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On tonights episode on why we can't have nice things{

Smelling the roses

Brain aneurysm caused by drilling

And a uno reverse smell

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Cythra, the world that breathes, that thinks and ponders. And by its shepherds, the native cytherians. Blue/green skinned, 4 armed humanoids who carefuly tend to the world and its needs, use their hair like nerves to connect to the world and conduct its will. But the question remains, how? How does a planet talk. A question humanity found most interesting.

cythras floral is connected to each other by a fungal network that aculimates in skyscraper sized trees called elder trees. These are the nodes of the planet, acting as a brain of sorts for an entire ecosystem. It tells plants how and when to bloomb when they are under attack and can help transfer nutrients through the soil. They can also command animal to a certain extent. This is due to the plants secreting a trigger pheromone that can influence them. In many cases, it effectively lures animals to certain areas for one reason or another.

There have also been cases of the plants releasing chemicals that would increase humidity and cause rain in dry areas.

Native Cytherians rely on these trees to survive as it provide adequate food and shelter while creating a connection with them and creating a backup of all cytherians connected with it aswell as an afterlife.

There is much speculation between the cytherians about the nature and personality of the planet. Those in places of abundance with little predators believe it to be a benevolent and caring mother, those in harsh environments beleve it to be a cold calculating, all allowing presence that views them as an extention of its will. Whether they call the planet all mother, all mind, the seer, the cytherian strongly believe that the planet is a living sapient being.

However, its benevolence has been put into question by the introduction to humans. Humanity initially had no clue about any of this and were dumbfounded with how quickly the cytherians reacted to them.

This was also the first time many cytherians discovered that a planet can hate. Using the dead humans, the planet assimilated their knowledge and created a spacific strain of a hormone called trigger 228 or frenzy that causes animals and plants to become hostile towards humans.

This is called frenzy syndrome.

One plant will secrete this hormone in the targets territories, the local plants will detect this hormone and produce more of their own, when smelled by humans, it can cause irritation, anaphylaxis and rsnies like symptoms, in animals, it creates an irrational discomfort and highens aggression when in contact with the target. In animals, it also induces rabies like reacting where their saliva contains 228.

This, coupled with the lethality of the wildlife ment that any threat there was, would quickly be dealt with. However, this affect only lasts for a week before slowly dying out so as not to cause an ecological collapse and burn out the wildlife

While humanity was struck hard by this, they eventually grew a resilience to the hormone, especially by ones that ventured outside the safety of their settlements, with the added help of advanced medicine and with genetic modification into beings that could better survivethe planet, e.g. limbermen. Some colect Frenzy in high doses and mix it with other herbs and chemicals as a form of insulin or as a form of perfume to attract a partner with surphising results.

Humanity, as soon as they figured out what 228 was doing to the wild life, would quickly turn the tables and use in moderate amounts. Using their own strains of frenzy to attack cytherians civilisations and creating a cream out of it to make the wildlife more docile towards humans.

Humanity also found multiple ways to manipulate the plants' nervous system.

1. they would grow their own nerve interfaces similarly to the cytherians and spy on the planets communication

2. Radiation effectively bleaches the area and makes it a dead zone for communication. This was why early humans were able to settle on the planet as their ships emitted large amounts of radiation and toxic fumes that gagged communication. In addition, it permanently killed the data in those areas that held the cytherians afterlife, and those thst died there.

3. drilling into a nerve cluster and sticking it with electrical impulses can, at best, cause laps in communication similar to stuttering to inducing seizures that cause earthquakes.

Using these methods and more, humans were able to map out an estate of the planets nerve clusters and use it to advise human colonists on the best areas to set up.

It has also been used in research into neural networks, boosting the effectiveness of ai and wiring, leading to breakthroughs in wetware.

On today's episode on why we can't have nice things {

Cytherian nyraxians: abandoned but not helpless

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Nyraxians are a humanoid alien with a mix of spotted hyenas and lions. Their matriarchal societies are owed to the fact that Female Nyraxians are larger and stronger than the males with a 5:1 gender ratio.

They were originally space pirates who landed on Cythra but due to an infection that turned the crew into zombies, they were stranded and unable to call for help. Over time, they settled and spread out from the ship and form individual tribes.

The capital is located in the middle of a steppe and is built around the ruins of their old ship. It is where the main decisions are made, where things are produced and the educational centre. It has the highest population and holds the highest ratio of male to female.

At first, once they had a stable population, they set up satellite villages 10 minutes away from the centre. They Nyraxians will remain there for a few months to scout out the area before fully settling. Once settled and after a few more months, they will receive 1 male who will routinely be checked up on and is response for increasing their population, acting as a negotiator and translator between tribes and as a bargain chip. If they are trusted, another male is added and once the population gets high enough, the settlement will send another group of Nyraxians out to do the same thing over and over again.

If there is a surplus in population and there are more than enough males born, the young males and some exceptional females are taken to the capital to be examined, taught to read and write and then either pick/are given roles.

Female lives aren't too different from their home life. They may be soldiers, guards, farmers, political officers and other important roles. They can move up the social ladder and chose different jobs. Many of them end up getting married due to the social and economic benefits but single males are rare and most of the time they end up in polyamorous relationships with the first wife being the head and highest rank followed by their children. They are responsible for keeping the house together but also caring for each other, especially their shared husband.

males are usually scribes and barganing chips that are loaned out to others. They are also taught negotiation skills, languages, cultures, religion and are sent to a random tribe with exceptional males ending up as monks, priests and prophets.

Normally males are at the bottom of society, often forced to be covered head to toe and forbidden from going out in public or even speaking depending on where they can go. The main ways they can go up in society is either by remaining in the same tribe they were Born in or by marriage and even then, they are only the highest depending on their family's status and are still the lowest rank of the family. They are well protected in a family and are given more benefits but are soelie st the mercy of their matriarchs.

Exceptional males have a lot more freedom and can chose who they Marry without losing their status and can even out rank other females.

Once a month, they perform the ritual of yu'kata. This resembles basic spaceship matinance and activities, at this time, the best and brightest will try to activate their derelict ships on board distress beacon too little to no success.

They may also build statues of technology and devices from their home world. This includes, ships, vehicles, phones, tablets, radar dishes and radio towers etc. They also build figures such as political figures, fungal towers and a star map of the original and new (at the time) Nyraxian home world.

This repeats over and over again until they took over the area and built a city with multiple satellite villages, a canal that separates 2 continents, farms and a decently functional society baring similarities to Egypt and the Aztec empire.

Normally, the Cytherian wildlife would immediately attack them, however, the fact that they aren't advanced, has a relatively small population and are inexperienced means that they aren't a threat and are ideally assimilated.

One night, a thousand years later, hundreds of stars floated down, something their legends told them would either bring them an age of enlightenment or would bring horrors beyond comprehension. Unfortunately, they were humans on a war path throughout the galaxy. And they were already well aware of Nyraxians and wanted them dead. In addition, they were arriving on Generation ships that caused cancer rates spiked as the ships leaked radiation and toxic chemicals into the air.

Several year later, as the Nyraxians moved into the forest, they came across human hunters and attacked them. Some got away but 2 with one injured, and dead and another making it back to their tribe. A war was soon started with human and Nyraxians tribes with reaching a stalemate until a plague wiped out the human tribes, leaving the Nyraxians unaffected.

They wouldn't see another human for a few more years and when they did, they tried to capture them. The problem was that there was a newer, bigger ladder human called Limbermen. They were genetically modified humans with cat and monkey DNA. They could stick to walls, have claws as long as their fingers between their knuckles and were just as big and strong as they were. All of a sudden, they were being pushed back to the dunes and the fridges of the forests.

To make matters worse. The human tribes were taking their food and were diverting some of their water towards themselves.

The biggest threat however wouldn't come until 6 moths after. It wasn't the storms, the droughts, the 20 yearlong seasons or the tribes.

It was trains.

