A playground to get lost in while daydreaming http://constructed.world/ 2026-04-19T08:23:34+00:00 http://constructed.world/ http://constructed.world/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.svg text/html 2026-04-18T20:29:47+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=blog:nannerpus&rev=1776544187&do=diff Nannerpus The nannerpus (plural nannerpi, nannerpods, or nannerpuses), is a member of a group of terrestrial soft-bodied invertebrates that has evolved a thick skin similar to the peel of a banana. The common nannerpus has a somewhat elongated “head text/html 2026-04-18T00:50:11+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=lore:commonthroat_examples&rev=1776473411&do=diff Commonthroat Examples Greetings, Hearthkeeper. May the sun warm your back. sLq sbrP-rmK-qn L scr-rmK-p qGq-b Frk-p qN salutation custodian-hearth-2 may star-hearth-3.DIST warm-NONAUTH back-3.DIST yourI bring you joyful tidings. Mqd-sd-l rGq sFq-g sCsC rDq-qn rainbow-FEMALE_NAME-1 bring news-3.INDF joyful female_superior-2. text/html 2026-04-17T21:22:55+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=megathread:start&rev=1776460975&do=diff This is an archive of notable posts on the Lonely Galaxy Megathread on the CBB forum, up to the point that I created this wiki. Going forward I try to post stuff in the blog here and then repost it there. megathread index text/html 2026-04-17T21:13:20+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=blog:start&rev=1776460400&do=diff The blog namespace is for catching stray ideas. These may be less polished than the stuff you see in the Lore namespace. text/html 2026-04-17T21:12:11+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=lore:start&rev=1776460331&do=diff Lore This namespace is for more polished, canonical ideas organized more like a fan wiki. Ideas from the and namespaces may get condensed and presented here. text/html 2026-04-17T19:14:06+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=faq&rev=1776453246&do=diff FAQ What is The Lonely Galaxy Like the tagline says, it's a playground to get lost in while daydreaming. Conworlding, worldbuilding for its own sake rather than to accompany other media like books or games, has been a hobby of mine since I was little. Kids make up elaborate imaginary worlds, and I just started documenting mine as I grew up. text/html 2026-04-17T15:01:36+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=blog:odor_colors&rev=1776438096&do=diff Odor Colors I'm still trying to work out vulpithecine odor vocabulary. Here's a scientific paper that I found recently that helps a bit: <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6015838/> Two sets of participants were asked to describe a set of odors. One Western, primarily Dutch-speaking group, and a group of Jahai from Malaysia. The Dutch group took much longer to identify odors and used mostly concrete descriptors for those odors. the Jahai group was much quicker and used a suite of abstra… text/html 2026-04-17T13:40:49+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=megathread:addendum&rev=1776433249&do=diff Addendum Glenn wrote: 2024-11-11T14:41:44+00:00 " Indeed! An interesting and creative (if slightly disturbing) alternative form of parental feeding of their young." An addendum: Wormcows are regarded much like Terran cattle--placid, slow-moving herd animals that aren't too bright. Their sheer girth is both a blessing and a curse, as it attracts predators but also serves as their best means of defense. Wormcows rear up and slam back down on whatever is trying to nom on them, or try to roll… text/html 2026-04-17T13:38:24+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=megathread:thoughts_on_newhome&rev=1776433104&do=diff Thoughts on Newhome Visions1]] wrote: 2025-07-27T05:49:56+00:00 "What happened with Newhome's terraforming in the end? Were they able to accomplish much there? Do they have any working environment? (I do imagine it a bit more feasible than with humans. I'm reading dune, and apparently (spoiler) the book discusses how to change the face of Arrakis from pure desert to habitable in a span of 350 years, but mind you the planet has way more oxygen than Mars does. If it would take that long for th… text/html 2026-04-17T13:33:51+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=megathread:the_great_commandment&rev=1776432831&do=diff The Great Commandment " Consider, little ones, the Tree-dwellers, the very clay from which I sculpted your form. They do naught but what I permit them to do. They move about, seek