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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5338527" data-attributes="member: 15651">i was thinking about a race that establishes most of the society in the habitable band.  They can absorb and store energy from the sun.  In the habitable band there is enough energy to sustain them, but not enough for propogation of the species.  Adults travel to the bright side where they store up energy and mate with each other.  Unfortunately newborn offspring are highly sensitive to the radiation from the sun, so after mating, adults travel to the dark side of the planet to bear their young and raise them until they are old enough to handle the normal radiation present in the habitable band.  Because of the dark and cold conditions, the energy stored from the bright side is essential to the survival of the parents.  The journey from the dark side to the habitable band with their young children is the most dangerous part of their life cycle as the parents are low on stored energy and the children have few skills to survive on their own without their parents.  In the habitable zone when new families start to arrive it is a time of celebration, followed by a period of mourning those who did nto survive the journey home.</blockquote>