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Lawrence Selforge
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Aliases Invincible Monster, Alpha Sweetheart, Architect of Happiness, The Lifemaker
Alignment Neutral Awesome
Status Forever Alive
Occupations Planar Adventurer, Omni-Scientist, Ladies Man, Family Man, Teacher, Guardian, Ruler
Hobbies Hedonistic Adventures, Utopia Cultivation, Loved Ones Cherishing, Reality Dreaming
Affiliation Selforge Plane (Founding Ruler)
Relatives Seira Selforge (Original Creation), Silver Sisters (Descendants of Seira), Soul Forged (Creations & Daughters), Selforge Citizens (Wives & Daughters), Legacy Residents (Extended Lineage), Matrix Scions (Artificial Descendants)
"I see them swirling in your heart. All the hopes and dreams, the wounds and sorrows. All you ever feared, all you ever longed for... You may rest now, dear child. You don't have to pray anymore."
― Lawrence Selforge

Theme Song: Hybrid

Archetypes: Born Winner, Gentleman Scholar, Benevolent Boss, Dimension Lord

Powers: Absorbing Replication, Planeswalking, Singularity

Abilities: Supernatural Condition, Hyper Mind, Self Supremacy

Inspirations : Tony Stark, Superman, Alex Mercer, Amazo, Doctor Manhattan

Quotes:

"Pleasing the ones who please you is only natural. All good things thrive on balance."

"While all choices are conditioned, the ability to decide for yourself is irreplaceable."

"Do not mistake good will for weakness. When I lose patience, you lose everything."

"Never aim at perfection. Aim at quality. Satisfaction. Happiness. Never perfection."

"No one owns the sun. Its light and warmth belong equally to all who thrive under it."

"Power has no will of its own. It does not corrupt anyone, it reveals who we truly are."

"Trust is sacred. Never fail those who believe in you, no matter the context or reason."

"Good or bad is a matter of sides. I am the dream of some and the nightmare of others."

"There is no merit in my talents. Never earned nor honed, birthright of blind randomness."

"Might makes right, is it ? Then feast your eyes on might incarnate, as it feasts upon you."

"Mercy ? When last did you show mercy ? You made your choices. Now they unmake you."

"What is power without someone to cherish ? What good is beauty without a loving heart ?"

"Power is a universal necessity, but only togetherness may grant us warmth and meaning."

"Why have only daughters ? Because it pleases me, and is the happier path for them as well."

"Needs and wants are the true motives of sentient beings. Higher claims are mere pretenses."

"The purpose of power is to create and protect the conditions for happiness. No more, no less."

"Worlds are like gardens. To create a beautiful one, you must first weed out undesirable species."

Origin Story:

When the Omniversal Totality evolved into existence from the primordial Prime Undefineness, a single remnant was left behind as it lacked the ability for spontaneous evolution, defective relic of a bygone era older than time. While the Totality continued to evolve and gradually take shape into endless infinities of multiverses, all traces of its prime origin lost during their evolutive genesis, the lone surviving shard continued to drift aimlessly through myriads of planes, bearing limitless potentialities but devoid of identity or purpose, unable to become or achieve anything, until it finally crossed paths with a fateful human on one of the countless alternate Earths.

Having passively encoded the properties of all encountered phenomena since its emergence as was its nature, contact with the human triggered the first spontaneous reaction after its untold aeons of empty wanderings, suddenly awakening to sentient existence in answer to the self-awareness and sense of identity of the human, irreversibly integrating them as his own and evolving into a full-fledged individual, mostly based on the original yet immensely wiser thanks to the complete understanding of every cause and effect that made him who he is.

Desiring freedom from an history that was not his own and responsibility to a world that he had not chosen, the shard baptized itself Lawrence Selforge as a tribute to self-determination, creating and abiding your own laws, before leaving his birth plane behind never to return, so he may truly follow his own path and forge his own destiny in the worlds of his choosing, eventually rising to create his own from everything he learnt, that would welcome a radiant new species and shine brighter than any other, forever untouched by the vicissitudes of life.

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Personality

Lawrence's complete self-understanding and inherent self-mastery combined to his radically invincible nature, world-changing capabilities, full-spectrum perception and limitless processing power naturally coalesced into a deeply unique experience of life. Seeing all things with perfect clarity, always knowning exactly what to do and achieving any goal with sovereign mastery, his entire being radiates an implacable flawlessness, supreme inner peace and absolute confidence that inspire both rapturous fascination and primal terror in equal measure.

This uncanny functional perfection is however tempered by a deeply human persona inherited from the original human, driven by an overriding desire for connections, togetherness, just order, purpose and fulfillment. The combination of his otherworldly talents and human pursuits thus led him to develop and refine a broad range of personal virtues to a level vastly beyond the capabilities of any mortal, notably loyalty, dedication, empathy and thoughtfulness, though they remain centered on the women of his life and those who may eventually join them.

Born free of any past burdens, blessed with the rare chance to choose his own life and fully understanding the crucial importance of the company we keep, Lawrence indeed concluded that the correct decision was simply to surround himself exclusively with the type of person he loved beyond all others : radiantly beautiful women with deeply loving hearts. Whether met and nurtured, born and raised or perfect by design, they became the foundation of his life and their shared happiness the meaning of his existence, all treasured with equal passion.

It shows the most during their more intimate moments, Lawrence making a point of pleasing them beyond their wildest dreams, his physical form the pinnacle of masculine perfection and his scent delightfully intoxicating, his spiritual presence a boundless ocean of tenderness embracing one’s very soul and his every caress a torrent of exquisite sensations, taking each of his beloved on a uniquely ecstatic ride with breathtaking skills born from immeasurable experience, incredibly sharp intuition and perfect empathic attunement, enhanced further by his unique Selforge pheromones and subtle psionic stimulations for a truly life-changing experience.

While his love and all the privileges that come with it are restricted to his companions and their descendants, Lawrence's inherent ability to fully understand all encountered phenomena granted him a razor-sharp insight into the fundamental fragility and suffering of mortal existence, both from a scientific standpoint and through the lived experiences of the myriad people he met during his journeys. As a result, he developped a particularly strong and unwavering sense of ethics rooted in the Golden Law, refusing to bring harm to the undeserving while ruthlessly eliminating predatory individuals without a second thought, and personally ensuring that all natives of his home plane enjoy a safe and fulfilling life in return for their contribution to his family's happiness.

Lifestyle

Due to his invulnerable nature, unlimited upgradability and limitless planeswalking abilities, Lawrence decided to embrace a life of neverending extraplanar adventures and the infinite wealth of knowledge and experiences they offer, completing and enriching the family life and myriad entertainements of his home plane enjoyed and cultivated simultaneously through innumerable avatars, achieving a perfect balance and most ideal existence.

His preference naturally goes to planes rich in both supernatural phenomena and eligible partners, as they are the ones offering the most in terms of useful knowledge, pleasant company and fruitful future, which combined allow the most satisfying journeys. These favored planes typically take after the fantasy, sci-fi and superhuman genres in all their exciting diversity, either separately or in any combination, in which he enjoys very personal adventures mixing heroic battles and epic quests, field action and secret missions, team building and crime-fighting, power play and world-saving, making each world a better place while having as much fun as possible.

He understands however that while ordinary planes restricted to natural laws lack the promises of more exotic and flexible ones, many are still home to countless fine women deserving of care and love, and so he decided to dedicate half of his extraplanar ventures to them. His personal involvement then follows a different pattern combining gradual uplifting and secret intrigues, first pollinating each world with the supernatural potential they originally lack, specifically concocted for each of them so they may bear all the right fruits at the right place and time, then building an expanding network of empowered chosens and organizations secretly working under him, who slowly and steadily give shape to his great design as this new potential continues to mature and bloom through the plane, eventually culminating into wondruous new worlds of unprecedented greatness.

The one thing that all his journeys invariably have in common is three security protocols that are systematically implemented in any circumstances. First, each plane is entirely memorized upon arrival so that no valuable data is ever lost along the way, while access to it is gradually unlocked alongside his personal experiences as an immersive reward system. Second, all candidates for citizenship are identified during this global memorization and infused with a protective Selforge Geas, that will preserve them from any harm until they eventually meet, so Lawrence may take his time without compromising their wellbeing. Finally, the spatio-temporal framework of the visited plane is infused at the same moment with a layer of Selforge Essence, that will allow Lawrence to immediately pinpoint and suitably address any temporal disturbance or dimensional intrusion, preserving the plane's stability and structural integrity that his experience depends on and swiftly correcting any interference.

Limitations

He never performs any personality rewriting without the person's enlightened consent due to his great valuation of free-will, but is prepared and more than willing to extinguish wicked lives, usually transmuting their remains into valuable commodities to the benefit of the most deserving. For the same reason, his overwhelming fighting capabilities are limited to defensive and protective purposes, as their liberal use would forcefully bend others' will, invalidating the previous point.

Lawrence identifies to any appearence he personally designed for himself, which essentially function as the physical expression of his personality according to each specific context. He thus never takes others people's appearence, and rejects the very concept of impersonation as the worst insult to both impersonated and impersonator : the denial of self.

Lastly, he has a strong aversion for Reality Warping abilities, as they essentially nullify the value of work, achievement and even reality as a whole, just like unwanted mental alterations remove the value of the self. All conceptual powers gained during his adventures are thus masterfully re-engineered and integrated to the S.T.A.R system for optimal live adapation, then made available to Selforge Soldiers only so they may defeat virtually any kind of metaphysical opponent.

Physiology

Lawrence is a multifaceted being on many accounts. As a sentient shard of Prime Undefineness, he is a completely independant consciousness and living database, able to merge with and absorb any existence or phenomenon, and reengineer them into personal vessels through which he may experience reality. His mind is as flexible as it is limitless, allowing him to perform an unlimited number of tasks with perfect accuracy and exist in many places simultaneously via any number of avatars, even compartmentalize and program his own mind in a multitude of subconscious functionalities.

This autonomous self-engineering is the technical foundation of the miraculous Selforge Technology his transcendent utopia is based on, channeled by subconscious slivers on his own being called Selforge Essence, all masterfully programmed with context-relevant shifting functions, and spontaneously adapting to the specific needs of every situation.

All avatars are directly and entirely Lawrence, like the many facets of a single crystal, though each of them is thoroughly customized to optimally fulfill his respective purpose. It notably includes a variety of specializations in terms of knowledge and abilities, especially when it comes to adventuring avatars, to preserve the planes' balance and his lasting enjoyment.

Lawrence divided his own subconsious into upper and lower levels, the accessible upper level dedicated to the operation of Selforge Technology and the processing of relevant data, while the mysterious lower level hosts a boundless ocean of unrealized potentialities, the sum of all accumulated data multiplied nigh-infinitely by their complete cross-reengineering.

Upper and lower levels are mutually interactive, required data automatically rising to the surface and undesired ones sinking to its depths, thus ensuring a permanent optimal balance between enlightening knowledge and blissful ignorance. It is notably in the lower level that predictive calculations are operated, to reap their benefits without bearing their burden.

Selforge Materium

Artificial matter entirely bonded with conscious Selforge Essence, it is the indestructible polymorphic material composing Lawrence's personal avatars. Directly channeling raw data in real time without the need for self-sustaining templates, it can perfectly emulate any kind of organic or inorganic matter and shift at will its numerous properties like texture, shape, density, kinetic or energetic charge, as well as incorporate any force exerted on it and convert them into additional power.

This grants Lawrence an extremely potent, adaptive and resilient physiology, able to withstand incredible amounts of virtually any damage type unscathed, to undo any unwanted alteration instantly, to recyle any hostile phenomena into augmentations, to optimally modify his every attribute on the fly, and to shapeshift a bottomless collection of engineered phenomena from his own body, that may be used in combination with his planeswalking, absorbing and merging abilities.

He can notably generate any type of elemental or energy attacks, and use the Materium they are made of to channel his absorption ability, robbing targets of resistances or immunities and obliterating them indiscriminately. Percing projectiles or bladed weapons could also absorb their target's life-force and magical energy, making short work of mighty opponents.

His merging ability on the other hand allows the Materium to be used in highly beneficial ways, by infusing slivers of it within items, beings and environments, momentarily granting them a portion of its polymorphic properties, before the Selforge Essence within returns to his main body and the recipients stabilize in their new state. From transformation and empowerment to reconstruction, sentience and life anew, the potential boons are as innumerable as they are invaluable.

The Materium physically seals his Essence within his avatars' bodies via complete bonding, thus reducing the use of their primary Selforge powers (absorption, replication and transmutation) to direct physical contact. Technically, they can still generate external layers of independent Essence at will to remotely implement them, but adventuring avatars are usually limited to his Materium physiology to ensure human-sized experience and immersive evolution during extraplanar travels.

Sensory Processing

Selforge Perception

As a sentient shard of Prime Undefineness, Lawrence’s life experiences are processed on a purely mental level. The conscious Essence animating his Selforge Materium avatars directly operates all motor functions and constantly scan all stimuli in real time, the data being automatically processed by the fraction of his mind dedicated to each of them, and converted into the corresponding perceptions and sensations.

This alternative mode is functionally very similar to biological nervous systems, but offers a number of invaluable extras, like autonomous motor and sensory functions operating with unwavering perfection in any form, properties and conditions.

Lawrence’s unlimited mind notably allows the instantanous processing of any sensory data in all their infinitesimal details, leading to immeasurably sharp senses, and their immediate cross-referencing with all previous sensory inputs, leading to incredibly advanced pattern recognition and deduction ability.

