Long before the Erythari menace, before humanity fractured into warring empires, the Snow Family existed as an obscure dynasty on Earth's coldest fringes. Their ancestors hailed from a forgotten lineage of Arctic survivalists, thriving in regions where most civilizations faltered. For centuries, they lived in isolation, cultivating an innate genetic resilience to extreme cold.
But it was not mere adaptation—it was something more. Something beyond biology.
By the time humanity reached the stars, the Snows had already established themselves as pioneers in cryogenic sciences and cold-planet terraforming, specializing in transforming barren ice worlds into livable colonies. Their knowledge became invaluable as human expansion pushed into the Mid-Rim, where frozen exoplanets provided natural defense against external threats.
One such system was Vetr, a glacial star cluster nestled within the Mid-Rim's outer bands. When the Snow Family laid claim to Vetr in the year 3000, few believed it would ever be more than an inhospitable wasteland.
They were wrong. Here they found ruins of an old isolated super civilization which had already ascended to higher dimension. This super civilization chose to shed their physical bodies and chose to try and ascend to the ultimate tenth dimension of Physics. Unfortunately, they failed and got stuck between fifth and sixth dimension. Snows found their central AI called Lumi located on planet Flykra of Vetra system which eventually became their home planet.
From Lumi they learned about how to enhance thire bodies against cold and also about trans phasic lasers.
The Terraforming of Vetr
Where others saw a frozen void, the Snows saw opportunity. Using advanced Cryo-Terraforming Arrays, they initiated planetary conversion procedures, ensuring that every world within the Vetr System was coated in dense ice layers, stabilized by atmospheric modifiers that prevented heat absorption.
Even the star of the system was completely covered in Dyson sphere plunging the entire star system into complete darkness and extreme cold. During terraforming planets, they introduced bioluminescence in all the flora and fauna of star system creating breathtaking beauty. They even modified their own eyes giving themselves excellent night vision. This made their eyes bright blue which became a signature eye color for Snows.
The process was brutal—entire generations of Snow colonists endured sub-zero conditions, their bodies conditioned to function in extreme temperatures. Genetic mutations emerged, fortifying their neural pathways against sensory overload and emotional disruptions.
This seemingly minor biological quirk would change the course of human history.
For reasons yet unknown, the Snows began exhibiting natural resistance to psychic interference. Their emotional signatures became almost undetectable, rendering them immune to the Erythari's parasitic hunger.
The First Encounter With the Erythari (Year 4100)
When the Erythari plague descended upon the galaxy, human worlds fell in rapid succession. Their ethereal forms consumed entire civilizations, feasting on raw emotion and leaving hollowed-out husks behind.
But when the Erythari reached Vetr, something unexpected occurred.
Instead of attacking, they hesitated. Something about the Snow bloodline disrupted their feeding instincts, forcing them into an involuntary symbiotic relationship.
The Snows could not be fed upon. Their emotional wavelengths, dampened by centuries of cold-world adaptation, disrupted Erythari resonance fields.
But the Erythari also could not leave.
Bound by an inexplicable biological compulsion, they lingered in Vetr's frozen expanse, unable to attack, yet unable to depart.Young Erytharies became so attached to Snows that some even became pets to the higher members of Snow family.
It was the first recorded instance of forced symbiosis between humans and the Erythari—a phenomenon that would define the Snow Family's future.
The Mayan Alliance: Building Indigenous Weapons (Year 4500-4700)
While the Snow Family had passive immunity, they understood that their survival depended on ensuring the Erythari never evolved beyond their symbiotic limitations.
And so, they turned to the Mayan Dynasty—the rulers of Vashara, masters of anti-Erythari military technology. The Mayans had already built vast arsenals designed to counter psychic warfare, but their weapons were useless against Ethereal Erythari, whose forms existed beyond conventional physics.
The Snows had one advantage—laser-based energy manipulation.
Vetr's dense ice layers contained rare photon-reactive crystalline formations which they named Snois, capable of amplifying directed energy weapons. The Snows had long used these indigenous materials to forge Cryo-Lasers, energy weapons calibrated for extreme cold environments.
With Mayan guidance, they refined these technologies into Erythari disruptors, capable of tearing apart the parasites' energy fields without relying on psychic interference.
Vetr became the first non-militarized colony capable of repelling Erythari incursions.
Political Isolation and Human Suspicion (Year 4800-4950)
Despite their military success, the Snow Family faced growing distrust from other human factions.
Many believed that their forced symbiosis with the Erythari was not natural—that the Snows had secretly bargained with the parasites instead of exterminating them outright.
The Sol Dominion, ever hostile toward non-conventional warfare, accused the Snow Family of harboring Erythari sympathizers, threatening to purge Vetr in a cleansing campaign.
The Vanguard Coalition, obsessed with cybernetic evolution, sought to dissect Snow genetic material, attempting to artificially replicate their resistance—though all attempts failed.
Even the Mayan Dynasty, their closest allies, remained skeptical. While the Snows had proven valuable, their unwillingness to wage direct war with the Erythari was a constant point of contention. But Mayans knew that Snows were unwilling to wage large scale war against Erytharies due to their low population base, need for extreme climate for survival amongst most of the members of family, limited supply of Snois for laser construction. Thus they continued their harmonious relationships with Snows for past two millennials. Thus, Vetr endured, isolated, yet untouched.
The Present: War at the Edge of Oblivion (Year 5000)
The war against the Erythari has reached a stalemate, and Vetr remains humanity's last anomaly.
While fortress worlds like Vashara continue to repel invasions, Vetr holds a precarious balance—its residents unaffected by Erythari presence, yet fully aware that their immunity is not invulnerability.
In recent years, disturbing signs have emerged:
New strains of Erythari are evolving ones exhibiting resistance to their forced symbiosis, suggesting they may soon break free from Snow influence.
Vetr's temperature is rising, a mysterious phenomenon unexplained by natural physics, potentially linked to Erythari or some other interference.
Human factions are growing more aggressive, with rogue warlords seeking to take control of Vetr's indigenous laser technology, believing it to be the key to humanity's salvation.
For the first time in two thousand years, the Snow Family faces a choice:
Should they abandon their symbiotic truce and wage total war against the Erythari?
Or should they seek another way, one that might finally uncover the true nature of their impossible resistance?
The war hangs in the balance, and the fate of Vetr—and perhaps the future of humanity itself—rests on what the Snows choose next.
As the Erythari mutate beyond their symbiotic limitations, the answer may decide the fate of all sentient life. And the Snows—whether they wish to or not—will be forced to choose.