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Stick around for Aaron’s sci fi world building craft build, as he visualizes the sturnovula species from Casey Hudson's sci-fi book series.
More about Sturnovula
When we first meet the sturnovula, they are nearing the end of a Mesolithic period—and beginning to transition into a Neolithic period. Being Stone Age peoples, their needs are basic, and their societies are still quite simple.
Despite their early-stage development, they are one of the dominant species on their planet. Though their planet mates, the euphacaro, compete for food and resources, and the sturnovula often acquire nesting sites once the euphacaro abandon them after a season.
Not at war, but not at peace, these two peoples have lived alongside each other for centuries. Both friends and enemies, each of these peoples’ mimicry abilities have resulted in a considerable amount of unwitting mixing of their races.
Though some communities, on either side of the equation, want for a different way of living, changing the mindset of so many peoples is difficult. But as the sturnovula spread farther out on their own planet, community thinking becomes more localized, helping more and more ideologies to form and come into being.
When space travel is “discovered,” thoughts about what it means for these species abound. When their world becomes vast, the results are beautiful and devastating.
Away from “home,” the sturnovula begin to advance quickly—with the aid of their excellent mimicry abilities. They begin to hitch rides all over the galaxy and, thanks to the prevalence of the favaberri—multiply more than other species can tolerate.
As travel continues, people and word of other worlds return to the new generation of Straephrobene whose communities stayed on-planet. Euphacaro-sturnovula mixing becomes more prevalent as new ways of thinking find their way back to Straephrob. A new age of technology, diversity, politics, and prejudice begins.
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