Strata

So Human, us Goos, Hrutxcan, N’mob, even Ouinhed – these are samples of Hot Carbon species. Liquid water. Some compatibility in foods, some compatibility in poisons, no guarantees.

There are also cold carbon species. Liquid methane temperatures. Good trading partners, very suspicious if you mention altering contracts. But what, your year on planet Saturn is 30 on earth? Think on these terms. The things they make as hobbies would take a lifetime, but we are much better at selling them as consignment. Provided we don’t let them melt. Get a materials list.

There also the Silicate species. High temperature, stuff you wouldn’t know as liquids. Really their are two good trades there – purified metals, and romances. The later has some wierd translation conventions, you might imagine, and a few are fine for retranslation back. Don’t ever offer glassblowing books. Too close to necrophilia.

Or maybe its like old bad taxadermy? Carbons ignore self evident details of the work. I don’t pretend I fully understand it.

Silicates and hot carbon trade networks usually don’t mix, partially because some correlation to standard sequence stars. Though encounters are generally respectful if they happen, if only in self preservation.

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There is nothing like “glowing beings of pure energy” like your science fiction likes. If you want to say computer programs… I am fairly sure the Plyd would object to meaningful consciousness there. Its a dice role of intents there, if not explicitly the intent of the programmers.

Living crystals – let me tell you. Its said – rumored – if a Goo avoids having kidlings too long, all the stiffness of old age locks them into being a crystal. And at best that’s like. Zombies and mummy levels of being alive. It does not make sense at scale, biologically.

Hive minds? What you call hive mind on you planet is a very good script with many chemical cues. Or you would call a goo a hivve mind, whether you say its radio or psychic communication. As a society… You know lag, on the internet, right? How well do you think a species would do if it had to put up with lag for meaningful decisions?

Machine – do you mean ai with body, or…

Pure machine. Same lag issue. Vacumn tube. Scale makes inefficient. Possibly durable, but inefficient.

Aquatic… You have not seen n’mob. Recent aquatic. Need to be in air to develop large scale metalwork.

Gas giants… Too windy. Nothing like nursery. Need a place where one can grow.

A silicate goo species? Not that I know of. To be fair, Silicate chemistry is much more limited than carbon chemistry. More fragile. Extra electron shell. It doesn’t lock in as well as carbon. Silicates need relatively thick structues for temperature regulation, as I understand.



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