One (The Book of the War)

"One" was a being or concept associated with the enemy during the War in Heaven.

After President Umbaste opened his biodata to the caldera, he was launched into a fugue state as his mind wandered the meta-structure of history. When he eventually returned, all he could say was a single word, over and over; when stripped of its time-active connotations, the word could be translated to the English language as "One". After several days of this, he killed himself. (PROSE: The Book of the War) However, the secret minutes of House Dvora suggested there was more to his death. (AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories)

The Rivera Manuscript described a Great House renegade's imprisonment by the enemy. The enemy representative was never directly described, although the manuscript referred to a humanoid form, a non-carbon presence, and something the renegade called "the first, the many, and the indivisible". In parts of the renegade's subsequent praxis-induced vision of the Event, he was accompanied by someone called "One". Though there seemed to be difficulty translating the relevant section of the Manuscript into English, some sections were legible: an interpolation reading "why does it hate us?" and, later, an extended conversation. (PROSE: The Book of the War) "Is that what you're planning / It might be / It still could be / Remember / Inside the skin of the sun / It's an option / It wouldn't work / What if someone tried it / What if you were called to account / It's an option / Always an option / You keep the sun / In a bottle / You want to know what happens if you lose control / Don't you?"

- The Rivera Manuscript

Shortly before her death, Thessalia sent an unprecedented order directly to the ruling Houses, insisting they perform a thorough spectroscopic analysis on the Homeworld's sun. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

An aphorism of the Enemy contained in the Book of Lies read, "One does not love or hate: One is not a person nor a gestalt." (PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefings)