Agdluak is the most legendary member of the Karnimata species. It is due to him that first the existence of the Lonely Astronaut and subsequently the entire species of the Karnimata was discovered. They have lived inside the brain of the Lonely Astronaut for more than 60 Earth-years, if one is to believe their transmissions.

Their short story, as told by themselves, is as follows:

Around 100 Earth-years ago, Agdluak left the Karnimata home world. Their first 40 years were spent traveling between brains with the hopes of ending up in a host who themselves was an adventurer and explorer. Agdluak only had interest in observing few subjects and preferably until the end of their lives and these subjects had to be filled with an immutable drive to travel across as much as the Known Universe as possible. They dreamed of finding out more of their own species' drive to explore through the unique experience of individuals of other species with that same drive who also put it into practice.

40 years of searching and romanticizing an outcome caused Agdluak to jump on the opportunity when the option to move into the brain of an exploring space astronaut crossed their path. According to their own words, they failed to see any clear signs that predicted the predicament they currently find themselves in. Additionally the event is so unlikely that most anyone in their position might have done the same had they been looking with less romanticism after the same kind of subject.

Only shortly after Agdluak moved into the brain of the exploring space astronaut, did they get irreparably lost. Since that time, being more than 50 years ago, the astronaut and therefore also Agdluak, have had no physical nor visual contact with any other living being. According to Agdluak, the astronaut became increasingly quirky and annoying as their loneliness increased steadily and Agdluak themselves became increasingly frustrated. It was because of this frustration that they began to open up their verbal communication channels to species other than their own. In the beginning Agdluak was transmitting information over what they found most frustrating about the astronaut's behavior. Soon they named the astronaut The Lonely Astronaut and began weaving their travels and experiences into a myth. It was at this point that other species slowly began to understand Agdluak's transmissions and because nobody could point who from what species was sending these transmissions, nor where exactly the Lonely Astronaut was located, they quickly became very popular figures in media culture. Their popularity was further increased when Agdluak left hints of where the Lonely Astronaut had left evidence of their existence and these were discovered by media professionals, scientists such as our very own Dr. Prof. Kazimierz Maupa, hobby explorers and long distance transports that were sent on detours by their contractors or the wealthy paying the contractors, in order to find such evidences. The evidence mostly consists of obscure poems but also included bits of space-suit, a lost tool, pieces of space ship, their trash, journal entries and more obscure items that have mostly found their way into private collections.

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The Karnimata are the oldest and most knowledgeable species in the entire Universe that is Known so far. They make up an intricate society worthy of an entire series of Encyclopedias, therefore the following text will only relate what information is most relevant to the Known Universe as a whole.

The Karnimata have by far had the most time per capita to explore all of the Known Universe. In fact, since they have increased communication with other species than their own in recent times, most of what is Known about the Known Universe has come from them. They have been adding to their database for at least 20 times longer than the oldest species after them has been around.

They live up 3.000 years and therefore have had the most time per capita to explore Outer Space. Interaction with them is limited to verbal and written communication. The Karnimata have offered up enough evidence to prove their existence but they have never disclosed any visual communication of themselves due to how protective they are in regards to ever being discovered.

The Karnimate are specialized in several technologies:

• Shielding - due to their minuscule size, the Karnimata developed this technology very early on in their interstellar age (which they have been in for several hundreds of million years) when they found out that they were by far the smallest intelligent species in existence. They realized quickly that were they ever to be attacked, they would have no chance to protect themselves until the day they invented a super weapon. Whether the Karnimata have such a weapon or not is pure speculation as nobody has actually ever found them. They have hinted that they would never want to use such weapon, and if they in any way would be discovered they might have to, due to how valuable the information is that they hold. No official statements have been issued stating that any such weapon exists.
• Space Travel - Karnimata spaceships are ingenious inventions that are capable of traversing both all the reaches of Known Space as well as all the reaches of organic, living material. Most frequently they are used for relatively short distance space travel (relative to what the Karnimata know, which for most species would be very far) and are then flown mostly into the brains of living beings, or the equivalent thereof. Once inside the brain they are left in an unobtrusive and unnoticeable spot and the Karnimate begins the work intensive journey of setting up a temporary home within the brain. Using their shielding technology, a Karnimata is able to ensure that they will never be discovered. Due to how long the Karnimata have existed, their shielding technology is far more advanced than any technology other species might have to try and discover it. Their 'head start' is so large that few have any hope of ever discovering their physical existence in this or the next hundred lifetimes, and the Karnimata have no worries whatsoever about being discovered since they continuously improve their technology despite their already uncompromising advantage.
  

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The Deserted Way Station is a mythological place in the outer reaches of space.

There are three beings in the universe of whom we know of for certain that they have been to the Deserted Way Station. The first is the Lonely Astronaut who became famous for being infinitely lost in outer space. The only reason we know of them is through the Karnimata residing in their brain. This Karnimata is the second being we know of who has been to this particular way station. The third is Dr. Prof. Kazimierz Maupa himself who at some point became deeply infatuated with the idea of discovering the whereabouts of the Lonely Astronaut and went out on a mission to find them. His journey was unsuccessful but what he did discover were scraps of paper at the Deserted Way Station which held on them a poem that was written by the Lonely Astronaut, as confirmed by the Karnimata living in their brain who lived through the excruciating process of the composing of the poem.

Many centuries ago in the human world, for a brief but intense period, humans believed that only that which they could physically experience truly existed. But as they knew in their more ancient and in that regards advanced times, they would soon rediscover that there are many alternate modes of experience and many worlds beyond the physical.

The physical world requires humans to interact with it in order to survive, but interaction with the other worlds is equally important for survival, albeit in the long term rather than the short.

In my (Dr. Prof. Kazimierz Maupa) day and age, almost everyone travels openly to other worlds and some do so professionally. There are artists who are also famous for rendering only visuals from the other worlds. On artist focuses especially on one particular other world that consists of what they consider 'Scapes'. In the particular Scape displayed below, they speak of intestinal floating rock-like formations and textured darkness.