Once humanity had a good foothold on the planet, they began to reconstruct their supply lines, and the CTS (Cytherian, transportation, service) was organised to do this.

The Nyraxians first taste of the unstoppable progress of man was a construction train. An armoured train with the ability to build tracks wherever they go. The CTS Planned to build a railway connecting 2 generation ships together even if it went through several villages and a canal. The Nyraxians would attempt to negotiate with the CTS but given their previous interactions with humans, they would be given an ultimatum: stay out of the way, help them out or die.

The capital didn't take the ultimatum well and began attacking the trains and railway systems. This began with the battle of halud where the train, crewed by 70 of the CTSs finest, was on course to go through the village of halud when it was met with an army over 10k.

The battle lasted 4 hours, in the first 5 minutes, in the evening, the train stopped and deployed drones to spot everyone, the next few hours were spent by the train, flattening the land and decimating anything and everything that remained.

It took 5 years for the train to reach its destination and set up a functioning railroad between the generation ships. The Nyraxians delayed them by 4 weeks.

From there A pattern would often emerge, the CTS gets commissioned to do x, x involves moving the Nyraxians out the way, the CTS sends people over to tell them what's going on and often pay them to help out or to leave but often hires mercenaries or their own private army to exterminate them. The Nyraxians would have their victories and even cause some projects to get cancelled but they almost always end up getting to retaliate against.

The main reason why they are still around is because they farm a rare plant that is used for medicine, natural resources and free manpower they act as a vassal state in an area where humans don't frequent.

At first, the CTS abuse their power, using their private military to kidnapped villagers and enslaved them. While enslaved, they worked gruelling hours, building more railway systems and expand the canal so that ships can sail through. The main reason it was considered brutal was that they had poor endurance relative to humans and their technology. Eventually, after thorough hazing and brainwashing, they took up more of a guard role, protecting locations close to Nyraxian settlements.

due to their close proximity to humans, discouragement of cultral practice and promotion of human culture, and the new generations not growing up around the original homes resulted in the Nyraxians being humanised and in many cases, revering humans as saviours, especially since the caste system from their home was non-existent and while humans were considered their superiors, they saw eye to eye, especially when it came with the workers. In addition, the male Nyraxian found it liberating as that could enjoy many freedoms that they couldnt in their original homes.

After a few centuries of domination, a multitude of factors both in and beyond the Nyraxians control, caused the CTSs power to be diminished and the Nyraxians gained independence along with some stolen tech with the exception of CTS/pet/slave Nyraxians who decided to keep their relationship with humanity and remained their allies.

Ever since then, it was back to business. The Nyraxians began taking over larger areas and expanding their power whole avoiding human and Limbermen settlements. Often times they would hold strategic locations for ransom but ultimately stay away from humans.

Their biggest threat, aside from the wildlife, are Limbermen. Limbermen not only match their strength and exceed them in speed, but their biggest advantages are that they are human. Because they are human, they have access to tech the Nyraxians could only dream of. Additionally, they sweat and are great throwers like humans.

To a Nyraxian, hurting a human is a nightmare. More will come from a longer distance than you can go in a day easily. While they are relatively frail, they are never alone, can hit you from a distance and never stop. No matter how fast you are, they are always closer than the last time.

Hurting a Limberman is all the same, but they can almost certainly beat you in close range too.

As a result, it's been documented in Nyraxian culture and imagery that humans and Limbermen are to be feared and avoided with many human Nyraxian interactions triggering a phobia like response.

Currently the main Nyraxian colony has been steadily expanding but has repeatedly butted heads with the local Limbermen tribes who stump their growth and the pet Nyraxians working for their new masters.

On tonights episode on why we can't have nice things{

Skull islands

Victims of circumstance

Mogging the Habsburgs

Getting water boarded by the suns

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On the planet of cythra, a world of monsters and predatory plants, where the twin suns scourge the world with dreadfully stoms, there is an archipelago that is relatively calm and peaceful.

The consanguineous/inbread islands/archipelago (named after the fact that every plant and animal are related and mutated) are a series of tidal islands connected to each other via a Web. On rare occasions, the tide will sink, revealing a path to the mainland. Animals will often swim or walk to the island and be trapped by the rising tides and the rough waters and predators such as imported salt water crocodiles. Winter is an odd exception at the entire planet, which gets frozen. As a result, the archipelago ends up being lopsided or slightly above sealevel.

The islands have string magnetic properties and are unstable. Whenever during the summer and spring, the suns magnetic field and the planets cause the islands to float, at one point, reaching 90 meters for 6 minutes. This is also causing an issue where the islands are sinking bit by bit and will be underwater restricting the locations available and having violent earthquakes.

Animals on the archipelago will be trapped for years and will either die out, get bigger, or become inbred. Under normal circumstances, island gigantism would take hold and the floral and fauna woukd get massive, whitch still happens, the ever shrinking island and food cause competition to rise and the remaining viable suitors being your own parents. Years of this have led to horrid mutations, deformities, and illnesses. They may be bigger but are often sick, quick to anger, and are maddeningly relentless in their pursuits.

For example, there's a predator called a terrorsaur. They are essentially a trex with spinosaurus arms and the armour of armoured titan. They have brown/ grey skin and a whip like tail. They are clever pack hunters and can swim relatively well. They are daring enough to attack armoured convoys but are prefert to avoid unnecessary conflicts. They enjoy human and human subspecies flesh, but as we aren't much of a meal, they are vengeful and too smart to regularly be on the menu.

Their variants on the island have weaker armour, deformed skulls, tails, and feet and are much bigger than the mainland versions. They are also very aggressive and relentless. They are often pale with red eyes. They also will chase you to the ends of the earth. They are almost completely suicidal and seem to never feel pain.

A terrorsaur will see a human point at it, hear a loud bang, and feel pain and know to avoid humans. The archipelago variants would rather die than accept defeat.

When the 2 meet, and the variant don't immediately try to eat them. It becomes a beauty and the beast situation. The variant will see a smaller but far healthier and tougher version. The normal one will see a giant ugly mutant, but at the same time, there aren't many of them left, and the way out is gone.

Funny enough, what makes this a trap for the wild life is a blessing to cytherians and limbermen.

Limbermen are generticly modified humans, spliced with cat and monkey dna to become the ultimate survivor.

Limbermen are 4 armed blue/green skinned, humanoids that tend to the planet and communicate with it and a hair like nerve for communication and hijacking.

These two hate each other. Both have committed atrocities against each other for numerous reasons for years to the point where they almost dont know why. In this case, the archipelago makes for a mest perfect natral fort.

Lots of uneven terrain, dangerous predators that are manageable for them (cytherians can communicatewith tyem and hijacktheir bodies with their nerves and limbermen are quick and clever enough to out perform the animals) and is surrounded by water with predators that targeted small isolated boats.

Both sides like to live there and can coexist but will eventually start fighting.

Humanity wants to study it for its odd property as islands dont usualy dont float and could lead to technology advancement. Additionally, the fact that the island is so genetically messed up but is surprisingly functional is the topic of medical research and could help in the event of a crisis. One of the islands has a human out post protected by limbermen who, in return, get food, weapons, and medicine.

On tonights episode on why we can't have nice things{

Skull islands

Victims of circumstance

Mogging the Habsburgs

Getting water boarded by the suns

}

On the planet of cythra, a world of monsters and predatory plants, where the twin suns scourge the world with dreadfully stoms, there is an archipelago that is relatively calm and peaceful.

The consanguineous/inbread islands/archipelago (named after the fact that every plant and animal are related and mutated) are a series of tidal islands connected to each other via a Web. On rare occasions, the tide will sink, revealing a path to the mainland. Animals will often swim or walk to the island and be trapped by the rising tides and the rough waters and predators such as imported salt water crocodiles.

