“ | The first contact was bound to happen. The galaxy, let alone the universe was simply too big for just a singular species to develop intelligence in. Any delay in contact only meant a heightening of the eventual culture shock. In humanity's case, this "culture shock" meant the complete extinction of mankind as it had come to be known. | „ |
~ The Author first describing the Qu. |
The Qu is the main antagonist of the speculative evolution book All Tomorrows, written by Nemo Ramjet. It is a sapient hive mind of the extraterrestrial insectoid of advanced technology it possessed that perceived itself as the rightful master of the universe and sought to remake it in its own image by warping other sapient species they considered unworthy into freakish, bizarre beasts wherever they went.
It was responsible for mutating humanity beyond any recognition and cruelly enslaving them before departing, only to eventually be defeated and subjugated by the very races they experimented on.
What Makes It Pure Evil?[]
- Its whole goal is to conquer the universe and reshape it as it sees fit.
- It destroyed human civilizations, killing countless humans in the process.
- It genetically modified the remaining humans into different species.
- It ruled humans for 40 million years until it abandoned humanity to find their next victims.
- When one world of humans fought back against it twice, it turned them into the Colonials, which are just blocks of skin connected with basic nerves, which the Qu used as living filtering devices that live on waste projects and left them with their consciousness and eyes to make them suffer, giving them a fate worse than death.
- What makes this even worse is that the Colonials were sentient and had their memories intact, suffering and wanting death.
- At similar times, it turned some star people into Mantelopes while retaining their sapience and gave them a relatively long life before leaving them to be fully aware but unable to do much to change their surroundings. This caused the Mantelopes to suffer another fate worse than death until they mercifully devolved into dumb animals.
- It created the Hedonists while making them animalistic and giving them an extremely high sex drive, essentially committing species-wide mass rape.
- In another world where humans temporarily resisted the Qu, it created an array of parasites that are also made by humans as punishment.
- It changed humans beyond any recognition and cruelly enslaved them.
- Its effects were so bad that two post-human species (the Astromorphs and the Gravitals) had to team up to defeat it when it was rediscovered, and while its fate is unknown, the author makes it clear that its reign of terror throughout the universe has finally ended for good.
- Despite lacking dialogue, the Qu is not insufficiently characterized since the author describes it as arrogant, sadistic, fanatical, delusional, and possibly perverted due to creating the Hedonists. This is supported by its actions throughout the story.
- Despite following a mission to reshape the universe for the better by eradicating sentience, it is far from preventing, as the Qu condemned the Colonials to a fate worse than death for over 40 million years and kept them sapient throughout the entire process out of pure sadism, arrogance, and psychopathy, proving that its ideology is simply an empty rhetoric to satiate its god complex and keep all the beings of the universe as mere playthings.
- While the Qu is stated to mainly follow basic reflexes similar to a swarm of ants, this does not validate it lacking a moral agency since the fact that it went out of its way to keep the Colonials sapient simply for them to suffer proved that it understands how its actions caused great pain to other beings but continued on with its depravity for the sake of its god complex.
- While it was once thought that the Qu were a hostile species, the actual author confirms that they are, or rather, it is actually a sapient hive mind unified to reshaping the universe. Furthermore, unlike the Gravitals, who held varying opinions, none of the Qu were shown to have any individual or independent minds from one another, proving that the Qu are one being.
- While it can be argued that the Gravitals are worse, this is not true for several reasons.
- The Gravitals fail the heinous standards due to being a hostile species, which means none of them can still stand out from each other, unlike The Qu, which is a hivemind.
- The Gravitals have moral agency issues due to not being able to view other organic beings as life but as trash to get rid of, unlike The Qu, who are aware it is inflicting pain on others and enjoy it.
- The Qu is indirectly responsible for The Gravitals' actions because it created the Ruin Haunters, who eventually became The Gravitals.
- The Qu was so evil and depraved that the Gravitals had to team up with the Astromorphs to defeat it.
- While it is just a “tiny footnote” of humanity according to The Author, regardless, it still shows how terrible their influence and actions are.
Trivia[]
- It is considered to be the Nazi of aliens.
- The horrific medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors during World War II, where human subjects were subjected to inhumane procedures, echo the Qu's sadistic genetic manipulations of humanity. Both involve viewing other beings as expendable for the sake of "progress" or a twisted sense of superiority.
External Links[]
- Qu on the Villains Wiki
- Qu on the Alien Species Wiki
- Qu on the VS Battle Wiki
- Qu on the Ultimate Evil Wiki