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A creature is a lifeform, as distinct from matter not imbued with distinct intelligence.
- Reference sophontilogical term
- Often used to indicates more complex lifeforms, symbiotes, and animals or animal-like lifeforms.
- These animal-like lifeforms are regarded by most as having the greatest potential for sophontdom.
Description (Specifications)
A generic term used for any kind of lifeform, animal, plant, mineral, or otherwise that is at an evolutionary stage that does not yet use sophisticated technology.
- While creature is a broad term that applies to all lifeforms, it is most often used to describe Non-Sophonts.
Beasts vs Creatures vs Monsters
| Name | Stance | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Beast | Positive | Beast of burden. Sociobiological term for a non-threatening service creature. |
| Creature | Neutral | Neutral term of a non-sophontic lifeform. Often not yet judged as to its threat. |
| Monster | Negative | Sociobiological term for a threatening creature. |
Cycle of Life & Sophontic Civilization
- A-life → Proto-Life → Creatures → Proto-Sophonts → Sophonts → Transcendents → Ascendants → Singularity
Stages:
- A-life
- Proto-Life (transitory stage)
- Creatures
- Proto-Sophonts (transitory stage)
- Sophonts
- Transcendents (transitory stage)
- Ascendants
- Singularity
History & Background (Dossier)
No information yet available.
Specialized Usage of the Term
Ixion (Reaver's Deep Urlaqqash)
- Minor nonhuman race. Vicious animalistic killer, psionic. Looks like a possibility for an acidic-blooded higher lifeform.
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Mongoose Traveller: Animal Encounters
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science