Difference between revisions of "Figment"

It's unknown just how broad their range is; so far, they've shown themselves capable of smelling like ammonia, cinnamon,{{book ref|sky2|20}} wet metal, mint,{{book ref|sky2|21}} lemons,{{book ref|sky2|32}} flowers, rain,{{book ref|sky2|36}} hot spices and rotting fruit. Cinnamon and ammonniaammonia seem to be default states, and rotting fruit denotes sorrow; the meanings of other smells are unknown.{{book ref|sky2|i|3}}

Despite their nature as gasses, figments are capable of moving through the vacuum of space, and can assume control of technology and machinery, overriding regular command systems.{{book ref|sky2|40}} They also seem have the capacity to be [[cytoniccytonics]]s.{{book ref|sky2|25}} They're very long-lived, with some figments who fought in the Second [[Human War]] still around a century after the third.{{book ref|sky2|25}} Fittingly, they reproduce very slowly.{{book ref|sky2|20}} While it's unknown whether they have biological sexes, they usually prefer to be referred to as male or female.{{book ref|sky2|17}}{{book ref|sky2|i|3}}

Centuries ago, figments possessed technology comparable to that of humanity. Perhaps due to this, the two allied during the First [[Human War]].{{book ref|sky2|35}} Figments also participated in the Second Human War, though it's unclear on which side, as at some point, the two species became at odds.{{book ref|sky2|25}} Throughout the wars, many figments died, and their numbers remain low to this day.{{book ref|sky2|20}} Following the third war, they joined the [[Superiority]], and were forbidden to use most of their advanced techtechnology.{{book ref|sky2|33}} Much of that technology appears to have been completely forgotten, as the Superiority seems to have been unfamiliar with the advanced holograms figment technology could generate until they disassembled [[M-Bot]].{{book ref|sf2|20}}

In the present, figments work for the Superiority, and it's commonly believed among the empire's citizens that all of them are secret government agents. Whether or not that's true, they're often involved in investigations of high-level internal Superiority politics.{{book ref|sky2|20}} They maintain, however, that their work doesn't include assassination.{{book ref|sky2|25}} Even after escaping from the Superiority, [[Cuna]] notes that they have allies among the figments, though they have no means of contacting them.{{book ref|sf3|2}}