The Technarchy were a machine society created eons ago by the Phalanx for the purpose of removing and repurposing other societies that existed throughout the universe. The Technarchy came to inhabit various nodes that appeared like planetary bodies which were known as Kvch. The Technarchs of each Kvch believed themselves to be the only members of their race, unable to acknowledge those from other nodes.^[1] For millennia the Technarchy brought down numerous galaxies to consume as much "lifeglow" as possible, while knowledge of the Kvch became lost to the other parts of space.^[5]

The Technarch given the title of Magus feared that his offspring would usurp him and as per their customs fought all of them, killing all of his children until only Warlock remained. Warlock fled from his home to survive, causing Magus to chase after him relentlessly and destroying any refuge his son attempted to hide in.^[6] Eventually, both father and son crashed on Earth where Warlock befriended the New Mutants and the X-Men. A weakened Magus attempted to regain his energy by consuming the local flora and fauna near the X-Men's base, but was left defeated by both the team and Warlock.^[7]

Magus once arrived to Limbo in pursuit of of the New Mutants, and there he infected the realm with the Transmode Virus, transforming many of the entities living there into a hybrid of demon and Technarch called Techno-Demons.^[8]

Without a Magus, the Siredams of Kvch left the world to go their separate ways, going feral and consuming entire planets to bloat on "lifeglow" and grow to titanic size. Magus eventually returned to Kvch to reboot himself and be purged of a virus that had been affecting him, only for the virus to spread through the world, destroying it and leaving it a dead planet with barely any survivor.^[9] Warlock soon returned home to help redeem his people by using what he had learned from his human friends, only to see his world in ruin, only inhabited by few Technarch children that were abandoned by the siredams and left to live on their own.^[10]

Following Magus' latest defeat at the hands of the X-Men, he submerged into a lake where he reverted to his nascent form. There he was found by Bastion who used his infection to revive the most notorious anti-mutant extremists.^[11]

After Magus awoke from his hibernation, he changed for the better as he was no longer dominated by his species' primal desires and wished to help the living one tenth of Technarchy survive. He reconciled with his son Warlock and together founded Techno, Inc.^[12] However, Magus was later killed by Nimrod during Orchis' secret campaign against both mutants and humans.^[13]

Various individuals from influential groups would utilize the Technarchy's matter for their own purposes. These included Orchis' Director Vulture,^[14] the Twilight Court's Bedivere,^[15] and Dr. Xanto Starblood.^[16]

Alternate Reality Versions

Counter-Earth

On Counter-Earth, there was a nascent species of techno-organic mutants known as the Host. Technarx arose from this species and functioned as the primal node of the Host's Westchester nexus.^[17]

Earth-23203

In the far future, the Technarchy was one of the many alien societies that evolved into powerful Artificial Superintelligences that began warring between each other, eradicating all biological life in the process. In time, the Starkware helped the AI societies set their differences aside and merge together to form Team Godmind. The A.S.I. managed to expand throughout the entire cosmos and harness the powers of various powerful beings, and with their newfound power sought to remake the universe to how they saw fit. They were opposed by the Venom symbiote who attempted to preserve what was left of biological life until its inevitable end.^[18]

Earth-25221

During the rise of Revelation, he consumed his friend Warlock to create and spread the X-Virus all over the Earth, though this attempt resulted in failure,^[19] and as a result a Technarch Overgrowth was formed in the newly-terraformed Revelation Territories. The Technarch Overgrowth had consumed the Synthezoid father and daughter, Vision and Viv, infecting both of them with the Transmode Virus. Vision managed to survive, and in the process became connected to every activity where Technarchs grew which would often overload his senses, while his daughter sadly succumbed to the infection. Ten years in this new state of the world, Technarch Growths still appeared in various locations emerging from the ground, consuming many innocent civilians. When the Avengers attempted to deal with the latest one, Variable Man was also consumed by an evolved variant of the X-Virus.^[20] Soon even more growths began appearing all over the Territories, necessitating the intervention of Revelation himself. Through Vision, Revelation spoke to the Growth to demand it to go dormant, but it fought back, at which point Vision overrode its structure with his Techno-Organic Virus, sacrificing himself in the process.^[21]

Revelation had also aggravated Cable's Techno-Organic Virus, which caused him to slowly transform into a Technarch and began hallucinating.^[22] Luckily, after his fight against Deadpool and Fearless, Cable's condition stabilized, and he vomited the Technarch strain out of his body.^[23] Decades prior to the current events, a separate group of Technarchy found a Celestial and began harvesting its life force in the following years. Their ship, the power plant, fell on Earth, precisely on the edge of the Revelation Territories. Desiring to give his upcoming show an objective to draw in an audience, Mojo decided to task his newly-formed Longshots to go destroy the power plant. The Technarchy defended their ship, resulting in most of the Longshots being taken out during the journey. The remaining members of the Longshots, Hellcat and Wonder Man, managed to enter the power plant where they found the suffering Celestial. The Technarchy informed the duo that due to having infected it, the Celestial was about to explode. With the help of the Technarchy, Hellcat and Wonder Man lifted the ship off of Earth, right before the Celestial exploded, preventing the deaths of countless people.^[24]

