Trope-a-Day: Taxonomic Term Confusion
Taxonomic Term Confusion: Taxonomy is even more of a mess than it used to be, having to deal with life originating separately (it is usually thought; see Panspermia) in a multitude of different...
View ArticleKalatri
KALATRI Biocode: O-LDL-D11 The kalatri, best known as the dominant sophont species of the Voniensa Republic, are a warm-blooded oxygen-breathing species, originating from a protein-lipid biochemistry...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Named After Their Planet
Named After Their Planet: Mostly averted. While the galari are from Galáré, those names were created by the explorers who met them, since the galari themselves don’t use spoken language in any sort of...
View ArticleAppearances Matter
Gabriel Fonseca asks if there’s anywhere that contains detailed physical descriptions of the various species of the Eldraeverse. Well, sadly, there isn’t right now, but for your visualizing pleasure,...
View ArticleQuestion: Frequency of Life
And one more: How about approx. population density/sapient life occurrence frequency/percentage of races successfully achieved spaceflight without rendering themselves extinct etc. of Associated...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Rubber Forehead Aliens
Rubber Forehead Aliens: Averted. With the irrelevant caveat mentioned under Human Aliens, anything that looks like it belongs to/is descended from a particular species almost certainly does/is. See...
View ArticleX-anity
(Alternate words: none. Also, for the avoidance of doubt, I’m assuming you submitted it in the spirit of my single usage of it in this trope-a-day back in 2014, rather than as the more-commonly-seen...
View ArticleWhat’s That Soph?
So, I hear you like demographics. Or, at least, the comments on the last post tell me you like demographics. Describing the constituent species of the Empire can be a mite tricky, depending on exactly...
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