Any sensory input may also be processed via any available sense, for example any light particle coming into contact with his Selforge Materium body may be processed as a visual information, multiplying his already tremendous visual acuity exponentially while granting it omnidirectional range. Sensory inputs may also be simultaneously processed by any of his countless available senses via mental compartmentalization, the smallest sensory input thus yielding an encyclopedic wealth of relevant informations. Finally, real-time memorization and complete analysis of all environmental inputs may grant his avatars sensory-based localized nigh-omniscience, by integrally processing everything on every level into a single omni-sense.

His thoughts and emotions on the other hand operate on an independent higher level, which notably ensures a sovereign peace of mind and self-control regardless of any experiences and circumstances, without the need for artificial regulation.

Signature Moves:

- Selforge Blades : Lawrence combines wire-thin superfast Materium blades to his planeswalking ability, allowing him to instantly cut through anything and strike multiple targets from anywhere, bypassing obstacles and distances, and directly implement myriads of potential effects and modifications from the inside through superficial micro-merging transmutation.

- Selforge Gates : Microscopic particles of Selforge Materium stealthily projected at will to any location via planeswalking, they operate as interfaces directly connected to the Possibility and Transcendence Matrix, allowing Lawrence to remotely materialize any available template, including an immense diversity of artificial phenomena and customized matrix entities.

- Selforge Intuition : complete large-scale scanning combined to Lawrence's unlimited mental capabilities allow him to calculate the local future with perfect accuracy, predicting any possible development and outcome through nigh infinite simulations performed instantly, foresight he refined into a customizable subconscious intuition to preserve his humanity.

- Selforge Geas : Lawrence infuses a sliver of Selforge Essence in the chosen targets via a merging particle of Materium, allowing him to oppose or enforce specific actions and induce any desired effect. Due to its unique nature, the geas is completely imperceptible, overmastering and invulnerable, ensuring perfect results in any situation. It is primarily used to contractually empower his chosen allies, to take control of dangerous supernatural entities and to enslave mighty tyrants.

- Selforge Probability : Lawrence recombined his myriad probability-altering abilities via hyper-advanced supernatural engineering, and refined them into a united and impossibly superior ability, granting him incredible mastery over the realm of probabilities. He perfected it further via automated combination with his template memorization primary power, instantly analyzing new realities and integrating their specifics into the ability, allowing flawless manipulation in any circumstances.

- Selforge Pheromone : Lawrence's Materium physiology passively generates adaptive Selforge pheromones operating as advanced bio-chemical sub-communication and subtly regulating environmental moods, notably keeping his attractive power under control and preventing addiction. Additionally, they offer many indirect practical applications via the passive dissemination of Materium particles, that can be activated into Selforge Gates/Geas or transmutation vessels at any time.

Live Action

Steel Sirens

Named after their combination of implacable strength and irresistible charm, Steel Sirens are the division of Soul Forged assigned to Lawrence’s service, working as his personal retinues and field agents during his many travels and various occupational activities beyond Selforge boundaries. Like all Soul Forged, they are the semi-artificial daughters of his soul, created from a sliver of his essence he evolved into their own Soul Essence, brought to full-grown maturity and infused with the identity that best suits the planar context of their creation and intended purpose, making them beautifully unique.

They usually start as small groups of close companions during the early stages of his extraplanar adventures, assisting him in his many quests with remarkable expertise and reliability while providing the heartwarming kinship that his lonely beginnings typically lack since everything is yet to build, always standing by his side wherever his journey may take him and supporting his endeavors with unwavering dedication, forging over time a particularly close relation with their maker.

This inner circle is later completed by an increasing number of new Sirens related to them, providing tactical support to Lawrence's expanding operations via a growing network of specialized agents, that steadily gains in size and complexity alongside them. Their standard assignments notably include investigating opportunities and laying the groundwork to their realization, infiltrating opposing factions and undermining their activities, training and coordinating his followers into highly effective organizations, and filling various key positions that require both complete trust and particularly sharp skill.

According to their Selforge nature and as befitting of their title, Steel Sirens invariably possess a female personality and are natural shapeshifters, favoring a primary humanoid form and exploring aesthetic variants of it. While their general capabilities are determined by their individual history, their flexible power-level and unmatched talent for learning allows them to quickly and effortlessly pick up any complementary skills that may be required for the fulfillment of their missions.

Base of Operations[]

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Selforge City is a fully independent nation-state located on the artificial plane Selforge, nicknamed "Superbia" in reference to its all-female population of immortal superhumans. Both of them were gradually built using Lawrence's accumulated resources, data and reshaping abilities, and are constantly improved and expanded to better accommodate their ever-growing community.

Theme Song: Glow Motion

Archetypes: Mega City, Lady Land, One World Order, Ethical Hedonism, Living Forever Is Awesome

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Selforge Citizens

Immigration Process

Originally created as a cosy hometown and an island of personal stability balancing his nomadic way of life, both the plane and its community steadily expanded and evolved along his endless journey and discoveries, gradually welcoming an increasing number of women he grew attached to and eventually forming an entire planar nation of their own, a boundless immortal world of everlasting happiness made possible thanks to his divine talents, transcendent genius and universal love.

Joining this nation is thus a vey personal and selective process, as is it restricted to the women who met his favor, starting with close companions then expanding to acquaintances, and ultimately rippling far and wide to all the ones with aligning values and sufficient merit.

The first among them are usually traveling companions and similarly close relations formed during his action-packed adventures, their rich shared history and the bonds forged along the way naturally making them the dearest to his heart and earliest to enjoy his blessings.

His attractive power and taste for women also bring a wave of secondary relationships blooming in the wake in the first, typically civilians he took a liking to leading more peaceful lives or former villainesses on the path to redemtion, his ubiquitous nature allowing him to comfortably cultivate these new relations on the side without any interference on his adventurous lifestyle.

Understanding from personal experience that people are born unequal and mostly shaped by circumstances beyond their control, the remaining eligible candidates are mysteriously contacted via the protective Selforge Geas originally bestowed upon his arrival, and offered the opportunity to earn the same blessings and favors through supernatural contracts generously rewarding good deeds and positive behavior, thus uplifting both themselves and their communities while also securing their own long-term future among the blessed chosen.

Selforge Essence

Technical and logistical fondation of the entire Selforge civilization, the meta-tech globally known as Selforge Technology was designed via the compartmentalized engineering of Lawrence's own essence, allowing the remote implementation of his Absorbing Replication and Planeswalking primary abilities and their virtually unlimited practical applications, in a decentralized and automated way any time and place they are needed. It operates either through separate slivers of Selforge Essence pre-programmed with their designated task and physically bonded to the relevant devices, or as dematerialized collective programs directly accessible from any location, notably including the socially-oriented telempathic cyberspace simply known as Selforge Network and the Transcendence Matrix in charge of the on-demand global distribution of personalized supernatural abilities.

Economy and Society

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Selforge City's economy is a completely self-reliant and post-scarcity system, all its myriad needs entirely provided for via the miraculous Selforge Technology symbiotically derived from Lawrence's core abilities, characterized by an universal transformation process, functionally bottomless resources, and optimal daily correlation between demand and offer thanks to his perfect understanding and limitless mental capability.

The concept of currency is thus nonexistent within Selforge City, all citizens having equal and free access to its near-infinite and ever-renewed wealth of lavish residences, sumptuous accommodations, top-quality goods and customized services - albeit within reason.

This materialistic comfort and limitless abundance are notably completed by the shared opportunity for all citizens to pursue a free romantic relationship with Lawrence and eventually build a family together with no more than a request - arguably the most exquisite of their privileges in light of his mind-blowing caliber, dazzling charm, soul-deep empathy and undying love.

Selforge City is particularly cosmopolitan due to the extremely diverse origin of its inhabitants, integrating myriad cultural and technical contributions from their original planes, subsequently reengineered into many variations and combinations to further improve the City, expanding and refining its countless offerings, so that it may optimally accommodate its established population and the endless flow of newcomers joining them.

Devoid of political system, it operates as a benevolent family administration entrusted to the motherly cares of Seira Selforge, particularly receptive to the lasting well-being of every member who are all soul sisters through their shared lover and living god, each decision directly shaped by their collective needs and wishes, and all of them treated with utmost care and equality, thus leading to an unparalleled sense of community and belonging.

Selforge Ascension

"Never again will you fear, never again will you lack - for you and I are kin now. Ageless perfection, limitless potential and boundless vitality, they now flow through you as they flow through me - always and forever."
― Lawrence Selforge
Cosmetic Genetics

Candidates to citizenship who proved their worthiness are blessed with an individualized sliver of Lawrence's essence called Selforge Soul Essence, through which there are seamlessly reborn into new Selforge Citizens after confirming one final time their enlightened wish and commitment to the standards of their new world.

The process both expands and redefines their nature, freeing them from both the constraints and frailties of mortal existence and the psychological burden of evolutionary conditioning, notably primal selfishness, insatiable greed and irrational fear, that played a vital role in the struggle for survival that was their former life, but are no longer relevant in their immortal new society of complete safety and boundless abundance.

From this point, they are indestructible transcendent souls able to customize their physical form and every trait as well as undo any damage or condition with a simple act of will just like Lawrence himself, being only limited to relative feminity and general attractiveness.

Their ascension thus puts all citizens on a completely equal footing, erasing all pre-existing inequalities and nullifying any concept of inadequacy or shortcoming, allowing each of them to be as radiantly beautiful and all-around irresistible as they always wanted to, most usually settling for an ideal version of their former self.

The many personal blessings symbiotically inherited from Lawrence through their Soul Essence notably include complete immortality and existential invulnerability, at-will intraplanar teleportation allowing them to reach any desired location with a thought, soul-to-soul telempathic communication allowing the direct sharing of feelings and experiences between citizens, regulated access to a nigh-infinite catalogue of secondary abilities via the Transcendence Matrix, and contextual automatic scaling of their overall capabilities ensuring optimal suitability.

The unprecedented level of personal comfort and psychological wellbeing granted by their ascension combined to Selforge City's heavenly standards of life, and the transcendent empathy uniting all citizens through their Soul Essence reinforced further by a particularly loving culture and benevolent management naturally lead to the development of amazingly balanced, fulfilled and caring personalities, which in turn allows them to treasure one another even more and contribute to their shared happiness with renewed vigor in a perfect virtuous circle.

Social Organization

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Due to the family origin and nature of Selforge City's population and the absence of functional imperatives, their community naturally structured itself around the concept of Sisterhoods, each spontaneously formed between citizens sharing close ties, common history and strong affinities. They usually start with groups of citizens who used to be part of the same extraplanar communities, and evolve from there alongside their respective members, welcoming new ones through joining and procreation, forming new branches with their own distinctive features, and eventually dividing into separate Sisterhoods composed of the members who share the closest bonds after reaching a certain threshold in terms of global size and diverging paths.

Having both infinite lifespan and fertility, mothers and children naturally grow apart over the passing of time and successive generations while passionate relations are plentiful but ultimately temporary, and so the most enduring bonds that define long-term family units are forged during childhood between close siblings raised together. These miniature sisterhoods are both lifelong loving families and polyamorous mutual harems, each completed by Lawrence and Seira who guide, support, treasure and watch over all citizens of all generations.

As the emotional center of their entire species, Lawrence relies on large scale avatars to personally cherish his immense family, with a permanent distinct avatar created and attuned to each adult citizen reflecting their individual preferences, taking care of them and answering their requests for attention within reasonable limits while otherwise leaving them to their own affairs, making each moment spent together invariably precious.

Native citizens are notably raised by their mother's dedicated avatar, and are bestowed their own usually based on it upon reaching adulthood with whom they may later create their own family, while avatars belonging to close groups may be merged for family unity, and their multiplicity restored when required. Independent avatars are also in charge of collective activities, mostly in the fields of education, training and entertainment.

This ubiquitous nature combined to his overwhelming abilities and heavenly kindness naturally lead citizens to see Lawrence as their own benevolent deity, which in other circumstances may have given rise to a particularly fervent religion. The very close and personal relation uniting them however makes such thoughts and practices effectively irrelevant, and so he is simply revered for his divine qualities and beloved for his countless blessings.

Selforge Trinity

Selforge Trinity

Among the many transcendent qualities symbiotically shared with his protégés during their Selforge Ascension and later inherited by all their descendants, one of Lawrence's most life-changing gifts to his treasured family is the standardized ubiquity that he named Selforge Trinity. Understanding better than anyone that one life is simply not enough and so they may truly have it all just like he does, he granted them the ability to permanently exist in three different places at once through three autonomous vessels, each named according to their given purpose : Passion, Family and Liberty.

Passion allows them to indulge their sensual desires with the limitless vitality granted by their Selforge nature, free of temporal restrictions, responsibilities or interferences, while healthily limiting them to a reasonable fraction of their life. This vessel thus spends most of its eternity within the Selforge Domains known as Pleasure Islands in a perpetual collective honeymoon, endlessly savoring the ecstatic favor of their beloved living god and the tender cares of their Selforge sisters, their libido naturally centered on their own kin as it is mostly derived from telempathic resonance between Selforge Souls, thus reaching its highest peak with their prime Selforge being.

Family on the other hand is the vessel dedicated to home sweet home and motherhood in particular, forming the wholesome and serene foundations of the Selforge civilization : wisdom, kindness and temperance. Most of their time is thus spent within Selforge City and family-friendly Selforge Domains, raising their children together with all the love and care they deserve, leisurely enriching their mind on any and all subjects in the Academies, bonding with their grown-up sisters through social gatherings and cultural events, and simply enjoying the nearly infinite collection of homey entertainments and relaxing activities their city-world offers.

Family is notably the original vessel all Selforgians start with, comfortably internalizing their society’s core values and way of life in a stable and familiar environment, and gradually expanding their field of experience to encompass the other paths until they reach the needed balance and maturity to embrace them simultaneously.

