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Orangutans were originally an arboreal species of apes indigenous to Asia, Old Earth, where they lived in the trees of rainforests.
They were semi-solitary, living alone or in small family groups (a female and her offspring). Males were large, up to 120 kg, but females weighed about 40 kg as adults. Both sexes were covered in long orange hair; the males developed beards, moustaches, and broad cheek pouches at maturity. They lived primarily on fruit, though they did also take some soft vegetation such as new leaves, flowers, and the inner bark of trees. They became extinct in the wild due to poaching and habitat destruction during the early Information Age, but were maintained in breeding colonies. They were successfully provolved during the late Information Age. It is thought that GAIA may have lazurogened the baseline species, even though there have been no unambiguous sightings by pilgrims to Old Earth. The largest confirmed "wild" populations of orangutans are found at Ao Lai.Generic term for medium-sized to very large self-contained space habitat or biosphere, usually in L4 or L5 (see Lagrange Points) position relative to a planet, moon, or double star, although conventional satellite orbits are sometimes used as well.
OrbitalHistorically, any of the nation states or free habitats in planetary orbit (generally (Interplanetary and early Federation Age), used to refer to Earth orbit only, later came to designate orbital nation states in any planetary system)
Large terragen toothed-whale.
Information that fits a purpose, or is in some way teleological
Order
In the Linnean system of nomenclature, the taxonomic rank between class and family.
Second period of the Paleozoic era, Earth.
Membrane-enclosed organ within a living (terragen or xenobiont) or artificially created (bionano) cell
Philosophy according to which the universe and all things in it constitute a complex synergetic whole that cannot be reduced to its component parts. Popular in the Zoeific Biopolity, parts of the Utopia Sphere and Sophic League, and and among many biocentric clades
Science that deals with the study, creation, and synthesis of hydrocarbon compounds, including those that make up the building blocks of life
[ Lambda Serpentis VI] One of the main Cyberian Centers, with a vast computronium infrastructure
more Cyberia infiltrator AI clan.
more One of the names for the archailect Enremdeaorion, the overdeity of the Orion Federation
the spiral arm of our galaxy in which is found the Inner Sphere and Middle Regions. Also called the Local Arm
the multiclade civilisation established by Humanity in the Orion arm of the Milky Way Galaxy; it now encompasses several xenosophont (alien) species and many provolved and artificial species, as well as very advanced artificial intelligences called archailects.
Major archailectocratic trade empire, ruled by the archailect Enremdeaorion, the Orion Federation emerged in the aftermath of the Version War and the ComEmp. It is the youngest of the major central empires, and still largely an outsider in interstellar politics.
more Vast nebula located some 1500 LY from Sol, known since the Information age to be an active source of star, brown dwarf, and planetary formation. The many young hot stars and vast regions of interstellar dust and gas make this an attractive area for many unusual clades and civilizations. Currently a central part of the Orion Federation
Utopia Sphere world with a large animant population, it remains a center of Splice Church of Universalism.
more mytho-religious system characterized by a mythopoetic quasi-romanticism (longing for an idealist neoprim pre-singularity Old Earth)
Based on the "Velvet Series" of interactives of the Late Interstellar Empires superbright fabulist To Lerik, hereditary oligarchy, psycho-phenotypic augmentation and modification along the lines of the Seven Sacred Races (Farhu, Tirin, Nencer, Darimor, Kroll, Ileani, and Tentari), and a cyclic dualistic cosmology. Their ruling ai are called Fhilari, Vilari, Milari, (the Stareni are picoavatars of the latter in humanoid form), which in turn could be considered subroutines of a larger archailect named Neridu. Produced the famous and quite addictive Adagalaxy ("First Galaxy") series of Adventure Interactives, adapted from a popularised and gamegeneered interpretation of the last four volumes of the "Velvet Series". At its height in the early Second Federation era the cult boasted three billion devotees, mostly doctrinally tweaked neb and splice, and a smattering of neogen and bioborgs. Their traditional headquarters is in the large and verdant Teirgent Orbital, Nuimimas, Terran Federation. Total number of followers galaxywide is approximately 51 million, more than half of whom live in Teirgent Orbital, and a quarter elsewhere in Nuimimas. See also Neotolerikerismcentral system of the Chronos Cluster, formerly an powerful regional superpower, still an important cultural, academic, and trade center.
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Dyson tree forest ecosystem, especially one that constitutes a stable or evolutionary space-based biota, with or without symbiotic sentient (human, neogen, etc) interaction
graphic by Todd Drashner, text by M. Alan KazlevAI-governed autopic Utopia Sphere world famous (or notorious) for the invention of Pourmurmide, to which most of the populace still remains addicted
Bionano wetware that goes in and out of fashion across the nexus, but is especially popular among biont sapients of the Fiarro Twinworlds (Argelander Sector, NoCoZo), Nova Terra, and elsewhere. The smart pharmaceuticals and virus-sized bionanites may be applied by dermpatches, cosmetics, ingested, or inhaled. Once inside the body they make their way to the centers of the brain that control behaviour and sense of personal identity. The encoded persona is then absorbed into the psyche, causing temporary (depending on how the paint was programmed and its potency) personality modification and occasionally (where the wetware is incompatible with the user's psychological profile) psychotic reaction. Although Face Paint is widely used throughout the civilized galaxy, the bionts of the Fiarro Twinworlds have made its application into a real art
