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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 5459457" data-attributes="member: 41584">I could see invidual 'space druids' coming in various flavors. One order could come from a particular world, and be concerned about an impending or prophesied apocalypse coming to their world.  While others stay to face it, a small group are given seeds and specific animal 'seeds' (magically preserved embryos) to bring to new worlds, to spread the life of the motherworld to distant planets, just in case the motherworld is destroyed. Another order could be violently opposed to messing with the ecology of distant worlds, and be more interested in studying the natural flora and fauna and stranger life still of distant worlds, hoping, in some cases, to learn more about the nature of life and the natural world itself by exposing themselves to these alien ecosystems.  Others might 'go native' and end up identifying more with whatever alien world they adopt, or be eternal 'tourists,' always excited to discover new worlds, with radically different natural life-systems.  Members of this second order might have some members who wish to radically preserve alien ecosystems, uncorrupted by life from other worlds, while still others might think nothing of such matters, shrugging and accepting that no natural system is ever 'pure,' and every world's ecosystem must endure and adapt to aberrations and undead and similar unnatural invaders, and that such intrusions only serve to strengthen and diversify the natural world.  Those that do not survive such contact, in the eyes of these pragmatists, failed to adapt, and their deaths will only make room for the new life that proved stronger and more evolutionarily agile, making for a healthier ecosystem overall. With these very different stances, one druid deliberately introducing life from their native world, hoping to create enclaves of their worlds ecosystem all over the place, to preserve it from any single planetary disaster, another druid slavishly purifying ecosystems of anything not native and being zealously careful to never accidentally 'pollute' an alien world with life from other worlds, and a third shrugging and watching an alien organism sweep across a distant world, overwhelming slow-to-react native flora or fauna, excited to see how the world's life reacts to adapt to this new threat (or fails to do so, and is replaced by the 'more fit'), you could have three 'space druids' who are at fundemental odds with each other, philosophically.</blockquote>

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