The Gohm

The Gohm are nomadic, enormous, wormlike travellers from beyond our dimension.

Encounters with the Gohn are exceedingly rare, with record of only one pre-Silence contact, and only a handful of incidents between the Scream and the present day, gradually cross-referenced with the lifting of the Silence. Accounts vary widely in their details - in 2666, a masssive liveship (later identified as clearly Gohn in origin) crashed into the ocean of a remote frontier agricultural world. There were no Gohm aboard the ship, but instead, hundreds of refugees from the core world Luyten, unable to tell responders how they had managed to escape the Scream. In 2815, the Planetary Monarchy of Povwychai-Doniva was attacked from orbit by at least two confirmed Gohm vessels, which destroyed numerous military bases and satellites using  long-range particle weaponry before vanishing. For eleven months (2976 to 2977) an enormous Gohm ship circled the planet [redacted] in high orbit, broadcasting ideograms indicating peaceful intent, freely allowing officials from the planet below to board the ship and communicate with the several dozen Gohm living onboard.

Disparate and questionable accounts share a strikingly similar description of the appearances and physical attributes of the Gohm and their living transports. Gohm are dark green in colour, between 25 and 40 metres long, covered in numerous large blinking lights (multicoloured but most often red, turquiose, and yellow-orange, heterogenous portrubances, and large irregular orrifices or pores which release mists or various simple organic compunds, primarily esters used for communication. Gohm language is a complex combination of visual, auditory and olfactory queues. Their long, worm- or millipede-like bodies are propelled by a combination of numerous grasping tentacle-legs and robust concertina muscle movements like those of snakes.

Gohm travel in large bio-ships that are designed to resemble a larger form of their own bodies, but are closer to plant life in physiology and genetic makeup. The insides are dark and damp, a mix of labyrinthine tunnels and cavernous interior spaces. Gohm use a technical analogue of the spike drive to shift their ships 'somewhere else' - a mode of incomprehensible non-spatial transport that appears to magnify an inherent Gohm biological capacity for limited interdiminsional travel.