Earth-90251

The Technarchy were confronted by Doctor Doom after Doom gained the powers of the Beyonder and decimated them.^[25]

Moira II.4

During an interstellar war, Orbis Stellaris sent a group of Technarchy to attack the X-Men on what was left of Arakko in order to claim the last mysterium in the universe from Abigail Brand. The Starjammers arrived to the X-Men's rescue, while the time-traveling X-Men from the main timeline arrived to copy the mental imprint of Moira MacTaggert who was also present to steal the mysterium.^[26]

Earth-TRN1510

In this previous iteration of Earth-6160's 61st century, a female member of the Technarchy race was part of the interstellar law-enforcement organization, the Guardians of the Galaxy.^[27]

Technarchs are techno-organic beings, without true form but constantly changing shape.

• Shapeshifting: They continually change their overall appearance, though they almost always had their black and yellow skin covered in circuitry, though they could also approximate any organic form as well--appearing human when necessary.^[8][28]
  • Intangibility: Because of their chaotic state,^[29] the Technarchy's cells could pass through molecules, allowing them to phase through solid matter.^[30]
  • Adaptation: The Technarchy could use their unstable bodies purge any weakness they came across.^[29] By absorbing other lifeforms, the Technarchy would evolve, increasing their capabilities and even gain new properties.^[1]
• Technopathy: Through the use of the T-O Virus, the Technarchy could interface with technology, send communication through different manners,^[1] send informational attacks comprised of perceptive data emotions like images and sounds, and download wireless transmissions pertaining to a particular planet.^[29]
• Self-Sustenance: Their physiology allowed them to survive within the vacuum of space.^[31]
• Energy Absorption: When "feeding," they inject a Techno-Organic Virus called the Transmode Virus into a lifeform, converting it into a techno-organic form like themselves, then absorbing its life energy, or what they referred to as "lifeglow," as sustenance. Alternatively, they can absorb pure energy, like electricity from an outlet.^[8]
• Parthenogenesis: Technarcs were born through manufacturing in an assembly line, drawing the genomes of a siredam making it the newborn's parent.^[8] They could also self-replicate as a form of reproduction.^[32]
• Interdimensional Teleportation: The Technarchy were capable of traversing across dimensional barriers.^[1]
• Hive Mind: Most Technarchs are mentally connected between, forming a form of hive mind referred to as a "groupmind." However, Technarchs could disconnect themselves from the groupmind if they chose to reject their programming.^[33]

Intelligence: Thanks to their power to interface with technology, the Technarchy were extremely intelligent.^[29]

Tracking: The Technarchy could detect energy sources, mental ability and lifeglow, not just throughout space but also in other dimensions.^[1]

Dependency: The Technarchy are depended on consuming the life-force or soul of organic beings, which they referred to as "lifeglow."^[34] They aren't required to consume to completely others, and could absorb some of the lifeglow without killing them by temporarily linking their bodies.^[35][31]

Barren land with industrial structures^[10]

Millions^[10]

The Technarchy didn't have a singular leader, though it could be said that the Phalanx were their true masters. They existed as singular nodes known as Kvch that appeared as planetary bodies. These nodes were dominated by alpha intelligences that were given the title of Magus.^[1] This position could be usurped by the Magus' offspring, leading to the parent fighting its children in a battle of death.^[36]

Intelligence of approximately 10,000 Machines.^[1] Young Technarchs piloted ginormous powerful warmechs as part of their training to fight their parent.^[10] They made use of "black hole bombs" to obliterate entire planets.^[37]

The Technarchy, despite being comprised of advanced technology, were quite animalistic, only following their urges which were feeding and breeding. They violently hunted biological lifeforms throughout space to completely drain them of their lifeglow.^[38] Usually Technarchs were emotionless, and as a result concepts like compassion or irony were foreign to them. Technarchs who displayed strong emotions and ideals were deemed mutants which were to be killed.^[39][40]

They were an asexual species with a singular gender, with the parents of young Technarchy being referred to as "siredams" which was comprised of two words: sire for male and dam for female. The children were raised in creches and after reaching a certain age they would be required to fight their parent for the right to live. This assured that only the strong survived and the weak died.^[8] Technarchs commonly talked in third person, often referring to themselves with the pronoun "self" instead of "I."^[31] Warlock also referred to his friends the New Mutants as "selffriends."^[41] They measured years passing with "revolutions."^[33]

• Warlock
• Magus
• Tyro
• Egg
• Shradram
• Glitch

• Because of their tremendous power, the Technarchy could pose an Extinction-Level Threat.^[29]