A community-driven sci-fi universe
On the planet Rogue, the frost bun (Lepulima glacies) can be found tethered on the icy surface, spending most of its life motionless. It anchors itself with keratin-like hooks that grip the frozen surface, while it feeds through a partnership with chlorophyll-producing bacteria that cluster at the tips of its scaled exoskeleton. Instead of foraging […]
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When the rains finally hit Garmiwala, the environment fully transforms. Dust turns to mud, dry basins fill with water, and a hidden ecosystem kicks into motion. Filter feeders crawl out from the cracked ground and floodplains, drawn by the temporary lakes that only last a few weeks. A most recent discovery has been the sea […]
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On the world of Gepara, there resides an eusocial species along the planet’s tropical mountain ranges. On the map below, the red dots indicate the location of multiple colonies. They live in the lush jungle areas where food is plentiful but competition is high. Because they live in fortified colonies within the mountains, the males […]
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Living on a large tropical island on Ionis III, the Handlebar Knucklewalker primarily feeds on fruit, with the occasional small critter supplementing its diet. This species displays one of the more striking examples of sexual dimorphism observed on the planet. Females stand about 5.5 feet (1.6 meters) at the shoulder and weigh an average of […]
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In forgotten ruins long abandoned by civilization, nature has begun to rewrite the rules. Amid crumbling concrete and rusting metal, one may find that life…always finds a way. Meet the garbage snail, a 12-centimeter-long gastropod that blurs the line between evolution and improvisation. Though it resembles a common snail, it is genetically closer to slugs. […]
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Although the sun-scorched Elgøaq does not betray its origins at a glance, the moon is a mass of the residual detritus and waste from the construction of Dzanach Vahl, World Mind of Strife. Red, ferric sand dunes sweep over the moon, obscuring its secrets, but if one digs deeper, more evidence of its origins may […]
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Drifting over the skies of the gas giant Grro Thum are the Vishva-Rupa. These organisms exist as vast, floating colonies, stretching across the skies of their homeworld like living cities adrift in the atmosphere. Though they appear as singular entities, they are, in truth, great eusocial collectives, each individual a mere fragment of the greater […]
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There are many worlds that probes have discovered rotating around neutron stars, of which few have been discovered to host life. Most often, these are very simple extremophilic or bacterial life. When BooHoo was discovered to harbor life through interceptions of bioproduced gases in the upper atmosphere, an expedition was immediately organized to discover the […]
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A descendant of the Bactrian camel, these large hardy herbivores can be seen wandering the harsh biomes of the Southern Wastes. As the temperatures started to decrease in the Ark as part of its cycles, this species evolved adaptions for this new environment. Some of these include shorter hair during warmer seasons while in winter […]
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As the morning suns rise once more over the lakes; the messy form of the galaxy vanishing like a phantom. Something new raises its stalks. Slowly, a sizable amount of fluid gets pumped into tubes made of elastic nanite components. At their tips, are plates of monocrystalline silicon, glinting in the morning sun. One day… […]
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