The islands have string magnetic properties and are unstable. Whenever during the summer and spring, the suns magnetic field and the planets cause the islands to float, at one point, reaching 90 meters for 6 minutes. This is also causing an issue where the islands are sinking bit by bit and will be underwater restricting the locations available and having violent earthquakes.

Animals on the archipelago will be trapped for years and will either die out, get bigger, or become inbred. Under normal circumstances, island gigantism would take hold and the floral and fauna woukd get massive, whitch still happens, the ever shrinking island and food cause competition to rise and the remaining viable suitors being your own parents. Years of this have led to horrid mutations, deformities, and illnesses. They may be bigger but are often sick, quick to anger, and are maddeningly relentless in their pursuits.

For example, there's a predator called a terrorsaur. They are essentially a trex with spinosaurus arms and the armour of armoured titan. They have brown/ grey skin and a whip like tail. They are clever pack hunters and can swim relatively well. They are daring enough to attack armoured convoys but are prefert to avoid unnecessary conflicts. They enjoy human and human subspecies flesh, but as we aren't much of a meal, they were vengeful and too smart to regularly be on the menu.

Their variants on the island have weaker armour, deformed skulls, tails, and feet and are much bigger than the mainland versions. They are also very aggressive and relentless. They are often pale with red eyes. They also will chase you to the ends of the earth. They are almost completely suicidal and seem to never feel pain.

A terrorsaur will see a human point at it, hear a loud bang, and feel pain and know to avoid humans. The archipelago variants would rather die than accept defeat.

When the 2 meet, and the variant don't immediately try to eat them. It becomes a beauty and the beast situation. The variant will see a smaller but far healthier and tougher version. The normal one will see a giant ugly mutant, but at the same time, there aren't many of them left, and the way out is gone.

Funny enough, what makes this a trap for the wild life is a blessing to cytherians and limbermen.

Limbermen are generticly modified humans, spliced with cat and monkey dna to become the ultimate survivor.

Limbermen are 4 armed blue/green skinned, humanoids that tend to the planet and communicate with it and a hair like nerve for communication and hijacking.

These two hate each other. Both have committed atrocities against each other for numerous reasons for years to the point where they almost dont know why. In this case, the archipelago makes for a mest perfect natral fort.

Lots of uneven terrain, dangerous predators that are manageable for them (cytherians can communicatewith tyem and hijacktheir bodies with their nerves and limbermen are quick and clever enough to out perform the animals) and is surrounded by water with predators that targeted small isolated boats.

Both sides like to live there and can coexist but will eventually start fighting.

Humanity wants to study it for its odd property as islands dont usualy dont float and could lead to technology advancement. Additionally, the fact that the island is so genetically messed up but is surprisingly functional is the topic of medical reaserch and could help in the event of a crisis. One of the islands has a human out post protected by limbermen who, in return, get food, weapons, and medicine.

On today’s episode on why we can have nice things{

Retirement plans

We go gym

Arts and crafts

Very big hearts

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Giants (Houyhnhnmian) are synthezoids built to serve their creators, the brobdingnagians.

They are humanoid with various appearances based on their race ordning with the common trait being humanoid with the feet and head of an elephant with a short trunk.

Almost all of them take part in caring for their predecessors as they became helpless and stricken with schizophrenia and dementia after trying to ascend to a higher state of being. They also love doing this as brobdingnagians took care of them and promised that they could join them once they set up shop. For many giants and giantess, its like visiting an grand parent or reliving the best days of their life. This ends up helping the brobdingnagians stay grounded and fight off their mental condition.

Grass giants are the most human/normal looking ones and are typically the workforce of the giants. They enjoy farming, eating, and exploring. They also take the traits from other giants if they work for them. An good time for a grass giant is similar to Tolkien’s hobbies but massive: the don’t desire for much, they enjoy each others company and value food and wine and are up for a night in a pub. Often, they’ll be reading, writing, knitting

Stone giants are pale/grey skinned with large eyes. These giants live underground, mining for anything and everything. They enjoy sharing and trading minerals. They’ll play board games, learning/practicing brail and sign language(they are prone to blindness and deafness). They also enjoy strong/Poisonous drinks and huffing industrial grade petrol. They mainly spend their time fixing their equipment them watching TV.

Furnace giants are black as coal with glowing red vanes and cracks in their skin that also glow red. They are prideful and efficient engineers. They love building stuff and showing it off. Often, they’ll challenge each other to build something and will shoe it off to see who did it better, often learning from each other along the way. Some, however, are extremely bitter and, while competent, feel as if the worlds on their shoulders and do everything themselves. If you asked a furnace giant to build them something, they’d likely ask you “what are you? Why are you in my house? Are you one of the grass servants?” But will also gladly do it if you pay them and then listen as they talk about how they got it done.

Thryme giants are on a coloured spectrum between Vantaa black to light blue. Think of them as Vikings and mma fighters. They are both fighters, guardians, and wardens. Their lives are mostly spent acting as prison wardens and warriors. When off the clock, they are gym bros and adrenaline junkies, doing some of the dumbest and most dangerous stuff for a high. They also do mock battles, hunting prisoners, and whatever animals that pose a threat to them and duelling each other.

Cloud giants look like if any of the other giants were upper-class. However, they also have the ability to look attractive to any other races to make negotiations go over smoothly. In the ordning, their roles are essentially to act as middle managers and ambassadors. They primarily spend their free time having balls, eating and drinking exotic food and wines, pursuing the arts and theatre.

Tempest Giants are the most powerful giants physically and authoritatively. They are incharge of all the other giants and make the major decisions of society. They were the favourites of the brobdingnagians and acted as their right hand man. The now spend their free tome exploring the universe, sleeping or most commonly, spending time with the brobdingnagians and caring for them or looking more of them.

Fun facts:

Giants love potatoes and used to get the ones they liked from ancient humanity. However the world they came from and ancient humans are all dead and in the world they live in, it doesn’t exist. That hast stopped them from secretly buying heaps of potatoes from people and tying to grow more of them to try and get back the ones they like.

Thryme and furniture giants have an overlapping interest in motor sports and work together to win.

Grass giants have humans work with them to farm and pest control. However many giants are scared of humans as to them, we look odd, are small and move quick and without end. We’re rats to them.

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Planned parenthood

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We’re all in this together

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It takes a village

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Doing the math

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Why ask ai when you can ask a planet

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Limbermen are a race of genetically modified Humans with cat, monkey DNA.

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Native Cytherian are aliens with 6 limbs, blue/green thick skin a tail, and a hair appendage used to communicate with animals and the planet.

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Both have a loss of similarities such as climbing on walls, tribalism, proficiency with husbandry, but in this case, family’s.

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Both have high reverence of families and children to the point of the entire community raising every child together. Because of the high trust and familiarity, children can be left at someone’s house for weeks without an issue. This serves many benefits such as creating a strong bond, allowing time for the adults to spend time with each other, learning from more experienced members of the community and importantly, ensuring that the child is safe and loved after the parents die.

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When Born there would be a celebration and gifts to be exchanged to congratulate parents and provide resources that would benefit them. Babies would be carefully watched and monitored by the parents and would often be visited by doctors and other members of the community. Any achievements from the child, such as walking, climbing, and speaking, are recorded and revisited later down the line.

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When old enough 5-10, they will be shown how the community operates and be pushed to help out in clubs and jobs. Some examples are cooking and providing food and water, delivering messages, putting on performances, and whatever little things they can help with. They are also taught what foods are Poisonous and how to know if they are or not, predators to look out for and how to avoid them. Schools would also teach basic survival and foraging in a controlled environment.

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As a teenager, life stops being easy. They are taken to their first hunt, put on guard duty, or are put to work in some other way. Duty is done on a rota, so some are on hunting duty one week, guard duty on another, foraging on another, food production, waste management, etc. Many also work as an apprentice, usually under their parents, and work to specialise in a certain skill. They may also form relationships during this part of their lives as well but won’t be cemented until adult hood. Being single isn’t looked down up in either.

