Destiny 2 Lore - We know what The Veil is thanks to the first 10 weeks of Veil Containment Logs. 

I love how the entire idea of the final shape ties into quantum mechanics. The Witness views the universe as quantum, chaotic, in flux, and by “witnessing” the universe in its entirety, it simplifies everything down to a single point: a simple, perfect, Final Shape.

The nutshell version is that just like the Traveler is the entity of Light, the Veil is the True entity of Darkness.

it's interesting to think that the witness and their followers never discovered strand because they sought to control the universe around them, something deeply opposed to strand, but in doing so they instead discovered stasis, control made manifest in a physical form.

Hey Byf, physics student here, your explanation of the hypothesis and superposition was a fantastic entry-level explanation! Thank you for taking the time to do some good research on this.

byf: “i hope this isn’t wrong but here we go” *proceeds to give an initial explanation of quantum computing clearer than a lot of my teachers*

I've said it once and I'll say it again - consciousness *is* the "First Knife" of the Winnower. At least in Destiny, by demanding "you" exist, by being capable of observing yourself and everything else, you're actually doing a couple different things. Being able to create a distinction between yourself and everything else, it severs the inherent interconnectedness between, say, your body and your environment. You're body was made from the environment, but you can't "feel" it the same way as you feel your body, which causes a schism not unlike how the Traveler and Veil are two halves forever separated or the Gardener and Winnower fighting. Because they're leaning into Consciousness causes collapse, it also sort of explains why consciousness is paracausal; it breaks time symmetry. There's no way of really predicting when a collapse will occur just looking at the base mathematics of QM, it's something you need to artificially add in. Which sounds a lot like how paracausality isn't simulatable. Finally, because you can verify that you personally exist, that does in a way guarantee that the laws of physics had to be compatible with your existence, and in a sense means it was inevitable you were going to exist from your perspective. Destiny is flipping the relationship on its head though, where existence and being able to be self aware of that existence is itself a source of paracausal power, and why the Final Shape in the sense of needing to guarantee your personal continued existence at all costs is such a powerful and inherent goal to achieve.

There are only 3 more logs to decrypt according to Nimbus. Osiris asked him directly how many more logs there are and he said 3.

Yay! Understandingthe veil only took more than three months from the launch of lightfall!

Why these missions weren't included after the light fall campaign/season I'll never know

I'm pretty sure that while it is cool to think about "consciousness" changing the quantum properties of an object, it's really more like to "see" something that small you inevitably end up having to interact with it, changing it. Shining a flashlight at a wall doesn't affect the wall much because it's so massive, but shooting a photon at an electron will definitely affect it.

I like how you took all the audio logs and mixed them up to tell your take on this lore. A truly original piece of content. Something you excel at. Thanks for sharing ✌️

The whole superposition where everything is true until observed explains how in universe there's only one guardian that experiences all the events we play, but all the players still exist in the tower, in crucible, in raids, etc each having gone through those all those events themselves individually; including the spare save files. We are the observers locking the events in, willing them into a form we like. If the Veil can implant memories into Exos, and Clovis hears about it, he may try to use it to find a way off his little iceball.

One thing to note is, the voice heard might not be the witness, since it would be weird for the witness to have a connection to the veil to that extent, and whatever the voice is, was pushing maya to follow a similar path to the witness which could be a sign that there is something that has pushed the witness to follow the concept of the final shape

Good for you and thanks for going over it! Myself, like many others, didn’t even know it was a weekly thing or even existed except to get your new Strand aspects.

It's always interesting hearing the various levels of Byf's enthusiasm in a video. Of course outside circumstances can affect his mood when recording, but there does appear to be a correlation between the state of the game and the level of enthusiasm Byf has in his videos.

Would stand to reason that the Veil is going to be the way we bring Cayde back with his same memories. Similar to how Lakshmi has Mayas memories.

Thank you for this summary and the additional science information, I admit the concept behind the veil, its nature and its analysis is interesting.

Makes sense that is fits with the web of consciousness and the concept art info, just like back, then around the end of lightfall, where it is, stated to be the memories, hope, stories that nits the universe together

Your theory regarding the veil containing the memories of the universe probably explains why we see cayde-6 in the final shape teaser, super cool to think about

byf back again with a great upload!

That was really great, loved it and appreciated it at this point in my play in particular. Thanks!

