[FreeSpaceFreak]

So basically, this topic is about the non-sentient species in the FS universe, or did I see that wrong?

[blowfish]

I'm sure they exist.  Probably all of the useful plants and animals would be imported to any habitable planets.  I'd imagine it would be hard to import every single species (think of how many that is).

[Wobble73]

I'm sure they exist.  Probably all of the useful plants and animals would be imported to any habitable planets.  I'd imagine it would be hard to import every single species (think of how many that is).

Reminds me of the story of Noah! 

"The animals went in two by two
Hurrah, Hurrah!"

[blowfish]

Except they'd need a lot more than two if they wanted a speices to survive on its own.

[NGTM-1R]

Except they'd need a lot more than two if they wanted a speices to survive on its own.

Nah, cloning.

[General Battuta]

Nah, cloning.

Nah, genetic diversity.

Your clones would inbreed.

[NGTM-1R]

Nah, cloning.

Nah, genetic diversity.

Your clones would inbreed.

Yes, they would. That assumes however that you'd be trying to keep the population up by natural means instead of just periodicly making more clones and releasing them. Which is a crappy way of doing things expense-wise, but possible.

[jdjtcagle]

Nah, cloning.

Nah, genetic diversity.

Your clones would inbreed.

Life will find a way

[Polpolion]

Bokanovskification, anyone?

[Snail]

Apsu-Hek?

[Gamma_Draconis]

Well, it took over a page but I finally understood what this thread is about. I assume most species would have survived, particularly the ones that humans grow commercially. What I am interested in through, is if the GTVA ever encountered critters on other planets. What kind of animals existed on Vasuda Prime? Volition left us with so little information about the ecology of their universe that it is almost impossible to speculate on the subject.

[blowfish]

There is no canon information about ecology on other planets, however, it seems likely that there were other organisms on Vasuda Prime, considering the existance of the Vasudans, an advanced from of life.

[Wanderer]

If we consider this using the Ancient rantings of the FreeSpace 1 as material then the FreeSpace universe must be (well.. at least must have been) filled with life. That is the Ancients themselves had habit of wiping out anything remotely resembling a sentient species and according to the rantings they did it a lot. And the Shivans wiped them out. If we assume that neither the Shivans nor the Ancients were not beginners but rather experienced in their genocidal practices we can see that the sentient life alone must have been (or still is) extremely common in the FreeSpace universe as Shivans probably had/have wiped out several 'Ancient-like' species who in turn have wiped out several lesser species and so on...

And if the sentient life alone was that common then the 'almost sentient' and/or lower lifeforms must be extremely common in the FreeSapce universe. In addition to the one imported from Terra/Vasuda or where ever.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Yeah, non-sentient (or semi-sentient, like dolphins or monkeys) species must be pretty common in the universe. However, they're probably not quite 'useful' for the GTVA, so no one ever mentions them in the game.

[Snail]

The Apsu-Hek provided the inspiration for the Tauret if anything.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

The Apsu-Hek provided the inspiration for the Tauret if anything.

True, but it could have been something like the Ancient Egyptian scarab, as well... It's never said that the Apsu-Hek are intelligent...

[Snail]

Well they're almost certainly not sentient...

[Wobble73]

Well we all know Vasudans wuv fishes, so there must be a few fish out there in the universe! 

Apsu-Hek?

What's that?

[EDIT] Oh right!So that's it is it? [/EDIT]

[Retsof]

Slightly off-topic question, but what do you suppose the GTVA would do if they encountered a medieval or Roman stage species, or even a species with our current tech level?

[Topgun]

they would conquer it, of course !