Triad

	The following is based on The Agents of Gaming Strategic Game and contradicts canon sources.

The Triad are one of the First Ones, who came to the Younger Races aid at the Battle of Coriana VI using their ship the Triumviron.

Biology

The Triad are a species of three unique individual beings with a physiology that is difficult to understand. Born in the vacuum of space early on in the universe, they had incredibly advanced psychic powers. They could naturally travel through space and hyperspace under their own power, seeing through the barriers between dimensions and travel back and forth between them with ease. They could even manipulate matter and energy at a sub-atomic level, converting them into each other with a thought, but these efforts however were very difficult, and could tire them out. The more complicated the process, the more exhausting it was on the Tri's will. The subtleties in creating even the simplest form of life with their powers is beyond them, and they never reproduced via any less complicated means.

Overview

When the Triad initially formed in the universe, Lorien and his people were already old. They welcomed the Triad with open arms as if they were already family. However, the Triad themselves didn't get along with each other, and soon left their tutelage under Lorien's species to seek out answers themselves. For centuries, they explored the galaxy individually, and encountered multiple species which they attempted to help and guide as Lorien and his people did for them. The Triad eventually formed enough of a cohesive philosophy to form unique identities, mantling their beliefs as three separate aspects. One took the moniker of Order, the second became Chaos, and the last Neutrality.

Occasionally, they encountered species in the midst of conflict but avoided direct contact, preferring to create physical avatars to interact in their stead on the same level as the Younger Races. They felt that appearing to them in their true forms would be far too intimidating. When contact led to war, they would create larger avatars with simple behavioral patterns. These constructs would act as spacecraft and could "fight" the Younger Races. Not complicated to be considered alive, these autonomous units were more like extremely complicated wind up toys. Without a Tri present to continuously keep it going, these constructs would eventually break down and return to the base matter they were formed from, even if it would take time.

Order was infatuated with crystals and optics, and was fond of how prisms reflected light. All of its constructs were somewhat translucent, and they favored using light-based weapon systems like lasers and were defended with shields created by Flare Generators that appeared as auras of glowing light. Even so, it only fought its enemies as a final resort. Its passivity and favor for light earned its constructs angelic and heavenly names, such as: Cherub, Seraph, Angel, and Archangel.

Chaos was flamboyant and lacked subtlety. It liked creating constructs with vivid colors and used weapons that flaunted its power mostly using plasma, antimatter, spatial rift, and singularity weapons. It enjoying the act of intimidation of landing his powerful ships on inhabited planets. Sometimes cruel or sadistic, the constructs Chaos created earned names associated with evil and damnation such as: Imp, Fiend, Demon, and Devil.

Neutrality was fascinated in the technology of the Younger Races, and often experimented recreating the weapons they used. It made substantial use of ballistic weaponry, which both Order and Chaos deemed too wasteful, but Neutrality liked the idea of using matter drawn from itself. Energy weapons after they were fired would quickly be fully dissipated in moments, but the matter used as weapons would still remain. While this would diminish the Tri directly, that could be resolved by it re-absorbing the spent matter. Its creations used a combination of multiple ballistic weapons and powerful propulsion systems. Neutrality favored a color scheme of grays and blacks, and flew its constructs in frightening patterns. As such, its constructs earned names associated with superstitions around death and the dead: Phantom, Specter, Banshee, and Wraith.

Each dealt with conflict they encountered differently, but they all were for the same purpose: To teach the Younger Races as Lorien taught them, and to potentially learn something themselves in the process. Eventually, they reunited, resolving their past differences, and decided to travel the galaxy as the unified Triad in their new vessel, the Triumviron, anxious to teach the Younger Races from the benefit of their newly found enlightenment.

After the Kirishiac War, they however grew disillusioned with their direct involvement in the galaxy. Too many of the younger races had died in the conflict, and they believed the galaxy would be better served if they took a more passive role. By the time of the last Shadow War, the Triad had been united for millennia. They hadn't fought directly since the last war they took part in, and were content to allow other races to defend themselves. But if necessary, they would act as the galaxy's constables, and moderate any conflict be it between the First Ones or the Ancients and Younger Races.

Before the fated Battle of Coriana VI, it had been centuries before any of the Tri had created a construct besides the newest form of the Triumviron, and found that they no longer could find the energy to create anything else. They thus could only support the Younger Races humbly from their single ship.