Unable to compete with sighted predators during the day, they stayed awake at the world's moonless nights, but even then they needed to perfect their strenghts in order to survive. The species couldn't evolve sight again, so they still had to rely on their echolocation ability. A sort of 'alternate history', where more posthuman species created by the Qu survived to achieve sentience, and my speculation on what they could've been like.Ĭlickers (Descendants of the Blind Folk):Ī random earhquake connected one of the Blind Folk's caves to the surface, allowing a small population to escape before their cave system collapsed. When their sun began to rapidly expand, a threat their technology was unable to overcome, they remade themselves into the Gravitals to escape their extinction.UPD: Rewrote parts of the Grazers' description, fixing (I hope) non-canon parts.Ī tribute to nemo-ramjet 's novel All Tomorrows. Soon they came to the conclusion that they were the sole heirs of the Star People, which later led to problems with other posthumans. The wars united the survivors and they were able to surpass the technological advances of the Star People. The political stress put on them by the quick development of their technology led to five world wars, two of them being thermonuclear exchanges. Oftentimes, they only replicated Star People technology without fully understanding it. Since the Ruin Haunters lived on a world where the Qu didn't destroy the ruins of the Star People's civilization, they learned from the ancient wisdom of their ancestors and used it to build an advanced civilization that quickly rivaled that of the Star People. Though they were reduced to the intelligence of chimpanzees or gorillas, the Qu didn't do much to avoid sapience to re-evolve. Ruin Haunters bore thick necks and somewhat elongated faces, with large, drooping, rounded noses, with no hair atop their heads and small triangular ears. They bore humanoid bodies that appeared nearly identical to Humans, but differed in the structure of their heads and necks. The Ruin Haunters were one of the most Human-like of any Qu-created posthuman species. The Ruin Haunters were a posthuman species created by the Qu from a colony of the Star People, and were among those to regain sapience.

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