Looking forward to seeing you at gcx next week Byf! 🤝🏼

Anyone else think timeline of Maya being “Whispered” the name of the veil & told its their salvation as they land on Neptune by the entity imply that perhaps the witness isn’t the voice in the dark or the one saying it’s our salvation? Otherwise How could the witness not know the location of the veil while also simultaneously interact with a human about it as it comes in to contact with it? especially with maya having no clue about either the witness or the Veil

Super Excited for some better understanding

Cool environmental storytelling detail; if the veil has a lot to do with quantum mechanics and superposition then it makes sense that it would need to be observed at all times, and if you go down into the Calus boss room you can see what seems to be giant cameras or lenses dotted around the entire chamber. Just a cool little detail that the veil is still under constant surveillance and makes a lot more sense as to why it needs to be "contained". Also if the veil stores copies of consciousness then that's definitely how we get the old Cayde back.

The explanation of quantum mechanics was good. The only thing I’d say is this: Particles remain within a superposition up until the point of interaction with anything else. Consciousness is not the only thing that can cease a particles super position but rather a tangible force that like anything else, can collapse the super position into a singular value. However, it was still wonderful and brief description of how it works. Especially for a Destiny lore video. Great work!! 🎉

I'm beyond stoked to see quantum mechanics like wave functions and entanglement be relevant in Destiny lore. I love lore that's magical, yet still scientifically plausible! While it is frustrating that it's taken this long to get the lore on the veil, I've been absolutely fascinated with it. Its ties to the Glykon experiments, Egregore, and so many other tangents is masterful, and really makes it feel like the Veil was truly planned from the start. The content of the veil is top-notch, it's just a shame that the delivery was less so.

If it wasn't for your videos I'd be lost in the lore, and not knowing what the story is. Good job!

So . . . this actually kinda makes me want to "go into the weeds" with this because i think there is a slight misunderstanding on what it was doing to the Exos. Because i don't think it was so much of a "disruption" of how Exo-minds work, but more so a Logic error. Some would call it a "Cognito-Hazard" but it boils down to this. If you were able to see every version of you, even the ones that either don't exist or havn't happened yet, how do you know what the real "you" is? In essence the Veil is much like taking the Water of Life in Dune. You start to unravel the idea of time and place. You start seeing the *"now"* where you can see both the past and the future and start to see how certain steps repeat. The no matter how hard you try to walk in the sand without rhythm, there is ALWAYS a pattern, a rhythm in your steps. That everyone has a role and part to play and there is no such thing as chance, only Destiny. (yes i had to throw that in, sue me) So it isn't so much that the veil is doing anything to the Exo-minds. But more that the Exo-minds are trying to cope with the idea of being everywhere all at once. Exo-minds were built upon the idea of Control. You know who you are, you know what you can do, you know what you need, and thus you exist. That simple phrase "I think, therefore i am". So when you suddenly challenge that, when you say "Well you don't need to think to be, you always were there, but never always you" the Exo-mind starts to fight it. And that's why all of those minds effectively ended up in a state of billboarding. This also explains why the researchers were also having a hard time with it/dying from it. If it exists, you can see it, has a physical form then it must exist in real space, right? But the Veil does not work like that. It instead exists in the state of "inbetween" with reality. You can "observe" it, even "witness" it, but it still technically isn't a solid variable. But it does open a window into all of the things that *could* be. Which is one of the many theories/ideas about Quantum entanglement or even super-position. What if you had the answer to a test that you didn't know you were going to take. An answer to a riddle that no one has asked yet. A solution to a problem that hasn't even been created yet. Many would call that "foresight" or the ability to see into the future. So the Veil is more than likely a very complicated Networked Blackbox. Or a version or variant of the Akashic records. It is merely a catalogue of all the information. Every single answer to every single test, every single event in every single moment of history. From the beginning of the universe all the way to the bitter end, it's all stored within the Veil. So is it any wonder that when you are presented with all this information all at the same time that you'd probably start to go insane? Some would think being able to control the Akashic records would bring godhood or omniscience. Instead i'd argue that it would simply bring madness. But then again . . . sometimes being sane is to be IN with your own Sanity.

If people have to come here to figure it out there was a storytelling problem. Thank God for this channel.

Thanks for the coverage.

