Lore and goals of vampires?

[Exernon434]

Are vampires syndicate affiliated? I feel a blood sucking infiltrator has no need to steal an SM shard, was just wondering if there is some sort of IC motivation, or if it's just an "Idk the vampire feels like stealing it" situation.

[Crazyhair]

Going from the wiki page on vampire it says that vampire are newly turned and have vampire lords who give them task in exchange for power and such. They aren’t syndicate affiliated especially seeing as they can’t be tots anymore but yeah boss wants them to do task and they do it. That’s the IC motivation.

[Shadowradar1212]

vampires hold allegences to ancient vampires who raise them canonically, they raise them from redspace to take over deceased or sickly individuals, mostly likely victims of vampires stealing their souls through the medium of blood, various morgues, crashes, incidents, previous victims of vampires, hospitaliation, or even deals with entities past mortal understanding can """resurrect""" people into vamps.

 

vampires drain the very souls of those they feed off of, most notably through biting them in the neck and sucking their blood, this canonically reduces the lifespan of the individual, by quite a substancal amount of years, which furthered by how ancient vampires can raise the deceased into their own, kin a gradually snowballing threat that isn't a galaxy wide issue just yet. they don't want your blood itself though, no no, they want your soul.

 

to exaggerate the damage vampires cause by draining the lifeforce of others, they also gain powers of various kinds, albeit their weaknesses tend to increase as they gather more, with most fledglings on nanotrasen stations being weak to holy water and the very presence of space. Sunlight absolutely obliterates them, forcing vampires into the one situation that only exemplifies their damaging presence, stations and other places shielded from the hostile light of space.

 

vampires also starve pretty quickly without feeding their everdraining craving for the life force of others, their vessel bodies crumbling down within seconds on starvation and being very difficult to sustain alive, however any normal means of food consumption have minimal effect on them, as for where it goes, when a vamp eats a 100+ burgers, nobody knows!

 

vampires don't get powered by non sentient beings, but they can still... sustain themselves on lesser lifeforms like monkeys, they just don't grow more powerful from such but its enough to keep their vessel bodies intact. probably best to ignore that for lore.

 

as you can imagine, vampires aggressively feed and kidnap people to survive, which really doesn't help their acceptance into society and is the no1 reasoning their existance is usually considered a threat and why diplomacy is borderline impossible long-term, alongside the fact they're addicts to power, they want it, they crave it, they need it.

 

due to this, most corperations, including that which the syndicate are made up of, tend to class vampires as illegal from the act of existing to counteract this everbuilding threat of vampires killing people though soul theft and the redspace breaches that ancients create that possess the fallen, rising them as fellow vampires as well as the fact vampires cause employees to survive MANY less years, and they feed a lot which results in a massive loss of employees.

 

as for the greater motives of vampires, entirely unknown, they don't seem entirely focused on spreading but they share similar interests to the syndicate, mocking corperations that pose a threat to them via grand theft, reverse engineering state of the art tech or probably taking it as a status symbol, that or using it as a bargin to draw in influencial buyers for power or as a lure to enthrall them to grow influence where they're outlawed. it probably varies a lot, might even be using some of it to bypass wards against their power, rituals or anything really.

 

either way, forces beyond most mortal comprehension have motives past that of lesser megacorperations... from the blood cults of nar`sie to the reaper, to dark gods, the crazed and powerflex hungry lunatics of the wizard federation or even the necropolis and its twisted champions and loot.

 

TLDR: probably a majority of reasonings, they're an outcast force of redspace entities possesing the bodies of the fallen and people don't like em, so much they're usually killed and contained on sight. naturally this forces them to make due, as time passes and they drain the life sources of sentient beings, they grow stronger. All vampires seem addicted to this power too, judging by the blood objectives which further pushes the cycle of vamps killing people raising vamps and people hating their existance for it, probably the only power of diplomacy outside of brainwashing they possess considering how much their existance is a threat to all life.. who even knows how many of those things are in redspace just waiting to cross over via bluespace means... but they want in.