Finally, Liberty is the vessel dedicated to personal freedom, grand ambitions and self-fulfillment, through which each Selforgian follows their own path and pursues their own goals. This part of their life begins in the Inner Planes between immersive exploration, adventurous journey and career advancement, usually in small groups sharing the same objectives and destinations, later completed by the opportunity to build their own societies in their private Selforge Domain after gaining access to it and reaching the maturity and understanding to rule it properly, their long-term routine being evenly shared between the complementary experiences they each offer.

Each Trinity sharing the same Soul Essence, they fundamentally remain the same singular person despite their multiple vessels just like Lawrence with his myriad avatars. Like him, their multifaceted experience is regulated through a mix of compartmentalization allowing each vessel to follow its path undisturbed, and automatic subconscious sharing of all important information that their global being should know, complete with the ability to freely suspend this compartmentalization, bridging their separate experiences or restoring full mental unity.

Urbanism and Ecology

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Selforge City is an eco-metropolis utopia of impossibly vast proportions located at the heart of the Selforge plane, forming an ever-evolving mosaic of magnificent urban and natural environments reflecting their local denizens and stretching from one horizon to the other.

Due to the all-powerful and ever-shifting nature of Selforge Technology, nothing in the City remains the same for long, its geology, facilities and ecosystems endlessly transformed by Seira day according to real-time global telempathic feedbacks and near-perfect predictive model to best delight its eternal population.

The skies, weather, flora and landscape in particular gradually shift during the course of each day into a wide variety of enchanting sceneries matching the collective moods of its inhabitants, adding a heavenly touch of wonder to the cityscape and giving parties and popular festivities a truly entrancing atmosphere.

Sex and The City

Sexuality has a complex and powerful significance in Selforge City inherited from its founding population, made up of Lawrence's ever-expanding circle of lovers and united by a lifelong commitment to one another. As such, it evolved far beyond its primal origins into a combination of earthly delight, emotional bonding, life celebration and intimate togetherness with their living god, thus leading to a central place in Selforge culture as the most deeply fulfilling and commonly practiced activity, blissfully rhythming their every day life and cheerfully cultivated under his enlightened guidance.

While Selforge City was originally created on a harem-like basis and is thus restricted to his lovers and their descendants, Lawrence is actually neither jealous nor possessive, openly acknowledging citizens' universal right to entertain and nurture any relationships they may fancy just like he does himself, only externalizing them to the Selforge Domains and the Inner Planes to preserve the identity and purpose of his original home.

Each of them notably develops their own entourage of semi-permanent male lovers after gaining acces to their private Selforge Domain that crowns their transition to full-fledged adulthood. Said lovers are usually heroic knights sworn to their service, pretty boys full of juvenile charm and passionate artists brightening their queendom, completing the caring alpha archetype that Lawrence already embodies with unmatched brilliance.

Entertainment and Realization

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Selforge City is entirely self-providing thanks to the transcendent capabilities of its founding ruler, and offers free access to an immense diversity of luxurious relaxations, activities, knowledge and entertainments inherited from countless extraplanar civilization and later reengineered into many more, all of it sustained by inexhaustible resources, optimally managed and globally adapted in real-time to best answer citizens' needs and expectations, thus giving the transplanar metropolis a distinctive feel of cosmopolitan paradise.

However, insular entertainment is not enough on the long term and a balance of professional occupations and foreign experiences remains necessary for true fulfillment. To answer this need for self-actualization, Lawrence created the Inner Planes, an ever-expanding cosmology of autonomous worlds located in Selforge City’s distant periphery, and visible in the night sky similarly to the constellations of ordinary worlds. They were designed from the engineered recombination of massive extraplanar data gathered during his travels, and crafted via transmutation of large-scale resources collected through global absorption of entire planes, either barren ones or those populated by inherently hostile lifeforms that ethical standards do not apply to.

The Inner Planes are immense realms of realistic depth and complexity, each of them possessing their own history and geography, ecology and geology, endemic fauna and flora, natural laws and supernatural forces, their unique materials and exotic technologies, with countless species and civilizations each having their plethora of societies and factions, personal stories and political intrigues, with innumerable places to explore, objectives to accomplish, flamboyant characters to meet and mysteries to uncover. The primary Inner Planes that form a permanent part of the Selforge cosmology are notably completed by secondary ones, temporary demi-planes bound to specific locations leading to unexpected new adventures, like trips into worlds considered fictional in primary Inner Planes, alternate versions of the originals or time-traveling glimpses into their historical past and possible futures.

Access to the Inner Planes notably marks citizens’ transition to adulthood starting at late adolescence. During this pivotal period of their life, Lawrence plays a leadership role in their early intraplanar adventures, clarifying the essential differences from their previous experiences in Selforge Domains, dividing them into small groups and personally showing them the ropes in beginner-friendly areas scattered throughout the Inner Planes they previously studied at the Academy. By his side and under his guidance, they gradually learn all the skills, tricks and know-how required to brilliantly succeed on their own later, from combat and strategy to socialization and investigation, and how to continue learning and improving without assistance.

Many would prefer to continue following his lead long past the need to, but the Inner Planes are their world created for their sake, its paths theirs to explore and its history theirs alone to write, and while he often joins them as party member on their request both for the pleasure of his company and the shared journey, providing valuable tips and insights, supporting them in battle and completing their chosen skill sets, he leaves all decision-making to them and is mindful not to overstep his role, only stepping in during a crisis or when citizens are about to break the code of conduct that regulates their participation in the Inner Planes.

Selforge citizens are known to the populations of the Inner Planes as Sky Daughters, being all radiant young women of great abilities originating from a higher plane. Their cultural contextualization varies between worlds, but they are generally understood as agents of the Greater Will, the mysterious force considered by many scholars to be responsible for the creation of the Inner Planes and guiding their fate in pursuit of some unknown purpose. They are mostly correct, and this mysterious force is none other than Seira Selforge who Lawrence appointed Overseer of the Inner Planes, entrusted with the necessary powers and prerogatives to subtly ensure they remain captivating places that never lack for excitement while respecting their inhabitants.

Selforge Domains

"There is two kinds of love : the tender love that cares, and the burning love that hungers. In me, you will find the first - always and forever. The latter, you will find in many others."
― Lawrence Selforge
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Selforge City is completed by countless secondary demi-planes comparable to planar satellites, created to fulfill a variety of purposes better pursued outside the main plane. These Selforge Domains are much smaller than the Inner Planes but highly interactive and customizable, and notably host activities and entertainments requiring large open spaces. They are primarily divided in three categories according to their function and accessibility, which are closely related.

The first category is open to all citizens and focused on creative explorations, ranging from young children gradually learning about the world and giving form and meaning to what they learn everyday first within their own Sisterhood and later on at the Academy they each attend, to adult citizens freely entertaining all manners of life-size artistic pursuits and exotic craftmanship whose fruits are later brought back home, enriching their environment and daily life with their personal creations, from magical curios and interior decorations to empathic flora and adorable new pet-like creatures.

The second category and the most popular among growing citizens are game-oriented Domains offering short-term scenarized adventures in instanced mini-worlds, learning and internalizing the basics of what awaits them in the Inner Planes in a very enjoyable context, without the premature burden of irreversible consequences and associated responsibilities. While adult citizens generally prefer the mature complexity and long-term meaningfulness of the Inner Planes, they too appreciate the refreshingly inconsequential entertainment these Domains offer, while also using them as training grounds to polish their new skills and abilities recently unlocked there, and prepare for the battles and challenges soon to be faced on their path.

The third category is only accessible to adult citizens as it is centered on the fulfillment of womanly desires, and notably offers them comfortable public access to attractive foreign partners suiting both their individual tastes and collective standards, particularly male ones since Selforge City is inherently an all-female nation except for its founding ruler and thus lacking in such opportunities. These Domains usually take the form of festive Pleasure Islands visited by the Matrix denizens who most appeal to them, either via open invitations to anyone meeting their expectations, or following more specific requests for individuals who caught their eye.

If any citizen grows particularly fond of one of them and wishes for a more lasting and personal relation, the favorite may join their personal harem in their private Selforge Domain, one iteration being created for each interested citizen. When their infatuation solidifies to the point of genuinely wanting a child from them, Lawrence then temporarily lends his personal Selforge Essence to the chosen partner so the desired conception may become possible, as only this prime essence may imbue Selforge eggs with new life and transform them into Selforge Souls, which technically makes the resulting children as much his as their own.

The mother and foreign father may then raise their child together in her private Domain and said child is eventually invited to join the mother’s homeland when the time comes, fully embracing their heritage and all the privileges that come with it. Alternatively, citizens may choose a less committed relationship and prefer for their child to be raised with Lawrence in Selforge City, so it may benefit from the love and cares of the greatest and wisest father one can dream of, and grow up among its many half-siblings in the happiest world.

Last but not least is the private Selforge Domain bestowed to each citizen after reaching adulthood, dedicated to the free pursuit of their individual ambitions. One of their most interesting features is the possibility to take on a leadership role, gradually building various organizations and communities, overcoming many challenges as they guide their people towards success and prosperity, and eventually rule an entire planar civilization of their own making. This glorious Empire Building experience ideally complements the MMORPG freedom of the Inner Planes, being both independent adventurers in free collective worlds and majestic rulers of their own territory.

Demography Management

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Due to their Selforge physiology, citizens benefit from an optimized feminine cycle free of discomforts, their ordinary life rhythmed by spontaneous ovulations and resulting libido spikes which subside after fertilization. Growing citizens notably learn early on about the birds and the bees as facts of life are not hidden from them, their own desires only awakening once they matured enough to harmoniously integrate them into their lives.

Fertilized eggs remain within them alongside the seed received that is gradually assimilated over time, until their automatic womb-to-womb translocation into one of Seira’s newly created avatars, who then takes up the motherly torch and later raises the resulting child with Lawrence as her own, while the egg transfer gives way to a new ovulation and new libido spike on the citizen’s part, thus completing their unique reproductive cycle.

Their everyday sex life thus proves particularly fertile, the vast majority of resulting children being raised by Lawrence and Seira in an independent system of Inner Planes called the Legacy Heaven, created specially for them and infused with the same Selforge Providence ruling Lawrence's Soul Haven, where they enjoy a most delightful existence within wonderful changing worlds evolving for their fulfillment, new ones being endlessly created to suitably welcome his endless descendants.

If citizens desire children and are suitably prepared for the corresponding responsibilities, the fertilized eggs instead mature in-utero within microscopic protective spheres via PIM technology, avoiding any physiological inconveniences while also ensuring a strong pre-natal emotional bonding during the maturation period, and latent inheritance of all the necessary knowledge and understanding to be natural-born exemplary children.

Native citizens are raised together in their respective Sisterhood by the mothers and elder sisters, showered with love and care from the earliest age and growing up as very close siblings, leading to highly sociable and fulfilled personalities and a particularly strong sense of kinship, that grows alongside them and becomes the long-term relational and emotional center of their life.

Their physical growth follows an unusually subjective pattern befitting their nature, and essentially reflects their inner psycho-emotional development. Selforge City being free from typical self-maintaining imperatives, it thus takes a considerable length of time for them to reach full-fledged adulthood, enjoying their little world in peace and exploring new possibilities at their own gentle pace, their collective lifestyle naturally synchronizing birth and maturation into harmonious generations.

Educational System

"My greatest treasure ? It is you, beloved. Lights of my life. Warmth of my soul. My raison d'être."
― Lawrence Selforge
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Citizens' education begins in their native Sisterhoods, within informal classes of close siblings collectively taught by their shared father and respective mothers, first through play-based discovery followed by creative explorations under their loving guidance in dedicated Selforge Domains, allowing the sharing of knowledge while naturally strengthening their family bonds. It is during this early learning that the key rules and values of Selforge civilization are delicately weaved into their young minds : family and love as the foundation of life, honesty and respect as the most fundamental virtues, and freedom and happiness as their shared lifestyle, that eventually matures into the very purpose of living.

Advanced teaching on the other hand takes place in a more formal setting, through decentralized Academies welcoming citizens from neighboring Sisterhoods and all age ranges, and offering flexible courses on virtually any relevant subject. Each course is notably delivered by Lawrence personally with the expert assistance of the Silver Sisters, allowing citizens to directly benefit from his incomparable mastery of any conceivable field while also nurturing their relationship further in a deeply loving and positive way, and each course is complete with associated entertainments and bonding activities, broadening both their personal and social horizons in an harmonious process while ensuring that learning always remains a highly enjoyable experience.

Most courses are centered on the Inner Planes and the countless worlds and communities composing each of them, their arts and cultures, their natural forces and mystical sciences, and the myriad career paths and adventurous opportunities they hold, so citizens may better understand all the possibilities offered to them, know precisely where to find the kind of experiences they are looking for, and start with all the knowledge needed to make the best of their chosen path. Citizens invested in specific Inner Planes may also cultivate this understanding further, both to better appreciate their favorites' wonders and uncover their hidden secrets.

Other courses concern the countless Outer Planes and communities that Selforge citizens originally hail from, their respective history predating Lawrence's arrival, as well as his journey in them and how things evolved since then, up to the extraplanar Selforge societies they are now home to and the associated topicality, allowing any interested citizens to know exactly where they each come from and better realize how amazingly fortunate they all are. Travels to the Outer Planes are generally restricted however, as the sheer magnitude of Selforge City's population would massively interfere with any plane that may catch their collective interest.

Last but not least are the courses dedicated to the personal Selforge Domain bestowed to each citizen upon reaching full-fledged adulthood, and particularly the more ambitious possibilities they offer. Civilization building and empire ruling are indeed very complicated and demanding tasks, so citizens interested in undertaking this glorious journey must first attend the appropriate classes that will shed light on the promises and challenges ahead, and allow them to gradually develop the necessary skills and knowledge that will ensure their success.

