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===Enshroudment===

The exact process of this procedure is not fully known, but its primary engine of operation is the complete opposite of the Traveler's ~~own methods~~ of ~~transformation~~.

The exact process of this procedure is not fully known, but its primary engine of operation is the complete opposite of how the Traveler does it. Once a J-Brain has been fully completed, a process that by itself can take from anywhere from a few months to years depending on the local concentration of available matter, it begins to "tunnel" a rift between the dimensional fabric of reality, similar to creating a wormhole.

After the wormhole nexus is generated, godtech then stabilizes the aperture and keeps the throat open. "Physical" Darkness begins to pour from the wormhole and emanate from the J-Brain in all directions in an ever-expanding sphere for roughly a thousand astronomical units in all directions. With this range a single J-Brain can cover the entire Sol system from its central star to the Kuiper belt in a matter of days. Multiple J-Brains extend the range by an exponential amount—usually between ten to twelve such megastructures can create a sphere of Darkness that's voluminous enough to touch the outer boundaries of Alpha Centauri.

During this process the J-Brains realign themselves into an equidistant orbit about fifty astronomical units from the central star. All available planetary material by then will have been consumed by their construction, and what's left is transformed into a system of moon-Brains which orbit their host J-Brain. Where the material for their construction comes from is uncertain, but all evidence points to the wormholes. The moon-Brains seem to act as amplifiers, keeping the field of Darkness constant and stable.

What happens to the system's host star as unclear. Its light no longer shines, permanently snuffed out, but the physical body of the star still exists. Survivors posit that enshrouding is an elaborate godtech version of a Matrioshka hypernode, except instead of completely disassembling the stellar object it is instead compressed into the functional equivalent of a black hole. No supernovas have ever been detected from an enshrouded system. The theories for such enigmatic construction out of a thriving civilization are many and varied, but the most chilling notion of them all is that the Black Fleet establishes an enduring base of operations that would outlive the heat death of the universe, and continue their reign of terror upon a new unsuspecting universe.

Any attempt to penetrate an enshrouded system ends in failure, the prospecting spacecraft "shifted" onto another plane of reality. creatures and beings sensitive to the flow of time report unusual congregations of various timelines fracturing and diverging from the system. Speculation running rampant posits the Black Fleet continues their conquest upon all iterations and possible existences of a targeted system, completely ensuring that only their version is what remains. That this is not unlike the Vex's goal of Convergence is not a comforting thought. Once a system's enshrouded, all of the Black Fleet's armies seemingly disappear, or at the very least do not reemerge to terrorize any survivors.

Curiously enough, some systems and civilizations are "spared" the enshrouding completely, as what happened to the Taishibethi system and the Hierarchy of Hierarchies, instead suffering only the detonation of their star and the unmaking of their whole world. No one has offered a satisfactory answer, and it may well be an utter mystery.

===Realms of Glass===

Those who weren't able to escape the enshrouding of Earth fled instead to a Vex-like construct embedded in the twisted and splintered fragments of of the Vault of Glass. This minor dimension is scarcely larger than Phobos in size and is almost completely inaccessible. So far the Fleet has not made any move towards invading it; the survivors who live within have made efforts to find a way back into the material universe without attracting notice, but have not found a way.

==Gallery==

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 ===Enshroudment===
-The exact process of this procedure is not fully known, but its primary engine of operation is the complete opposite of the Traveler's own methods of transformation.
+The exact process of this procedure is not fully known, but its primary engine of operation is the complete opposite of how the Traveler does it. Once a J-Brain has been fully completed, a process that by itself can take from anywhere from a few months to years depending on the local concentration of available matter, it begins to "tunnel" a rift between the dimensional fabric of reality, similar to creating a wormhole.
+After the wormhole nexus is generated, godtech then stabilizes the aperture and keeps the throat open. "Physical" Darkness begins to pour from the wormhole and emanate from the J-Brain in all directions in an ever-expanding sphere for roughly a thousand astronomical units in all directions. With this range a single J-Brain can cover the entire Sol system from its central star to the Kuiper belt in a matter of days. Multiple J-Brains extend the range by an exponential amount—usually between ten to twelve such megastructures can create a sphere of Darkness that's voluminous enough to touch the outer boundaries of Alpha Centauri.
+During this process the J-Brains realign themselves into an equidistant orbit about fifty astronomical units from the central star. All available planetary material by then will have been consumed by their construction, and what's left is transformed into a system of moon-Brains which orbit their host J-Brain. Where the material for their construction comes from is uncertain, but all evidence points to the wormholes. The moon-Brains seem to act as amplifiers, keeping the field of Darkness constant and stable.
+What happens to the system's host star as unclear. Its light no longer shines, permanently snuffed out, but the physical body of the star still exists. Survivors posit that enshrouding is an elaborate godtech version of a Matrioshka hypernode, except instead of completely disassembling the stellar object it is instead compressed into the functional equivalent of a black hole. No supernovas have ever been detected from an enshrouded system. The theories for such enigmatic construction out of a thriving civilization are many and varied, but the most chilling notion of them all is that the Black Fleet establishes an enduring base of operations that would outlive the heat death of the universe, and continue their reign of terror upon a new unsuspecting universe.
+Any attempt to penetrate an enshrouded system ends in failure, the prospecting spacecraft "shifted" onto another plane of reality. creatures and beings sensitive to the flow of time report unusual congregations of various timelines fracturing and diverging from the system. Speculation running rampant posits the Black Fleet continues their conquest upon all iterations and possible existences of a targeted system, completely ensuring that only their version is what remains. That this is not unlike the Vex's goal of Convergence is not a comforting thought. Once a system's enshrouded, all of the Black Fleet's armies seemingly disappear, or at the very least do not reemerge to terrorize any survivors.
+Curiously enough, some systems and civilizations are "spared" the enshrouding completely, as what happened to the Taishibethi system and the Hierarchy of Hierarchies, instead suffering only the detonation of their star and the unmaking of their whole world. No one has offered a satisfactory answer, and it may well be an utter mystery.
+===Realms of Glass===
+Those who weren't able to escape the enshrouding of Earth fled instead to a Vex-like construct embedded in the twisted and splintered fragments of of the Vault of Glass. This minor dimension is scarcely larger than Phobos in size and is almost completely inaccessible. So far the Fleet has not made any move towards invading it; the survivors who live within have made efforts to find a way back into the material universe without attracting notice, but have not found a way.
 ==Gallery==