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The subject of this article is from the Prisms update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 31 August, 2021.

First Spawn is a lore page.

Summary[ | ]

The First Spawn is an ancient Gek empire, and a name of a sub-species of the Gek that has dominated nearly the entire Euclid galaxy. The other Gek sub-species was named "Low Spawn." The plaques of the Korvax and Gek help provide an understanding of these early races and their history.

Expansion and the peak of power[ | ]

Gek were once led by an impulsive and aggressive First Spawn that observed the ongoing war between Vy'keen and the Sentinels. When Vy'keen finally won The Endless War, starting Silence of the Sentinels, the First Spawn proceeded with their first invasion of an alien race. This is known as The Great Disconnection to the Korvax. During this, the Korvax's main neural networking hub, the Convergence, was almost completely annihilated and their home and capital planet, Korvax Prime, was itself shredded into asteroid-esque chunks, killing billions of unborn and elderly Korvax alike whose deaths were collectively witnessed by the survivors. The Aerons tried to help, but failed the Korvax that worshiped them so dearly, resulting in their banishment by Atlas and replacement by the modern-day Sentinels.

The Outer Edge BURNS at the hands of the Gek First Spawn. Our enemies are broken. We are the extinguishers of hope. In our wake we leave only the lamentations of the conquered. We fear NOTHING.
~ Gek Plaque

Enslaving the majority of the members of the Korvax species was seen by the First Spawn as an act of "mercy," when the Korvax were put into horrific conditions of slavery, abused, and neglected even into destruction, with their robotic bodies stripped, examined, and melted down into more equipment for the First Spawn's war effort.

In the spawning pools of Balaron, hundreds of enslaved Korvax entities sacrificed themselves in desperation and used their Nanite Clusters (which run in Korvax "veins" like blood) to rewrite the genetic code of First Spawn embryos. They installed the devotion to the Atlas in their minds and made them into a commerce-focused race instead of conquerors and warriors. This created the modern Gek race, and ultimately led to the downfall of the First Spawn Empire.

Korvax Priesthood[ | ]

Later, the Korvax's Atlas Priesthood began to quietly gain the trust of (and eventually convert) members of the Gek merchant community. There even came a point where certain high-ranking emissaries of the Gek were personally brought to the interfaces of the (then-dormant) Atlas, where, as a result of their altered genetics, the once fanatically devoted individuals became humbled by their insignificance in comparison to this infinite deity-machine. Eventually, as the new Gek became more numerous, members of the merchant community began to question the First Spawn's methods, beliefs, and sanity.

Internal Uprising[ | ]

An entire uprising then took place where the highly coordinated Korvax laborers began to openly rebel from within the Dominion's centre with almost no response from local garrison forces. Crippled by this sudden loss of production, the unedited First-Spawn's forces turned inward in an attempt to shut the rebellion down, only to be met with sudden and confusing resistance from dissident governors and once-compliant merchants.

Now crippled financially and industrially, the First Spawn were promptly set upon by the resurgent Sentinels (no longer the Aerons), having been "reincarnated" by Atlas after their failure during the Disconnection. Sandwiched between a dissident homeland and a merciless aggressor, the First Spawn's now-irreplaceable forces were crushed flat, culminating in a final particularly violent rebellion on Balaron where the First-Spawn's specially crafted spawning pools were dredged of their infants and dried, leaving them to expire gasping in the sand. With the elimination of the last few holdouts within the Dominion, the Merchant class of the Gek declared the Korvax's freedom, allied with them and their "God" Atlas, and stagnated their borders to their present extent, solidifying the new Gek Trade Federation as a vast corporate juggernaut rather than as an expansionistic empirical junta.

Possible Return[ | ]

Some NPC interaction added in the Atlas Rises update suggest that some First Spawn Gek might still be found in Gek society. A large enough disruption in an area close to a first spawn may drive it out of hiding.

At Colossal Archives in Gek Systems, one or two reference the Gek Last Spawn; Traveller soul collectors, as the Celestial Archives in those buildings references a "hidden spirit."

See Also[ | ]

Many different histories can be written based on the same set of basic facts. While each may portray the same story, the writer's viewpoint and opinions colour the story in various ways. The following are some of those histories.

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