Shedai
- Appearance: Crystalline
- Variable form
- Species largely went into hibernation following collapse of their civilization c.600,000 ya
- Biological notes
- Capable of separating consciousness from form, transmitting it across their Conduit network (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
- Can craft bodies out of any material built off the Shedai metagenome pattern (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
- Potentially technological, given similarity to Caeliar
- Capable of separating consciousness from form, transmitting it across their Conduit network (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
- Technological notes
- Conduit
- Interstellar subspace network allowing transit, information exchange across the domain of the Shedai (VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder)
- Largely collapsed, most destinations inaccessible by 2265 (VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder)
- Conduit
- Cultural notes
- Incredibly xenophobic, considering near-all species as lesser beings (VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder)