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    Thread: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams
Post: RE: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams

Also the NoCoZo grants their citizens as many freedoms as any other Sephirotic. I’ve honestly never once been able to understand all the criticisms of the NoCoZo, all Sephirotics have post scarcity au...
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 106 Yesterday, 04:20 AM
    Thread: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams
Post: RE: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams

I was brainstorming on the discord to effectively turn the Seams into a sort of non-aligned zone that is majority modosophont-ruled. Currently in the setting it’s very transapient-centric, and so show...
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 106 Yesterday, 04:11 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Synanotech feels like an antiquated term to me as well. I’d personally be okay removing it entirely (or just making it into a historical term).
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-17-2025, 02:27 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Macrystis’ system is going to have multiple polities under Caretaker Gods protection that operate exclusively as xenoprovolves, so I’d like the term to persist even if it’s just a sub-category.
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-16-2025, 05:34 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

I don’t have a ton of preferences, though on the current Sophonts meta-article xenosophonts of all types are in their own section. We don’t have to keep it that way but it might make sense for it to s...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-16-2025, 05:25 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Sorry for the double post but I forgot to mention that I also favor splice over rianth as a class. Conceptually rianths make sense to 21st Century readers since we don’t have any physical transhumanis...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-16-2025, 05:03 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

I think the above looks great, Liam! The extremophile group (I think they’d be a class under your system) is one I think may be relevant to add, and it can potentially apply to hylomorphs as well for ...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-16-2025, 05:01 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Just popped in to say a couple minor things:  1) I’m particularly drawn to the ideas Todd and Liam put forward here. Rheomorphs being a completely different phenomenon than clades allows us to “hav...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-15-2025, 05:55 AM
    Thread: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams
Post: RE: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams

Luckily the actual Seams article is not that long so I can get to work tweaking it for a draft this weekend. I have no idea how to format correctly for the article or data panel but I’m sure there’s r...
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 106 03-15-2025, 12:37 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Just occurred to me also if this is the case then identifying which clades definitely should be removed/worked in as sub-clades in existing articles may be important. Also I had a suggestion for sopho...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-14-2025, 06:40 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Given everything that’s being tossed around then would a reformatting of the sophonts main page be the most helpful? The primary groups in the bottom info box can be pruned to select only the most imp...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-14-2025, 06:38 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Given that this thread has stalled multiple times I had thought it lost all steam and no one wanted to have a go at actually updating anything, which goes along with what you’re saying Liam. I for one...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-14-2025, 02:52 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Tbf we’re trying to streamline clades and remove excess unnecessary ones. This proposal seems to add back a bunch of categories that we’ve long decided are generally unnecessary and could be better pl...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-14-2025, 12:51 AM
  -Needs Revision Thread: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams
Post: Rewrite and Expansion of The Seams

Hello all, I’ve been considering for a while now that The Seams do not fit with the ideologies that the Sephirotics espouse at all, and that this polity should be updated to better reflect that dis...
Banelord Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 106 03-13-2025, 02:47 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

I am once again posting to necro this thread in case folks would like to continue finalizing updated and standardized cladistic terms. Based on what conclusions we’d come to by posts 163, 165, and ...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 287 3,503 03-13-2025, 02:33 AM
    Thread: Garden Worlds article adjustments
Post: RE: Garden Worlds article adjustments

I just need to say that the reason I didn’t apologize is because I did not think I did anything worth apologizing over. On further reflection if I spuriously accused you of smuggling a concept in and ...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 133 1,608 08-11-2024, 08:28 AM
    Thread: Garden Worlds article adjustments
Post: RE: Garden Worlds article adjustments

Liam you have made I and others at least as uncomfortable as I have made you, there is no reason to stoke flames here because I don’t want to make the job of administration more taxing and in truth I’...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 133 1,608 08-11-2024, 06:15 AM
    Thread: Garden Worlds article adjustments
Post: RE: Garden Worlds article adjustments

For the record I only support ~10-20 natural panspermia events from a gas giant moon to the parent atmosphere. I also don’t support these becoming garden worlds, at least not until that is actually ju...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 133 1,608 08-11-2024, 05:11 AM
    Thread: Garden Worlds article adjustments
Post: RE: Garden Worlds article adjustments

Wait Liam you just sidestepped the entire thing we just agreed upon and acted like it was okay. As far as I knew Steve and I had an understanding about only panspermia and not garden worlds either. If...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 133 1,608 08-11-2024, 05:05 AM
    Thread: Garden Worlds article adjustments
Post: RE: Garden Worlds article adjustments

Do you have any issues with us expanding the importance of the Jacks over time, while simultaneously keeping the other xeno civs as background societies as well? We’ve been really wanting to make the ...
Banelord General Setting Discussion 133 1,608 08-11-2024, 02:55 AM