A food web, not a monster catalog
Every prominent organism needs an energy source, reproductive strategy, habitat and ecological role. Primary production and chemosynthetic possibilities must support the consumers above them.
Memory and living structures
Ideas about biologically integrated architecture, living reefs and inherited ecological memory offer compelling fictional design directions. Their mechanisms remain clearly distinguished from demonstrated marine biology and are subject to later RT approval.
What development changes
Hydrothermal extraction, transit trunkways and new habitats can disrupt current patterns and breeding grounds. Conservation becomes an engineering as well as political problem; the ecological crisis has genuine consequences.
