation for the exact nature of the Cluster, even for my own private use, since I want to keep it as weird and mysterious as possible. The closest I've come to describing what it is is a character seeing one of its non-humanoid constructs and describing it as painful to look at and looking like "physical math."
- Rather than using captive wormholes or Alcubierre-type drives to travel interstellar distances like the other races of the galaxy, the Cluster's constructs instead use holes opened in the fabric of reality itself. Looking through one of these holes is not recommended, since most beings' brains are not capable of processing what they'd see. While catching a glimpse of what's outside our observable reality isn't likely to drive one insane, it does commonly cause headaches, disorientation, and nausea.
- The Cluster's constructs are typically composed of some sort of unclassified exotic matter encased within a protective field. If this field is breached, then the construct disintegrates and the exotic matter (dubbed, for lack of a better term, "Cluster particles") instantly and violently annihilates everything it comes into contact with.
- Nobody knows where the Cluster's homeworld is, or if it even has one. Many who are aware of its existence suspect that it actually exists outside our universe entirely.
- Given that I've played around with the idea of all my creative works existing within a big shared multiverse, my original genocidal Cluster and my current neutral Cluster could conceivably be one and the same, interacting with multiple universes simultaneously but behaving differently in each one; like the cosmic equivalent of a bored kid watching ants on one section of sidewalk while also burning them with a magnifying glass on another.
- B-3-K's name, as well as that of the Cluster itself, are references to Lexx.
