Millions of light years away, there is a solar system with five planets. The star in the center of this system shines almost fifty times brighter than our sun. The orbits of the planets roaring around this star are all very different. The first two planets have a similar oval shaped orbit. Because they are not centered with the star in the middle, there exists a very hot summer when the planet is close to the star in the first half of the orbit, while in the other half there is a strong winter, unknown here on earth. The other three planets have a more circle shaped orbit. But it is the second planet from the star, known to us as 45-ZOR, on which there exists a form of life. It would not be the first planet on which you would suspect to see life, as it is a very hostile planet: giant forests which dry out in the summer and offer little shelter in the winter, many super storms rage the land and volcano eruptions are not uncommen. While the creatures are somehow comparable with those on earth (senses, skin, brains etc) they have evolved in a complete different way. Because of Earth’s relatively slow changes creatures on Earth are able to take hundreds of years to evolve. On the planet 45-ZOR the climate changes so drastically and fast, that regular evolution was unable to keep up. So nature came up with a new solution. Instead of being able to change their properties over time, creatures on 45-ZOR are able to share their properties with other creatures. For instance, a sheep-like creature can lend its wool fur to another creature that does not have fur on its own. The sheep-like creature can then expect to get another helpful property from the other creature, for instance long arms to reach the best fruit on the trees. The borrowing and trading of limbs and other properties are done on a daily, if not minutely basis. For a long time these creatures thrived on the very hostile planet. But some creatures forgot the unwritten rules of trading and borrowing and wanted to have more and more parts for their own. Instead of asking to borrow a limb, they just took them from other creatures. As some parts were even more valuable, because of better properties, the evil ones wanted to steal those from the peaceful creatures. In the fear of losing all their parts, the friendly creatures made plans to flee the world. They used their bodies to build a giant flying ark to escape.
After decennia of flying through space, they came across a planet that looked friendly enough to continue their lives: our planet Earth. When entering the atmosphere they experienced so much resistance that the ship fell apart and the parts rained down on Earth. The creatures, now scattered over the whole planet, started a quest to find all the parts again and continue living in peace like they did on 45-ZOR.
What they did not know was that the evil creatures followed them through space and also made an appearance on Earth. Now all the parts were spread over the whole world, it would be a challenge for both races to collect all the parts as soon as possible.
But both found out that the parts they brought with them from 45-ZOR were not the only parts they could use. Earth was full of items usable as parts: plants, trash, abandoned toys or home appliances. This opened new possibilities to evolve for the creatures. Both the good and evil creatures seek the help of humans to build custom parts for them. While it is easy for humans to build a new part, they will not know what kind of impact it has on the creatures’ society without testing it. Some people help the good creatures while others help the evil ones.
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