Lifespan: All Provectus (Latin for "aged," "old," advanced in age"), at birth, are implanted with a number of devices and nanotechnology, some of which whose purpose is to prolong the life of the Provectus by a considerable amount. Only those Provectus who wish to can remove the devices inside them to live a natural length of time.
Unnatural -- Up to 10,000 years, with the average being around 8,500
Natural -- 800-1000 years

Home Planet: Vaelzar
A massive world, with an equatorial diameter of 152,000 km and a gravitational pull of .75, Vaelzar has 3 large moons easily visible, and more than 30 small moons which orbit it. It has one large sun. The atmosphere isn't that dissimilar from Earth's, though with much more hydrogen. The planet is made up of 85% water, and thus many cities are not seen on land, but are rather submerged. The weather is fair, usually with a moist and humid atmosphere, ranging between only 50-90 degrees fahrenheit. Landscapes vary between vast jungles, to open fields and grassy hills, to swamps and low lands.

Language: Vaelish

Technology: Exceedingly Advanced

Appearance:
They are bipedal humanoids. Both the females and males possess different shades of blue hair, though as they age, it eventually becomes lighter, turning entirely white around the time they have lived for a couple millennia or so. They are nearly hairless beings everywhere else on their body. Their arms and legs simply grow soft peach fuzz. Males are typically taller, around 6'4" on average, while the females are closer to 5'11". They have very delicate and slender features, which are considered elegant. Their skin is usually porcelain white, with bluish discoloration resembling veins on their chest and back -- the front portion going down from their neck to around their belly button, while the back portion going from the back of their skull, down through the spine to around their tailbone -- and also on the sides of their face. Their eyes are always deep black, with no whites of the eyes ever visible. Their teeth are slightly sharper than a human's, and their canines are longer.

Diet: Carnivores
The will readily eat any creature or being, but prefer the nourishing retort pouch food they most commonly eat. They do not savor or enjoy meals, as humans do, but simply eat to live.

Government: Self-Rule Anarchy
Rule by individual responsibility, creativity, and input. A sort of meta-socialism/meta-democracy. This type of government requires advanced emotional and spiritual development, usually a society of superiors. Such government types can be very long-lived.

Culture:
The Provectus live in large societies, both on land and underwater. Their oceans are vastly deep, and their submerged cities can go for miles under the water. They never practice any arts, from singing to music, to any form of artwork, as they find little need for any type of entertainment, since it gives them no form of pleasure. Their kind possesses very little to no emotion. Thus, the Provectus find it hard to feel love, hate, anger, joy, sadness, or any type of human emotion, beyond a very minimal extent. These all are rather frowned upon and considered weaknesses. Their kind, instead, seems to care most about learning, giving one the impression they do have more curiosity than any other emotion. Their entire society devotes their time to science. All of their technological advances, which are the most highly developed in the universe, all are derived from their tireless endeavors, which they have long ago mastered. Their kind considers themselves superior to all other beings in the universe, and rightly so. They are not only capable of traveling between galaxies, but have on numerous occasions, visiting countless planets, star systems, and moons in their history, leaving behind worlds of lesser beings to worship them as gods. Though it is debatable, they are naturally "good," if that can be said.

The Provectus are the "planters," the "creators," the "gods" of the universe. They are the ones responsible for almost all the bipedal beings in the universe, as they created them. To the Provectus, their creations are experiments of billions of different types and in depths far greater than the human mind could comprehend. They created all the humans on Earth, along with many other humanoids, some closely resembling humans, others looking rather different in various ways.

It is common in Provectus society for the children to never meet their real parents, but instead to be raised by the society as a whole, each individual contributing to the growth, development, and learning of the young ones. At birth, the babies are taken to a very specialized facility, which consists only of a "smart building" and the infants. There are no adult Provectus that work there. The building itself is fully capable of providing everything the infants all need until they reach the age of three. This early stage of life is considered to be a very trying time in which all the young Provectus must learn that, in the universe, the only ones they really have are themselves. Such a lesson would be considered cruel and impossible for any human child, but for the Provectus, it is not only feasible, but a timeless tradition. Afterward, they are released out into the world to be taken care of by the community and live in a different facility until they reach their teen years, during which point, they typically go off to live on their own. It is quite common, as is with humans, for many Provectus to live in the same building, similar to apartments, though theirs are usually much larger and more complex.

Beliefs:
The Provectus worship no gods, but rather believe solely in the universe itself. They are aware that the universe has a will of its own, and honor that, though do not devote any religious homage to it. They simply respect the universe and the universe alone.

Contrasts From Humans:
Their eyesight is more advanced than a human's, as they can see in more vivid colors with more contrast and even more sharply. They also have much better night vision. Provectus have minds that are highly evolved and capable of much more than a human's. Their carrying capacity too well exceeds Earthlings. The overall physical strength of a Provectus is very similar to a human's though, and their bodies are just as frail and delicate and can easily get hurt or be killed. However, their reflexes are also superior to a human's, and therefore they can react much faster. One major difference between the Provectus and humans, is that Provectus are able to move objects with their minds, using what humans would call telekinesis. They also are telepathic, able to communicate entirely through thoughts and even share images between each other through their minds. They may communicate telepathically to other beings, but those who do not have the proper mind power to handle such an enhanced and evolved form of commutation can suffer from it. Minor symptoms include headaches, nose bleeds, and dizziness. Prolonged communication via telepathy in under-evolved beings can lead to black-outs for them, migraines, memory loss, concussions, and even death.

Background:
The Provectus are primordial beings, the first ever to evolve into intelligent life forms in the universe. They know no other agenda but to learn, discover, and invent. Their entire species consists of what we would call scientists. They take everything from a scientific point of view, learning it inside out to better their technology and understanding of the universe. It is, always has been, and always will be their ultimate goal to learn everything about the universe and all that lies inside it. Besides their appearance, one of the most notable features of The Ancients are their speech. The Provectus speak slowly, and in a calm manner. Because they do not feel any real human emotions, they find no need to speak at a rate quicker than what is natural. They also never lie - not because they're afraid, but simply because they have no need to. Their species is extremely direct and straightforward. If they do not know something, though it is a shame to them, they will openly admit it. The experiments that the Provectus endlessly conduct on countless different planets range greatly, but the tests in which the Provectus "seed," or give life to another planet and then watch the development of that life is called the Intergalactic Genesis Experimentation, or IGE.