Welcome proud readers. Thanks for being here.
This week, we’ll take a look at Harappan botany and biology.
Harappa was a planet full of life. It wasn’t all the kind of life we knew from Earth. Most of Harappa had a harsh environment. Too hot for humans. We only settled two small river valleys near the south pole. Then there was the Dark Times. every eighteen years the Blue Moon passed between planet Harappa and its sun blocking light from the world for almost two weeks. Most of the surface freezes and what life lives must either hibernate or go underground. So there are several impediments to complex life, yet some complex life did exist.
Lets start from the bottom and work our way up the evolutionary chain.
The most common life on planet Harappa was/is the algae in the world’s oceans. It was the algae that produced the oxygen that we breathed. It also became one of the best food sources on the planet. Every Harappa I know still eats the stuff, despite all of us occasionally complaining about the smelly goo. It is grown in indoor tanks on planet Kusha and we still eat the stuff, though I have never heard anyone tout its culinary delights. We eat it because it is nutritious and because it is something from home.
The algae was also used in building materials and other fabrication projects. We don’t use it for those kinds of uses here on Kusha since it is fairly hard to produce in captivity. What we make here on Kusha is used for cereal and energy bars. While it may be a tad swampy smelling and not have a great deal of flavor it is indeed quite nutritious. I don’t know any Earthers or Lavans who eat the stuff. In fact most Harappans call it “stuff’ or “goo”, not exactly endearing terms but we still eat the stuff.
Tomorrow: We work our way up the evolutionary chain.
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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