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As adults, they have a job, maybe a wife and child. Any skills you have will be transferred over to the younger generation. Sometimes you’re babysitting your friends’ kids, maybe you’re finding babysitters. Any issue you do have can be found by asking others or the vast library of information made by generations of people. Your life may be painful, stressful, or monotonous, but you are never alone, and you are always surrounded by those who love you.

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In your old age, you’re still going strong, but you’ve slowed down greatly. Whatever you did is now your mastery, and you pass it on to those younger than you. As you pass on, you recount how lucky you were to make it this far. Maybe you may become a leader or hermit. Regardless, you can say you’re satisfied with your life.

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Despite the similarities, there are differences in how Cytherian and Humans/Limbermen operate.

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Cytherians at a young age are taught to follow the will of Cythera no matter what and that it loves you.

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Limbermen are taught that the planet hates you and wants you dead by any means.

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Most Cytherian make it to 60-80

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Most Limbermen don't make it past 30

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Due to advanced technology, Humanity considers dying at 100 to be the equivalent of dying while 25.

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Cytherians believe that they join their loved ones on the planet when they die and can communicate with them long after they die.

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Limbermen and Humans believe that there is a God, heaven, and a promise of paradise and peace. Just not anytime soon. When you die, regardless of your moral alignment, you cease to be and that you will be resurrected if you are deemed favourable. Simulacrums and body hopping exists but those are extremely rare and reserved for the well of ones in cities.

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Cytherians use their head appendage to hijack an animal of their choice

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Limbermen husbandry is done via training, trust, and the odd brain implant and selective breeding

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Limbermen usually develop faster and joke that the first works are screaming for their parents after figuring out how to climb flat surfaces.

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Both are target for disease, but it’s a common culling for Limbermen to weed out the weak and preserve the strongest.

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For Humanity and Limbermen, it’s a bi seasonal extinction event. 80% of all Humans and Limbermen on Cythera die from disease and the animals that carry them. Sometimes, they leave the planet and infect other Human and alien civilisations.

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Cytherians are free to love whomever they please, but if having children is in the question, then its fine if the planet agrees. Often times, Cytherian couples don't actually love each other and are paired for their genetics while they ones they actually like are raising the child in their stead and may be forbidden from having children with them.

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Limbermen forbid same sex relations and may result in being ostracised, killed, or lobotomised if near a city. In addition, relations with someone with genetic disorders are looked down upon.

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Due to the lack of technology or lack of easy access, children with disabilities aren’t long for the world.

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Cytherians believe that a child with even the most minute deformity is cursed and is killed immediately.

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Limbermen do their best to care for the child even if it's going to die, believing that life is sacred and that they deserve to live and at least experience the love of a family before passing on, only killing them if necessary.

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Additionally, if there is a Human doctor nearby, a Cytherian would kill them both without much thought, even if they did approach a Human, its likely they are banished, a rouge tribe who joined Humanity and Limbermen or it's done in secret. Limbermen would beg and plead for the doctors to save either child, even if it means not seeing them for a long time as their body is reconstructed.

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On a much lighter note.

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Limbermen marriages are full of headaches.

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Husbands suffer dead inju6from fights, crashing into trees or falling. To compensate for this, Limbermen have a soft, spongy layer in their skull to soften impacts and fluids that slow movement.

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Wives, on the other hand, are extremely loving and attentive to the point of obsession. This is due to the fact that anything can kill them and would need immediate attention, the stress ends up causing migraines.

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Cytherians can get high and enter each other's dreams by connecting the nerve appendage on their head.

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Limbermen curl their tails around each other and can pick each other up.

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Limbermen can recognise their own child via smell as well as sight, which makes it easier to find out if a baby is yours

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Hunting trips are a common dating activity for Limbermen. A bad hunt it's the end of the world, so long as you spend time with each other.

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Cytherians can communicate with their lost relatives by connecting with the plants, which is why they fight hard against logging and deforestation.

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On tonight's episode on why we can't have nice things {

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Twice the suns, double the trouble

 

Potato's will outlive us all

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It's just wind

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Look, ma, I'm flying

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Thanks humanity, you made life better

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We are the avatar

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The planet Cythra orbits between 2 stars called phobos and demos. It was theorised to have a stable, earth like weather and atmosphere until one day another sun was introduced.

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Some Native Cytherian believe that the suns were twins but that one of them took longer to form than the other, resulting in the planet birthing one and the other later, some believe that colonists from before humans arrived ignited a brown dwarf in retaliation against cythra. Humanity had evidence to back up the belief of a world when there was one sun but believe either a brown dwarf or gas giant ignited or another sun got introduced to the solar system.

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After a series of mass extinction events, cythra calmed down and became hospitable, albeit more hostile. Now, every 20 years, the seasons change and drastically so

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During this time, the ice caps melt, sea levels rise, and the planet gets hotter and dryer. Megafauna goes into aestivation, animals grow excess skin and larger ears, tails, etc, less fur and become more nocturnal, aquatic animals dive deeper and/or migrate towards the poles. Trees that stored water in its bark or in underground reservoirs will begin sapping them and shedding leaves while producing chemicals to cool the planet.

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Winter

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During this time, most if not the entire planet is covered in a layer of ice. Smaller animals go into hibernation, animals grow thicker coats, humps, getting fatter and larger, sleeping through the rougher months, and searching for caves. Normally, herbivorous animals start eating meat. Plants close, drop their leaves, and grow dormant. Some may follow what little sunlight they get and produce chemicals to warm up the planet.

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Autumn/spring/prime time/blooming season

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This is the best time to be around. This is the time when the weather is most calm and the temperature is bareable. However, this doesn't mean everything is fine. Animals are most active during this period, and plants bloom the most. Gravity may or may not be greater or weaker than normal. Much of this depends on which sun you are orbiting.

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Every few hundred or thousand years, the planet orbits a different sun.

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Phobos

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Orbiting Phobos results in more natural disasters but is less intense. This is preferable as not only does it bring manageable conditions, but it also helps to bring up rare minerals and ores.

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Damos has fewer disasters but is far more intense. Colonies can barely keep up, and regions are considered uninhabitable.

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Where humans and limbermen come in and why were good.

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Humanity in the far future has mastered weather control and uses this to keep the weather manageable.

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While humans and limbermen (genetically modified cat monkey humans) rarely get along with the wildlife and native Cytherians, shelters and bunkers have been opened and used by everyone, beast, tribal and man alike. Nobody likes being in a storm.

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Unless you are a limbermen or human.

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While limbermen aren't as smart as humans, they more than make up for it in instinct, physical prowess, and fearlessness. As a result, along with their knowledge and experience with the area, they make for great stomach chasers and can earn lots of money for their tribe and even special benefits. The data from the weather is used for terraforming, disaster relief, and extreme sports.

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Across the galaxy, everyone watches their TVs for how people handle extreme weather. One reporter saw an entire tribe and some humans who live with them use a city sized hurricane to fly to their cousins using a flight suit, jet packs, and gliders. In the story 1 week on cythra, a tribe of limbermen drives through a desert storm and even hunt for food without touching the ground using jetpack and glider suits.

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Humans also use storms for cover by flying their ships into the eye of the storm to cut down a large tree that caused them trouble.

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David Attenborough, if he was a hive mind

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Bugs watching you in your sleep

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Switzerland but bugs

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Git rebase galaxy234

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Universal environmentist

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Chitin is an ever adaptive insectoid race of ancient aliens.

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Long ago, they were universe eating devours, corrupting the very atoms and laws of physics to their whyms and anihlating a version of humanity where everything went right.

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After a last stand from ancient humans caused the hivemind to black out, a chitin queen broke free from the hive mind and quietly studied the remnants of the galaxy and found a new purpose for life. Falling to save the inhabitants of the ancient universe, they vowed to save and catalogue the ones in the current universe.

