“We are not alone.”We never were.”
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Cephalopod
The Intelligences
Earth's octopuses are the most intelligent invertebrates known, with a distributed nervous system unlike ours. The Cephalopod is the speculative extrapolation: a tentacled ocean-world intelligence that has fascinated science fiction from Wells onward.
- Home system
- Aquatic worlds
- Avg. height
- 4′11″ – 6′7″
- Appearance
- Tentacled, aquatic, grey-blue skin
- Reported lifespan
- 300 – 500 years (lore)
- Social structure
- Described as distributed minds
- Technology
- Described as biological
- Primary traits
- Highly intelligent, curious, alien in cognition
- Relationship to Earth
- Described as knowledge exchange
Different worlds. A shared tomorrow.
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