Irony would be that the witness was being played by "the formless one" to release it through the "final shape". The witness wanted purpose, so it was given one.

Imagine having to WAIT 10 WEEKS for this when it should've been a main focus of the damn DLC

To give a more precise understanding of the Von neuyman-wigner hypothesis, mostly everyone has heard of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the idea that both the position and momentum of a particle can not be known at the same time for the same point in space. The process of either of those values going from being unknown to known is the 'collapsing of the wave function'. The Von neuyman-wigner hypothesis posits that consciousness is a necessary part of that measurement and that without it, no measurement takes place. Without consciousness you simply have a collection of atoms and molecules carefully constructed into a measuring device, like a ruler sitting next to whatever it is youre measuring. The criticisms of this interpretation is that our minds are also made of matter and thus are subject to the same laws and physical processes as the system were measuring, that is to say that the 'consciousness' is a phenomena of interacting particles, not its own independent thing. the significance of the veil being a solution for the Von neuyman-wigner hypothesis is that it is a vessel for disembodied consciousness. It proves that consciousness is not a mere physical process but something else that can be independent from matter (remember the veil is massless*). I would encourage Byf to look into Conways game of life and compare the rules to the unveiling book's flower game. then watch a few hours of Stephen wolfram lectures on the subject and look at the shapes all those celular automata runs tend to take. all looks a bit familiar. Great video!

Thank you for teaching us about Q, Byf

didn't expect to get a Comp Sci lesson from Byf but i can appreciate it lmao

Whenever I hear more and more about this, I keep getting vibes from the storyline of the game Soma. The concept of that game, but expanded upon.

Thank you Byf, for attempting to explain Quantum Theory, it put a smile on my face.

What if the Veil contains memories from the beginning of the universe? That could align with (what I think is) the Witness' plan: the Final Shape, the last reset (shape) of the universe. The flower game in The Unveiling happened multiple times, if the Witness wins then the flower game is over forever...

THanks Byf for your excelent efforts for us!

It’s important to note that particles are the things that observe other particles and our consciousness is the result of the numerous particles that make up our brain receiving information about the particles surrounding it (and also our brain making its own stuff from the information we receive, like color for example which is something our brain generates)

Plot twist: What if the Witness was never the voice in the darkness this whole time. Something else spoke to us in the garden, spoke to Clovis, spoke to Maya, maybe even Calus as well. We been thinking it’s been the Witness but really it’s the same thing that spoke to them initially upon finding the Veil too, it’s just the same message

Ooooooo I love a good science lesson with Byf 🤓

Ok Byf, Quantum Mechanics. Your explination is pretty correct, and I'm glad you tried to explain it a bit more in depth than just "it's magic", but I do have a couple things to add (I may not be the most qualified to do this as I am an engineer, not a theoretical physicist, but I did take a Quantum Mechanics course in Uni and I've done some research on my own in Quantum Computing, so I'll see what I can do) Like you said, in normal computers you have bits, which are either 0 or 1 - 2 discrete states. In Quantum Mechanics you have qbits, which are like...hmm...directions. They are actually vectors in something called a Hilbert Space, that describes the state of a quantum thing. So whilst a qbit could be a simple 0 or a 1 (which are also the basis vectors of the Hilbert Space), it could also be in a superposition of the two. To understand what that means, you can look at a compass. If you say that East is 0 and North is 1, than any other direction on that compass is a superposition of those two. So something like North-East would be 0.5N + 0.5E. South would just be -N and West would be -E. You could have a direction like 0.8N - 0.6E, which would be a bit north of North-West. Those numbers in front of N and E, or 1 and 0, if squared, give you the probabilty that if you measure the qbit you'll get 1 or 0. So in the previous example, there would be a 64% chance of the measurement yielding 1 and a 36% chance of it yielding a 0. The main idea is that those superposition states are very clearly defined, it's not some finiky ever-changing mumbo-jumbo, it's just that a superposition is basically a state that we can't measure per say, it collapses to either 1 or 0, but we can predict statistically how it's going to collapse. What makes quantum computers faster is that a qbit, instead of having only 2 states, 0 and 1, cand have a theoreticaly infinite number of states (all the directions on a compass). So if we give each of these states a meaning, say for instance different inputs to an algorithm, than we can do operations on that qbit, which would affect all those states the exact same way, but when we measure the qbit, we only get one of those states. So instead of computing the output of an algorithm for a number of inputs sequentially, you can do it for all inputs all at the same time. The tricky thing is to then extract (measure) the state you want, and not another state. Now for the other weird macguffin in the room, the Wiegner - von Neumann Hypothesis. The weird thing about measurement is that it actually changes the state of the system. So if you have a state of 0.7 |0> + 0.7 |1> and you measure it to be 1, then the state of that system is now |1>. Also, this process is not a smooth, contimuous one (i.e. it can't be modeled using Schrodinger's equation), but it's instantaneous. It's the equivalent of teleportation for movement - instead of going from point A to point B continously, you suddently disappear from point A and reappear at point B. The generaly accepted reason for this, the Copenhagen Interpretation, pretty much states that this is how it works and you shouldn't think too much about it. The von Neumann interpretation states that, when you measure something, everything you use to measure that system: tool, equipment, even your eyes, your brain, becomes part of that system you're measuring, so Schrodinger's equation can account for it. The only thing that can't become part of the system is your conciousness, as it's not a physical thing, and Schrodinger's equation can't account for it. So reality kind of just skips ahead and just gives you the end result. In Destiny terms, conciousness is paracausal, it doesn't obey the usual laws of physics, but a different set of rules. What that has to do with the "0 mass, tangible surface area" thing Chioma said, I don't have the slightest clue. Is my explination more complete: possibly. Is your explination easier to understand: definitely