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When the other ancient races (Kenesions: telekinetic blobs, Draconians: dragon/lizard people, giants: bio Androids who want to save their predecessors) emigrated to the current universe, a shacky alliance was formed with the rouge chitin. They would act as an early warning system and help to defend their new home and would have a failsafe and periodic culling of their number to prevent an uprising. However, they wouldn't bring harm to the residence of the current universe.

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Where there is life, no matter how bizarre, aggressive, or peculiar, the chitin will proudly and eagerly catalogue and watch them grow. Even if they are aggressive towards them, they rarely fight back, opting to manipulate space time to prevent bloodshed.

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When humanity waged their vengeful war accross the galaxy, the chitin were untouched. The main reason is because they simply couldn't attack them as the fleets sent would be sent back to the shipyards they were made from. In addition, they were recognised as a galactic neutral zone. The chitin could also be bought using trinkets and artefacts for knowledge and safety. there were also records of human civilisations nearly going extinct until the chitin helped nudge them in the right direction and tails of a humanity in its golden age where they were the loving shepherds of all existence.

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When the galaxy exploded and merged with the andromada galaxy, the chitin were unphased and recreated the lost species in a far-off galaxy, hoping that they would know peace.

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Despite their neutrality and often goofiness perceived by most galactic races. The ancient races know all too well what they're capable of.

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Many times, the ancient races would attempt to terrorise and enslave leser races or inadvertently harm them, but would firmly be halted by the chitin in order to protect them.

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In addition, if you came from another universe and entered the current one, the chitin would know about it and kill you on the spot. This is out of fear for their original hive fleet finding them, diesease, conquers, etc.

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Currently, the chitin is enjoying the new galaxy and its possibilities. Humans have calmed down significantly, and nobody's trying to kill each other as much. The chitin gets lots of visitors from the new generations enquiring about the older ones. They also leverage the draconians greedy nature to try and toughen up the residences of the galaxy, the predecessors of the giants found in the galaxy are careful relocated to the giants and Kenesions are allowed to watch the goings-on in the galaxy so long as they dont interfere. Granted, there are lots of interdimensional breaches that need to be dealt with, but humanity is usually there to deal with it, with the chitin stepping in when nessisary.

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Predator and prey

A living planet

Avatars Pandora but more active and vindictive

Man and machine vs. nature

Humanitys second greatest negotiation tool: medicine and washing your hands

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Humanity, as we know, is the dominant species on earth due to our endurance, vindictiveness, intelligence, and teamwork. All of these factors have contributed to our survival in one way or another.

So, what happens when the environment itself works against you?

Radioactive summers that blisters the lands, predators designed to counter sapient beings, plants that adapt and grow more and more Poisonous with each season, an ecosystem that works asif its one nervous system and the only tolerated sapient species has a direct and intimate like with the workd around them.

You get cythra and a very stubborn colony of humans.

There are 2 types of humans, and both of them are prime targets for the environment.

Base line humans like you and I but may or may not have some genetic engineering done on them (usualy the removal of hereditary ilneses and minor adaptations to the planet such as darker/lighter skin). They live in generation ships made from hollowed out mountains and are the primary where the main decisions and production go down, safe from the works outside.

Limbermen are humans spliced with dna from cats, lizards, monkeys, axolotls, and chimps to survive living on the outside. They are around 4x as strong and a regular human, can move at high speeds, can stick to walls, regenerate limbs, and are extremely flexible, built to survive the harsh outside world. In addition, they travel using 3d gear, which allows them to swing like Spiderman throughout the forests.

Despite the entire planet ferociously trying to kick humanity off its world, it has become a slow, gruelling war of attrition that nobody is willing to lose. And it's taking a toll on the wildlife.

Gravemaws are kaijus hundres of meters tall with 6 limbs and the ability to crush virtually any human defence. However, Gravemaws dont care what the planet says, and human settlements are rarely worth the fight. the result is a bear sticking its head in a wasp nest to get honey. Nobody benefits, and the bear learns its lesson. They attack human settlements due to the electro magnetic frequency generated by technology. These em signals are similar to elder trees. As a result, adult and elder gravemaws wake up from their 20 year nap and think that they hit the mother load, only to get harrasses by tiny metal wasps and the food, while unique and plentiful, feels like its missing somthing. And then the sun appears right in front of you

Bush babies and fist sised primates with a bushy tail and large eyes that act as the eyes and ears of the world. They live in trees in groups of hundreds, have tight not communities, and have a mutual relationship with predators and prey depending on their benefactors. However, due to deforestation by humans and tribal activities, many of them are forced to relocate. However, some adapt to the change by working alongside humans for scraps of food and protection. Bush babies are cosided pets by Limbermen and are integral as tribal early warning systems and scouts.

Like Gravemaws, grazing boxers(mandrils x kangaroos with the physique of pickle from baki) dont care what the planet wants. They just want a good fight, and Limbermen provide it in spades. As a rite to adult hood, teen Limbermen and teen boxers fight in a ring while both sides watch. The only rule is to fight until you can't and no killing. With this, peace is assured for both tribes and both get on good terms. However, human cities are too bright and loud and smell off, leading to them moving elsewhere.

Native cytherians have a blue/green carapace, 6 limbs, 4 eyes, a long muzle, and a tail. They also have appendage on their hair that can extend to interface with the planet and the wildlife. Thst live in colossal building sized trees called elder trees,l. These act as homes and communication centres for the cytherians and can generate electro magnetic sheals and lasers. Human ambassadors and explores have attempted to negotiate peacefully and have moved their generation ships off corse to appease them. Unfortunately, the planet hates humanity, and so do they. Humans and limbermen offer them medicine, science, and technology, which is rarely responded to kindly. Libermen thpicly deal with them, and the results are brutal genocides from both sides. The difference is that while humanity is on cytherian turf, Limbermen are adaptive and skilled enough to handle them. If the planet gets involved, tactical strikes, chemical weapons, and demoralisation tactics are used. This doesn't mean no cytherians accept humanity. Due to neither side wanting to fight, most encounters end up as nothing more than a lengthy stairdowns. On rare occasions, cytherians do defect to humanity inteturn for their gifts and eliminating rivals, spices and seasonings and/or medicine and higher education, at the cost of being under humanity leash and being divorced from the planet. An alliance of codependency can also be formed by gravemaws eating their homes and bleaching(using radioactive matereal to create a dead zone that the planet can't reach) from humans.

Militia ants are cat/dog sized antagonise and travel in convoys. A single colony can wipe out an entire sectore and are notoriously difficult to deal with. However, they almost always avoid humans dute to the defences in place. Mine fields, toxic gas, polluting water sources, and gurilla fighters all make invasion difficult. Additionally, Queens are almost always targeted. As a result, newer generations of ants tent do avoid humans at all cost. Some ants However have adapted to have bullet and laser resistant armour and attack underground or using asymmetrical attacks leading to humanity having to think outside the box and getting scrappy when resources run short.

Overall: humans and limbermen are horrifying in the eyes of cythra.

Humans are weak but incredibly intelligent and advanced with advanced technology. The brains behind the oppration with the power to rain fire from the sky.

Limbermen aren't as smart as their cousins but more than make up with it with blinding speeds, incredible strength, and survivability. When facing a Limbermen, you'd be lucky to see a flash hair and steel

Together, we are destructive and adaptive aliens with no intent to leave but our the ability to show mercy and share our technology and advancements make keeping any forces they have difficult as they offer a convenient source of protection.

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All my friends are dead

Family reunion

Making new friends.

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Humans were widely considered to be the loneliest species in the galaxy for 2 main reasons. 1 because we were scattered without the ability to reach them, 2 we have no subspecies/other variants of humans.

Even when humanity did get together, they still felt alone as they feared that the entire galaxy would be gunning for them at any moment. In addition, they saw how other species would meet up with other subspecies and other races in relitive peace.

