Isotope

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@Shorticus
Their version of antipersonnel weapons are massive (yet-unnamed) bombs used to scorch significant percentages of a planet.

War with or among my Collective is something quite unlike what you would expect from literally every other species, at the least the X'cor have use for slaves. The mats do not.

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Alphalpha?

On another note working on a wip, but to get a sense of things to come know that my microbial mat things will be expanding in every direction voraciously.

They do this to keep the peace of course, albeit a peace without any of the original inhabitants of their new territory.

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ಠ_ಠ

On another note i'll have a WIP soon.

The Collective shall be weird in all your faces.

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I mean, biologically the mat is going to have a hell of a time influencing alien life.

I'd wager it's totally impossible unless the biology of the alien is closely related or miraculously similar. To date when a new mat is introduced to a planet it quickly supplants the local life, utterly devastating the native ecosystem if not eradicating it. After this imported flora and fauna take up on the new mat, effectively meaning my primary species is a terraforming agent.

Now I feel the need to clarify something, only my 'critters' are intelligent, that is only one species that lives on the mat has evolved to use the mat symbiotically to gain an edge in smarts. The other life forms living on my planets and off the mats are not symbiotically influenced, but rather parasitically influenced. While this parasitic influence is largely harmless, it does instill in animal life an instinctual need to protect the mat.

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Only one sort of 'critter' will gain enough to be intelligent (as in making ships) from consuming the mat, but yes theoretically everything that feeds off it would have some sort of aggressive reaction to it coming under attack.

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A nation with ships yes, but understandably one with a collective psyche perpetually at odds with much of the galaxy.

An 'individual' in my nation would be a massive microbial mat and everything that feeds on it, meaning it's entirely possible for a planet to describe its population as four even as it houses billions of critters. The critters themselves are distinct, but they are constantly under the influence of the mat mind and thus cannot be properly called individuals with free will.

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@Isotope Sounds interesting :)

So these little critters are controlling the minds of the larger animals on their homeworld? Or did I interpret that wrong?

@Sigma

You got it a bit wrong ye.

Microbial mats can be enormous, as in covering a continent large. So the 'intelligent' species of my nation is as close to a conventional sapient as they are to geographic features.

As for the critters, they will be a species that feeds off the microbial mat (which is much like a giant brain) and by doing so the mat infiltrates their system and upon infecting the brain grants them some semblance of intelligence. It isn't mind control, and it isn't telepathic, but the symbiotic mat in the critter brain IS connected to the original mat in that both entities will share a similar personality with like minded goals. So while the critter and mat are distinct, if the critter stops eating the mat they become braindead, and if they continue to eat it the thoughts of the mat will continually influence their own.

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I hereby call sentient microbial mats that coat significant portions of their planets and advance via symbiotic semi intelligent creatures that require said mats to survive by sapping nutrients from them.

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Hm.

You have my tentative interest.

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