In layman’s terms, it’s the black box of the universe. A collection of everything that has happened, both physically and mentally across the history of the universe, or, as a concept art of the viel stated “a window into the mind and memory of the universe”

i dead on didnt even know that was there 2:45 ty byf

9:00) the best example in a game to my knowledge is some of the items from the game ‘the outer wilds’. In that game there’s several spaces and objects that move and only stop when your currently looking at it. The biggest example is ‘the moving moon’.

Finally, we kinda know what it is, definitely didn't take 50x longer than it should have

Rad Byf, great video, you the man. Cheers

Makes sense that it only appears a certain way when we’re conscious of it, and then when we’re down to the last damage phase of a boss it’s tendrils extend (blocking off the outer arena) unless that’s a whole different thing lmao

The travel creates consciousness and the veil consolidates it into a hive mind like the vex. Exos are in some state in between the two perhaps.

I have an idea of how the veil will work in our favor: since search algorithms for quantum computers operate like filters focusing the dataset into making the correct answer the most likely to result as "true", maybe we'll eventually come up with an algorithm to find memories relevant to entering the portal and stopping the witness? Maybe Grover's Algorithm and/or Quantum Single Value Transforms will be mentioned? Shor's Algorithm? Maybe entangling minds with those found memories so that we may "consciously observe" these memories? Maybe psions will be the key to finding and seeing these memories?

The first thing I thought about when I saw strand was that it looks like something of a play on string theory. It also seems to play on quantum entanglement in which if one thing is one way then the thing it’s “connected to” and that the witness is trying to collapse it all into a specified reading using this entanglement

thank you as always

It’s crazy that only yesterday did I even go through veil containment. Granted bungie made it a requirement to unlock the new strand aspect but still, some of the biggest lore drops in LF are hidden just off screen and only after pinning the quest did I see it on the map for the first time.

If veil containment dropped day one, once a week from launch and notified us each week. Probably would’ve saved Lightfall tbh

Notice how Byf didn’t fall back on the Schrödinger’s cat explanation of super position. Byf knows what website he’s on.

Veil is literally the hard drive of consciousness

I can believe I had a lecture on quantum physics in a Byf video

This reminds me of how Rhulk wanted to see if he could discover a way to destroy or otherwise affect the Traveler directly through a Ghost (Raid Ghost shell lore). What if the Traveler is or was already trying to do something similar to the Veil, but through conscious entities if all consciousness reconnects with and could possibly influence the Veil? What if by trying to show the people of the universe a different way instead of competing for and trying to create the Final Shape, that could influence and ultimately change the Winnower and it's obsession with the Final Shape? This would seem to imply that all consciousness might have originated from the Veil completely, and there being a physical universe with bodies that are compatible with some infinitesimal fraction of the whole is the reason for why "people" exist. This could be pretty interesting, if Bungie goes down a route like this...

