IDA Dominion

The IDA Dominion was a hyper-advanced intergalactic hegemony controlled by the namesake IDA. Capable of seemingly impossible genetic re-engineering, modification, and production, the Dominion is a multi-species collective of a variety of alien species (predominantly Milky Way natives) that had been conquered, converted, and absorbed into the greater caste-based hegemony. The IDA saw themselves as an evolutionary dead-end and the endgame of what physiology can accomplish, and thus believed they were granted the privilege to "tend to inferior faiths".

The IDA Dominion also possessed seemingly impossible quantum "super-calculation" technology, enabling bizarre feats of engineering and technology that resembled "psionic power" to lesser beings. This stemmed from their research into the workings of reality, as they sought to escape the universe's inevitable death by escaping to another. Their endeavors into such an exodus hadn't yet succeeded, but yielded incredible quantum technology as a side effect.

The Dominion were in fact one of the three major Precursor entities that was active in the Black Rim eons ago, vying for control with the Serene and their Obelisk Builder servants. The Dominion waged war against the Most Serene, interfering with younger Serene-seeded alien species that inhabited conquered territory. At the height of their power in the Black Rim, the IDA brought the Most Serene to their knees before both they, the Serene, and the Builders were wiped out by the [serene moth things].

OMENONTO worship the IDA as gods, and seek to summon them back to the Black Rim so that they may be "uplifted" into the collective.

Black Rim beliefs
The IDA Dominion were the last of the three major Precursor entities to be discovered by xenoarchaeologists and historians, and were widely considered a myth or misconception by scholars as far back as 4877 SY. This was partially due to sparse evidence as well as OMENONTO tampering. Surviving material is exceptionally scarce, rarer than Obelisk Builder and Serene artifacts, and as such galactic scholars know little about the Dominion. This scarcity is due to few artifacts surviving, as well as OMENONTO controlling the distribution of most of them.

Significant findings are the empire's heavy usage of biological material in their technology, though the manners in which this was accomplished have gone undiscovered.

Many Rozoron attest that a malicious Precursor entity violently terraformed Fozox Ze during Ze-ne life's early development, and conducted cruel experiments on much of the specimens that were preserved during the process. An entity described as a "colossal gleaming palm coral" and "hand of god" seems to describe an ancient starship used during this alleged operation. These Rozoron claim their various folk tales and myths simply couldn't have originated from Serene or Obelisk Builder influence, and that the IDA are a likely candidate for the unknown assailants.

Some Beauros theorize that their mythological stories of "God's fingers" and "flying mountains" originate from Dominion and Most Serene conflicts that occurred in orbit around Subotah - one of the few possible recorded battles between the Serene and IDA.

OMENONTO is aware of the Dominion's ultimate goal to transcend universes and attain dimensional immortality, and seek to have the Black Rim uplifted into it so as to be saved from universal destruction. Despite this practical goal, OMENONTO also believes the IDA to be genuine gods. They have discovered that some Dominion artifacts have a subtle mental effect over a given galactic population, and have the capacity to "nudge" societies to gradually adopt practices and beliefs resembling those of the IDA. OMENONTO believes that once a society resembles the Dominion to a sufficient degree, they will be considered a physical extension of the empire, somehow allowing the IDA to physically arrive and induct them into the hegemony. To this end they have manipulated the Black Rim for millennia, managing the locations and use of Dominion artifacts to groom various galactic superpowers along the paths they desire. Their current target is the Court of Gzahn.

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Subari
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