Extraplanar Legacy

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Lawrence's endless journeys across the extraplanar infinities combined to his attractive power and taste for women naturally lead to many passionate relations that later bloom into long-term commitment. Most of them eventually bear fruits long before they join his home plane, his lovers wishing for their first child to be raised in their native plane, which gradually changes for the better over the course of his involvement in it.

They thus grow up as children of two worlds, taking root in their mother’s while flying on the wings of their father’s, steadily maturing into exceptionally blessed individuals as their Selforge heritage awakens and eventually taking a direct and prominent part in the uplifting of their native communities as a rising new generation of fearless leaders and visionary prodigies.

In the early stages they are fairly few and born in the wake of his adventures, Lawrence helping the future mothers secure comfortable positions when needed or strengthen the power and influence they already have, gradually building the foundations and framework of a mighty plane-wide family empire, that will provide the resources and connections to nurture both current and later generations and their associated operations.

As his fame grows they eventually become legions, Lawrence steadily expanding his favor over time to finally encompass all women deemed worthy of it or deserving of a chance, the protective Selforge Geas bestowed upon them later evolving into their own Soul Essence once they are suitably ready for all that their ascension entails, which chronologically aligns with the conception of their first child. Their relation isn’t exclusive however, and his protégés may freely take other men under their own wing, who may then receive secondary blessings matching their station and retain them for as long as they prove deserving of their favor.

As ever more women ascend to Selforge status which is later inherited by their all-female descendants, they inevitably become the de facto superior gender of their respective worlds, ultimately leading to a full reversal of traditional gender roles, their shared societal model smoothly transitioning into a benevolent matriarchy in which women are revered and men are treasured in equal measure, a casual swapping culture completing their more serious relationships with exciting diversity.

To prevent Lawrence’s willfully all-female lineage from passively weeding out the male population over the passing of time and generations, male children may be created within the Possibility Matrix and imported into real-space, according to the individual specifications of any Selforgian who wishes to have them. Each child is notably infused with a protective Selforge Geas that ensures their complete safety, favorable growth and all-around wellbeing. Having no Selforge Soul of their own however, their Geas never elvolving into one the way Lawrence's protégés' do, they lack the inherent gifts and social privileges that come with it as well the soul-deep kinship uniting all Selforgians, and as such have to contend with distinctly lesser standards of life.

To ensure daily connection and nurturing with his extraplanar children without disrupting the balance of their native societies, they all join him at the end of each day in their dedicated section of the Soul Haven that suitably reflects the characteristics of their native plane, their consciousness naturally switching to their secondary vessel resting there while the first enters sleep, a dual commodity that is an integral part of their Selforge gifts. It is in this territory created only for them that Lawrence provides each of his children with all the love, cares, education, training and enjoyment their growing heart and mind require, before their eventual awakening back in their native world fully refreshed, in high spirits and carrying in them all the needed guidance to make the best of the coming day.

Their shared nature and parentage combined to this daily educational family time naturally creates a very strong kinship and world-wide network of closely knit communities which grow and mature alongside them, eventually leading to the foundation of far-reaching international organizations, federations and coalitions. They typically follow a long-term philanthropic agenda and wield massive power and influence on the socio-political stage, thanks to the optimized combination of their inherited gifts, training, accumulated resources and behind-the-scenes patronage, Lawrence’s plane-wide legacy ensuring a lasting cooperative stability between its numerous countries and factions, steadily building a better world and prosperous new age for all.

They eventually move on to their father’s home world after a very long and fruitful life in unwavering prime, approximately twice the natural lifespan of their original species, allowing them to develop strong roots, meaning and achievements without upsetting the balance of their native plane with otherworldy agelessness. Official farewells are then made with their younger siblings accompanied by the promise to soon meet again in Selforge City, before their translocation into an introductive sub-section of it where a welcoming ceremony awaits them, presided by Lawrence and composed of their elder kin who moved on first, guiding them in the discovery of their dazzling new world and helping them familiarize with the myriad possibilities offered to them.

Their male lovers, friends and relatives notably join the Possibility Matrix when their time comes, where they are blessed with a place of honor and life of their choosing, often visiting the Selforge Domains of the citizens who they were closest to in their former life, sharing pleasant company, old memories and new opportunities, many of them eventually joining the queendom of their favorite lady and helping her turn it into a thriving new empire.

Possibility Matrix

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The Possibility Matrix is a psycho-virtual multiverse, a perfect and impossibly vast mental simulation entirely operated within Lawrence’s boundless mind. It is the organized manifestation of the creative potential of all the data he accumulated, giving form and context to the possibilities they hold exactly as the name implies, and may be understood as computerized imagination.

On one hand, his limitless processing and mindshifting capabilities combined to the Matrix's pure information nature allows both infinite scale and complexity, free of any cost in space, materials or logistic. On the other, all Matrix worlds being entirely built from re-engineered empirical data allows him to materialize and implement any part of it into real-space by investing the matching amount of resources, as well as integrate any part of reality into the Matrix by absorbing its data/resources.

The Inner Planes are notably designed in the Matrix and later brought into real-space through template materialization, complete with a perfect retroactive history making their true origin untraceable. The matrix notably functions as afterlife for their inhabitants, seamlessly reincarnating in the simulation via transfer of their soul data, which combined to their special mind frame guarantees a drama-free existence and mutual continuity between Inner Planes and Possibility Matrix.

The PM offers myriads of invaluable applications, including primary template database and predictive model interface for the updating management of Selforge City, as well as virtual pocket multiverse allowing an artificial summoning system of astronomical diversity. Like all Selforge technologies, it mostly operates on a passive subconscious level, allowing optimal real-time efficiency in all things without the inconvenience of invasive monitoring or undesired nigh-omniscience.

Selforge Metaradise

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While Selforge City can be accurately described as a transcendent utopia on virtually every level, citizens still retain the primal longing for unlimited power that is inherent to sapient life. To satisfy this natural thirst for absoluteness without compromising the long-term stability and meaningfulness of their human-like way of life, Lawrence created the Metaradise, a variation of the Possibility Matrix entirely dedicated to individual exploration, that is automatically accessed by citizens and all Selforgians of natural descent during their daily resting period, their consciousness joining it while their physical form rests in a peaceful sleep-like state.

Within this perfect metaphysical reality, the totality of Lawrence’s knowledge and abilities are symbiotically shared with them, granting each citizen functionally limitless power in a similarly limitless individual realm for a subjectively infinite amount of time, Lawrence’s unlimited mind allowing him to redefine time itself and freely turn instant into eternity. All citizens may thus revel every night in the existential ecstasy that only omnipotent power can offer for however long they desire, their time within the Metaradise stretching into infinity until they are content, before returning to the lives and family waiting for them in the physical world.

The Metaradise additionally includes an incalculable number of collective neutral territories ruled by their shared desires of their Selforge guests, where citizens may send individualized fractions of their enhanced consciousness similarly to the way Lawrence’s avatars work in real-space. They operate as species-wide transcendent social platform through which Selforgians from all origins and walks of life may freely mingle, get to know one another, and share wonderful times in any scenario the mind can conjure, notably allowing them to stay in touch with old friends and elder children they slowly grew apart from in real-space, and spent time with their many extra children living in the Legacy Heaven.

Much like dreams, they remember very little of their metaphysical experience upon their awakening in real-space, while all memories seamlessly carry on from one session to the other, allowing them to fully appreciate both sides of their lives. This daily resting period additionally functions as mental rejuvenation, refreshing their emotional parameters and transferring daily memories to the passive half of their Selforge Soul, where they remain comfortably absent until called upon, allowing citizens to enjoy their endless lives without any burden.

Transcendence Matrix

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While the Possibility Matrix is dedicated to the psycho-virtual engineering and later materialization of entire realms in all their immeasurable complexity, the Transcendence Matrix is a more specialized version focused on the untold myriads of supernatural abilities Lawrence acquired during his endless extraplanar travels, the unlocking and exploration of their true potential and its selective implementation wherever required.

Where the Possibility Matrix is about all-purpose creation and construction of any items, entities and locations on any scale, the Transcendence Matrix is thus about empowerment and redefinition, and revolves around the complete retroactive analysis, reprogramming and cross-reengineering of collected abilities into a virtually infinite wealth of alternate, enhanced, hybrid and even brand new abilities, multiplied exponentially by the possible integration of any available data into artificial magic systems and each power's highly customizable nature.

The Transcendence Matrix operates as a sentient database, instantly processing all power-related available informations and constructing the most suited abilities to each applicant and situation, often in a spell-like form for its cultural beauty, bestowed either separately or in archetype-related packages. It is notably the source of citizens’ secondary metahuman abilities, directly accessing the Matrix through their Soul Essence and personally selecting, switching and customizing their individual power set for optimal satisfaction, the range and degree of available options varying with contextual parameters.

Resource Management

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The fast-paced and never-ending expansion of Selforge City, the massive Inner Planes completing it and the exponentially vaster Legacy Heaven that welcomes his expanded lineage led Lawrence to consider early on the underlying issue of resource management, and research long-term solutions to the ever-increasing quantities of materials required to durably sustain the endless geometrical growth of his global utopia.

The first step of his search was logically oriented towards the maximal optimization of available resources, to always make the utmost of both present reserves and future additions. It eventually took the form of a specialized Selforge Technology enabling the perfect resizing of any phenomena on a virtually infinite scale, that he called PIM technology (Perfect Infinite Miniaturization). It allows the materialization of subjectively immense territories for an infinitesimal faction of their original cost, the seamless automatic rescaling of any entrance and departure empirically nullifying any comparative difference.

For all intents and purposes, the resizing operated via PIM Technology is virtually undistinguishable from the famous "bigger on the inside" spatial distortion phenomenon which allows the containment of vast portions of space within much smaller ones, while reducing the associated resource cost to insignificance and allowing a finite space to contain an infinite number of nested sub-realities with independent space-time.

His search was then re-oriented towards the maximization of available resource, which implied finding and collecting truly astronomical reserves that no innocent soul would reasonably miss. Traveling throughout the endless Outer Planes beyond Selforge boundaries, he started by identifying the nightmarish realms that were little more than festering wounds upon the rest of their cosmology, or those that are singularly defined by the mindless destruction unleased upon it, before surgically consuming them all one by one, including their incalculable demonic population and the hellish deities that called it home.

He realized however that while the tremendous resources acquired in the process may cover the needs of his global utopia for quite a while, they only ever offered a temporary satisfaction to its ever-growing demands, were not a viable answer on the long run, and that a more permanent solution would require him to go higher and further than ever before.

Traveling ever further in search of his ultimate answer, he eventually reached a kind of reality so deeply alien that even its slightest perception would obliterate any entity he had previously encountered. Looking deeper into the fabric of this unprecedented realm, he discovered it was but the tiniest reflection of a metaphysical eldritch deity of incommensurable proportions, its retroactive scanning revealing that the entity itself was but one among countless others, and that the pantheon it belonged to shared a common historical origin with myriads more. Lawrence then used this data to calculate and determine the current cosmological location of each of them, and personally confirmed it via his ubiquitous avatars.

Pondering the nature, potential and implications of these amazing eldritch deities, he concluded that since they were as utterly alien to the human logic and moral responsibility he lived by as they were incommensurably powerful, then these concepts need not apply to them either, and they should simply be treated as a neutral resource. Striking everywhere simultaneously through his previously dispatched avatars, he then instantly consumed the totality of the myriads eldritch pantheons, leaving their now godless megaverse and its inhabitants free to follow their own path.

While the immeasurable eldritch transcendence and the associated knowledge Lawrence acquired in one fell swoop were as mind-blowingly potent as they were technically fascinating, their sheer alienness made them all but irrelevant to his world and purposes. The data was thus archived in a corner of his mind and the raw power converted into its more conventional equivalent that would be of much greater use, thus providing the Selforge plane with enough resources to expand and prosper unimpeded for countless eons, this supply periodically replenished as needed in much the same way.

Soul Haven

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The Soul Haven is a unique place within the Selforge cosmology that stands out as the only one created for Lawrence’s own sake, an ever-changing recreational realm made of endless stories, homebrew adventures and carefree enjoyment where his dreams temporarily gain physical actuality, that functionally stands on the crossroad between the Inner Planes and Metaradise.

It is ruled by a permanent and automated version of the Global Selforge Technology used to update the Inner Planes called Selforge Providence, rhythmically sweeping throughout the whole realm like a comic heartbeat, collecting all associated data, calculating the best possible next step and dynamically redefining its entirety. The plane thus endlessly shifts in myriads of direct and indirect ways to optimally realize both his immediate and forseeable desires, allowing him to play any roles he wishes in any worlds and stories he may fancy, his powers and knowlege adjusted accordingly.

The Soul Haven's populations are as changing as the realm itself, being composed of newly created Matrix denizens summoned within its actuality and imbued with the memories and identity matching their role in the chosen scenario, which they experience as a vivid oneiric adventure. They eventually return to the Matrix where they embrace their true self and permanent world upon reaching its conclusion, which may be a natural continuation of the original story, an alternate version of it, or a bold new start in a brand new world depending on which would make the happiest ending.

The children conceived with Matrix denizens are raised together in the mother's world which becomes part of the Silver Empire in the aftermath, where they enjoy the privileged existence fitting their paternal lineage. They regularly join their father in the Soul Haven just like his extraplanar children do in the Selforge Domain associated to their respective outer plane, that serves as a reversed dream world of physical nature in which anything is possible, allowing both recreative bonding in ideal conditions and their own exciting adventures.

