Starseeds are in fact packages of microorganisms designed to seed new planets with life, thus creating new customers for the Outsiders. 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.
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| - Starseeds are in fact packages of microorganisms designed to seed new planets with life, thus creating new customers for the Outsiders. 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.
- Star seeds normally exist in a smooth egg-shape about a mile in diameter and a mile and a half long. In this form they travel at around 80% of light speed through the galaxy, coasting on their momentum. Whenever they reach a star and need to make a course correction, the starseed unfolds itself - a thin reflective membrane a few millimeters thick but thousands of miles wide slowly unwraps itself layer by layer (the egg-shaped body is mostly this folded, compact sail). This sail is a parallelogram marked with a slight thickening of the membrane in a cross shape that is the starseed's main body and biomass. At the center of the compacted egg is a small bob of tissue that the sail normally enmeshes connected to the corners of the sail by thin, threadlike shrouds. This bob holds the starseed's
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| - Star seeds normally exist in a smooth egg-shape about a mile in diameter and a mile and a half long. In this form they travel at around 80% of light speed through the galaxy, coasting on their momentum. Whenever they reach a star and need to make a course correction, the starseed unfolds itself - a thin reflective membrane a few millimeters thick but thousands of miles wide slowly unwraps itself layer by layer (the egg-shaped body is mostly this folded, compact sail). This sail is a parallelogram marked with a slight thickening of the membrane in a cross shape that is the starseed's main body and biomass. At the center of the compacted egg is a small bob of tissue that the sail normally enmeshes connected to the corners of the sail by thin, threadlike shrouds. This bob holds the starseed's egg for release at the edge of the galaxy and several central muscles for manipulating the shrouds and sail for attitude and thrust control. Starseeds normally live in the galactic core, but migrate to the edge of the galaxy as part of their reproduction. After fertilization in the core, the starseeds navigate their way out to the rim where they release their eggs. Most are left to hatch into infants who later migrate to the galactic core, but many scientists speculate that some seeds are cast out of the Milky Way altogether towards the various globular clusters orbiting it and towards the Andromeda Galaxy, possibly colonizing and seeding them with life as well. Given that average starseeds travel at approximately 80% lightspeed, this migration can easily take over a hundred thousand years for a round-trip even for healthy adults.
- Starseeds are in fact packages of microorganisms designed to seed new planets with life, thus creating new customers for the Outsiders. 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.
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