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Zoea
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Zoea may be of any standard form - humanoid, insectoid, planktonoid, amoeboid, phytoid - or of no particular form. They can also change forms, exchange bionano and ultratech with other zoea by means of pili (exuded tendrils), exopods (additional limbs), pheromones, or tightbeam EM or sonics, or more often a combination of several or all media. They can also mate and merge with any Biopolity technology of their toposophic or lower, and any higher toposophic technology for which there are the appropriate ports and interfaces. But whatever their gross morphology, almost all have an "alien", slimy, spiny appearance that can be unsettling to bionts from other sephirotics that have not been memetopsychically acclimatised to their presence.
The zoeatic bioshell is too complex to be operated by any modosophont; for this reason zoea indicate the presence of transapient beings.
In terms of numbers, most zoea are of the basic transapient (First Toposophic) bionano form (with only a few standard additional transapientech augments), but there are also Second Toposophic, Third Toposophic, and even distributed megastructure Fourth Toposophic-based zoea, such as form the bodies and psychophysiologies and/or avatars of Lifegivers and other intermediate toposophic Minds. Higher biopolity archailects will also manifest frequently through SI:3 or higher zoea avatarforms, or use these as remotes or seraiph.
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[1] Term for a Zoeific Biopolity Power or Archai (equivalent to "My Lord", "Blessed One" etc.)
[2] Polite/respectful term for a Zoeific hyperturing
[3] Formal respectful Zoeific term for a superior - equivalent to "Zar" ("Sir"), "Highness" etc. - Zoeticism
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Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 08 March 2003.
Initially published on 08 March 2003.
