Welcome majestic readers. Thanks for being here.
Planet Harappa is dying. Those of us who grew up there are spending a lot of time recalling our days there. This week I’ll spend some time discussing the botany and biology of the world I was born on.
When Marcus Johnson and his original followers first arrived on Harappa the world was already occupied by a fairly diverse ecosystem. Not nearly as diverse as Kusha or Earth but there was an active biological process going on.
Plant life was fully evolved. Tree, bushes, flowers, grasses and such. The Harappan sun is a yellow sun like Earth’s so the plant life there was very Earth-like.
The animal life was just beginning its trip up the evolutionary chain. The Harappan climate was just settling down after a long period of intense change. Then there was the problem of the Dark Times. Every eighteen years the Blue Moon would block out the sun for almost two weeks freezing most of the surface of Harappa.
What animal life that did evolve there had evolved to go dormant or underground during the Dark Times. That made the evolutionary process a challenge. There weren’t many complex life forms on the surface.
Next week: Who lived on the land? Who lived in the sea?
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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