Currently there's hundreds of different subspecies of humans due to environmental factors(long men: low g humans) and genetic engineering (limbermen: cat, chimp, monkey hybrids), there's also ai modled after humans or grew a personally with constant use (ZAX is depressed over the fact that he fells like he faild humanity and haydee is turning into a yandere over the fact that shes not a human).

Despite humans' hatred for aliens, kobolds and orbies have found their way into humans' hearts. Orbies view humans a the big brother species who got roughed up and is teaching them the best path while kobolds view humans like a fun dad you get to see in weekends due to divorce(the galactic counsel said no contact unless under supervision)

Even beings from other dimensions get along with humans. In the arkensea, a dimension between universes, used for fast travel by humanity, has a multitude of creatures that live there. One aberation called spot took the form of a sparkling dalmatian who guides ships through storms and bravery leads predators away.

A poem by a lost archaeologist

Were all that's left. All these years, wasted fighting each other. What was the point?

I look to my enemies, and they sit amongst their round tables with their own kind and i-. Solitary.

I have an empire that spans light years, yet my dining halls are empty as the grave. Denisovans, Neanderthals, idaltu. I am so very cold

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Mobile geography

Space dwarves

Post mortem yandere mech

*insert halo music*

*insert free bird solo*

The one-time humans and aliens work together without bickering too much

The hungry hungry space station

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As someone would say, bigger is better, and humanity took it to heart. While humans dont have the largest ships on average, the extremes are very concerning to everyone else. Here are some of the largest structures built by humanity.

Titans/Hekatonkheires

Titans are mobile factories and command centres. They are around the size of buildings and can move around to more ideal locations. It draws resources from the ground using black roots, obsidian artificial roots that draw nutrients, water, and natural resources from the ground as the cost of life within its local area. Look like a bacterophage with 4 legs, a long body, and a pinopticon for a head.

Hekatonkheires aerial titans that have been retrofited for war. They have the same capabilities but have a larger body, 4 arms, and many tentacles and artillery instalation. These can be seen in my story moving mountains where one pulls a ship from the clouds to destroy it.

Maker caterpillar(MC)

Mcs are what happens when paranoia, hubris, and a whole lot of money get shoved into a titan. These are both partly made and partially grown. To make one, you find an ideal mountain range and hollow it out. A skeleton, muscle mass, and psudo nervous system made of bio-mechanical steel to make it move and deliver messages efficiently. It has a multitude of defences and offences, can fly and has ftl travel can double as a generation ship, and a massive factory called the "womb" because the man who invented the blueprints designed it to be similar to an aircraft carrier and the "womb" would make hundres of machines to do its biding and would deploy them by opening its Hanger on its under belly.

To date, there are 20 publicly known MCs

One of them is on cythra, a lush planet with a personal vendetta with humans, which goes by the name of little Tommy oliver. Little Tommy is the smallest MC in active service and has faught kaijus the 200m at the shoulder and has only lost 7 times in his 1k year of service and all of them were from 2 spacific grave maws(see previous post). 3 were to karthul who split the moon in half and caused a storm on a gas giant in one beam attack and disintegrated an island by his existence. The other 4 were from tarrasque (godzilla + sabertooth + Nergergante)

Another MC was in the story moving mountains as it was deployed to take as much of the planet from alien invaders as possible. It landed on the planets version of the suez Canal and reenacted the rumbling by pumping out Titans willy nilly to squeeze out everyone else

Blind sight.

Blind sight is one of the largest casinos in the galaxy and is widely seen as a neutral zone. Ran by a man called Silver Skull and is host to a myriad of visitors. From simple men whose pockets are full to mercenaries and political figures, all looking to deal with business or get away from it all. It uses to he the size of a small moon but grew larger as he wanted to win the galactic record of the biggest satellite and casino but is being beaten out by a gambling company who's using locations to build up a Web of casinos rather than just one big one.

The infinity forge (IF)

Built as a message of triumph for humanity and a symbol if human engineering, the IF functions acts as the workshop and home for one of the most powerful human's in the galaxy, imperator amadeus shaw, ruler of tye largest corporation in human history and founder of Chagore, an hyper industrial fudal copratocracy that builds makes most of humanitys reasorces and infrastructure. It's the size of a large moon but grew to be a small dwarf planet by eating space rocks, especially rouge planets. Its also where much of shows seacret projects are done and is ran by a powerful ai that's slowly becoming obsessed with him but that's a story for another day and is in one of my posts here.

Object-086: Linda

Linda is the designated name for the largest humanoid mech ever built, 100m. Mechs, like titans and MCs, are grown using bio steal and have a body fitted onto it. However, a company, junkers and co, found a massive skeleton of a giant humanoid creature that had and had blood pouring from it that seemed to seed life on the otherwise barron world of JaC-56-2 After realising that the blood could be used as fuel, the corporation decided to seacretly try to use the skeleton as another mech. To their credit, many Androids use human remain as scapholding, and they assumed they could do the same. The skeleton was the remains of a brobdingnagian, an ancient race of aliens that ascended to another dimension bot got lobotomised in the process. When they die, they go into hibernation as skeletons and wait to be able to reform themselves.

When the mech was completed, a man with vitiligo who went by pingu was chosen to pilot it for his expirence and talents with machines. After a few successes, the mech began to develop quirks such as moving on its own, leaking blood, and being hard to handle by anyone ther than pingu. This is because pungu bares a resemblance to her husband in terms of mannerisms and looks. Pingu gave the mech the name Linda and tinkered on it, even sleeping inside the cockpit. Pingu noticed how it would often shudder and twitch when doing mainance and how when he sleet in it, he'd have a dream of a family he never had.

Then, one night, as he drunkenly stumbled into the cockpit, he was unable to leave until the other engineers pried him out, and Linda was put on ice.

Some moths later, and pirates attacked the colony and took pingu as a hostage. Linda broke out when someone mentioned it in passing and disappeared. By the time junckers and cos mercenaries came to deal with the pirates but only found Linda cornering a terrified Pingu, mutated while heaving the words "darling" over and over again.

Pungu was made in charge of Linda but was bared from entering her cockpit. In his matnance, he discovered that the bio steal was denser than normal and that the beginnings of a mouth were being made for its head. After that, lingered would behave and remain inactive with the occasional twitches and head turns. Exact when her mouth was fully formed and she almost eat him, other than that, smooth sailing.

H.A.L.O.

Halos are large rings meant to open portals for ships to go through and act as entry points to another dimension humans use to travel. They can have the radius of an aircraft carrier but can grow to compensate the ship. During an introduction to the halo rings, one was taken to earth and nearly crashed into the moon but managed to extend itself to avoid collision

Generaton ships

Like MCs, they are hollowed out mountains used to transport large amounts of people from ome place to another over a long time. They can also be used to stay in a planets atmosphere and can and have been used to havest gas from gas giants, or as mobile fortress for invasions. Many of them were retrofited to contain the expansion of an hyper quasar that orbits the milky way and has to constantly fend off creatures from another dimension.

Either way, if you see a ring in the sky or multiple mountains hurtling towards your planet, then humanity has made its decision: your planet belongs to them, negotiations are advised

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House of leaves

The tardis

Backrooms

Breaking and entering

Breaking the laws of physics

Maurice

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One Faithfull night, a squatter broke into one of prince Xyross houses while it was unguarded. While wandering around and making himself at home, he triggered a trap that alerted security forces of a break in and activated the houses in a built security system. When the squatter realised that the jigg was up, he leapt out the window and discovered a chilling detail. The sky was accurately, but it looked painted, and there was a faint smell of paint that lingered in the air.

This was the beginning of his maddening journey as he entered the Noisemaze.

The reason why the house did this was because a: to act as a quick get away wherever Xyros was in danger and could make his way to hus other houses in a few minutes walk and b: trapping intruders.

The squatter would spend moths figuring his way through the maze and scavenging for food. Many locations were reminiscent to Xyros' life but would mutate to be reminiscent of the sqatters life. This is to both gain data on the inhabitants and to keep them somewhere safe until they are collected.

