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(Despite research expeditions by xenobotanists, no sentient manner of plant life has yet been discovered on the surface of Dathis II.) | (Despite research expeditions by xenobotanists, no sentient manner of plant life has yet been discovered on the surface of Dathis II.) | ||
==Fauna== | |||
The animal life of this planet is notably reptilian with almost no mammals (excluding various bat-like forms). In addition to the lack of mammalian life, there are no avians ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird birds]) - this ecological niche is filled by large, flying insects and the aforementioned bats. | |||
Comparative xenobiology suggests that life evolved on Dathis II as it might have on Earth, had mammals not ascended to dominate the food web. | |||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
Dathis II, while being the homeworld of the Dachlyd race, is not the seat of Dachlyd culture. Starship, sub-light freighter, and space station -dwelling Dachlyds outnumber their homeworld fellows. It is more accurate to say that Dachlyd culture is rooted on Dathis II and has branched off from the homeworld. The colony worlds of the Dachlyds began along the same vein as Dachlyd settlements upon Dathis II. Dachlyd society is not [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony hegemonic]. Rather it doctrinally opposed to hegemonies, a sort of tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism egalitarianism]. | Dathis II, while being the homeworld of the Dachlyd race, is not the seat of Dachlyd culture. Starship, sub-light freighter, and space station -dwelling Dachlyds outnumber their homeworld fellows. It is more accurate to say that Dachlyd culture is rooted on Dathis II and has branched off from the homeworld. The colony worlds of the Dachlyds began along the same vein as Dachlyd settlements upon Dathis II. Dachlyd society is not [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony hegemonic]. Rather it doctrinally opposed to hegemonies, a sort of tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism egalitarianism]. | ||