Zroni Shrine

Finding and communicating with the Psionic Archives has become much easier now. Contact can be made as soon as our expedition lands, at which point we can access more detailed records and concepts. From what we have learned here, some things are too good to be true - and so it was with the godhood granted to the Zroni by the Shroud.

The energy required to power the vast changes in the Shroud's composition had to come from somewhere, and for them it originated from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. As the Zroni made their changes within the Shroud, so the singularity expanded: consuming the mass of the galactic center and converting it into energy which was then siphoned into the Shroud. This discovery shook the Zroni: debate turn to argument; arguments led to division; division turned to civil war between their two main factions.

Further details of the Zroni civil war factions have been extracted from the crystal. One faction - which came to be known as "The Divine" - felt that the fate of the physical galaxy was of no concern to the Zroni, who could continue their omnipotent existence in the Shroud until the entire galaxy was consumed in some unimaginably far off future. Even then, there are other galaxies, perhaps even other universes which could conceivably be consumed.

The other faction, "The Saviors", were aghast at this; the Zroni should not destroy the galaxy to live as parasitic gods! Even outside of the Shroud, their Psionic abilities guaranteed them a utopian existence.

The location of a Zroni research outpost was included in the torrent of data.