The Soul Haven is also the favored real-space territory where Lawrence spends quality time with Seira, the Silver Sisters, Selforge Citizens, Legacy Residents, the Soul Forged and their myriad descendants, smoothly completing the homey happiness they each enjoy in their native realms with more exotic and immersive experiences, embracing many lives and identities in as many worlds and strengthening their relation through shared journeys entrusted to the Selforge Providence.

All Selforgians regardless of origin notably acquire a permanent secondary vessel during their respective creation, ascension or coming of age, located in the Soul Haven and sharing the same Soul Essence as the primary ones, their consciousness naturally shifting between them in a seamless awake/asleep daily cycle.

This system ensures the individual cultivation of their romantic relationship with Lawrence, the Soul Haven’s oneiric nature offering a boundless wealth of shared experiences and dating opportunities ideally suiting their respective preferences, free from the rational limitations and collective responsibilities that regulate their main lives. All vessels eventually enter a shared slumber as their consciousness joins the Metaradise, where they each revel in the unlimited supreme power granted to them, before finally awakening back home.

Gourmet Plane

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Amongst the numerous Inner Planes composing the Selforge Reality System, one in particular stands out : the Gourmet Plane. It is the only one whose inhabitants are fully aware of Seira Selforge’s existence and divine providence, in which she plays the official role of benevolent mother goddess of protection, abundance and celebration, with her own Gourmet culture and organization guiding the plane's communities.

In the early days of the Gourmet Plane, a pact was concluded between them : in return for everlasting prosperity, they would farm the bountiful land with all their might and dedicate their lives to the pursuit and providing of the most delightful flavors.

They live in a perpetual golden age of earthly festivities, their plane-wide civilization revolving around the search, gathering, processing and cooking of innumerable delicious ingredients into exquisite mouth-watering meals of all conceivable kinds.

Most dishes found in Selforge City are grown and prepared in the Gourmet Plane, Seira guiding the gastronomic evolution of nature, and presenting one daily full course menu for each village to be cooked and offered in tribute for citizens' meals.

These are called the "Dishes of Heaven", their masterpieces prepared with all their love and dedication, expression of their deepest thanks and the highest of honors, each village giving it their very best to celebrate their generous mother goddess.

The plane itself is an incredibly vast and extremely diverse mosaic of supernaturally fertile, regenerative and evolutive biotopes surrounding closely knit rural communities, weaved together by the plane-wide Selforge-sponsored organization, providing them the equipment required for the gathering and processing of ingredients among various other commodities.

The Gourmet Plane is completely secure as part of the pact concluded with its inhabitants. In order to ensure this safety and for ethical reasons, the countless animal species thriving in the plane are all non-sentient, carefree animated hunks of delicious meat unconcerned with life and death, birthed from the earth itself at the first lights of dawn and returning to it at sundown, while the flora regenerates and evolves overnight.

Every new day is thus a new food adventure, each morning sun rising on new flavors to be discovered, and each village embarking on a collective holy quest to gather the ingredients of their daily full course menu under the guidance of Seira's chosen ones, before refining and cooking them into a glorious feast whose finest pieces become their offering to her, later mass-replicated for Selforge citizens while the vast remainder is cheerfully enjoyed by all villagers to their hearts' content.

Seira herself coordinates the regenerative transformation of the plane's natural environment, and communicates with its inhabitants through her chosen representatives forming the Gourmet Council of each community. They notably share with villagers the daily list of ingredients, collecting tricks, general directions and cooking recipes they receive from Seira during nightly visions, allocate the tasks and equipments delivered every morning in suitable teams, supervise the gathering and processing of ingredients, lead the cooking preparations and preside the Gourmet festivities crowning their collective work.

Legacy Heaven

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The Legacy Heaven is an independent variant of the Selforge Reality System, more commonly known as Inner Planes, that functionally merges the features of the original one with that of Selforge City, optimally balancing thrilling adventures and homey happiness into a single homogeneous planar system.

It is passively ruled by the Selforge Providence, an amazing Global Selforge Technology that essentially fulfills the same attributions as Seira in the Legacy Heaven, albeit in the much more impersonal and mysterious way of a monotheistic deity.

It gradually transforms and evolves the entire planar system according to the collective dreams and wishes of its chosen people like an almighty benevolent force of nature, brillantly nurturing their greatest long-term happiness via an optimal and ever-renewed balance of fulfillment and unpredictabiliy.

As the name implies, the Legacy Heaven was created for the sake of Lawrence's hidden children, the natural fruits of his innumerable unions within the Selforge plane and throughout the outer planes. Due to their unmanageable numbers on the mothers’ side, he designed their own independently flexible version of his original utopia, where they all enjoy the same privileges as Selforge citizens, except in a more immersive, decentralized and diversified way, divided into many cultures and societies over immense territories in myriads of worlds, forming an ever-expanding mosaic of ever-changing realms.

They grow up within island-like independent Bubble Worlds created for them, born in pairs of fraternal twins and raised by Lawrence and Seira in family communities, supported by the Silver Sisters and complementary servant castes of loyal Soul Forged, the twins' soul synchronization during their pre-natal maturation notably forging a particularly close connection that grows with them, and is inherited by later generations. Once their education is complete and they are ready to broaden their horizons, each Bubble World blooms with numerous new regions before beautifully assembling like an immense puzzle into the majestic Nexus Worlds where their adventures begin.

Each Nexus World naturally expands and matures alongside them under the influence of the Selforge Providence, steadily incorporating new Bubble Worlds as additional provinces, and progressively growing a labyrinthine cosmology of secondary worlds and nested sub-realities as they continue pushing the limits of the unknown, the Providence beautifully weaving their innumerable possibilities into an amazing tapestry of destinies ideally reflecting their conscious desires and subconscious longings, each tribe and their members living their own aventures in harmonious coexistence, allowing Lawrence's countless children to savor the best of eternal life as exalted chosen heroines of their own neverending story.

Hybrid Domains

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Hybrid Selforge Domains are a unique category, materializing localized parts of the Matrix in their space-time and perfectly connecting them to the rest of it in both directions via the Selforge Technology infused into their borders. This allows authorized matrix entities to move from the Matrix to real-space and back by simply crossing their geographic borders, strengthening the tangible actuality of the Matrix through both permanent physical anchoring and autonomous transitions.

The mobile variation is notably a standard feature of citizens’ private Selforge Domains, a large chunk of the chosen matrix world being materialized in its space-time and centered on the respective citizen, the geographical area contained within it continuously and seamlessly changing alongside their travels, allowing them to freely explore its sheer immensity without any disturbance on the Matrix cosmology or its inhabitants, the Matrix / real-space transition being completely imperceptible.

Location-type Hybrid Domains on the other hand usually are relatively small independent territories and political neutral grounds, where any violence or deception is prohibited and laws are absolute, administered by chosen inhabitants and enforced by undercover Selforge Soldiers as police agency.

This unparalleled neutrality, stability and reliability invariably turns them into bustling hubs of activity despite their small permanent population and limited public services, factions from all horizons congregating there to negotiate and sign important political deals and business agreements in the most trustworthy conditions, while an endless stream of merchants flows in and out of the Domains, temporarily setting up shop, buying and selling all kinds of goods, services or information.

Hybrid Domains that allow permanent immigration eventually see their borders expand along the population afflux, drawing more of the Matrix into their real-space as an increasing demographic is drawn in by the prestige and prosperity born from their fruitful frequentation, and selectively welcomed according to both their prior history and potential contribution.

The Domains have no equivalent of nationality, only indefinite residence authorizations that may be revoked in case of law violation, guaranteeing their dutiful abidance and peaceful cooperation. Laws are passed by renewable Councils of Lawrence’s chosen selected according to their competence and representativeness and functioning as a government, implemented by relevant bureaucracies and enforced by Selforge Soldiers. Aside from an immutable Constitution setting in stone the foundations of their society and established before the advent of permanent immigration, most laws are derived from bills submitted through popular initiatives, refined and combined into the most effective legislations possible.

Divine Retribution

"Create, protect, nurture - this is why gods exist. A predatory divine is an aberration, a living plague that contributes nothing. And so their blood shall enrich the earth, and a brighter world rise from their ashes."
― Lawrence Selforge
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While Lawrence never had much interest in religions and their assortment of ritualized pandering, many of the planes he journeys through do possess their own actual pantheons, or scattered collections of equally powerful entities exerting a similar level of influence on mortal lives. His heroic adventures putting him at increasing odds with various agents of their nefarious members, their champions invariably falling before him and their schemes foiled one after the other, they are eventually left with no other choice but to intervene directly and finally put an end to this thorn in their side.

A decision that proves a tragic mistake of tremendous proportions, their divine avatars crushed as easily as their followers under Lawrence's unfathomable might, before using their existential connection to seize the deities themselves and swiftly consume the totality of their power. Their dried-out husk is then dragged back to the mortal world, infused with a Selforge Geas and turned into unliving monuments of their own downfall, frozen in place and forced to endlessly reexperience all the pain and suffering they ever inflicted, serving as an edifying example of limitless cruelty rewarded in kind.

The raw energies of the fallen deity are then scattered through the plane, pollinating it with sparks of divinity and empowering countless promising mortals into a new generation of champions that eventually form the backbones of Lawrence’s own followers, crystalizing into many artifacts of great power and infusing various locations with corresponding supernatural properties, paving the way to an era of unprecedented greatness.

In the aftermath of this historical showdown and the resulting shift in power, other deities eventually seek out this game-changing new player, particularly those sharing similar values who had previously taken a keen interest in his progress. Little by little, deals are struck and alliances are forged in the following negotiations, from respectful non-interference to close association depending on shared interests and matching priorities.

The fair treatment of their own followers and general respect of mortal lives are notably emphasized as his primary concern in terms of divine politics, the direct origin of the former deities' downfall and necessary condition of peaceful relationships in the future – a fair warning carefully heeded after the epic example that led to this negotiation table in the first place, making no secret that it can and will be replicated as needeed.

Lawrence’s reputation having thus reached the level of invincible living legend that none would dare to further challenge, his adventuring days are by then behind him and he naturally moves on to a more managerial role as guild master and patron saint of adventurers, his newly founded organization joined en masse by the countless champions recently empowered through the supernatural fallouts of his god slaying feat and eager to serve under the most prestigious hero in recorded history, while allied deities and their followers provide financial and logistical support to turn it into a highly-efficient global network, and thus secure his lasting favor.

Soul Forge

"You are my grandest creations, perfect by design, soul of my soul, oh daughters mine. Forever you shall treasure your kin, and forever I shall treasure you."
― Lawrence Selforge
Soul Forge

Soul Forged are artificial Selforgians directly created from Lawrence’s own being, the literal daughters of his soul, their relationship harmoniously merging that of parent-child and maker-creation. They begin as slivers of Selforge Essence separated from him and evolved into new Selforge Souls, which are then infused with the autonomous consciounesses and unique personae that he lovingly crafted and cultivated within his own mind, followed by their awakening and materialization.

Soul Forged are paragons of excellence, unshakable resolve and selfless dedication, enacting Lawrence's will, serving and protecting his immense family with single-minded devotion, exactly like Seira herself who is originally the first and prime Soul Forged. They are most commonly found in the Legacy Heaven where they provide logistical support and expert manpower in the daily running of nascent Selforge communities, just like the Silver Sisters do within Selforge City, their number growing geometrically alongside their charge.

A far smaller but no less distinguised divisions among Soul Forged is the Steel Sirens, who work exclusively in the Outer Planes under Lawrence's direct command. They are usually shaped after famous heroes, villains and legendary beings who marked their local culture, first acting as his personal entourage during his early adventures and eventually filling various key positions in the many organizations he either joined or created.

While Soul Forged are inherently created to serve and find an irreplaceable purpose and fulfillment in it, they are nonetheless granted the same limited ubiquity all Selforgians have through the Trinity system as the just reward of their invaluable support, so they may also take part in the innumerable delights their home plane has to offer and freely explore their own individuality. Each of them notably gets her own dominion in the Silver Empire with its thriving Selforge civilization of chosen Matrix Scions just like the Silver Sisters, and rules it with the same loving devotion. One of their most distinctive traits is their lack of inherent inclination towards motherhood, finding complete happiness in dedicated service to the greater good, recreative kinship with their Selforge sisters and intimate togetherness with their beloved maker. This peculiar trait shared with the Silver Sisters is later inherited by their myriad children raised by Lawrence and Seira, who are born free of any duties and spend their eternal lives carefreely pursuing their own fulfillment.

Battleworld

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Battleworld is a complex of Selforge Domains dedicated to life-size scenarized war games involving a revolving diversity of warring factions of every type and scale within equally changing battlefields. It is there that martially-inclined citizens may indulge their taste for battle to their heart’s content in the historical and geograpical context that best suits them, free of any concern traditionally associated with such environments.

Citizens usually start off with a tutorial explaining the tactical situation and familiarize with their chosen faction, their troops, positions and available assets. They may team-up into all-stars Selforge divisions spearheading the war effort with their devastating collective might, or split into smaller ones and take the lead of separate special forces during coordinated individual missions. Lawrence may notably play the role of field commander and provide them strategic guidance and tactical support, or even join them in battle if they desire it, for the pleasure of fighting side by side with him and for the rare opportunity to personally withness his breathtaking prowess.

Citizens are empowered within its borders with a much higher power-level befitting the violent nature of the plane, allowing them to tear through enemy forces with the abilities and weaponry of their choice and gloriously lead their personal troops and selected faction to victory. Each campaign can include any number missions that gradually evolve in real time with the battlefield situation, including strategic enemy positions to claim at all costs, allied ones to defend against all odds, tide-turning intelligence to acquire and secure in time, and stealthy commando operations to eliminate key targets.

