The Xark

The Xark were bio-digitally enhanced beings created by Edge Menace and farmed on Asphodel to offer as Shadows to the Mass Void.

Rather than enprisonment on Asphodel or a death sentence, a human's conciousness would be repurposed for the use in a Xark, a Shadow of Man and being of the Everlight.

Edge Menace created the Xark not only to keep as his own personal wards, but to offer as tribute to the Mass Void in order for him to  succesfully   solicit great power from The Father, the only true-born sentient machine in existence and the Engine of Asphodel.

From AD1:2037, Edge began punishing sentient machines by extracting their conciousness into Xarks, and eventually forcing them to blindly fight for him during the Mass of the Androids.

Though The Xark are not commonly understood by the inhabitants of Asphodel, an inscription found in the Hyperverse by the Android Henry allured to the notion that what was being repurosed from the mind was their fear, and that being transported to a body designed to completely harness that resource was the true purpose of The Xark. "If not for their fear these Xark would be none. No shadows may rise in the Valley of the Sun" First Appearance Devil Minds.