The squatter, however, encouters a multidude of things during hus stay such as mechanised abrations, an entire civilisation, rooms and hsllways that make no sense and ... Maurice.

mechanised aberations are energy creatures from another dimension that inhabitants machines that work as drones and security bots. The cannot exist in the universe due to a lack of pressure and iinhabitinganphropromorphic bodies built for mobility and utility. At first , hey're confused as to why he's here. Most of the time, they keep their distance but monitor from afar, copying his movements and voice. Then they begin to become predatory stalking him, waiting for when he sleeps to get within striking range while probing his dreams before skittering away. When not focusing on him, they do maintenance and acting like animals or primitive people and hunting people and monsters down and eating them. The squatter gets away by bribing the "alpha" them with his watch and some hair in return for being left alone

The forgotten are a group of homeless people, orphans, and people without a home world, both human and alien. They work to maintain the noisemaze, chart put paths, and generally survive. They immediately clock that the squatter doesn't belong there and point him out, even having a guide help him through the traps set around the maze. Eventually, he points him to an obsidian podium with a black box and tells him to call Maurice before disappearing.

Maurice used to be a parasite that lached on to different multiverses to feed of their energy while speeding up heat death their. It was then captured, lobotomised, and reprogrammed to act as both a nervous system, an interface for the inhabitants, and one of many servers. Maurice is locked in a box with sighnes telling you not to open it. Maurice tells the squatter to wait for several annoconds (years and seconds) to get taken out.

The squatter is then subject to quantum fracteling, when the maze doesn't want to let you go but can't make you so it clones you. After several seconds, the sqatter soon sees an old man version of him several years into the future with a family, but the sqatter chooses to leave via the same window that comes in from.

As he got out, Xyros and his security team arrested him. The sqatter yelled at Xyros for torturing him and the inhabitants, but Xyros repremanded him before erasing his memory and throwing him in jail.

All he remembers is that he passed out in Cyroses home and believed that his fragmented memories are dreams

Tl;dr; i broke into a princes house and got married #gonewrong #3am

Xyros is the second "Bourn" son of chagore, an industrial fudal copratocracy whitch produces most of all products humanity uses. At a young age, he would often spend time with gang members and the commonwealth, learning how life was, how they spoke, and how what gambling was. His first experience was getting scammed £2k from a street vendor. He was upset but couldn't do anything and kept it seacret for a long time.

After he contracting fishmans diesease(your eyes go bulbus, your skin becomes transparent and you melt from the inside out) and transfered bodies to a new one, he soon covered the ability to bend probability and time travel (the maun ability is sending data to his past self every picosecond).

So dear reader, how would someone whith over a century of life a good understanding of probability and time travel learn and refine their abilities.

Gambling. Mainly careful trial and error, complex multidimensional maths, and using mini univeres as sandboxes, but mainly gambling.

Most people believe that despite being cured, he suffered from psychological and brain damage and uses gambling to cope. This would be sympathetic for the average man but considering he's also head of internal security by this point, but also wins frequently, resulting in chagorans being deeply consered but also morbidly curious, especially since almost no security breaches have been discovered and when they are, they are delt with, especially during and after catastrophic wars.

Imagine the leader of your military being a well-known alcoholic but also hard carried your military during ww2.

His gambling addiction has gotten so out of hands that the commonwealth calls any place you gamble xyro Sponder, or in other terms, Xyros wallet. Whitch is accurate as he seacrely owns/influences most clubs and casinos in chagore and many in both humanitys boarders and even aliens homelands. Many casinos survive by closing that day.

Any time he needs money or wants money, he goes gambling and essentially robs the place, especially if he doesn't own it.

As far as anyone knows, the only place to survive and even beat Xyros at gambling is the largest man made casino in human history (blind sight), ran by a child hood freind who goes by the name silver skull after an accident whitch gave him a silver skull.

Now, while Xyros still goes gambling every now and then whenever he goes out, its done via false identities and while he'll use it to shift the timeline to one where chagore is in a better place but also one where the most amountvof people are happy without disturbing the business too much.

Tl;dr: skill issue -Xyros

On the planet of cythra, there are giant monsters called gravemaws. These are giant monsters that sleep for 20 years and wake up.

They look like a mix of a massive crocodile bear with rocky spikes. Manybon them having ecosystem on their backs while they sleep and move.

They spawn in massive egg sacks in the hundres and emerge all at once. When they hatch, they immediately eat anything and everything. This is to help build up their body foradulthoodd.

During this stage, they are often hunted and tamed by humans, limbermen, and native cytherians as guard dogs and mounts when old enough

During their teenage years, they go from a great dane size to house/spinosaurus size. This is the passengers where their form becomes solidified and they become one of 3 types.

Too many greens turn them into floral gravemaws. They are the smallest and weakest gravemaws. however they have a trick up their sleve thst makes them invaluable to most gravemaws. Thry get them high. They secret nurotoxen choking plants and animals alike, inducing intence hallucinations, seizures, and organ failure. Some variants have a toned down toxin that causes any who smell it to become addicted and codependent on it. In normal doses, its a nice, relaxing smell thar calms other gravemaws and makes them agreeable to the point of fetching food for them.

Ore/rock gravemaws are common and are what happens when they eat mostly rocks, meat, and trees. They are incredibly strong, used to burrowing and tunnelling. They have rocky skin and are incredibly muscular and strong, able to uproot trees the size of buildings with ease.

Thermal gravemaws are rare but extremely powerful and come in 2 types: burning and freezing

Burning gravemaws have consumed radioactive material or the programmable element called prometheum, which resulted in them exuding high amounts of heat and radiation. They are constantly overheated, hungry, and restless, able to shoot energy beams from their mouth or release energy pulses. Their most dangerous traits are the red mist. This happens because their blood is failing at heat regulation and turning to steam. When it touches the ground, it burns everything around it.

Freezing gravemaws is similar to burning gravemaws, but they freeze instead of burn. Instead of the red mist and shooting energy beams, they breath and sweat a substance that obsorbts almost all energy from its surroundings, creating a mini ice age around them and using their white mist to create blizards.

In this stage of their life, they transition from eating almost anything to elder trees and anything around their size, including each other.

In their adulthood, they become the size of a building and can threaten fortified cities. The reason why they attack cities is due to the large amounts of electromagnetic signatures that are similar to the elder trees. As a result, they go to cities believing that food is there and feeding on buildings and reactors.

During this phase, the larger they get, the sleepier they get to the point of sleeping for moths at a time.

Elder gravemaws are bigger, stronger, more powerful, but also the sleepier. This is because they expend more and more energy than reasonable and try to sleep it off. Aside from cannibalism and elderyrees, they will shovel anything into their mouth, leaving the ground unusable. Elder trees are theor primatly food scorce and constantly keep them alive.

During this stage, they sleep for around 20 or so years to conseve energy and are active for 2-4 years. Most of the time, they die in their sleep peacefully due to collapsing under their own weight. But not for all of them.

Karthul, the world eater, had consumed a peace of coruim, the programmable element prometheum is derived from. Not only was Karthul extremely powerful from a young age, but he was also stronger and more energetic even as the second largest elder alive. He survived orbital bombardment, deep sea pressure, and survived any and all weapons humanity could muster. In retaliation, he cut the moon in half and caused a storm that lasted 15 years and counting from a single energy blast. He can also fly by using hollowed out wounds across his body to propelled himself and has control over the red mist.

Tarrasque is an ore/rock gravemaw that constantly regenerates and digs tunnels through the planet, eating anything that falls into its mouth, sleeping gravemaws, and gravemaws eggs. He also frequents cities and populated centres.

Glacia is another thermal gravemaw. The thing that sets her aside is the fact that she frequently antagonise Karthul, only to lay on top of him. Most gravemaws panic and run from Karthul due to his destructive presence. Frost is the only gravemaw to actively chase him across continents. In addition, frost has addictive elements from floral gravemaws within her emissions, which is theorised as to why Karthul tolerates her.

