#aurora nation

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At this tropical beach during the autumn season, sweet polyp algae fruit bloom while in the rock-like corals at the edge of the sea. The toddler twins and cousins of two siblings find a coral loaded with them during the low tide, not caring that their new colorful flowing armings are being ripped to shreds as they dig into the tight jagged chambers.

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Have their even any attempts b the nedel to modify a non sapient species to sapience

Are their any more extremist smazel break offs that are reproducing at a higher rate to destroy the old empire

how do sophont here react to each others opinions of ai such as delorix not giving theirs rights.

have any attempts to make a self replicating swarm of machines to harvest resources been made

Have the smazel been emboldened by the fact that destroying stars releases gas and thereby slows the fusion of hydrogen ,and releases gas to form new stars and planets in kind of a truth in their behaviour

I'll answer the fourth one first! The zorble have made the most use out of self replicating machine technology, mainly in the form of robotics remotely colonizing space bodies to mine for resources to build more robotics to send into space to colonize more space bodies to mine for more resources, rinse and repeat. The main goal of this robotics program is to produce and launch as many new space probes into the cosmos to look for more life in the galaxy and in the neighboring galaxies such as those in the Laniakia supercluster.

Each cycle of robots colonizing a space body and launching new parentships to seed new worlds with machines and probes to explore space is called a generation. And since the zorble have been running this program for over a millennium, some generations have gone up in the hundreds and sired billions of probes. This speed of work is thanks to these parentships and probes operating at faster than light space travel, unlike organic sophants who travel through space using the more secure wormhole gates.

Despite this being a totally remote operation, because they were built by the highly social zorble, complex Aurorean robots are built to be social with each other, and many of them remotely connect to the quantum galactic internet to chat with each other and with the organic sophants. Usually the zorble, but often other species as well. Probes in particular are especially highly regarded by many zorble, having celebrity status among them for their entertaining personalities, riveting storytelling, philosophical takes, or skills in video games.

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This solar system is the main setting for the spaceship alien roommates Rutan, Vertex and Donelja. This is a draft I've been working on the past few months that's set in stone for the most part, but potentially could get some future adjustments. The planets don't quite have names yet.

To put the image summary in text: The Spectrum Solar System is the home to Rutan, Vertex and Donelja. It orbits a main sequence star that’s a bit larger and hotter than Earth’s Sun, and exists within the nebula where both galaxies of Broken Yolk impact. It’s a colony system with a higher population and sophant diversity than the average system due to having two Goldilocks zone planets, easily terraformable moons, and an abundance of metals to mine from two asteroid belts. Many immigrate here from neighboring systems into terrestrial or space colonies to enjoy the system’s abundant resources and rich multicultural societies.

A Rhodo Nation-inhabited sol system rich in resources often has continentoids, which are dwarf planet sized supermegafauna bioengineered by Rhodo scientists, because populating the universe with as much life as possible is a common and prominent core value of theirs. They are mostly found in the Goldilocks zone orbit or closer, in order to maximize access to starlight for photosynthesis. There are unique species in this system, and they’re the charismatic face of this system to the wider galactic community :)

For the trio of roommates, they usually take their ship to and from the Rhodo Nation colony to one of the Igneous Nation moons for Donelja's masaka taxon environmental conservation work. They also make trips to the Aurora Nation for reasons I'm not totally sure of besides Rutan likes traveling in it's metropolitan cities. Vertex mostly tags along complaining the whole time and wanting to hoard knick knacks.

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@austintrashman

The most notable characteristic of the delorix homeworld: Rhodo, named after their red plants, is that it's tidally locked, normally this would mean extreme temperature difference across the planet, but an active atmosphere with heavy winds manages to distribute their stars' heat enough to harbor a wide diversity of organisms.

The masaka homeworld: Igneous (I misspelled it on the image), is a very warm world named after its volcanic activity and rocks used in blacksmithing. It's notably dry throughout most its surface, save for a single large ocean on one side, a region humid enough for rain forests to naturally grow around it. Another notable characteristic is the north side temperate and arctic red desert, which gets chilly at the lowest during winter.

The colder planet of the nedal homeworld: Aurora, named after the magnetic field activity seen widely from the temperate to polar regions, is primarily surfaced with oceans and continents carpeted in blue grasslands, with pockets of forest.

I wanted the zrai homeworld: Venous, named after the rivers that many zrai populate that look vein-like from an ariel view, to have continent-sized lagoons but that would probably require planet-busting levels of volcanic activity, so I'm now opting for an ocean planet speckled in normal-sized islands and lagoons.

The smazel homeworld was blown up at the climactic end of a religious crusade centuries before they encountered the other alien nations, and since they kept no empirical records of their "sinful" planet, scientists and historians from the other alien species can only infer what it was like based on smazel physiology and their mythologies recounting what it was like, which was apparently violently volcanic and desolate.

I still don't know what kind of stars they orbit yet, and these planets may get adjustments as I gain a better understanding of geology and cosmology.