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Homeworld: Thniaianz (a tidally locked super earth which orbits a red dwarf their found in mainly in the Terminator Zone of Thniaianz)

Technological Level: (Despite the Qkint being highly intelligent they possess zero trace of any type or form of technology)

Evolution:
Their earliest known ancestors can be traced back to 2 billion years ago the Qkint where chemosynthetic biofilms living in muddy tidal plains resembling giant microbial mats their intelligence at that time were comparable to earth’s bacteria colonies their planets produced large amounts of environmental vibration so with that some mats evolved specific cells that had the ability to detect pressure waves ground vibrations etc eventually though their information started to travel through their mat then nutrients did natural selection started to favor better info processing then millions of years pass and these mats became increasingly sophisticated different parts of the mat started to predicting future conditions then 300 million years ago some linages became massive they were living infinitely networks then after millions of years the Qkint eventually evolve sentience and become capable of abstract modeling long term planning etc.

Biology:
Their not a single organism instead they’re composed of millions of microscopic specialized organisms each of these organisms have a separate major role Yessari astronauts have described them looking like giant patches of moss they don’t really have any type if the pseudoscientific beliefs or anything so the yessari just leave them alone instead of ”purifying“ them instead of a brain being made out of neurons instead they have chemical reactions waves that travel through those interconnected brown tendrils coming out of them a yessari once said ”then large oval shaped things have thoughts that are like some kind of big ol weather system“.

Reproduction:
They reproduce in a unique process called ”Caleuialsynthesis“ which where different small regions starts to become cognitively independent and then they become two individuals the second one then splits from the first individual.

Way of Communicating:
They don’t talk or use symbols or anything instead they generate pressure patterns from that long tube thing coming out of the center of themselves though it’s usually off center anyways a qkint saying a single sentence takes hours and imagining complex ideas takes weeks.