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Samaarians Hologram

Hologram depicting the Samaarians.

The Samaarians are a mysterious race that is mostly mentioned as one of the most important part of the background of Xenoblade Chronicles X. The Samaarians are not native to the universe of Xenoblade Chronicles X, they instead came from another unspecified plane of existence when the universe was still young and they subjugated multiple galaxies. The Samaarians created mutiple artificial races like the Ganglion and the Zaruboggan to be their servants. The Samaarians are also the biological ancestors of the Humans found in that specific universe and they share the same DNA, and from what we know from the only depiction of them we have, their appearance.

History[]

The Samaarian fleet.

At the dawn of the universe, the Samaarians came from another plane of existence and they began to take over worlds and form the Samaarian Federation, which was their government with an influence that spanned over million light years worth of galaxies by the time of Xenoblade Chronicles X. As they expanded and conquered more worlds, the Samaarians used their technology to created artificial life forms that they would use as slaves. Since they left a trail of polution behind them, they created the Zaruboggan who could only survive by purifying this polution inside their bodies, making them dependant of their masters to even hope to survive. Another race they created is the Ganglion who was implemented with a failsafe that made them dissolve and die if they ever touched the DNA of a Samaarian, thus preventing any effective rebellion as it is very easy for a Samaarian to get rid of multiple Ganglions members in a potential conflict.

At some point they settled the Earth and they became humanity, which forgot all about its past as Samaarians for unknown reasons. It then seemed that the race almost completely disappeared aside from the Humans found on Earth. The Samaar Federation continued to exist without their influence as a coalition of multiple alien races. The Ganglion likewise became a crime syndicat that started to integrate races that had nothing to do with the original Ganglion but their leaders were still members of the artificial species created by Samaar and they retained their hatred for their masters. This led them to search for what remained of them across the universe in order to destroy it in order to be trully free. The Zaruboggan mostly forgot who they were and through time the preception of their former masters were warped into a deity known as Golbogga who is praised to have created all of their polution. They survived without the Samaarians because they were left on a toxic world known as Bedun that used to be a Samaarian planet sized waste dump. They were eventually conquered by the Ganglion and fed on their polution until their escape.

The failsafe created by the Samaarians is what caused the Ganglion to turn on humanity after they met them on Mira two years after the battle between the Ghost and themselves, which resulted in the destruction of the Earth. They realized that humans were the heirs of Samaar and that as long as they would not be reunited with their organic bodies they would not be able to completely destroy the Ganglion as they had not access to the DNA that made them so dangerous. It is for this reason that the Ganglion seeks to eliminate all humans before they can return in the flesh during the events of Xenoblade Chronicles X. Luxaar himself tells this to the party in their final confrontation. After the Zaruboggan escaped the Ganglion, they were taken in by New Los Angeles, in which they were delighted to discover that the polution humans were producing were similar to their deity without realizing that humans were in fact the descendants of the entity they considered a deity. The Ganglion also mention that they believe that Mira may have been the place where the Samaarians arrived in the universe, making it their original homeworld and partially explaining why it is such an anomalous place.

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