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Although woodlands remain, they are carefully managed and harvested. The species which shelter in those woodlands have survived because they are considered either useful or harmless. Now that Catullans can afford to look beyond the limits of their world for living space, and replicator technology combined with relatively abundant power make resources plentiful, a few factions within Catullan society have called for a concerted effort to preserve and revive the few remnants of Cendo Prae's original biodiversity-- even to the extent of advocating time travel to acquire viable specimens. But a public policy defining the steps to be taken in regards to this issue has yet to emerge. | Although woodlands remain, they are carefully managed and harvested. The species which shelter in those woodlands have survived because they are considered either useful or harmless. Now that Catullans can afford to look beyond the limits of their world for living space, and replicator technology combined with relatively abundant power make resources plentiful, a few factions within Catullan society have called for a concerted effort to preserve and revive the few remnants of Cendo Prae's original biodiversity-- even to the extent of advocating time travel to acquire viable specimens. But a public policy defining the steps to be taken in regards to this issue has yet to emerge. | ||
'''Untamed oceans:''' Cendo Prae's aquatic biomes have fared much better. Although some species have suffered from excess harvesting, the extreme depths of Catulla's oceans (which in many cases have yet to be explored, although they have been roughly scanned from orbit) have protected hundreds of others. As a result, for most Catullans, the idea of wild and dangerous fauna is linked with large predator fish and amphibious or marine mammals, rather than terrestrial species. Cendo Prae has a surprisingly low population of reptiles and birds; many of the ecological niches normally occupied by those phyla have been taken over by mammals instead.<br> | '''Untamed oceans:''' Cendo Prae's aquatic biomes have fared much better. Although some species have suffered from excess harvesting, the extreme depths of Catulla's oceans (which in many cases have yet to be explored, although they have been roughly scanned from orbit) have protected hundreds of others. As a result, for most Catullans, the idea of wild and dangerous fauna is linked with large predator fish and amphibious or marine mammals, rather than terrestrial species. Cendo Prae has a surprisingly low population of reptiles and birds; many of the ecological niches normally occupied by those phyla have been taken over by mammals instead.<br> | ||
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'''Sunny days:''' With the advent of planetary weather control satellites, storms are permitted to occur only when climatologists and ecobiologists can come to some agreement with civic authorities about scheduled disruptions in daily life. Until weather control was achieved, however, storms at sea continued to be a significant threat to Catullan life and property-- especially since so little inhabitable land existed much above sea level.<br> | '''Sunny days:''' With the advent of planetary weather control satellites, storms are permitted to occur only when climatologists and ecobiologists can come to some agreement with civic authorities about scheduled disruptions in daily life. Until weather control was achieved, however, storms at sea continued to be a significant threat to Catullan life and property-- especially since so little inhabitable land existed much above sea level.<br> | ||
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'''Neelkoms''': Swift-growing pecies of tree with fragrant, soft wood, popular for the elaborate carving traditional to Catullan culture.<br> | |||
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'''Fraet''': Palm-like tree; unripe fruit popular among the Catullans who love sour tastes<br> | |||
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'''Zee''': Tree with loose, nutrient-rich outer bark layer, full of its seeds; known for the colonies of singing insects which burrow into that layer, and can be heard making eerie or beautiful chords at dawn and at dusk <br> | |||
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==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||