@futurebird The science fiction species I'm writing are plant-people. Their "technology" is largely biohacking of their (and other plant) physiology.

A backpack? It's a living plant grafted to the host. A space ship? One of the People sacrificed themselves to be mutated into that vessel. Communication and transportation? "World trees" link colonies whose space-born seeds offer zero-risk expansion. #peirspapre #spapre

The complexity of life and its interactions will never cease to amaze.

Separate thread branch until I get my plans together for how to… disgorge my #scifi canon…

Here's a spoiler-free extract of the beginnings of my draft #Stellaris event mod, adding the #Peirspapre, their sub-races, and a few notable locations to the game: https://gist.github.com/amcgregor/2b490f2280194d50a0e10b39cf988f24

Sailces (≅Willow) is a bit of a recurring character, as a very active (and unusually fearless of space) Avatar with tragic back-story. 😜

Lack of obvious durable information storage is… problematic. 😽