Hello people of games2gether, one of the things that keeps me more interested in the Endless franchise is the rich lore that it has, and the uniqueness of the races and individuals on it, the lack of extra material keep alot of stuff in speculation but now with the comics, the novel and the great participation of devs answering questions this is a thing of the past, thats why i wanted to make some question, sure you might not know the answer but you could always give your opinion, discussing about lore specially endless lore is always fun.

Anyway here are my doubts.

Lifespan and anatomy

1.  : How long is the lifespan of the mayor races? 
2. how do they reproduce ( no need to be graphic maybe compared to earth living beings) 
3. Does the vodyani need to eat or they can sustain in dust? 
4. How  closely are cravers related with insects?
5. If cravers work as an eusocial comminuty, probably guided by hormones how do their empire work on the great scale of things ? do they have FTL hormones or some reeplacement.

Technology.

1. 1. how advanced were the endless, both the virtual and the concrete? at least on the kardashev scale ? 
2.  Did the endless expand over the entire galaxy, how big were they empire ?
3. What are the starlanes, what are they supposed to be, how starlane based FTL works? 
4. What are the unfallen vines, supposed to be ?
5. Does the riftborn create matter out of nowhere?, thats what i understood from their questline at least.
6. What happens to a planet when is depleted by the cravers ? we cant see this in game but what happens to it are the oceans drained or the soil messed up ? 
7. How does the cravers deplete a planet ? they use machines or something ? 
8. Its mentioned in the hero background that dust grant them special abilities, what kind of abilities are granted by dust ? 

Thanks beforehand for your answers and opinions.