Trivia / Hamster's Paradise

• What Could Have Been: According to a post answering potential spoiler heavy questions. Tribbetherium states that in the very early drafts of the project, humans were meant to have a larger role in the story which was an experiment much like Serina, one such concept was a eye shaped probe orbiting the planet that observes and catalogs the life on it, explaining why the various species had scientific names. The other was a highly derived posthumans that had become nerual tissue in artificial bodies returning to finish the experiment and coming into conflict with a native sophonts who wanted to keep their rights over the planet. The first was dropped because Tribbetherium found the idea of a probe function for millions of years without maintenance or external power unlikely and the latter was dropped due to him finding it too similar to All Tomorrows and found the idea of posthumans millions of years in the future too difficult of a concept to properly visualize.

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