The galaxy is broken. The Light still sings.

Welcome, storyteller! This guide will help you understand the Vollistan Light Singers in OtherSpace – and decide if playing one fits your next adventure.

✨ Who Are the Vollistan Light Singers?

• Species: Corporeal beings that naturally emit light and sound. They communicate through a mix of harmonics and shimmering visual patterns. They add “Vol” as a prefix to their names, such as Volanta or Voluanfel.
• Origin: Vollista – a now-devastated world.
• Culture: Ancient, artistic, deeply spiritual. Once prized (and exploited) for their empathic and psionic abilities.
• History: Subjugated under the Nall of the Parallax; used as interrogators, diplomats, and tools of psychological warfare. Few ever tasted true freedom, until the Collapse shattered the old order.

🧠 What Powers or Traits Do They Have?

• Psionics: Telepathy, emotional projection, minor mind-reading – but subtle, not superheroic. Light Singers are powerful in conversation, interrogation, and diplomacy, not brute combat.
• Light Emission: They can glow, pulse, and weave messages or emotions into their light displays.
• Empathic Sensitivity: They are deeply tuned to the emotions of others – both a gift and a curse in a galaxy full of pain.

Think: Living polyphonic beings who can “sing” an entire mood into a room without speaking a word.

🌌 Life After the Collapse (2825)

• Critically endangered. Project Helix and the Collapse killed billions across the Orion Arm. Few Light Singers survive.
• The children of interrogators. Most surviving Light Singers today are not former Nall-trained interrogators – they are the descendants of that last generation.
  • They grew up hearing stories of servitude, loyalty, and betrayal.
  • Some embrace their psionic gifts; others resent them.
  • The shadow of the Parallax still looms over their identity.
• Searching for meaning. With the Nall weakened and old worlds in ruin, many Light Singers seek to reclaim or redefine their culture before it vanishes forever.

🎭 Playing a Light Singer: Themes to Explore

• Freedom vs. Fear: Finally unshackled, but terrified of new masters.
• Grief and Memory: Carrying a culture that’s almost lost.
• Hope and Rebirth: Can something beautiful survive a galaxy’s collapse?
• Inherited Trauma: Struggling with a past you didn’t live but can’t escape.
• Identity Crisis: You were born free – but under the weight of songs of sorrow and obedience.

🚀 Quick Character Ideas

• A scarred wanderer carrying an ancient “memory crystal” archive of lost Vollistan songs.
• A defiant Light Singer who refuses to use psionics, fearing they’ll be seen as a threat.
• A traveling bard stitching together a new culture from half-remembered harmonies.
• A Light Singer secretly using their empathic powers to broker peace between desperate colonies.

⚡ Important Notes for RP

• They aren’t space gods. Keep powers subtle, flavorful, and story-driven.
• They aren’t invulnerable. Light Singers are physically real and vulnerable to harm.
• They aren’t common. Expect to be rare, maybe even the only one some PCs meet.
• They aren’t all “good.” Like any species, some Light Singers are opportunists, cynics, or even broken souls.

🌟 TL;DR:

Playing a Light Singer means embodying beauty, grief, and hope in a dark galaxy.
You are one of the last living songs.
What will your story sound like?