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Zinfal

a moderate (~50 kg) subsophont with no aggressive tendencies.

Their primary claim to fame is their extremely potent and broad-applicability hallucinogenic and opiate-like perspirations. Most beings, sophont or subsophont, coming into physical contact with zinfal tend to become massively addicted in very short periods of time. Many small clades have 'gained' one or more zinfal and rapidly converted their economy to the production and protection of their herd. It is unclear quite where the zinfal hale from, but various sentients (mostly hylovecs, due to their innate resistance to such biochemical stimulus) investigating the zinfal state that there appears to be significant genetic engineering behind their creation. It is also noted as anomalous that most instances of zinfal infestation appear to have a very similar meme structure amongst the symbiotic sophonts. There is no clear meme vector for such a spread amongst the many disparate clades so afflicted.

John B

Zipper

small cutting device for opening the amazingly-resilient packaging materials common in OA - monomolecular edge, nanoserrations, goo, etc.

John B

posthuman biont avatar known only as Zoe (or sometimes The Living One) who first appeared in Hibbert Orbital, Cis-Jove, in In 1874 a.t..

Her strongly Biocentric teaching, which incorporated a subtle mix of animistic and pantheistic mysticism, pragmatism, genetekkerese biotranshumanism, hedonics, and libertarianism, became the ideology around which the Zoeific Biopolity developed.

M.Alan Kazlev

Zoea

Polymorphic psychophysical organism or bioshell that serves as the fundamental transapient template within the Zoeific Biopolity.

Usually incorporate bionano, bionanopico, or bionanopicofemto, psychophysical organism or bioshell that serves as the fundamental didactic, artistic, scientific, administrative, missionary, companion, or transapient citizen, within the Zoeific Biopolity.

Zoei

Life-force, ch'i, also life as a sacred principle. A central concept in Zoeticism.

Zoeific Biopolity

Interstellar Biont Empire centered around the ascended Zoe of Hibbert

Zoeticism

Major biocentrist memeticity established throughout much of the Zoeific Biopolity. The roots of Zoeticist doctrine go back to Zoe of Hibbert's own teachings, but there have been innumerable additions and developments since.

Zooeum

combination of a museum with a zoo, an educational, edutainment, and/or preservation center with both live exhibits and collections in stasis from all over the galaxy.

Various specialised zooeums include the Zooeum of Heroes; the Historical Zooeum Society stocked with lazurogened life; Medieval Zooeums stocked with chimera-spliced beasties such as chimera and manticore and the like; the Zooeum of Political Life, complete with your favorite assassination series recreated in both 'factual' and 'true' versions (including parts recycled between shows); and many many more.

M.Alan Kazlev and John B

Zoology

The scientific study of animal life, generally terragen or terragen derived, but often also xenobiont animal analogues.

Zoology embraces a diverse range of topics, including the ecology, ethnology and behavior, evolution, genetics, life cycles, morphology, physiology, taxonomy, and interrelationships of animals. For the most part zoology deals with animals that have evolved naturally (whether on Earth or on planetary and space habitats and terraformed post-expulsion), although Applied Zoology and Neogenics may deal with artificially created species. There are also specialized fields of study according to the particular taxon, including mammals (mammalogy), birds (ornithology), amphibians and reptiles (herpetology), fish (ichthyology), insects (entomology), spiders and mites (arachnology), mollusks (malacology), protozoa (protozoology), parasites (parasitology), extinct animals (palaeozoology), neogenic animals (neogenology), and non-terragen animal-like forms (xenozoology)

modified by M.Alan Kazlev from the original write-up by Robert J. Hall

zooplankton

tiny animals that float passively in the water as part of the plankton. Zooplankton feed on phytoplankton, and are in turn food for larger aquatic organisms. An important part of the marine ecology of any terragen and terragen-type ecosystem.

Zoosplice

gengineered terragen animal neospecies made from integration of two or more species.

M. Alan Kazlev

Zybal Manta

location of the Amacrine Cloud, an important example of a transingularity Perfect Art accessible to subsingularity beings.

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