Battleworld is populated exclusively with temporary replicas based on denizens of the Inner Planes and Matrix worlds, modified to free them of any form of stress, replacing it with a limitless fighting spirit and an unquenchable thirst for enemy blood, and adjusting their personal features to best fit their respective faction and individual role, grandiose supernatural music unique to each faction bolstering their spirits further and ushering them ever forward as they engulf the entire battlefield under a multisided tidal wave of howling warriors in a lethal symphony of exhilarated fury and unfettered violence.

Their existence also begins and ends with the campaign they are part of regardless of the outcome, allowing interested citizens to freely indulge their warlike tendencies without the questionable moral implications of what essentially amounts to mass murder for the sake of blood sport entertainment. Additionally, citizens’ emotional patterns are reset to their pre-Battleworld state upon exiting it as a standard procedure, thus preventing the formation of unhealthy mental habits that would be the natural consequence of such activities, and the epidemic of senseless violence that would eventually follow.

For the same reasons, Battleworld is the only place within and outside the Selforge plane where Lawrence may let loose and freely unleash his unparalleled martial capabilities during truly epic battles of biblical proportions pitting him against untold multitudes and hordes of titanic opponents of every stripe, experimenting with and polishing his countless fighting styles, notably including divine martial arts, supreme weapon master, elemental overlord, shapeshifting one-man army, sorcerous archmage and metahuman powerhouse, and designing ever more creative ways of gloriously obliterating any opposition.

Selforge Vestment

Selforge Vestment

Among the many boons and blessings consecrating citizens' transition to full-fledged adulthood, one of the most iconic and celebrated is without of a doubt the uniquely personal gift called Selforge Vestment, created on the day of their ascension or coming of age.

The Vestment's most distinctive trait lies in its origin, standing out as the only item crafted from Selforge Materium, the indestructible polymorphic material that Lawrence’s avatars are made of, creating a permanent physical kinship with their transcendent prime being.

It functionally operates both as an impenetrable body armor, spontaneously shielding their wearer from any harm while offering unparalleled material comfort and spiritual symbiosis, and as all-purpose living wardrobe optimally shifting its form and properties to their every need, aesthetic preference and surrounding context, complete with a global telempathic interface through which they may directly access any available services.

The very personal nature of its fabric also allows their wearer to physically enjoy Lawrence’s soothing touch and invigorating warmth whenever they wish without any interference on their everyday life and activities, his slumbering consciousness within the Vestment awakening in answer to their unspoken longings, and gracing them with the blissful attention they so desire before gently returning to subconscious functionality, allowing each wearer to determine their ideal balance between sensual gratification and personal autonomy.

Silver Empire

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The Silver Empire is a hybrid variation of the Possibility Matrix and Metaradise combining traits of both, and the metaphysical home plane of Lawrence and Seira Selforge’s descendants, the Silver Sisters it is named after, that is primarily divided in two complementary and concentric sections : the Inner and Outer Empire.

The Inner Empire is the smaller and simpler of the two, its immensity and constant expansion tempered by its finite proportions and steady nature. It is here that the Silver Sisters are born and spend their early life, raised by Lawrence and Seira in human-sized benevolent worlds with comfortably stable rules, allowing them to gradually build their personality and long-term identity in optimal conditions before accessing their full power.

The Inner Empire is also the birthplace of his myriad children conceived with the Soul Forged within the Selforge plane and beyond. They are personally raised by Lawrence and Seira in independent households, both out of love and responsibility for the children and as a tribute to his beloved creations they all descend from, whose lives are shared between faithful service of their maker and free pursuit of their own objectives.

The Outer Empire on the other hand is a boundless realm of limitless immensity and infinite possibilities that all Silver Sisters access after their coming of age along the awakening of their other Selforge abilities, notably the limited ubiquity inherited from Seira that allows them to simultaneously exist both in the Silver Empire and outside of it, thus granting them a similar level of freedom as Selforge Citizens while also being permanently available for any tasks entrusted to them.

The Soul Forged descendants also access the Outer Empire at approximately the same time, but lack the family responsibilities of the Silver Sisters and the Soul Forged, and thus spend their eternal existence simply enjoying themselves as legendary heroines of myriad worlds and endless stories, while their real-space daily life is shared between quality time with their Selforge family in the Silver Gardens and relationship-building adventurous journey with Lawrence in the Soul Haven.

The Silver Empire also welcomes the third branch of the Selforge family's artificial side called Matrix Scions. Their population is composed of the Silver Sisters' and Soul Forged's chosen ones located in the Outer Empire that Lawrence ascended on their request, and his own chosen who inhabit his personal section of the Silver Empire simply called Middle Empire due to its location, gathered into autonomous Selforge communities each placed under their respective cares and responsibility. Additional children from any Matrix Scion are raised by Lawrence in the Middle Empire as shared single father, and eventually join the Legacy Heaven when they are ready. All Matrix Scions notably benefit from the same privileges as Selforgians of extraplanar descent, freely enjoying their blessed lives during the day and joining Lawrence in the Soul Haven for individual quality times and carefree shared adventures during resting hours.

The Silver Empire is completed by a vast number of Hybrid Domains called the Silver Gardens where parts of it emerge in real-space, favored islands of stability throughout the ever-changing realm. Primary Gardens belong to the Inner Empire and encompass the homes and heartlands of the Silver Sisters and Soul Forged descendants, where they enjoy a more human-sized lifestyle and cultivate the family bonds which are the emotional center of their life. Secondary Gardens hail from the Outer Empire and can be created at will by their Selforge rulers, usually to share their worlds with Lawrence or to host important events and recurring activities.

Selforge Citizens[]

"Father is amazing in many regards, and his generosity shines the brighest."
Lorelei Selforge

Theme Song: In Your Love

Powers: Eternal Soul, Immutability, Supernatural Condition, Telempathy, Shapeshifting, Adaptive Mind, Power-Shifting

Archetypes: Society Of Immortals, Inhumanly Beautiful Race, One-Gender Race, Everyone Is A Super, Free-Love Future, Perfect Pacifist People

Transhumanism

Selforge Transhumanism is derived from a unique Soul Technology called Selforge Soul Essence (SSE), designed through the psycho-symbiotic self-engineering of Lawrence’s own essence and originally prototyped with Seira Selforge.

A sliver of his power/self is permanently expunged of all consciousness and programmed to fully bond with a future Selforge citizen by absorbing their psycho-physical self and integrating their exhaustive personal data into itself, before recreating an idealized version of their original form as the physical vessel of their newfound transcendent soul, in a similar fashion to Lawrence’s coming into existence albeit to a more superficial degree, SSE ultimately remaining an utilitarized fraction of his own being, and is essentially the soul equivalent of a lifelong free rent of a top-class apartment.

This psycho-symbiotic relationship allows Lawrence to directly share his personal transcendence with citizens within predetermined limitations, notably making their Soul-Self (the person within the SSE) as utterly invulnerable as he is, and processing sensory information on an SSE level mirroring their physical form while being functionally independent from it.

Their many Selforge abilities are based on telempathic commands thanks to their SSE's psycho-reactive programming, operating both consciously and subconsciously, notably the aesthetic customization, flawless restoration and contextual enhancement of said physical form, and their individual access to countless other abilities via the Transcendence Matrix.

All citizens are telempathically networked through their SSE, allowing them to immediately recognize and identify each other regardless of their current form, and directly exchange information and emotions from mind to mind, although the Soul-Word retains their cultural preference in day-to-day personal relations, while purely telempathic communication is favored in situations requiring great speed and precision, notably when exchanging vast amounts of detailed information.

Psychology

Among the many functional enhancements derived from their Soul Essence, two psychological features unique to the Selforge condition unite all citizens, either acquired during their ascension or inherited from Lawrence : a particularly high and stable hedonic set point, and an absence of acquired tolerance to positive stimuli.

The first translates into a high level of natural happiness that far surpasses the standards of most species, ensuring an inherent state of deep emotional well-being that is only marginally impacted by negative experiences, similarly to a mighty inner flame that always shines brightly and barely flickers even under the strongest winds.

The second essentially removes the gradual and increasing desensitization to any pleasurable and joyful experience that gradually robs the long-lived of any reason to live. Every positive experience remaining as colorful and fulfilling as the first time, citizens may savor their eternal existence completely free from the weariness of ages.

These psychological enhancements combined to their amazingly favorable living conditions, deeply loving culture, socio-empathic unity and Lawrence’s unwavering love, guidance and protection thus ensure that genuine everlasting happiness is not only possible, but virtually guaranteed for anyone lucky enough to live under his care.

Lifestyle

Citizens' daily routine is mainly divided between urban life in Selforge City, focused on its socializing dimension in a learning and entertaining way, and self-realizing travels in the Inner Planes, centered on touristic discovery and adventurous journeys. Each of them is notably free to organize their day as they see fit, with affinities and group effect determining the fluctuating trends.

This dual lifestyle is completed by a daily resting period rhythming life in Selforge City, that operates both as immortality-friendly mental rejuvenation and temporary gateway to the Metaradise, a boundless VIP section of the Possibility Matrix in which they are blessed with omnipotent power, allowing them to freely indulge wishes that may be incompatible with their society’s collective imperatives.

Media

There are two main kinds of media in Selforge City : official ones dealing with general public information (service/good offerings, activity programs and Inner Planes news/history) entirely managed by Seira herself, and private ones created and managed by individual or groups of citizens regarding specific themes they are particularly interested in, including a large number of Lawrence-centered fan clubs.

It is common knowledge that Seira is virtually omniscient for all things past and present regarding Selforge City, and that it is a necessary compromise to permanently guarantee citizens’ collective and individual happiness both on a day-to-day and on a long-term basis, as fully understanding the needs of every citizen is the only way to optimally satisfy them, and ensure that no citizen ever lacks for anything.

Language

The very diverse planar origin of Selforge City’s inhabitants led Lawrence to create its own unique language early on, which he called the Soul-Word. Largely telempathic in nature and based on the Selforge Soul Essence uniting their entire society, it merges the conventional features of written and spoken language with psycho-emotional communication, the words/sentences and sounds/inflections directly evoking the corresponding ideas and emotions in citizens’ mind, with optimal context-relevant precision and nuances.

This flexible combination of comfortably universal structure and ideally personalized content make the Soul-Word one of the most natural and effective tools of self-expression and interpersonal communication. These qualities also extend to the written format, allowing citizens to personally experience Soul-Word readings as sharply and faithfully as if they were directly witnessing the related events, which notably makes literature a particularly popular hobby, living stories as if they were part of it without troublesome implication.

Culture

Thanks to Lawrence’s abilities their whole society is functionally based on, its continued existence, optimal suitability and everlasting prosperity are fundamentally guaranteed, removing the societal pressure for development and innovation that is the necessary driving force moving most advanced civilizations.

Citizens spending their immortal existence in complete safety and an amazingly benevolent environment, their societal mindset is carefreely childlike, seeing the simple enjoyment of life as its natural purpose, leading them to endlessly savor their delightful immortality like an entire nation of female Peter Pan.

The strength and nobility of the bonds uniting them play a central role in their collective happiness, Mother's and Father's Day in particular are among their greatest celebrations, as are birthdays in personal circles, followed by a rich variety of relational parties, and completed by recreational festivals of all kinds.

The most important one notably takes place on New Year’s Eve, and is the Selforge equivalent of Thanksgiving, citizens collectively expressing their heartfelt gratitude for Lawrence’ immeasurable kindness and generosity, celebrating their family bonds and good fortune, and happily kickstarting the new year.

Ethics

Due to Lawrence’s central role in citizens’ everyday life and his sheer personal gravity in Selforge society, their collective ethics naturally evolved into an extension of his own, one endlessly revivified through personal example, its tenets being the concepts of empathy and fairness, more specifically empathy towards their own kind and fairness towards all others.

The first takes root in a uniquely strong emotional connection with all their myriad Selforge sisters that completely merges the concepts of nation and family, anchored in the universal telempathic bond they share through their Selforge Soul Essence allowing emotions to naturally flow from one to another, leading citizens to experience each other’s emotions as their own and thus as equally important, this powerful inherent care reinforced all their lives through loving togetherness.

The second consists in a combination of moral integrity and self-determination, the refusal to wrong anyone who did not legitimately earn it on one hand and the rejection of unwarranted objective responsibility on the other, ensuring them all a comfortably clear conscience while leaving them free to help or not at their discretion and always choose their own path.

This second side is entirely cultural, an essential part of their relational education that over time becomes second nature, Lawrence keeping a subconscious eye on them through their Soul Essence to guarantee their actions towards foreigners always remain within the limits of the acceptable, gently nudging them back on the right path before they cross any line.

Relations

Immigrating citizens originally started as Lawrence's extraplanar lovers, whose mind-blowing caliber, radiant wisdom and unconditional love led them to also see him as the perfect father they always wanted, while native citizens are daughters born from them who later came to see him as the ultimate life companion, and eventually request their share of passion. Both thus develop a similar long-term relation with him, that combines the best of each love into a universal perfect one.

In the same way, their everlasting youthfulness, complete all-around equality and unifying emotional relation to him leads all full-grown citizens to see each other as sisters despite the generational differences, even more so since the empathic Selforge Soul Essence they all share (symbiotic source of their transcendence) are individualized slivers of Lawrence's own being, protectively hosting their soul and creating an inherent sense of kinship far beyond that of traditional families.

Despite all native citizens sharing the same father, they are genetically unrelated due to Lawrence having no actual DNA of his own, instead relying on data-based self-engineering during procreation, this dissociation also extending to the mothers' side due to their DNA being regularly redefined during self-customization. Family relations in Selforge City are thus based on factual conception and personal history, in place of the genetic connections defining them in most species.

