The following information is classified level Omega, restricted to members of the GTVA Security Council.

We have a great deal of information on the Vishnans. It is, as a rule, completely unreliable. Two members of the 14th Battle Group's officer corps appear to have engaged in Nagari Process communication with the Vishnans by means of quantum pulse transduction in specialized human neural structures. The Vishnans provided them with what we believe to be a selective, goal-based set of information about their species.

The Vishnans were encountered in a parallel reality accessed by an interaction between the 14th Battle Group's meson reactors and the Sol Portal. We suspect that this transit was not accidental, and may even have been incited by Vishnan interference in order to achieve an objective.

The Vishnans subverted the crew of the GTC Duke by using quantum pulses to directly manipulate their neural strata. They used the Duke to draw the 14th Battlegroup into the N362 system, where the 14th retrieved the Terran sleeper ship Sanctuary. After moving through an Ancient-constructed Knossos device in N362, the 14th's scout wings encountered the as-yet-unnamed Vishnans. These wings were apparently destroyed.

When a Nagari-sensitive pilot approached the Vishnans in a Pegasus stealth fighter, the Vishnans seemed to recognize the pilot. Brain scans taken aboard the GTD Temeraire indicate remote activation of the pilot's memories by action potential manipulation. We do not fully understand what occurred during this mission, but GTVI analysts believe that the pilot may have been marked by Vishnan action since birth, leading the Vishnans to scan his memories and activate concealed goals. This suggests that the Vishnans are active in our own universe as well as this parallel reality.

After this encounter, the pilot in question displayed increasingly erratic behavior, culminating in his departure to join the Vishnans. During his time with them, he was informed that the Vishnans were psychic beings of pure thought that could move between universes, and that they served as Great Preservers to counteract and balance out the Shivans. We consider it likely that this information was greatly simplified.

The Vishnans assisted the 14th Battle Group in defeating a Lucifer superdestroyer and returning to their home universe. During the final transit of the modified Sol node, the pilot reported a vision in which the Shivans and Vishnans communicated with each other. This vision included mention of a 'Great Creator' species and an apparent command structure between the Shivans and Vishnans.

We consider the accuracy of this information to be suspect. It was relayed directly to the pilot by the Vishnans, and there is no reason to believe it was anything but a highly simplified version of an utterly alien interaction. We have no way of knowing what the Vishnans want with the human species or how trustworthy they may be.