Androsynth
The Androsynth are engineered creatures made (and mistreated) by humans.
Ship	Guardian
Homeworld	Eta Vulpeculae II
Contacts	Humans, Orz, Kzer-Za
Quotes	Seldom speak

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Overview

The Androsynth ("false men") are a group of super-intelligent homo sapiens clones. Genetically engineered for intellectual superiority, they were nonetheless denied equal rights and forced into a life of work. As a result they grew to harbour deep hatred for their imprisoners. They finally went renegade, escaping Earth in one large movement, having secretly invented (and kept hidden) hyperspace travel before the Earthlings themselves. The race then found a new home in the Vulpecula constellation and allied with the Ur-Quan in their Hierarchy of Battle Thralls, hoping to blow away a few of their old oppressors. Human beings are defined variously in biological, spiritual, and cultural terms, or in combinations thereof. ... Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an original. ... The Equal Rights Party was a Canadian political party that nominated two candidates in the 5 March 1891 federal election. ... Hate or hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, enmity, or antipathy for a person, thing, or phenomenon; a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy its object. ... In science fiction, hyperspace is any region of space co-existing with our own universe (in some cases displaced in an extra spatial dimension) which may be entered using some sort of energy field or space-altering method. ... Vulpecula, being Latin for Fox, is a faint northern constellation located in the middle of the Summer Triangle, an asterism consisting of the bright stars Deneb, Vega and Altair. ... Orion is a remarkable constellation, visible from most places on the globe at one time or another during the year. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... In the game Star Control, this was the name of the species that served the Green Ur-Quan, the Kzer-Za. ...

Fate

However, an Earthling exploration vessel intent on meeting with the Androsynth entered the system many years later, finding the apparent remains of the Androsynth civilization on the second planet. Not a single Androsynth, dead or alive, was found among the scraps of their buildings and technology. Rumours spread, citing Androsynth to have again made a great leap of technological prowess, which had for unknown reasons resulted in the disappearance of the entire race this time. The recently-appeared Orz seemed to know something about the vanishment, but were unwilling to the point of hostility to discuss the matter. The fate of the Androsynth remains a mystery. The Orz are a fictional race of beings featured in the sci-fi Star Control computer game series. ...

Androsynth Guardian

The Guardian ship is of curious design, yet its asymmetrical appearance hides a powerful set of features. The ship's primary weapon fires a scattering of bubbles, that wade towards the enemy with a degree of randomness. The second mode of attack, however, turns the ship into a blazing comet, that — given enough weapon energy — speeds through the battlefield and rams the foe to scrap. When it runs out of weapon energy it reverts to the regular form. Symmetry is a characteristic of geometrical shapes, equations and other objects; we say that such an object is symmetric with respect to a given operation if this operation, when applied to the object, does not appear to change it. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with taran. ...

A standard tactic for the Androsynth Guardian dictates forming a protective cloud of bubbles and hiding behind it until the enemy ship is close enough to be battered to death using the comet form. Obviously, the tactic becomes effete when facing a ship that renders the protective cloud useless — such as a Chenjesu Broodhome, which can simply shoot right through the bubbles. The Chenjesu are a fictional race of aliens from the sci-fi computer game Star Control. ...