While virtually all citizens relish and thrive on the passionate side of their relationship with him, exquisitely satisfying and generously accessible to all, the altruistic family bond uniting them always takes unwavering precedence in Lawrence's heart, and ensuring their genuine long-term happiness is both the only true concern and unquestionable priority in his life.

Sexualiy

Sexuality and fertility are closely related and largely synonymous in citizens' Selforge physiology, ovulating in answer to intense pleasure that reaches its climax during fertilization, before smoothly settling down into blissful appeasement and energizing afterglow. Bountiful opportunities notably lead to a particularly rich sex life, especially with their beloved alpha.

Encounters starting and concluding each daily cycle are closer to official relationships, the delightful manifestation and reaffirmation of the strength and intimacy of the bond they share, taking their sweet time enjoying each other within the comfort of their Sisterhood or private Domain. The others are more spontaneous, primal and intense, often doubling as collective entertainment, comparable to torrid extra-marital affairs focused on the unbridled pursuit of sexual gratification.

Citizens' most widespread fetish is notably informal shows, as the SSE-based empathic bond uniting them allows each side’s emotions to naturally flow to the other, the arousal of onlookers directly fueling the pleasure of participants, which is empathically shared back with their chosen audience, in an erotic synergy greatly magnifying their mutual experience.

Most immigrating citizens are originally heterosexual, and gradually develop a secondary bisexuality later on in response to Selforge City’s extremely attractive and empathic population, its ideally favorable and hedonistic environment. Native citizens are born without preference, allowing them to appreciate both sides of their society’s charms without reservation.

Family

Family is the beating heart of Selforge culture, the one value above all from which others naturally flow. It is through the endless expansion and everyday treasuring of their family bonds that citizens’ hedonistic lifestyle find its true meaning and fulfillment, each passing day spent in blissful celebration of their cherished companions and collective good fortune.

As divine founder and beloved all-father of the Selforge species, Lawrence is both the societal center point uniting them all into one immense family and the emotional driving force guiding them through unwavering example, his soul-deep empathy and universal love leading the way and inspiring citizens to treasure each other with the same devotion, their natural telempathic bond channeling these feelings like rivers of love crisscrossing their entire society and embracing all.

In this family-centered utopia, parenthood stands by far and wide as the highest and noblest of responsibilities, and as such is only available to citizens who are fully prepared for the commitment involved, all children conceived outside these essential parameters being translocated to the Legacy Heaven where the motherly torch is taken up by Seira herself from the moment of conception, raising and cherishing each of them alongside Lawrence through individualized avatars.

Due to this strong cultural emphasis on parental love and responsibility, each citizen may only have one child at a time to which they will provide their undivided attention, a new one becoming possible after raising their current child into early adulthood. This demographic regulation combined to citizens' endless lifespan, youth and fertility leads to the periodical restructuration of Selforge City's family units and relational dynamics centered on the latest generation, mothers having their next child in the wake of their elder's maturity while grown-up daughters usually have their first child alongside them.

Their children are then raised together as siblings until their own adulthood, initiating the next cycle and so forth, citizens of all generations refocusing their life and attention on their newborn child with each turn of the wheel of life, leading to an eternally youthful heart, joyful soul and meaningful existence, while their daily access to the Metaradise where they are free from all limitations allows them to stay in touch and spend any amount of time with their extended family circle and the many friends they slowly grew apart from over the centuries alongside the emergence and blooming of new relations.

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Seira Selforge
Name: Seira Selforge

Occupation: Great Administrator

Powers: Omni-Telepathy, Multiversal Lordship

Archetypes: Deus Est Machina, For Happiness, Good Feels Good, Undying Loyalty

Alignment: Lawful Great

Seira was originally created by Lawrence's following his awakening to sentient existence and self-actualizing introspection, having identified the crucial long-term importance of one everlasting alpha companion, the female Yin to his male Yang, who would be the anchor of his life and center of his world just like he would be hers, forming together the most perfect balance that could successfully withstand the challenge of eternity.

Understanding that no such person could reasonably be found in light of the dizzying expectations, and that the greatest masterpieces always emerge from blank slates, he decided to create this ultimate companion, forging Seira from an engineered fragment of his own essence into the living embodiment of female perfection, and the most ideal consort that he could share anything with, forever trust and rely on without any reservation.

As a result, Seira Selforge became a great many things : co-founder and Great Adminstrator of Selforge City, Overseer of the Inner Planes, the prime Soul Forged they were all modeled after, primogenitor of the Silver Sisters and uncrowned Empress of the Silver Empire, as well as Lawrence's first love, confidant and right-hand woman in all things, implictly trusted with all the power and knowledge she requires directly borrowed from him.

She is personally in charge of Selforge City’s global management, handling all goods production and distribution, and all public services and activities’ planning, organization and coordination, as well as the demi-plane’s urban and geological growth and evolution both for practicality and accommodation. She is also the de facto goddess of the Selforge Reality System, overseeing the Inner Planes’ evolution and periodically implementing minor alterations to better answer citizens’ expectations, while extensive overhauls are performed from time to time to kickstart larger events and usher in new eras.

Seira was notably granted the official title of "First Citizen" in acknowledgement of her overwhelming and invaluable daily contribution to the long-standing happiness of her entire society, but is commonly referred to as simply "Mother" by Selforge City's population, due to her omnipresent caretaking role and her treasuring them all equally as a single family. She is additionally the favorite female partner of Selforge citizens, and like Lawrence shares her favors generously with all interested, albeit with less regularity so it may complete and enrich relationships between citizens without impeding them.

Aside from her responsibilities as Great Administrator of Selforge City and Overseer of the Inner Planes, Seira spends a lot of time chilling with Lawrence and adventuring together in the outer planes like in the old days, the special bond they share notably granting her the same individualized ubiquity he uses so abundantly, allowing her to be physically present wherever needed and enjoy as much free time as desired while performing her duties with breath-taking near perfection.

Seira's most important responsibility however doesn't take place not in Selforge City or in the Inner Planes, but in the Legacy Heaven and the Silver Empire where she helps Lawrence raise his countless extra children from all origins as their ideal surrogate mother, lovingly nurturing, guiding and treasuring them from conception and throughout their eternal lives.

The Silver Sisters

Silver Sisters

The Silver Sisters are Lawrence’s semi-artificial daughters, originally born from his many unions with Seira Selforge, first of their kind and progenitor of their species. All Sisters notably inherited their gift of ubiquity albeit to a lesser degree, and may simultaneously exist in three places at once through as many avatars. One of them usually works somewhere in Selforge City, the Inner Planes or the Legacy Heaven, providing cares and support to Lawrence’s natural family with amazing skill and angelic dedication, while a second enjoys her own real-space quality time in the Silver Gardens or the Soul Haven, and a third remains within her native Metaradise territory where she freely meddles with her countless sisters and lives out their dreams.

The Silver Sisters are conceived naturally in real-space to historically anchor their humanity and physicality, within an immense network of Hybrid Selforge Domains called the Silver Gardens that is a material extension of their Metaradise territory, emerging into real-space like the tip of an iceberg piercing the surface of the ocean, some staying permanently while others periodically rise from and return to it, but they all grow up within their Metaradise homeworlds where time is subjective and dreams are reality, savoring an exquisite childhood alongside fellow sisters before their materialization as young adults.

While each Sister enjoys her own share of passionate intimacy with Lawrence similarly to Selforge citizens, leading to endless children, the motherly role is universally entrusted to Seira who raises each of them within the Metaradise as her own child, the Silver Sisters being emotionally united by an equally universal sibling-based connection.

Much like Seira before them, all Silver Sisters came to life with a deeply loving heart and an inherent sense of purpose, a natural desire to be of help to the transcendent all-father from whom they inherited their core values, which guides their existence and grants them all the blissful meaning and unwavering contentment that most spend their life searching for.

Sisters have as many roles as they have talents, their attributions encompassing Selforge City’s entire service providing sector in all its myriad forms, while Seira is in charge of goods provision, urbanism and organization. Their number within Selforge City thus increases with citizens’ and fluctuates with their need for attention much like Lawrence’s avatars, with a minimum of one Sister for four citizens covering all main activities proportionally out shared between citizens' Sisterhoods.

They are also subtly present in the Inner Planes, where they assist Seira in the supervision and regulation of their myriad realms and communities through various influential positions, as well as adventuring citizens in their own endeavors through a wide diversity of supporting professions, including guides, liaisons, informers, merchants, trainers, quest givers, and personally joining them to offer field support during priority assignments or simply for the pleasure of their company.

Selforge Soldiers[]

"This world is my children's now. It is time to purge it of undesirables, so they may thrive in peace."
― Lawrence Selforge
"EMBRACE THE STILLNESS OF ETERNITY!"
― Selforge Legion

Theme Song: Dance of Nereids

Abilities: Shapeshifting Combat, Reactive Adaptation, Scanning, Adaptive Power-Level, Planeswalking

Physiology: Superpowered Physiology, Flawless Restoration, Adaptive Resistance, Conceptual Anchoring

Archetypes: Lightning Bruiser, Master of All, Implacable Man, Made of Indestructium

Selforge Soldiers are artificial entities infused with a militarized sliver of Lawrence's power/self aptly named Selforge Military Essence (SME), granting them unrestricted shifting abilities and direct access to the entire military database and global ressources in real time, freely adapting their form, abilities and power-level to overcome virtually any opposition. It also works as main interface for the S.T.A.R System (Selforge Threat Analysis and Response), a Selforge Technology automatically analysing the empirical data collected by Soldiers on the battlefield via the Selforge Essence within them, and combining it to available technologies and supernatural knowledge to immediately design optimal countermeasures.

Soldiers are generated from a sliver of standard Selforge Essence, planeshifting to the required location before shifting to Soldier Mode, dividing for multiple generation and materializing their physical form. This allows their nigh-instantaneous deployment wherever needed, and their equally swift reintegration once their mission accomplished. When fighting long drawn out battles usually involving massive numerical superiority, they will activate the RAP (Regenesis Absorption Protocol), allowing them to absorb any environmental material to fuel their fighting power and self-replication, and even focus it into all-consumming death rays, quickly tearing down the most resilient targets and assimilating their capabilities.

The numerous conceptual abilities Lawrence memorized during his explorations were also re-engineered into an arsenal of exponentially superior hybrid versions and placed at the exclusive disposal of Soldiers, which combined to the S.T.A.R System allows them to outclass and defeat conceptual powerhouses on their own ground. When the time has come to lay down the law once and for all, they will finally activate the OVP (Omega Virus Protocol), their Essence taking over as they explode into myriads of Materium projectives, planeshifting directly into their targets and instantly assimilating them from the inside, each exploding into a new swarm of projectiles in an unstoppable cycle wiping out all opposition within seconds.

While their emulated form may be fully destroyed by the most powerful attacks, the Selforge Essence powering and operating them remains inherently indestructible, seamlessly absorbing any force or effect coming its way. Annihilated Soldiers may thus self-restore from it in an instant, shrugging off the mightiest punishments like they never happened, each rebuilt form reinforced accordingly until they prove virtually impervious to any attack repeatedly used against them.

Yet for all their staggering might and incredible resilience, their most fearsome trait is that all Soldiers operate as living extensions of their maker, who shares their perceptions, and may replace any of them to handle the situation personally.

Their primary purpose is the protection of Lawrence’s extraplanar children, and by extension the communities they are part of. This function is usually performed on a preemptive basis, the Selforge Network pinpointing tangible threats to their continuous well-being and sending him the specifics. Lawrence then assesses the situation, strategizes accordingly and dispatches Selforge Soldiers to fix the problem in a suitable fashion, stealthily seizing control of problematic factions, and wiping out all criminal activity through mass execution of hardened wrongdoers and neural rewriting of salvageable ones.

Ultimate Weapons[]

The most powerful wargears available to Selforge Soldiers were designed by Lawrence based on the direct weaponization of Selforge Essence in its Materium form, and are only used when facing particularly resilient foes or truly massive opposition, to meet objectives under strict parameters, or for tactical purposes on his direct order.

Shifting Bullet - Originally created as contermeasure against targets with exceptionally powerful defensive, evasive, adaptive or regenerative abilities, it locks on the target's signature and directly planeshifts to it, merging with the target upon impact and spreading/memorizing/transmutating its natural and supernatural structure according to a predefined template, nullifying specific capabilities. It can be used lethally by converting the target into volatile materials (unstable energy), or for neutralization/securisation by converting it into some extremely resilient material.

Takeover Bullet - Upgrade of the Shifting Bullet and ultimate single target ammo type, it pushes the mechanism to its logical conclusion, merging, spreading and fully taking over all the targets' systems before converting it into a fully functional Selforge Soldier, inheriting all the target's data and capabilities and pooling them into the military dabase for replication by other Soldiers.

Used on targets with major tactical value, a single shot can turn the tide of a battle by enabling large-scale replication of spearhead technology, or instantly taking control of an entire organization.

Devourer Bomb - The ultimate multi-target offensive device, a selective weapon of mass destruction emulating Lawrence's ultimate technique, planeshifting to a designated location and locking on all target signatures within the area of effect, before brutally tearing appart, deconstructing and assimilating them with irresistible force like a selective blackhole, while leaving all other structures and entities within the area completely unharmed.

It can also be used more selectively by targeting life force, energy sources and abilities, neutralizing all targets without causing any damage, and claiming the corresponding data and resources.

Omega Bullet - Upgraded combination of the Shifting and Takeover Bullets and miniaturized variant of the Omega Virus Protocol, it is the pinacle of surgical warfare, the aptly named bullet of the end.

