iAm universe setting

Just writing this out so i don’t forget it.

The three major ‘races’ of iAm universe outside the planet are Dragons, Humans and Cores.
The initial starting point was the Queen Core - a core of semi-sentient mana large enough to become a planet and grow, with it’s own ecosystem and sentient denizens.
The denizens are part of the queen, formed of it’s mana, and part of her conciousness, but yet, unique. like a one way hive mind.
As all things start, all things end. The star she was orbiting was dying, and in the final moments before she could get pulled into the star, she shattered herself.
Parts of her spread off into the universe, with fragments of the technology, history, and genetics of her denizens.

One section of parts fell upon the planet of dragons - Beings that produces mana, and another section fell upon the planet of humans(not earth) - Beings that are immune to mana, their planet never having it in the first place. The rest, fell into stars, planets with mana and planets without mana, all uninhabited.


The denizens of the core were originally created by the core. It had the abiltiy to manipulate mana, and created life. It shared it’s conciousness with all life it creates, but it’s a one way route. She can live though them, but they can’t live though each other.

Dragons live as a tribal-like sentient race in a mana rich environment - but at a price. They produce mana as easy as sweating, but mana does not bind easily to sentient things. It’s easier to have minerals, plants and lesser creatures, but with dragons as the only sentient race, they suffered from many mutations mana produces.
When fragments of the Queen Core fell upon the planet, the dragons realized that the core fragments would feed upon their mana, letting them live easier and allowing more children to be born. The fragments grew as they fed on mana, and were then shattered and shared upon the dragon world as trinkets to give to babies so as to ease their overproduction of mana.
The cores in the dragon planet revived with the mana, and grew to become sentient, forming a symbiotic relationship with the dragons. To live, grow, and die with their partners.


I have not worked out dragon culture and evolution from here yet.

The fragments that headed to the human planet was intercepted by one of it’s two moons, nearly shattering it.
Humans, at this point was middle of a medieval era, and the smaller fragments that had landed on earth introduced the mana-immune humans to a new form of power - which they called mana crystals. Primitive studies into the crystals created the profession of spellcrafters, when humans learned that they could use organic materials to manipulate mana inside the crystals. By forming shapes out of mana, different effects could happen, like producing fire, water, eletricity, etc…
“Casting Assisting Devices”, or CAD, at the earilest were just staves of wood or wands of ore, with spells being overly complicated and the use of chants to 'urge’ magic to happen. The CAD could only be used for a limited number of 'charges’ before the crystal would run out of mana.
Spent crystals in turn, could be ground down to create mana circuits to produce more efficent CADs and 'spells’
Wizards were invented when humans tried to inject mana into themselves, allowing them to boost themselves temporarily before dying painfully. Repeated expermients and tests allowed a race of human bodies to be more accepting of mana, allowing to live, die, and reproduce with the ability to channel mana.
But in a world without mana, Mana Crystals were a rich but limited resource, and so, humans looked into science. Using technology to replicate what magic could do, promoted by the wizards who could use magic to manipulate the phsyical world. With science being boosted by technology, Humans sped past the industrial age and into the age of computers.
With the invention of the spell to convert energy into mana, Mana crystals allowed for better circuitry, with mana being a lossless conduit of energy, and from there, the spell to recharge Mana crystals was invented.
More could be done with less mana, when computers could configure circuitry to produce spells at an efficent rate. Thet internet and the age of information grew exponentionally.

And so, out of curiosity, greed, and for science, the humans went to investigate space - to the moons.
The ability create mana out of energy allowed humans to feed the fragment with mana, causing more mana crystals to grow, and so, a lunar solar farm was constructed to direct solar energy into mana to feed the giant mana crystal.
And nearly a century into the endevor, the giant fragment gathered enough mana to wake.

The core was scared, and recreated it’s denizens out of reflex, creating the age of demons, and a war against humans. It lasted for a week, before humans overpowered the core.
Through interface of a Virtual Inteligence, humans found a way to communicate with the core.
The core would be debated and intoroduced as an sentient alien, shipping it’s excess crystals, and living vicariously though the human internet. In a way, reliving it’s old core ways.


Thoughts: A way to make a parasitic interaction in contrast to the dragon’s symbiotic relationship.

Overpopulation leads humans to leave the planet, and eventually meeting the dragons and their sentient cores.
The dragons, Cores, and Humans form a partnership.
Colony ships happens.
iAm starts