Oh my god, the OXA(OXTA) machine is a way to read the memories in the veil!

This is the first time realizing there even is an icon for these missions... just been watching videos about them....

My understanding of that whole "results change when observed" is misrepresented. It doesnt mean it is changed by our consciousness. It literally means that the instruments we use to measure affect the results.

Stasis manifests itself as "ice", or a solid. Strand manifests as flowing energy, or "fluid". My (likely incredibly wrong) bet is that the next Darkness subclass will be named something like "Compress" and be themed around the nature of gasses.

I think this is directly leading into how we'll see Cayde again. ;)

Think about it like this: Because we observe particles, we alter the particles. AKA The observer effect, which is the phenomenon in which the act of observation alters the behavior of the particles being observed.

Since the veil has all of the memories of the universe, and as we have seen with Lakshmi 2 can be used to create personalities, we could get cayde back this way. Maybe since the witness linked the traveler and the veil we combine the memories of cayde and the light inside the traveler, and cayde is back.

After reading a few comments, it seems everyone has very similar ideas on what was possibly either retconned or hinted at from the start. From what I understand and theorize is that the Veil stores our past memories before we became a Guardian and it would make sense since the Traveler has been trying to avoid it, without the Veil, the Traveler can not restore or control memories. However this also explains who or what was speaking to us throughout most of our time discovering the darkness. it would make sense, since the Veil is supposedly the source of the Darkness and is what allowed the Witness to gain the darkness and wield it. So maybe the veil and the Traveler is having something darker or bigger lurking behind the scenes that they are truly afraid of, something that the Witness may accidentally unleash or discover, which may cause chaos or even worst a possible major time crisis or event.

Excellent upload.

The best explanation of the Von Neumann-Wigner hypothesis I have heard is: "Imagine flipping a coin in a dark room. You cant see the coin as it goes up and comes back down to land in your hand. You then close your hand over it and turn the lights back on. At that point, the coin is in a superposition of heads and tails. Once you open your hand and see the result, the superpositions all collapse down into a single answer of heads or tails" Essentially, the act of learning the answer makes the answer itself real. It's a continuation of the Heisenberg Uncertaintly principle (that thought experiment of the cat in a box with poison). I like this because it ties in with the theory that human will (our soul for lack of a better term) exists in quantum fluctuations and that our decision to do something is what starts off the chemical reactions in our neurons that make it happen by collapsing superpositions of decisions into a reality.

Looks like there are at least 3 more logs for us to listen to

The von Neumann-Wigner hypothesis suggests that our thoughts and consciousness might somehow influence the things we observe, even at a tiny level like atoms.

Being doing a lot of neomuna stuff for the title recently and never even realised the node for veil containment was on the map

"Anything you observe, you change." I swear i heard that in JURASSIC PARK 😂 GOOD STUFF!

glad that it's not just information but also story, much like grimoire and lore books but as an audio story in game. ironic that just like that content, most people don't engage with it as it's not front and center, so to speak.

So from what we currently know and it is actually true that ghosts came from the traveller it would explain why when guardians are first revived they have no memory as the traveller simply does not have the ability to restore their memory and with the idea that it contains the collective of all consciousness could explain how Cayde returns as a manifestation of his consciousness from the veil like nightmares but mixed with light almost as like a "lightmare" where it can't be controlled like a nightmare due to its mix with light

this is how cayde comes back!!!

I'm just happy we now know

Just put in a plain text instruction. "Go to Veil Containment to find out the nature of the Veil" and place it where people can't help but see it. Even give a directional arrow, it that helps.

We appreciate your sacrifice doing this for 10 weeks. That's 2.5 months. If someone started now, they wouldn't be caught up until next season. Smh

So if Lakshmi-2 was/is a collection of multiple consciousnesses, does that mean she is like a mini-witness? Also, maybe the cloudark is made of radiolaria fluid. If clarity essentially wiped the radiolaria of it’s “vexness” and allowed exo-minds to inhabit it, then maybe the veil can do this on a MUCH larger scale. That’s why the exos on Neptune all billboarded, they were “wiped” away by the veil. In a sense the cloudark would just be a massive pool of “cleansed” radiolaria that allows the storage of multiple personalities.

