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The motes are silicon-based microorganisms that form sapient swarms, and are likely descended from a previous civilization's nanomachines. Motes are the native intelligent life on the Mu Construct, a highly advanced alien megastructure enveloping the wandering orange dwarf star Mu. The Construct allows the motes to control the speed and trajectory of their home star and therefore the remaining planet in its system, Amu. Mu and its motes arrived on the edge of known space in the early 3000s CE, and within another five hundred years they were gone again, allowing the USSC only a relatively brief period of time to study and interact with Mu and the motes.

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It's Sophontember in the SOPHONT-FORGE group, and while I wasn't able to get yesterday's prompt (MACHINE) done in time I realized I could combine it with today's prompt (DUSTY) and work on the motes from the Diaspora universe! So it's a two-fer, lol.

I've had the idea for these microscopic eldritch soccer balls kicking around in my head for a while, but couldn't find the right place to put them until I read up on the concept of stellar engines and fell in love with the idea of a microbial swarming sophont species who used the power of their own sun to sail through the cosmos. They didn't fit with the existing lore of Astra Planeta, but it made sense that they could show up after the main canon-era.

I'm really excited for the rest of Sophontember; hopefully I'll be able to keep up and take the opportunity to design and flesh out the lore for many of my lesser-loved species!

Description

The motes are silicon-based microorganisms that form sapient swarms, and are likely descended from a previous civilization's nanomachines. Motes are the native intelligent life on the Mu Construct, a highly advanced alien megastructure enveloping the wandering orange dwarf star Mu. The Construct allows the motes to control the speed and trajectory of their home star and therefore the remaining planet in its system, Amu. Mu and its motes arrived on the edge of known space in the early 3000s CE, and within another five hundred years they were gone again, allowing the USSC only a relatively brief period of time to study and interact with Mu and the motes.

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It's Sophontember in the SOPHONT-FORGE group, and while I wasn't able to get yesterday's prompt (MACHINE) done in time I realized I could combine it with today's prompt (DUSTY) and work on the motes from the Diaspora universe! So it's a two-fer, lol.

I've had the idea for these microscopic eldritch soccer balls kicking around in my head for a while, but couldn't find the right place to put them until I read up on the concept of stellar engines and fell in love with the idea of a microbial swarming sophont species who used the power of their own sun to sail through the cosmos. They didn't fit with the existing lore of Astra Planeta, but it made sense that they could show up after the main canon-era.

I'm really excited for the rest of Sophontember; hopefully I'll be able to keep up and take the opportunity to design and flesh out the lore for many of my lesser-loved species!