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>>353274
>weirdest civilization
Oh dear, that's... quite a lot of question, there.
What sort of weird are we talking about? There's a race of sentient planetoids swirling around the Salechine Nebula, they're quite pleasant. Thorr worms, in their native habitat, they communicate with hundreds of other individuals simultaneously through vibrations in the earth, and almost never physically encounter each other. Shenchenii come from another galaxy and don't know all our common standards, but I guess they're pretty normal for that, leaving aside the whole business of trafficking drugs that they secrete from their own bodies. Are we talking just organic civilizations? There's a pack of nomadic AI viruses that wander the InterStellaNet, they got legal rights just a few decades ago. The Spiders are billions of years old, everyone knows them, but no-one's sure whether they're actually true AIs or not and all they want to do is collect information. Everyone knows the galaxy police, too, they get their power from bonding with a species of disembodied psychic consciousnesses who put proper Law over all other concerns; and there's the leficars, who split from the Law millions of years ago, and who wander the galaxy having hybrid children with other species and then eating them after they mature, to preserve themselves.
These are just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are much stranger and more alien creatures I could talk about if I thought for a bit longer. The entire concept of "weird"... it, just sort of gets obsolete after a while, I would say.
>>353259
That's Lorn, our mechanic.
Different cultures...? Well, we kinda... don't have different cultures. An individual scellor's past lives are far more of an influence on their personality and behavior than the situation they "grew up" in, and reincarnation can bounce an individual all over the galaxy. We don't really have a childhood or anything. We never really developed much in the way of cultural objects, either... music, painting, storytelling... there's not so much point to art when you can communicate all your feelings and ideas perfectly, telepathically. We do have some, I guess, but in comparison to other species... it's pretty flimsy. What there is is just spread over our whole race. And, of course, there's the undermind. For other species, culture is how they connect with each other, the way that the voice of the species makes itself heard to the individual.
But we have a literal voice of our people that talks to us all the time. So, we just... never bothered much with culture. I mean, we make and do things that are pleasing to us, and we adapt our behaviours to our environments, and the other species we meet, but... well, it's all quite shallow, really. Almost all modern scellor who are interested in such things just enjoy and participate in alien cultures.
That's what motivates a lot of us who go into space, I think. We can't really leave an impression on our own species in that way, but we can make our mark on the galaxy.
>>353265
>opinion of humans
Eeeh... they're one of those species that's split up too much to make generalizations, though they do have a good bit of interstellar prestige from reaching interstellar travel themselves rather than being uplifted. The Mars Dynasty have a big hand in mining, so I know them rather well. They're nice enough. Their other nations, corporations, organizations... too much to keep track of, and a lot of them just keep to themselves anyway.
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