Pilots' Coterie

The Pilots' Coterie was a posthuman collective. The Coterie was the only known source of praxis in the Spiral Politic; the material was distilled under strict security to assist in the deep fugue calculations of space-time events, though, in its tasteless gelationous form, the Pilots needed to ingest at least ten times their own body weight before the praxis had any effects.

The Blood Coteries courted the Pilots to captain the Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk-class planet-killer warships. Though time travel research was forbidden by Siloportem, the Pilots existed in a permanent grey zone. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Three Pilots in Civitas Solis, including Erasmus, manifested themselves in 17th century England to investigate changes to their history caused by the babel's interference with Jeova Sanctus Unus' timeline. They agreed to give Nate Silver a powerful tool in exchange for a sample of his biodata after death. (PROSE: Newtons Sleep)