Xeelee Technology (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Xeelee come from the Xeelee Sequence series of books by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter. In this setting, the Xeelee represent the unattainable pinnacle of technological development. As a result, they are feared, envied, and hated by virtually every other starfaring power; the Xeelee themselves consider these species beneath their notice. The only known exception is humanity, whom the Xeelee eventually attacked and imprisoned after two long wars were fought between the two races. The Xeelee's primary adversary was the Photino birds whose reshaping of the stars was opposed (ultimately futilely) by the Xeelee, when the war was lost the Xeelee retreated through the ring and made some provision to save the younger races, providing (at least in the case of humanity) a lifeboat to reach the ring and escape the dying universe.