Harvestmoon
Profile
Category
- Mobile Life
- Subcategory
- Foragers
- Entries in Foragers
- 17
- Words
- 276
PDA entry
- Subspecies of the halfmoon, Moliform semiluna, with no apparent behavioral or biological distinction. Arbitrarily named for a bright autumn phase of Earth's moon.
- 1. Green
- It is green
- Databank autogeneration interrupted. Script hook found in allocated memory. Executing.
- Unpacking archived data...
- "The current scientific consensus is that altruism - helping someone at cost to your own survival - cannot evolve. Animals help other animals if they're helping themselves. Nothing is free.
- "Of course, you'd help an animal, right? If you saw a kidney poacher stuck in an acid bog, you'd drag it out. And it'd soak you in 'do not eat' pheremones and take you home to meet its poachlets.
- "But the transcapital bio-ghouls insist that the kidney poacher is going call you a sucker and eat your kidneys. Why? Because you don't have a Green Beard.
- "An animal can evolve to help other animals...but only if those animals display binding proof that they'll help back. A Green Beard. Kind of a reverse Mark of Cain.
- "Help your fellow Green Beards, and you'll always come out ahead. Ignore everyone without a Green Beard, and you'll never be tricked and stabbed in the kidneys. Die for the Green Beard, if you must - just as long as the other Green Beards are equally willing to die for you and your children.
- "For this to work, the Green Beard has to be impossible to fake. They think of that right away. They point to historical practices like skull-shaping and scarification.
- "But the Green Beard also has to be impossible to share. It has to be guarded jealously. The alternative, to the minds that rule us, is quite unthinkable..." - Nahema Nakota, "My Project (draft 13.4.new.new.real)"
On the wiki
Related entries
A morph of Monopter astrapakantha which scavenges the charge crystals of dead hoverthorns.
An enormous crab (tentatively Ostrakonskelos anaktoraphore, hard-legged palace-bearer) that hides among...
Postpanoplia epicurean, the voracious unarmored armored fish.
Seaslug kleptopharos, the stolen beacon slug.
Geordie (tentatively Salpapod geordie).
Halfmoon (tentatively Moliform luna).
Hammerhead (tentatively Panoplia hammerhead).
Monopter astrapakantha, the one-finned lightning thorn.
A simple animal, closely related to corals, characterized by a symmetrical body and trailing arms.
Jelly ring (tentatively Thermodont sufganiyah, heat eating jelly donut).
Jetocaris (tentatively Tripod phrontiscaris).
Ostrakonskelos periskopion, the hard-legged periscope.
Loading discussion...