Editing Xeelee Sequence (section)

===Spline===
[[File:Spline.jpg|300px|right|thumb|A pod of Spline warships.]]
{{Topquote|Still, that brief period of first contact had provided humanity with most of its understanding about the Qax and their dominion. For instance, it had been learned that the Spline vessels employed by the Qax were derived from immense, sea-going creatures with articulated limbs, which had once scoured the depths of some world-girdling ocean. The Spline developed spaceflight, traveled the stars for millennia. Then, perhaps a million years earlier, they had made a strategic decision."<br>

''"The Spline rebuilt themselves."''<br>

''"They plated over their flesh, hardened their internal organs — and rose from the surface of their planet like mile-wide, studded balloons. They had become living ships, feeding on the thin substance between the stars.''|A description of the Spline origin and how these biological factory space whales remade themselves from Timelike Infinity.}}
{{Topquote|The Spline had become carriers, earning their place in the universe by hiring themselves out to any one of a hundred species."<br>

''"It wasn’t a bad strategy for racial survival, Parz mused. The Spline must work far beyond the bubble of space explored by humankind before the Qax Occupation — beyond, even, the larger volume worked by the Qax, within which humanity’s sad little zone was embedded.''|A human leader of the ICoG interest in using the Spline for their new conquest from Timelike Infinity.}}
{{Topquote|Then imagine a hundred violently armed GUT ships crashing through that portal, and into the future. They could do a hell of a lot of damage—”<br>

''“A single Spline warship could scythe them down in a moment.''|The Qax are very please with their well-spent money from Timelike Infinity.}}
The Spline were space going entities that were considered the products of convergent evolution. Their origins were traced to immense sea-going creatures with articulated limbs that had once scoured the depths of their world-girdling ocean. In time, they developed spaceflight capabilities leading to them travelling the stars for millennia by creating their own. This led them to remake themselves and we mean remade by putting plates all over their flesh and hardening their organs in order to survive the bleak conditions of star travel, which included moving through the shifting perspectives of hyperspace. Eventually, they rose from the surface of their planet as mile wide living meatballs, leading them to feed on the thin substances between the stars as fuels whilst also killing extra-solar parasites in the process. Thus, the Spline became carriers who earned their place in the universe by hiring themselves out to hundreds of different species. To better explain this, they are basically bio-cybernetics living sentient whales ships that acted as rental transportation services and part-time-mobile-mercenary-vessels in space.

They are large, ''very large'' in size with one being as long as a mile wide in bulk. A pit by its head consisted of an eye that was a gleaming ball, which was startling similar to that of a human but was three yards across and able to roll in order to fix their gaze at objects, also you can literally [[Wat|swim in their eyes without harming them,]] no seriously you can but don't forget to put on your spacesuits. The Spline had a wrinkled leathery hide, similar to the epidermis of an elephant. The various pods contained sensory organs, weapons emplacements and other equipment, while their orifices allow for the ingress and egress of smaller ships. Furthermore, they were adapted to serve the needs of their passengers that resided within the warm bellies of the creatures, which seemed cosy for races like the Qax but not us Humans (yeah this is essentially a mix of Cronenberg movies and a [[vore]] nightmare come true). They also grow their own faster-than-light hyperdrives organically within themselves. The only weakness these meatballs have are going through a wormhole, which temporarily weakens them and the other is their ocean-wide homeworld, to which they must return to breed.

The Qax were the Spline's biggest clients. Since the Qax are made of collective balls of cells, limited in numbers and biology, they use the Spline as transportation; living in their stomachs like first-class airline passengers. They are also partially responsible for the invasion of Earth, in which they were under the Qax contracts and the other reason is that they think the human race was [[dick|too pathetic]] to work with. This led to a series of dominoes, cascading into all the [[grimdark]] shit that happened to mankind, leading to the eventual foundation of the ICoG. Ironically after the Qax occupation, the Coalition ended up seizing control of the Spline homeworld, preventing other alien species from becoming Spline clients and gaining a monopoly on them by suppressing their conscious control. A tactic that was previously exercised by the various creatures upon mankind, an eye for an eye.