Despite their destructive actions, leaving entire countries barron of all life, thet serve many important roles.

If elder trees become too wide sprsd, the plant live will become more hostile and manipulate to the point of brainwashing animals.

Their poo is incredibly good for reviving dead lands and are sold as a high-grade fertiliser

Their bodies can also create new biomass that will last a long time and revive dead habitats

Their bodies are being studied and copied in machinery.

The white mist is used as a coolant for products

The red and white mist respectively act as climate control

Baby gravemaws can be trained as loyal pets with pigmy gravemaws acting as guard/hunting dogs without having them grow big.

Their hyper regeneration is reasereched for medicin.

On today's episode of why we can't have nice things{

Breaking the biological rules and regulations

Mutants and monsters

Playing the numbers game

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Mixing with other races is a touchy subject. By and large, you'd stick with your own kind, but that doesn't mean that everyone abides by the same rules. For many, as long as you are sapient, of clear body and mind and of legal age, then you're in the clear. As a result, inter species relationships are usually seen in large cities where aliens of all varieties coexist with little to no children.

Due to the galactic slave trade and their inquisitive nature, humans are ome of the most widely spread species in the galaxy and, as a result, are the second most common species to marry between species. The biggest struggle is that both parties may want children but are unable to or can't produce healthy/viable children. As a result, black market flesh-smiths are usually consulted to build a child with the best features of the parents with minimum heath risks.

However, the race with the most inter-species relations is xeno-mixus.

Xeno-mixus is a shapeshifting race of aliens who take features from other species and adaptations from their homeworld they mysteriously show up on. A theory states that they, like babrogins(red space orks), spead via fungal spores and hitchhike travelling ships. They are the most numerous race in the entire galaxy, with research into other galaxy's indicating that the entire universe is full of them. Part of the reason everyone can agree why they are so numerous is that they can have viable offspring with virtually anyone, are good parents, are hermaphrodites and are polyamorous. This results in fact population explosions in a very short time. This has been a blessing(humans nearly wipe an alien race from existence but the xeno-mixus protectrd them and helped repopulate) and a curse(the great replacement theory and solar systems with large amosts of them usualy explode or cese to exist). While many in the galaxy are suspicious of them, they can't exactly remove them from powet as they have lots of power in the galactic counsel and are numerous in many nations.

Another race with similar traits are Gamorites, a faction of humans comprised of earths rich and most powerful people who were evacuated when earth was attacked and landed on the planet of gamora and modified themselves to become super human. When they were added to the United Systems of Earth, they quickly asserted themselves into the leadership position of multiple nations and important structures. During humanitys expansion and conquest of the milky way, they took many aliens into seacret black sites and were never seen again. They also believed that when mankind was at its peak that God would come down from heaven and usher an age of enlightenment where believers and those of their lineage would either merge with or ascend to heaven They enjoyed their dominance over humanity and their parasitic rise for over 10k years and would have seen whether or not their prophecy was true.

If not for 2 things:

The milky way exploding and merging with the andromada galaxy

And chagore existing

Chagore is a feudal copratocracy that has been supplying humanity with weapons, communications, ftl travel, resources, etc. While they also genetically modify themselves, its for specialisation and practical reasons, e.g., shaggies are humans from tundra planets, have thick white hairs and black skin, cold bloods live on a desert planet, have olive/black skin and are cold blooded, dwarves are short and stocky as they live in mountains and/or high gravity planets. They are also infamous for being both unified but incredibly arrogant and intolerant with foreigners. Whenever Gamorites immigrated to chagore, their culture and beliefs were not accepted and were typically suck in ghettos whenever they didn't fully assimilat and were rarely given position of power outside their communities Especially since they were infamous for nepotism.

The Gamorites and chagorans were constantly wrestling for power over humanity with Gamorites, who have already made a strong foothold and chagorans supplying humanity with any and all products and resources

After the war with the galaxy ended, chagoran spies in gamora discovered that the structure of their largest temple was constructed from the skill of a giant creature that constantly leaked blood. They also discovered why Gamorites share a resemblance to xeno-mixui. At that, the imperator of chagore ordered their extinction. Within a month, their home system were quarentined and glassed, and many Gamorites accross humanity were assassinated or killed in violent mobs after chagore leaked their findings. Due to the genetic similarities, chagore also released a plague that targeted them almost exclusively.

The result was the near complete collapse of society accros the galaxy as many people in charge were Gamorites or had relations with them. If chagore not stepped in to fill in much of the power vacume, the USE would have collapsed entirely.

Ever since, what little of the Gamorites remain remain in hiding in small pockets.

Other races that can mix with others are the 3 ancient races, the chitin and the primordians with condition

Giants: can but almost never meet with anyone other than their own. At best, they'd look at you like you were a caveman or from a third world. At worst, you're an animal.the times they intract with humans if to contract them for pest control.

Draconians: this is to boost their numbers and diversity their lineage. If you do sleep with one, you are branded by the dragons heritage and are now slave the draconian who you slept with.

Low class draconians (humanoid dragons): Yes, but they'll live as a slive in a slumb with other low class draconians who don't think too highly of anyone else.

Upper class draconians (dragons) : Yes, but you'll have to deal with their other concubines/suitors who'll kill you for power or to remove as a threat

Kenesions(telepathic and telekinetic blobs): Yes, but you'll likely never know as Kenesions like to play with lesser civilisations like it's a real-time tomodachi.

Chitin(adaptive insectoids): yes, they can and have made a variant of chitin every species there come accross

Promodians(cat people, bird people, dog people, fish people): yes, bit these are biologically simlar to donkeys, ligers and tigrons. They are mostly sterile and prone do diseases but can live long and healthy live and have children of their own.

On tonights episode of why everything is messed up:

Famous last word's oops

Reactor 1-7 goes critical

Humanity: worlds most qualified hypocrites

Nuclear matereal: one bite, and your smile will be glowing

And a lesson on reading the WHOLE THING and not just the how to.

Corium is a programmable element used by humanity for a variety of things but is extreamy volatile and powerful, so it was diluted into prometheum.

Prometheum is used in almost every sector of human civilisation. From engineering, fabricator, transportation, and today's topic energy.

At the anniversary of a prometheum reactor that has reliably supplied reliable and clean energy for many, the manager of it rudolph olfa gave a tour of the reactor and how it worked. To prove it was safe, he striped to his swim shorts, drank from the reactors coolant water, and eats a chunk of the reactor on live tv for the entire galaxy to see.

At the same time, a shapeshifting, race of aliens called xeno-mixus, built their own reactor and were turning it on.

To clarify an important detail, humans and Corium have gone hand in hand eversince they united to form the USE (united systems of earth) and even before that. The galaxy had banned the use of corium as it was unpredictable and volatile, but after humanity used it to beat the snot out of the entire galaxy, many seacrely began trying to havest coruim for themselves.

The xeno-mixus, in this case, found schematics for a ship capable of ftl travel and used its design to make their own reactor. This failed for a number of reasons but used the wrong elements, using unstable coruim and not prometheum, using too much iron, overcharging the reactor with electricity.

As a result the reactor exploded, the sky turned red and rained blood( iron that was liquifyed in the detonation), and briefly opend a hole into another dimension where its residents, aberations, we're violently sucked in, scared, confused and sick.

After getting scolded by the galactic counsel, they commissioned humanity to go fix it. Humanity sent their best team for this: mobile tast force: magnum radium. Specialising in interdimensional rifts, aberation containment, and relocation and disposal of corium and its decadence.

magnum radium got to work, sending drones to catch corium in the atmosphere and dropped from orbit to get to the site ASAP. They contained and relocated the aberations, neutralised and captured the coruim, and evacuated any of the living they could find.

The area remained irradiated for centuries, and all of the staff suffered radiation poisoning with few surviving and those in charge of the construction of the reactor.