Yallen J. Elmore

Yallen was a scientist who created the Alnen - a mass of mentally manipulated nanobots - at the request of a government during the war that precipitated the great silence. His main concern was that it could only be controlled by humans, otherwise machines could basically just become too powerful. He finished a first iteration of the nanobots, and then a separate control species which worked off of the conscious experience of pain. This was initially to control the Alnen just for a time until Yallen found a better way, but the military demanded it be released immediately and the results were wholesale slaughter. After the corruption of the Alnen by Rikanth on the other side of the conflict, Yallen saw that his creation might very well destroy the entire universe. He poured everything he had into figuring out how to cloak a planet, and his designs were secretly used to build the great towers of Dacola and Lacola on Visp. Before his death, Yallen created a new control strain that was not based on pain, and sent two seeds of it with both of his children, Elessa and Firor, as they escaped to Visp. It is assumed he died as the great silence consumed his planet.