Thank you for being the communicative storyteller that Bungie struggles to be Byf! Appreciate all the hard work on the lore and making it so easily accessible much love. ❤️

The mechanisms that work behind the Veil cause the physical phenomena to happen and manifest themselves in the material plane. Conjure in your mind an image of the hourglass, the center point where the two pieces meet, is also the place where the grains of sand trickle down from the one plane to another. The blue prints and the archetypes of the higher plane materialize themselves in the lower one according to the "as above, so below" principle. By the design, the whole reality is created out of the mathematical principles, numbers in fact creating geometry, a measurable, 3D space created upon the underlying wireframe that serves as a proxy to bind the spiritual into the material, corporeal forms. If you look around you'll start to notice cubes, the building blocks of the 3d world (just look at the grains of sand), hexes and triangles. Go to the nature, look upon the trees, their branches and leaves, their bark and finally roots. Look within the soil, the undergrowth, analyze the shape of the rocks and the flowers. Look into the sky, recognize hexes that form clouds, notice how the lightning descends upon the earth in the form of electrical veins and how spirals create storms. Look how the snow flakes are formed, see how in fact you can draw a 3D cubes by just matching their points, look upon the shattered ice and glass. Finally, look into the mirror, look at your own face, follow the lines on your body and see the patterns. See how neatly human body fits itself within the number 8.

Maybe going over the top a bit or just got lost on the way and misunderstood something but if the veil is like a network in a superposition maybe this is the reason why maya heard her own voice. If it contains all memories or minds ever to exist (past, present and future) its like getting a voicemail from the future. This would also explain why we would be able to get cayde back ( thus confirming savathuns revelation with cayde 7).I cant explain how this is linked to the traveller and witness though.

Based on your thoughts, I would think the Von Neumann-Wigner interpretation of the double slit experiment is at play here.

If it weren't for you, I'd never have known about Veil Containment, lmao

Destiny: Just casually understand quantum physics to understand my lore

I assumed for a while that our doppelganger at the end of shadowkeep was the witness, by the logic of "oh the witness has a million dead faces and voices, it can mimic us too since guardians are technically dead." But now, knowing that the faces in the smoke of the witness's head are specifically its race, I'm not so sure. After all, why would the same thing happen to Maya when she first saw the veil if that voice was the witness? At that point, the witness didn't know where the veil was after savathun had stolen it, so it must have been some other entity, possibly the veil itself speaking to her

WOOO MORE LORE

If we assume the veil is, A: web of consciousness, B: is connected to everyone in the universe, and C: has memories that go all the way back in time. Could it effectively be “the afterlife”? Recording and storing all the consciousnesses/memories of everyone ever. That would explain the Final Shape trailer with Cayde.

Imagine putting context to the Veil in something most people don’t know exists. Classic Bungo.

Now all I can think about is how this can bring Cayde-6 back. We know we can bring back Cayde-0 using the Bray facility on Europa. Can we then bring Cayde-0 to the Veil and find the Cayde-6 memories? Can this be done on a mass scale by using blank exo bodies and bringing people back to life? If the Veil survives the Final Shape expansion, there are many new possibilities for what could happen.

what i am getting out of this is holy fuck im glad my exo is a light bearer and has paracausal fortification

So egregore takes a seat while we retcon the veil

Arc, like Strand, is alive, there are even accounts in the lore where Stormcallers have gotten zapped into ash by Arc energy they failed to harness. But the difference between these two forces, besides being of the Ligjy, and one of the Darkness, is that Arc is wild, and sporadic. While Strand is tangles, strings, and strands of energy, flowing, connected, from one source, one singular web at the center: the Weave. Where one is a storm of nature, the other is a web that connects all life, all minds, and can be used to manipulate and snip another’s life force short. Just like the sisters of fate cutting a life’s chord with siccors.

Didn’t even know veil containment was a thing until this video

So if I am getting this right the vile is a weeb of consciousness of EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE from it's beginning and it does that by using darkness (strand)

I guessed this right from the beginning. It’s just frustrating that it took them over 10 weeks to finally confirm the obvious

Thanks byf. After long time of binge watching ur channel i shall follow thy channel, i enjoy how you tell the lore and make it interesting for me atleast. I they replace gaia's voice in god of war for urs i would still enjoy the game story telling even more, no homo, awesome content.

They're teaching us quantum physics because we're about to be a Starbound species