Mothpeople
| Origin Point: | It's Complicated |
| Temp Range: | 270-340K |
| Height: | 169cm |
| Diet: | Equipment, plant matter. Meat is toxic |
- Can fly, if there's pressure and no gravity
- Technically mammalian
- Lamp jokes are not funny
Mothpeople are a people originating from the Sol system that resemble anthropomorphic lepidoptera. The categorization of moths is a controversial topic and they possess large amounts of genetic idiosyncrasies that obfuscates their origin. A majority of Mothpeople are citizens of the Solar Confederation.
Lore
Mothpeople have a complicated origin. They were first discovered several generations ago, at multiple separate locations, all at around the same time, fending for themselves in various habitable locations such as abandoned habitats, research outposts, and habitable but isolated exoplanets. The moths discovered there had been there not particularly long, no more than a few generations, and had no apparent concept of society outside of what little they had formed. They were quickly taken in and introduced to the galactic society at large, and today, they're a very common sight across the galaxy, especially in space, where they're more common.
Study into the mothperson genome was conducted after their discovery in hopes of shedding any light at all on their origin. Mothpeople contain DNA from humans, various species of true lepidopterans, and unknown genes seemingly fabricated whole-cloth. One controversial study that was unable to be replicated claimed that at least some of their DNA was derived from the cotton plant.
Mothpeople's categorization as either another human geneline or the second distinct species to come out of Sol is hotly debated. They represent the boundary between humans and otherwise, and the general rarity of total-conversion genemods is often attributed to the appearance of mothpeople at the same time Solarian genetic engineering technology reached the ability to produce something that complex. It's because of this, their cultureless and mysterious origin, and general distaste for the insectoid that mothpeople live a heavily fractured existence, often living alongside other more dominant cultures. This hasn't stopped some small attempts at banding together by moths, including a pidgin language intentionally propagated using the babbling idioglossias of the original moth discovery sites.
Playing a Moth
stuff here
You might...
- dab every morning when you wake up
Others probably...
- steal your moth dust
Moth names
Every moth is named Steve
Adventurers
Every ship has moths living in its walls.
Gameplay
- Moths have godmode and can gib people at will
- Moths cost 420 karma points to play
