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| ⚫ | '''Starseeds''', also called '''Sailseeds''', are |
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| − | <p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.5em;">The aliens known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_(Known_Space) Outsiders] follow starseeds for reasons only they know. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson%27s_Puppeteer Pierson's Puppeteers] claimed to have a technology called "starseed lure" that can attract nearby starseeds to a specific solar system. They have supposedly used a starseed lure to influence the course of human/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzin Kzin] warfare by causing an Outsider ship to visit a human colony world, allowing humanity to purchase hyperdrive technology. This technology allowed humanity to decimate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzinti Kzinti] in subsequent wars. However, other accounts have it that the outsiders followed an unmanned human starship that traveled between the human colonies (see ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gift_From_Earth A Gift From Earth]'').</p> |
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| ⚫ | '''Starseeds''', also called '''Sailseeds''', are large (thousands of meters<ref name=enc/>, or approximately 1 mile in diameter) nonsentient species that travel through interstellar space. A starseed is typically spherical, but when it needs to change direction it unfolds itself into a large squarish solar photon sail<ref name=enc>[[Concise Encyclopedia]]</ref> with the four corners connected via strands to a small knob. Most of the internal organs are located in a cross-shaped swelling in the sail. Nothing is really known about them, other than they seem to migrate from the galactic center to the rim of the [[Galaxy]] to eject their eggs, and then the chicks begin to travel back to the [[Galactic Core]], a journey of 50000 LY.<ref name=enc/> Sometimes the eggs are ejected towards other galaxies, but most are left to hatch and migrate themselves to the core. |
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| − | + | Starseeds are in fact packages of microorganisms designed to seed new planets with life, thus creating new customers for the [[Outsider]]s.<ref>[[Peace and Freedom]]</ref> They are reluctant to reveal this information because they are ashamed, since one of their starseeds created the [[Thrint]]un, which destroyed nearly all intelligent life in the galaxy several billion years ago. |
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| + | [[Pierson's Puppeteer]]s claimed to have a technology called "[[starseed lure]]" that can attract nearby starseeds to a specific solar system.<ref>[[A Gift From Earth]]</ref> |
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| − | *"Starseed." ''Wikipedia''. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Nov. 2012. Web. 04 Nov. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starseed>. |
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Latest revision as of 07:27, 16 June 2017
An artist's conception of some Starseeds.
From the video game Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch.
Starseeds, also called Sailseeds, are large (thousands of meters[1], or approximately 1 mile in diameter) nonsentient species that travel through interstellar space. A starseed is typically spherical, but when it needs to change direction it unfolds itself into a large squarish solar photon sail[1] with the four corners connected via strands to a small knob. Most of the internal organs are located in a cross-shaped swelling in the sail. Nothing is really known about them, other than they seem to migrate from the galactic center to the rim of the Galaxy to eject their eggs, and then the chicks begin to travel back to the Galactic Core, a journey of 50000 LY.[1] Sometimes the eggs are ejected towards other galaxies, but most are left to hatch and migrate themselves to the core.
Starseeds are in fact packages of microorganisms designed to seed new planets with life, thus creating new customers for the Outsiders.[2] They are reluctant to reveal this information because they are ashamed, since one of their starseeds created the Thrintun, which destroyed nearly all intelligent life in the galaxy several billion years ago.
Pierson's Puppeteers claimed to have a technology called "starseed lure" that can attract nearby starseeds to a specific solar system.[3]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Concise Encyclopedia
- ↑ Peace and Freedom
- ↑ A Gift From Earth