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The Makers of the Recorder were a species of ancient beings that created the Recorder virus in order to create a database of all life in the universe.[1]
Biology[]
Nothing is known about the biology of the Makers of the Recorder. They were at least scientifically advanced enough to design a virus to enter the genome of all DNA-based life and record it, as well as distribute it throughout a large part of the universe. The Makers were apparantly unaware, or did not care, that their virus could be damaged by cosmic radiation and turn into a massively destructive virus like the Descolada.[1]
It was speculated that the Makers' star had either gone supernova millions of years ago, explaining why none of their species or technology had been encountered by Humans, or that they lost interest in the Recorder virus project and forgot all about it, as the virus they sent out was a harmless data collection device.[1]
History[]
Creation of the Recorder[]
Several thousand years before 3066 AX when Lusitania was colonized by Humans, the Makers of the Recorder created the Recorder virus to make records of every living creature on every planet that uses the DNA system of reproduction, so that when the viruses were collected and read out, a database of life could be assembled, and the Makers dispersed it widely. The distribution was simple, eject a few million Recorder viruses in the general direction of a planet, and they would build their own life-support and isolation chambers with the film.[1]
Eventually it made its way to the planet Nest, but as it went further beyond Nest the Recorder was damaged by the cosmic radiation and broke the molecular switch that kept it from activating the replication sequence inside the host body.[1] This broken virus, which would later be named the Descolada by the humans of Lusitania, continued to spread across the galaxy, ravaging multiple planets before reaching Lusitania,[2] where it apparantly stopped spreading through empty space.[1]