🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭[Terminal Cruise] - The only successful interstellar travelers are advanced machines capable of repairing and even replacing themselves with raw materials they find in planets, moons, and asteroids, and traveling between systems in time spans on the order not of decades or centuries but of millennia. These machines are immune to the ravages of deep time, and radiation has little effect on them. The creation of such machines are not beyond the capabilities of the seraphim, the alien races that have already colonized their own system, and many were developed as assistants or even as deliberately engineered successors. For those machines capable of replicating themselves the dynamic of descent with variation and natural selection imposes upon them. These are the ophanim, and they are themselves alive in a certain sense. Physical contact between the isolated civilizations of seraphim is mediated solely through the ophanim. #OO
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