It's done! Turns out you can edit the filename of the last autosave to match the manual saves to see the different endings without replaying the end👍

Maybe against the spirit of the final choice, but I made the effort to get >8000 war assets and can't be arsed to play the trilogy again lol

This was the setup in said reactor (lots more syncs than I would like but I'm surprised it worked at all tbh):

It is interesting how neat splits into 2 distinct diverse clades seem to be rare, best example I can think of is Caniformia vs Feliformia. Implications of this long hinted at result are exciting, my random uninformed guess is that Vetulicolians are paraphyletic to a Chordates+Protostomes clade.

Read at 14 to help with feelings of existential dread and made them irrevocably worse. Great book!

Stephen Miller strikes me as a Bib Fortuna type of guy

Wow! I wonder if this will change our interpretation of the megafaunal extinctions.

Very cool results! Maybe a stupid question, but could these guys move around like starfish or were they just kind of sat around flicking food particles into their massive gobs?

Getting there in the little corner I’ve been allowed. Lots of inverts in the pond, but sadly no frogs.