Editing Xeelee Sequence (section)

===Qax===
[[File:Qax.JPG|300px|right|thumb|A Hexagonal group of Qax.]]
{{Topquote|Although that’s all it is. Mike, they’ve shown me some pictures of their Earth. Cities flattened. The continents bordered by thick chlorophyll green: offshore farms. The produce from what’s left of the planet’s arable dry land is exported off-planet. The complex molecules are highly prized, apparently, and raise a good price. For the Qax. Michael, they’ve turned the planet into a damn factory.|A human reacting to the Space Capitalists turning our already shitty planet into an even shittier hellhole, from Timelike Infinity.}}
{{Topquote|Parz, turbulence is an example of the universal self-organization of matter and energy. In the ocean of my world the energy generated by the temperature difference between the vulcanism and the atmosphere is siphoned off, organized by the actions of turbulence into billions of convection cells."''<br>
''“All known life is cellular in nature. We have no direct evidence, but we speculate that this must apply even to the Xeelee themselves. But there seems to be no rule about the form such cells can take.”''<br>
''"You’re telling me that those convection cells are the basis of your being?''|A Qax explaining their evolutionary to a confuse Jasoft, from Timelike Infinity.}}
{{Topquote|But we are nevertheless a technological race. Parz, my awareness is very different from yours. The scales are different: I have sentience right down to the molecular level; if I wish my cells can operate as independent factories, assembling high technology of a miniaturized, biochemical nature. We traded such items among ourselves for millions of years, unaware of the existence of the rest of the universe."<br>
''“Then we were ‘discovered’; an alien craft landed in our ocean, and tentative contact was established—”''<br>
''“Who was it?”''<br>
''“Our biochemical products had enormous market value, and we were able to build a trading empire — by proxy — spanning light-years. But we must still rely on clients for larger projects—''|A Qax Governor explaining how a stranded alien gave the Qax an offer they can't refuse, from Timelike Infinity.}}
The second alien race to conquer Humanity and basically the tertiary antagonists of the Sequence after the Photino Birds and Humanity itself. The Qax weren't actually a race of militaristic conquerors, unlike other conventional Sci-Fi races. They were actually a race of merchants and traders. The reason why they conquered Humanity right after the Squeem and treated them like shit was because [[Dick|it was just <u>'''''THAT'''''</u> easy.]] Which kind of gives you a clue on how <u>'''fucked'''</u> the Xeelee Sequence is, if the fucking merchants behave like this. The Qax were truly ''alien'' in every sense of the word. They were a bunch of 90-meter wide, hyper-individualistic race of convection cells held together by a core of a micro black hole. In a sense, they were a race of [[Wat|living thunderstorms.]] Due to the fact that they are made of convection cells, they were functionally immortal in the traditional sense as they could easily replace these cells, although their complex biology meant that they had a ''very'' low population numbering in only a few thousand, meaning that they place immense value on their individual lives. Nevertheless, because they were living hurricanes that lived off the currents of wind, solar flares, virtual particles and space-time itself, they were individually quite powerful, with only three to four Qax being needed to control the entirety of Humanity on Earth. 

Masters of genetic engineering since each cell of a Qax can function independently as a biological factory for biochemical products, which led to the creation of the treacherous Human Pharaohs and a respectable time-travelling military to boot, the Qax were known to utilize the Spline (Themselves a race of 1km wide living meatbags) as biological warships because its cheaper that way and were known to make their own bootleg starbreakers. They also have weaponised Grey Goo that could breakdown mountains, wipe out every biological compound right down to the bedrock and even [[What|turn waste into food.]] The Qax was finally decimated when a Human [[Just As Planned|tricked one of them into firing a bootleg Starbreaker in their home star causing it to go supernova.]] They were eventually pushed out of the galaxy by the ICoG, but the trauma of losing so many including their homeworld to their own slaves has made every Qax in the future to kill all Humans on sight as their base instincts.