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Zoea
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Polymorphic 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. All have a nanobiological micro-macrobody, which is - especially in the case of intermediate toposophics - enfused with Lifegiver and zoeific archailectual pico- and femtodevices and augmentation
Zoea may be of any standard form - humanoid, insectoid, planktonoid, ameoboid, phytoid, etc - 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), pheronomes, 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 approriate 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 aclimatised to their presence.
The zoeatic bioshell is too complex to be operated by any S<1 sapient; for this reason zoea indicate the presence of transapient Minds
In terms of numbers, most zoea are of the basic transapient (S1) bionano form (with only a few standard additional pico-augments), but there are also S2, S3, and even S4 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 S3 or higher zoea avatarforms, or use these as remotes or seraiph.