Interesting, though not dangerous, biomes in the Solomani Rim

Terry Mixon

Emperor Mongoose
As some might know, I build a ridiculous liner for use in the Solomani Rim (to start) and it comes with 40 100-dton biospheres. I figure that it would have some really cool biomes for the passengers to experience. Some would be from Terra, but there would be more. Does anyone have some suggestions from the Solomani Rim to populate these?
 
How about at least one aquatic biome? You can fill it with all kind of deep sea creatures and it's something unusual.
That makes me think of the dolphin or orca style ships and how their bio spheres would operate.


As for my own suggestion my mind goes to a food forest style wooded area. You are able to relax in "nature" with lots of ground level berries or other such easy to grab treats.
 
Yeah. From memory, Vegans are more or less standard Earth criteria, except for... a bit lower gravity and higher UV?

Potentially there could be one biome put aside for heavy worlders and one for low-G guys. There's several species that might appreciate those if they were passengers, as well as the potential novelty. Plus those people who are native orbital types who are used to lower G as a matter of choice.
 
Okay... I double checked. Low G yes, high UV no. They have built in sunglasses, but their sun is a red dwarf and they are adapted for infrared more than ultraviolet. Although I guess Muan Gwi is probably orbiting its sun pretty close and all stars output a lot of UV.
 
Okay... I double checked. Low G yes, high UV no. They have built in sunglasses, but their sun is a red dwarf and they are adapted for infrared more than ultraviolet. Although I guess Muan Gwi is probably orbiting its sun pretty close and all stars output a lot of UV.
I believe Muan Gwi is best pictured as somewhere midway between Earth and Mars; as well as lower gravity than Earth it's more arid.

The only Muan Gwi biome I can recall having been established is the "southernmost desert", where there are populations of a small animal called the rurge, which is hunted for the mwob spice extracted(?) from it. Whether this is a desert by Muan Gwi standards or if Humans just call it that because to their perspective it's lacking water, who knows?

Muan Gwi is one of the planets that really calls for an in-depth exploration, honestly. In any future "planet focus" series, someone put it high on the list!
 
To answer the original question, though...

Dingir has "many tropical islands", although imported Terran flora and fauna have supplanted a lot of indigenous lifeforms -- so there might be additional reason for collectors and preservationists to establish habitat replicas elsewhere. A bit of goodwill (and funding) from conservation efforts on the side? Also, everyone in the sector will have heard of Dingir, it has a pretty important history so should be automatically a talking piece.

Khedish has "evolved a complex ecosystem". The world's environment is harsh and changeable, so there might be many interesting adaptations and behavioural forms?

Kasaan has a lot of wilderness and complex native life; the Jabberwocks are from there. No doubt other equally beautiful but less dangerous lifeforms are present. The tulgy woods of Kasaan are surely worth reproducing? My uffish thought for the day.

Noricum has "over a million distinct species of aerial animals" and floating forests over parts of its ocean. Thick atmosphere and low gravity, so maybe some sauna-type recreation sphere with attractive and harmless flitterers all around?

Gaea would be obvious, what with its super-dense and very old biosphere. Might be hard to keep it healthy, what with all the symbiotic links between its species, but then anyone who could pull it off would be quite admired. Perhaps it's a point of pride to those in the business to keep the most complex Gaea biome you can, and compete as to whose is more integrated and has a wider web of species?
 
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