An arboreal world
Where forests govern
A world of rooted authority, mobile citizens, immense trapping organisms, and animal societies with histories of their own.
Living infrastructure
Light, water, nutrients, and passage shape the architecture and politics of a botanical civilization.
The rooted centers
Long-lived rooted organisms can become enduring places of government, memory, and exchange. Their dependence on territory makes movement a political question.
The mobile lineages
Mobile plant bodies connect distant places, tend living systems, and challenge the assumptions of rooted societies. Their energy and water demands shape their lives.
The wider ecology
Predation exists alongside cultivation and mutual dependence. A hunting organism may be a citizen, a cultivated species, or wild life.
Beyond the canopy
The animal havens
Arid and cold regions offer possibilities for animal independence. Their safety comes from the limits of particular predators and from the resources required to survive outside the forests.
The orange-star setting and its physical conditions remain under development.
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