manticore7 wrote:my guess would be the Pol, my guess that they are the secret masters of the Historians rather than a client race. of course this is speculation on my part.
Yes and the Pol are actually the Soia that got annoyed how they tried to create an "Infinite Empire" and in the end it crumbled like the ones before it. So they entered a 250k+ years long period of isolation out of despair - and as to prevent anyone from reckognising them *especialy a certain specie they bio-engineered previously* and subsequently bothering and annoying them - they created a specie of sentient machine-custodians, so to be immune against the
exotic mental abilities of that certain bio-engineered specie of theirs, that will act as their
maskirovka masqurade faces, their eyes and ears and as bodyguards and caretakers of daily tasks.
As a coup de grace this Machine race was instructed to make sure any alien race sees them just as another organic race that doesn't like to communicate with other alien races
in person *making themself look like paranoid pricks or a little bit xenophobic in the process is just a bonus* and sends the so-called
Avatars instead *which are in fact the actual Machines themself downloaded into a smaller "platform", but nobody needs to know that now, do they?
* to communicate with others.
These Machines were also instructed by the surviving Soia to "act" *in the truly theatric sense of the word, to deceive everybody else what is going on* as being over-protective guardians/protectors of them and not servants and also tell everyone that asks that the
Pol *the ancient biological name for the Soia,<e.g. Humans/Terrans = Homo Spaiens>* " ... are just a technologically backwards, very pacifist people we took a liking to and didn't wanted to see them destroyed by some other race with a fetish for orbital bombardment ... " so they
maked them their
client race.
The Machine races name ... Historians the Caretakers.
NOTE: It would explain why Arioch has the Pol as a "page-saver" after each last page he has written yet.
A small hint perhaps?