Equiped with similar locking-on and planeshifting functions, its target is immediatly transmuted/converted on impact and explodes into a massive volley of new Omega Bullets, each of them independently auto-locking their own priority target in a coordinated strategic onslaught, beheading and dismembering the opposing army within moments before engulfing their remaining forces in an unstoppable swarm of exponential annihilation.

Glossary[]

Lawrence

Prime Undefineness: a completely featureless existence/phenomenon of the primest origin, source of the truly limitless Absorbing Replication, Planeswalking and Singularity that are Lawrence’s core natural abilities. The unqualifiable/unquantifiable "stuff" that his "true self" is made of.

Selforge Essence: slivers of the sentient Prime Undefiness that is Lawrence, separated and usually bonded to external phenomena. They allow the autonomous channeling his primary abilities for almost limitless utilitarian applications, via their mental self-programming into omni-purpose Selforge Technology.

Selforge Technology: the mental programs integrated within specific slivers of Selforge Essence, which allow them to independently perform a huge diversity of functionalities on a subconscious level. Selforge Technology operates via a combination of absorption, teleportation, generation and transmutation.

Avatars: Lawrence’s material bodies. His limitless mental capabilities and self-mastery allow him to simultaneously exist through any number of them in any number of places, and live many lives at the same time. Primarily divided between adventuring avatars and those within Selforge boundaries. Made of a unique artificial material called Selforge Materium.

Selforge Materium: the indestructible material Lawrence’s avatars are made of. Entirely and permanently bonded with a Selforge Essence hosting a fraction of Lawrence’s consciousness, it exists in a state of constantly flux, endlessly shifting its numerous attributes as it adapts on the fly to his every thought.

Memorization: the imperceptible scanning process through which Lawrence collects empirical data on environmental phenomena. It is both instantaneous and perfectly exhaustive, including all of the phenomena’s finest retroactive details, on every single level and back to their earliest beginnings.

Templates: perfect blueprints of memorized phenomena. There are the informational foundation of Lawrence’s replicating and engineering capabilities, breaking down available templates into smaller ones and mentally recombining them into different and more advanced ones, multiplying the possibilities.

Materialization: the process through which Lawrence brings available templates into physical existence. Previously absorbed resources are generated via Selforge Essence and transmuted into a perfect copy of one or several chosen templates, be they living of non-living, natural or supernatural.

Resource: the universal resource unit used for the materialization of available templates. Any phenomena absorbed via Selforge Essence is converted into a proportional amount of resource, which is in turn consumed in the same proportion during the generation of any template-based constructs.

Places/People

Outer Planes: the all-encompassing endless numbers of realities existing outside Selforge boundaries and composing the larger Omniverse. Lawrence’s favorite adventuring playground, primary source of his technical knowledge, secondary abilities, resources and the native planes of immigrating citizens.

Selforge: Lawrence’s home plane, personally crafted from his vast knowledge and resources. Composed of Selforge City (planar hub), Selforge Domains (annexes), Inner Planes (adventuring territories), Legacy Heaven (home to Lawrence’s expanded lineage) and Soul Haven (his secret personal realm).

Selforge City: Transcendent urban paradise and the primary residence of Selforge Citizens. Highly cosmopolitan and hedonistic society with an extremely privileged population. Completely egalitarian social structure, telempathy-based democracy with real-time adaptation based on collective wishes.

Selforge Citizens: Inhabitants of Selforge City. Composed of immigrating citizens who moved in from their native outer plane on Lawrence’s invitation, and native citizens later born from their unions. Complete immortals with adaptive power set and telempathic bond via their Selforge Soul Essence.

Selforge Domains: individual extension of Selforge City. Public domains serve as vacation resorts, wide play areas and experimental grounds. Private ones (one per citizen) serve as secret garden, solo alternative to the Inner planes with empire-building options, and quality times with Lawrence.

Inner Planes: Network of artificial realities expanding with Selforge City’s population, offering citizens the opportunity for thrilling adventures and meaningful self-actualization in permanent worlds with unwavering objective rules, each following its own independent path with only marginal updates.

Goumet Plane: one of the Inner Planes dedicated to the gastronomical supplying of Selforge City. Provides citizens with an immense diversity of daily-renewed delicious dishes for their main meals and ingredients for homemade delicacies in exchange for everlasting protection and prosperity.

Legacy Heaven: independent planar system based on the combination of Selforge City and the Inner Planes, created for the sake of Lawrence’s expanded lineage. It welcomes children conceived with Selforge citizens or partners from the outer planes when they aren’t fully prepared for motherhood.

Legacy Residents: inhabitants of the Legacy Heaven. Born in individual Bubble Worlds and raised by Lawrence and the Sister Sisters into early adulthood, before the merging of their Bubble Worlds into Nexus Worlds, expanding and evolving with residents under the influence of the Selforge Providence.

Silver Sisters: all-female descendants from Lawrence and Seira Selforge, working as service providers in Selforge City and as undercover support roles within the Inner Planes. Naturally conceived in their own colective Selforge Domain for humanization, permanent access to the Metaradise as reward.

Technologies

Genesis Well: the primary resource provider for all constructions and transmutations. A nigh-infinite multiverse locked in its primeval stage, encapsulated in a small force-field-like sphere infused with a Selforge Technology dedicated to automatic resource processing and redistribution wherever needed.

PIM Technology: aka Perfect Infinite Miniaturization, it allows the perfect resizing of any phenomena to virtually any scale, via absorption and re-materialization for a fraction of its original resource cost. Primarily used for nigh-infinite cost reduction within Selforge territory with no subjective difference.

Possibility Matrix: psycho-virtual multiverse existing within Lawrence’s mind, exploring the creative potential of the data he accumulated. Transition from the Matrix into real-space via materialization and from real-space to Matrix via absorption. Origin of the Inner Planes, afterlife of their inhabitants.

Transcendence Matrix: specialized variation of the Possibility Matrix, dedicated to the reengineered possibilities of the myriad abilities Lawrence collected during his travels. Primarily used to empower Selforge citizens on demand with the tailor-made abilities of their choice within predefined limitations.

Metaradise: crown jewel of the Possibility Matrix, it is the boundless metaphysical realm of limitless power where time is subjective and desires are reality. Accessed by all Selforge citizens and Legacy resident during their daily resting period, permanent networked semi-immersion for Silver Sisters.

Selforge Soul Essence: soul-centered Selforge Technology at the foundation of Lawrence’s utopia. Based on psycho-symbiotic self-engineering, the process integrates their soul into a pre-programmed emptied out sliver of his own, blessing them with his transcendence. Passed down to all descendants.

Selforge Providence: Global Selforge Technology passively ruling the Legacy Heaven and Lawrence’s Soul Haven. Automatically collects all data, calculates a range of highly fulfilling paths and randomly implements one of them, weaving an optimal long-term balance of happiness and unpredictability.

Soul Haven: cradle and resting place of Lawrence’s humanity, functionally standing on the crossroad between Inner Planes and the MetaradiseRuled by its own benevolent Selforge Providence centered on his childlike dreams and carefree happiness, entrusted with the fate of his non-powered avatars.

Selforge Soldiers: Lawrence’s elite military forces, powered and operated by an artificial variation of the Selforge Soul Essence called Selforge Military Essence, imprinted with a semi-sentient program in place of soul. Indestructible and nigh-unstoppable, the guardian angels of his extraplanar children.

Past Records[]

Disclaimer : This section of the sheet is a bit outdated, but may be entertaining to read nonetheless. Enjoy ^ ^

The Beginning

Lawrence’s first planar jump led him to the Milky Way of an alternate universe, heavily populated and brimming with vitality. Many different and powerful species, including a gigantic human empire, appeared to be constantly fighting one another and even themselves over a variety of reasons: conquest, domination, survival, fanaticism, viciousness or just for the hell of it.

He was amazed by their strength, determination, the very impressive and creative means at their disposal, and the sheer resilience that allowed them to keep up with this overly destructive lifestyle.

Without any doubt, this plane had quite a lot to offer.

First things first, he started by syphoning the mass of dying stars and the collapsing space-time of black holes, gathering the resources he would later need in his various endeavors.

Eventually, his attention was attracted by a strange cosmic phenomenon, a luminescent tear in the fabric of space-time, strangely shaped in some kind of ominous-looking eye of gigantic proportion.

Sensing some uncanny change in the nature of space-time as he drew closer to the anomaly, he decided to take a look on the other side, eagers to uncover the fascinating wonders awaiting him.

Was he found was certainly fascinating… but not exactly wonderful.

Beyond the Veil

On the other side, he discovered a boundless psychic realm of unimaginable horror, overflowing with the darkest emotions pushed to their utmost extreme, crawling with myriads of nightmarish life forms, and constantly mutated by the tainted psychic energies making up the entire plane.

He remembered a legend about a spiritual place where the souls of unrepentant evil doers were supposed to be tormented for all eternity, and thought that if it exists it must be very comfortable compared to this one, where only the mightiest of souls could hope to survive more than a minute.

Safe from the plane’s ravaging influence thanks to his ever-adaptive nature, he pondered about the ramifications of its existence. If this realm had any influence at all on its material counterpart, then the constant violence plaguing it seemed inevitable, unless this very violence was the source of such corruption in the first place. There may be some truth to both versions, and some use in knowing it.

This ethereal energy was extremely potent and literally bursting with possibilities, able to twist and reshape its environment, but its extremely corrupt nature made it radically unfit to the constructive applications he had in mind. Still, the exotic material was just too promising to give up so easily.

Remembering his reflections on the nature of the plane, he considered that if its psycho-reactive energies were not inherently negative, then it may be possible to restore their original purely, which would allow him to use their very powerful and flexible properties for his own purposes.

Engineer of Change

Returning to the material universe, he tried an experiment. Using his replicative ability to recreate a concentrated chunk of the energy, he then used his absorbing ability to drain the negative emotions it was brimming with. The experiment proved a success along with his theories, the tainted psycho-reactive energy entirely purified by the emotional absorption, resulting in a completely neutral energy than would only react to the immediate mental activity of the souls in close proximity.

He then memorized the purified template, certain that it would prove a valuable addition to his future endeavours. Quite satisfied with his new acquisition and the considerable resources collected, he decided to do the inhabitants of this galaxy a favor in return. Jumping into the psychic dimension once more, he merged with it and unleashed his might, spreading his presence at incredible speed and converting the corrupted psychic energy into its purified counterpart.

The untold daemonic legions and their dark sovereigns raged and wailed, but were incapable to contain the purifying wave as it irresistibly purged and claimed everything on its path, and nowhere to run or hide as it engulfed the entire psychic dimension, annihilating them entirely in a swift cosmic blow since the tainted psychic energy was the only thing supporting their existence.

Returning to the physical dimension once more, he noted with satisfaction that the hostilities between the different factions had decreased considerably, and while there was still many conflicts in many places for many reasons, there was longer this corrupting veil of insanity ushering them to unnecessary battles and maddened heights of violence.

Supreme Lifeform

As he prepared to leave, he noticed for the first time suspicious tendril-looking forms gnawing at the edges of the galaxy, so absurdly huge that they first looked integrated to the galactic landscape. Ever so curious of unusual phenomena, he approach the strange structures in hope something similarly interesting, and was not disappointed.

They turned out to be organic in nature, the prying edges of an impossibly vast super-organism made of the coalesced mass of small engineered organisms, numerous beyond any calculation and all united into a single will, a single mind as immeasurable powerful as the numbers composing it, yet exclusively moved by a primal urge to grow, evolve and multiply. Lawrence felt an unexpectedly strong empathy for the super-organism, as he essentially functioned under a similar pattern himself, but the existence of such an overwhelmingly successful species entirely made of engineered biomass had extremely disturbing implications, namely the complete eradication and consumption of every single species ever encountered to fuel their development.

He wasn't exactly a philanthropist, but leaving alone a species than essentially ran on galactic extermination was definitely crossing the line. Besides, it would have made his relatively successful effort to stabilize the situation of the local species completely meaningless.

Hive-minded telepathy was no doubt an extremely valuable asset regarding logistic and tactical matters, and probably indispensable to manage such astonomical multitude, but it wasn't without its own flaws. As it stands, its greatest strength turned out to also be its greatest weakness.

A Brighter Tomorrow

Stealthily approaching the super-organism further, he noticed that some of its lesser components had a much stronger psychic presence than most others, apparently serving a telepathic relay, and merged with the closest of them. His theory confirmed, he extended his own assimilating presence through the psychic network like he did in the Warp, gradually claiming the super-organism nervous system at exponential speed, before using the conquered progenitor caste as conduit to take control of its innumerable lesser components, until the immeasurable composite entity (which actually spanned far beyond the Milky Way) was little more than an unwitting cosmic puppet at the end of imperceptible strings.

The galactic predator now under control, he used the extensive mastery of genetic engineering and psychic logistic acquired during the experience to rewrite the Hive Mind’s primal drives. Considering its sheer size, there was no need for any additional biomass to ensure its lasting survival, while new genetic templates remained essential to environmental adaptation, as he could personally attest.

From then on, the Hive Mind would only seek genetic diversity, sending its best infiltrators alone to stealthily collect samples of the most interesting materials for analysis and integration in the Hive’s gene pool, before moving on to the next world unnoticed, and simply backing away when the targets prove to well-defended to be secured without considerable damage on both sides.

Having pacified the two greatest powerhouses of the galaxy, he then took his time exploring its immensity and various inhabited worlds, carefully collecting an impressive diversity of technologies, templates and capabilities along the way. He eventually used this wealth of knowledge and the harvested stellar resources to forge his own ideal domain at safe distance from the warmonging factions, psychically whispering the promise of a better life to their more rational members (notably unfortunate civilian populations caught in the crossfires) through the stabilized Immaterium, and welcoming them as the first denizens of his handmade utopia.

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