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Terradorians
When the forest learned to think, it chose to walk among the stars.
All Eras · 100,000 BC – 150,100 AD"We do not conquer worlds. We wake them. Every barren stone is a seed waiting for permission to become a forest."
— Verdant Conclave Founding Charter, Age of Ecological Enlightenment
The Essential
The Terradorians are living architecture—plant and animal compiled into a single operating system, their bodies running on chlorophyll-hemoglobin hybrid code. Emerging from the primeval forests of planet Terradora in the Solarae Galaxy, they represent one of the most radical evolutionary paths in the known universe: not a species that adapted to nature, but one that became nature's conscious extension.
Standing between 1.8 and 2.4 meters, their bark-skinned forms move through environments like data packets through a network—efficient, purposeful, synchronized. Their root-feet can jack directly into planetary biospheres, downloading nutrient streams and uploading biochemical commands. Their emerald eyes perceive not just light, but the electromagnetic signatures of living systems: they see ecosystems the way engineers see schematics.
They do not build technology. They cultivate it. Their starships grow from seeds. Their weapons bloom from spore-staffs. Their cities are not constructed—they are germinated.
In 12,520 AD, Terradorian scientists discovered they could exploit the intergalactic mycelial network—a fungal information superhighway threading through dark matter itself—to achieve faster-than-light travel. While other species burned through space with brute-force engines, the Terradorians simply asked the universe for directions and followed the roots.
Today, their Million Worlds Initiative transforms barren rocks into thriving biospheres across nine galaxies. As founding members of the Biotic Harmony Pact, they serve as the Celestial Concordat's master terraformers and ecological consultants—the gardeners of a cosmic scale. Yet their methods are not without controversy: their "Containment by Conservation" governance model in regions like the Spi'Tor Cluster walks a razor's edge between stewardship and soft imperialism.
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In the Stories
The Terradorians appear throughout the Galactic Ages era narratives, serving as key allies to the Lumen Coalition and pivotal players in events like the Great Galactic War (25,800 AD), where their ecological warfare techniques helped defeat Draken forces at Draxis Prime. Their philosophy of living technology offers a stark contrast to the Dark Matter Alliance's approach—a tension that shapes interstellar politics for millennia.
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