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Many different creatures emerged on a planet with two suns and eight-shaped orbit. All they were modular, sponge-like animals which could far more easily (with some limits) reconstruct their bodyplan. So it became not much of a deviation that a quasi-humanoid sophont emerged here.

Being just modules, they could reconstruct themselves more on their liking, so just a few thousand years later appeared different subspecies which sometimes were resembling some animals of the planet with some specialization towards tool use and speech. Taxonomy definitely would be messy right now.

So much different sophonts could live under same sky without conflict because of two things: first was that they still were one species (interbreeding stuff in sapient species, you know…), but more important was the fact that they still were one not in ability to freely make new modules between them, but were one in the ability to exchange their modules. While some most intelligent but not quite sophont species had some altruistic individuals which had some extra modules to help other ‘individuals’ which didn’t have enough cells to completely regenerate after an attack or accident, all sapient subspecies effectively made their modules a second currency alongside indigo things. They effectively developed a functional hybrid of capitalism and communism, understanding their duality of being individual mind and having ability to exchange even parts of their bodies without much harm, though they didn’t know about them being that kind of strange yet.

Some day they would develop their ability to change the body to never seen before level, as some would seemingly degrade to mass of not really differentiated cells – but they would be able to shape themselves in any form while being made of living tissue.

Pictured a poster of (semi-sci-fi) sitcom featuring two still-humanoids, one of them alienly swearing at an uncertain person which definitely was based on giant wheel-like predators which were so fast they could simply smash their prey. On the sky there could be seen a white flash of light, an alien spaceship with ‘modularoid’ aliens, a common trope of their non-speculative visions of life on other planets.

Description

Many different creatures emerged on a planet with two suns and eight-shaped orbit. All they were modular, sponge-like animals which could far more easily (with some limits) reconstruct their bodyplan. So it became not much of a deviation that a quasi-humanoid sophont emerged here.

Being just modules, they could reconstruct themselves more on their liking, so just a few thousand years later appeared different subspecies which sometimes were resembling some animals of the planet with some specialization towards tool use and speech. Taxonomy definitely would be messy right now.

So much different sophonts could live under same sky without conflict because of two things: first was that they still were one species (interbreeding stuff in sapient species, you know…), but more important was the fact that they still were one not in ability to freely make new modules between them, but were one in the ability to exchange their modules. While some most intelligent but not quite sophont species had some altruistic individuals which had some extra modules to help other ‘individuals’ which didn’t have enough cells to completely regenerate after an attack or accident, all sapient subspecies effectively made their modules a second currency alongside indigo things. They effectively developed a functional hybrid of capitalism and communism, understanding their duality of being individual mind and having ability to exchange even parts of their bodies without much harm, though they didn’t know about them being that kind of strange yet.

Some day they would develop their ability to change the body to never seen before level, as some would seemingly degrade to mass of not really differentiated cells – but they would be able to shape themselves in any form while being made of living tissue.

Pictured a poster of (semi-sci-fi) sitcom featuring two still-humanoids, one of them alienly swearing at an uncertain person which definitely was based on giant wheel-like predators which were so fast they could simply smash their prey. On the sky there could be seen a white flash of light, an alien spaceship with ‘modularoid’ aliens, a common trope of their non-speculative visions of life on other planets.