eldrae
A DOUBLE ANCESTRY: MAPPING ELDRAEIC GREENLIFE GENETIC ANCESTRY FROM PRIMORDIAL PSEUDOELDRAE ARCHAEA CORDANE RÚÄDHA Academy of Genomic Archaeology FĂä Eredhech, High DaĂ«ntry, Llorallin <CYAN GLISSANDO IN B FLAT> Information-Bearing Molecular Mechanics Lab, Self-Replicating Carbonics Interest Group, Well ElĂeran, AdĂrdis, Tessil (Galari Trinary) KĂŤRA HORĂšKAMĂŤ Underside Institute of Genetic
Lonely Galaxy
Some comments excerpted from an early edition of “The Lonely Galaxy® Unofficial Guide to Working with the Empire’s People”: General * Augmentation is a way of life in Imperial space, and there are probably millions of different augmentations on the market. Do not rely on knowing what one of them
worldbuilding
Random thought: Do eldrae sleep? Yes, except for a few unconventionally modified clades. Specifically, it’s necessary in order to dream – because bio-brains get very unhappy when they don’t get their maintenance downtime. The nowline doesn’t need as much as the baseline (being quite happy to sustain three
eldrae
Something that came up over on G+ – in the course of discussing how many pre-spaceflight eldrae are still around (answer: lots, even if you discount the deep-submergence infomorphs and Transcendent afterlife, and even if some of them spent a while as frozen heads) – which I repeat here for general edification:
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The Ageless: Mature eldrae, galari, and anyone else who possesses the Lesser Immortality, such as everyone the aforementioned has sold immortagens to recently. See Immortality.
worldbuilding
Terence Wynne asks: I wanted to ask about Eldraeic teeth. Okay, so I’ve got to ask… are you a dentist? Or otherwise in the tooth-wrangling professions, whatever others of those there may be? (I ask because this is a very unexpected question, and I’m a little weirded out
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Statuesque Stunner: Average height of the Eldrae is 6′ 8″ to 7′ 8″, for both sexes. (And, of course, transsophont beauty is built right into the genes.) Everyone qualifies – or rather would, if they were around humans, and not too much like The Fair Folk.
biology
Gabriel Fonseca asks if there’s anywhere that contains detailed physical descriptions of the various species of the Eldraeverse. Well, sadly, there isn’t right now, but for your visualizing pleasure, here’s some descriptions of most of the ones I’ve mentioned recently, anyway: Ciseflish In their home environment,
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Proud Scholar Race Guy: The eldrae might well wear this hat among the Imperials – after all, they do love knowledge – had they not run into the galari, who, in the closest thing to a hat that I intend to appear, are entirely qualified as Proud Scholar Race… ah, Crystals. Subverted
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Overly-Long Name: Played quite straight among the eldrae, and other people prone to use relevant bits of the same name-format. Fortunately, most of it is optional – of course, that’s optional at the discretion of the name-bearer, so those wishing to use the diplomatic stalling gambit of demanding to be
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Of The People: Possibly averted. While the species name eldrae (which means nothing, except etymologically) is derived from the proto-Old-Empires el daratha, “the People”, that was not a tribe term, but rather a species term, in opposition to everything else, literally meaning “the thinking ones”. Compare, for example, modern el
eldrae
I’m posting this one out of order, mostly because I’m finding more and more coming up in the list that reference it – the psychological differences between the eldrae, and indeed the Imperial, on the street and the humanity we’re used to and their effects on their sense