The New Humanity

 After hundreds of years the creatures left behind by the Qu evolved, adapted to their environment and have now regained their sentience.
They have transformed their ways of life, they have made their bodies their greatest tools and civilization has returned to its great splendor of yesteryear.
Now this new humanity that inhabits hundreds of distant planets and being so different from each other they share their knowledge throughout the galaxy, now we will see some of these new people.

Snake People (Descendants of the Worms)

One form, descended from tree-climbing mammalian snakes, redeveloped human intelligence that had lain dormant for so long. They watched, contemplated, and philosophized with novel, spiraling brains, and handled the world with a singular pelvic "hand," sprung from the remnants of their ancestors' feet.

They were nothing like their distant human ancestors, but their social development followed a similar path; several world agricultural empires, followed by industrial revolutions, social experiments, world wars, civil wars, and globalization. But, again, the sociopolitical parallelism in history did not necessarily imply a world similar to, or even recognizable as, the human world.

The modern cities of the global world of snakes were tangles of pipe like "highways", forks, three-dimensional railways, and windowless buildings shaped like holes. Although their knotted architecture differed from region to region, these settlements generally resembled kilometer-wide balls of glass, metal, plastic, and cloth, wrapped in such a way that a human today would find it impossible to move inside them.

Bug Facers (Descendants of the Insectophagi)

A congenital defect allowed them to regain their wisdom. Even after the suffocation by the Qu, the Star People's genes lay dormant in their cells. By sheer coincidence, one lineage of Insectophages developed a backlash, giving rise to larger brains. Which turned out to be useful for opening insect nests with crude stone tools. It was an easy ride from there. Although it has lasted for millennia in itself, the development of the stone ax to the spaceship was the blink of an eye in geological time. Like many other species, Bugfaces went through consecutive cycles as agrarian empires (in their case, hive farming), colonial efforts, industrialization, massive world wars, and eventually globalized world states. But there was one thing that set his development apart from all other post-human species.

They faced another alien invasion.

History doesn't record much about the invaders, except that unlike the Qu, theirs was a singular effort and they were defeated in an intense cycle of orbital and ground wars. Although defeated, the invaders managed to leave their traces. They introduced their own flora and fauna, which flourished on the Bugfaces' home planet long after their departure. More importantly, they imbued the poor bug faces with a pathological xenophobia of other species, to the point that they even feared their post-human cousins ​​on other stars. Through an ironic twist of fate, her fears would be more than justified, though not yet. The bugfaces still had time.

Asteromorphs (Descendants of the Spacers)

Initially sheltered, the spacers scrambled to dominate the vastness of the interstellar void. Their previously isolated space arks joined and multiplied to form a gigantic interlocking artifact that was large enough to contain entire worlds. But there are no planets inside the capital of the asteromorphs; only cavernous bubbles without gravity where its inhabitants could finally develop to the fullest.

Freed from the limitations of weight, their bodies became thin and insecure, with individual fingers extending into multitudes of thin, versatile limbs. Other than these, the only developed organs were their derived jet sphincters; which became his main means of locomotion. But mostly there was their brains, their bulging, swollen brains.

Without the hindrance of gravity, the human brain could grow to unprecedented sizes. Each generation devised experiments that produced offspring with increased cranial capacity, giving rise to beings who went through their daily lives thinking of concepts and structures barely comprehensible to people today. The physiological limitations of the human mind have long been debated. Now, it was established that these limits were really real and that the individuals who could break them would also conquer new terrains in philosophy, art and science. Everything changed.

Gravital (Descendants of the Ruin Haunters)

The Ruin Hunters, lucky enough to inherit the secrets of the Star People and the Qu when other species were mere animals, had experienced a tremendous advance in technological prowess. In general, they were as sophisticated, if not more so, than the asteromorphs of the void. But his ancestry was not sensible. Most of the Ruin Hunters were already upset with the twisted assumption that they were the only true heirs to the Star People. They refused to communicate with their relatives on other planets and kept to their own business. This neurotic arrogance assumed truly dangerous proportions after the Ruin Hunters changed.

The origin of this modification lies in a previous catastrophe. The sun that lit the planet of the Ruin Hunters was undergoing a rapid phase of expansion, and the species, advanced as it was, could do nothing to stop the process. So the hunters did the best they could and changed their bodies.

The hellish conditions of solar expansion made a biological reconstruction totally impossible. Therefore, the hunters replaced their bodies with machines; floating spheres of metal that moved and shaped their surroundings through subtle manipulations of gravity fields.

Though not even organic, the Gravital still retains human dreams, human ambitions, and human delusions of grandeur. This, combined with mechanical bodies that allowed them to traverse space with ease, made interstellar warfare a terrifying possibility.

Those the gravitals took a long time to prepare. Propulsion systems were perfected and new bodies capable of withstanding interstellar jumps were devised. But when they finally decided the time was near, nothing survived the slaughter.

The invasions followed a brutally simple plan. The suns of the target worlds were blocked, their light trapped behind specially built million-mile sails. If the dying worlds managed to resist, an asteroid would definitely finish them off. Huge invasion fleets were built, but rarely needed to be deployed. The Machines had caught their cousins ​​completely off guard.

The great deaths, all of which occurred in a relatively rapid period of ten thousand years, pushed the boundaries of genocide and horror. Almost all of the new human species; Unique beings that had endured mass extinctions, navigated the edges of evolution, and survived to build worlds of their own, disappeared without a trace.
Even the Qu had been loyal to life, distorting and subjugating their victims, but ultimately allowing them to survive. However, for the machines, life was a luxury.