Prayer, recitation, and study are important parts of everyday life, and as study involves ruins, relics, and ancient technology much of their religious activity has pragmatic consequences.
As they were saved from extinction by the technology of the Endless, it is only natural that they in turn worship these all-powerful precursors as gods. Vodyani society is organized as a formal and hierarchical church that worships the Endless. When the Reapers came into the galaxy to harvest its sapient life of sufficient technological tier, they found Tchinomy polluted and empty, and the Vodyani narrowly missed as they drifted between the stars. Though their civilization has become tied to their great starfaring Arks, Tchinomy remains a powerful symbol both as a lesson in ecology and as a memory of the weak and grotesque forms the Vodyani had before Meld technology allowed them to evolve beyond them by physically altering their species into a form like unto their gods. As a result, the Vodyani were driven into space by necessity and already have a long history as a ship-bound people. Tchinomy, the home planet of the Vodyani, was a poor yet temperate world, and the fragility of its environment meant it was soon depleted. She is also famous for her brother - the heretic Isyander Shumèd, who nearly destroyed the society when he led a revolt against his own people. The current hierarch is Isyara St Shaiad, famous for her rigor and intensity. This person, drawn from one of the powerful organizations that make up Vodyani society, is the ultimate authority for both religious and secular affairs. While there are many sprawling departments and executives within the Church of the Virtual Saints to handle the functions of running a starfaring civilization, there is only one ultimate authority - the Hierarch. Their name for themselves means "Voice of the Endless," or "Endless Voice." For this reason, their language is referred to as "Tongue of the Endless Voice," or simply by the same name as their race.
As of 2503 CE, the general Terran populace of the Koprulu Sector has yet to make contact with them (officially). The Vodyani, or Space Vampires as they are called in slang, are a clan-based species of humanoids.
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