refuge, nourish themselves, and beget young according to the passions which I have kindled within them. Yet do they gain any merit thereby? By no means! For they do so without understanding. They paint the leaves, yet they cannot write a single glyph. They call out to one another, yet they cannot chant a single sylla… text/html 2026-04-17T13:31:52+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=megathread:some_snippets_from_the_discord_server&rev=1776432712&do=diff Some Snippets from the Discord server Here's some stuff I wrote on the Discord server. Responding to Egerius while discussing yinrih bathroom habits: "You manage to position yourself over the toilet. This bathroom is mercifully empty, and the hallway outside is deserted. The stall is something out of a nightmare, no door, walls barely two feet high, not even tall enough to obscure a yinrih’s head. Just as you start to relax, you hear the telltale tap-tap of claws on tile. Someone has entered… text/html 2026-04-17T13:28:02+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=megathread:some_clarifying_comments_on_some_of_my_stories&rev=1776432482&do=diff Some Clarifying Comments on some of my stories YoungConlanger wrote: 2025-10-11T16:39:06+00:00 " Above is quite cool! Plus I think it give more “cool reference” bonus points because I at least was not aware of how we misconceptualized the Solar system. text/html 2026-04-17T13:20:36+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=megathread:sketch_of_a_yinrih_in_a_tree&rev=1776432036&do=diff Sketch of a yinrih in a tree [image] This is probably the last edit I'm making to this drawing. I was bothered by the fact the branch his left forepaw is holding was thicker than the trunk. lurker wrote: 2023-08-02T16:09:36+00:00 " Visions1 wrote: 2023-08-02T07:08:14+00:00 text/html 2026-04-17T13:13:16+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=megathread:stats_for_focus_and_yih&rev=1776431596&do=diff Stats for Focus and Yih Khemehekis wrote: 2024-07-26T22:21:00+00:00 " Thanks for your answer! Maybe you can figure out how close to Focus their ancestral planet is, which will give you an idea of what color their plants would be, which could allow you to create plant species the yinrih can use for food. Fruit, vegetables, carbs, nuts, sweets, spices, herbs, drugs, all that. Ethnobotany and ethnozoo:logy are always near the top of the list when I'm developing a planet for the Lehola Galaxy. text/html 2026-04-17T13:10:09+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=lore:spacer_confederacy&rev=1776431409&do=diff Spacer Confederacy A very loose collection of independent orbital colonies in the Inner Belt. text/html 2026-04-17T13:08:48+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=lore:inner_belt&rev=1776431328&do=diff Inner Belt The inner belt is an asteroid belt between the orbits of Welkinstead and Moonlitter. It is claimed by the Spacer Confederacy text/html 2026-04-15T00:50:23+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=blog:kingdoms_of_life&rev=1776214223&do=diff Kingdoms of life Aerobic respiration and photosynthesis were developed internally rather than resulting from endosymbiosis of chloroplasts and mitochondria (or rather equivalents to the same). Invertebrates are divided into soft-bodied invertebrates, like worms and mollusks, and hard-bodied invertebrates, like the earlier mentioned yinsects. Vertebrates evolved from soft-bodied invertebrates. text/html 2026-04-12T14:33:42+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=blog:animal_intelligence&rev=1776004422&do=diff Animal Intelligence I found this in the original Obsidian vault I used to organize this project. " A pleasant spring rain patters at my window as I write. Thunder rolls across the sky. For me, a relaxing evening. For my dear little forest flyer, a terror beyond comprehension. As I perch here I can feel it digging its tiny claws into my back, trying to bury itself in my fur. As far as it knows, whatever horror is creating those noises could bring death upon it at any moment. I wish that I coul… text/html 2026-04-12T00:42:26+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=wiki:missing_pages&rev=1775954546&do=diff Missing and Orphaned Pages This page catalogs pages that are referenced in other pages but that don't yet exist. It also shows pages that don't have links to them. Missing Pages Orphaned Pages text/html 2026-04-12T00:41:25+00:00 lurker (lurker@undisclosed.example.com) http://constructed.world/doku.php?id=lore:childermoot&rev=1775954485&do=diff Childermoot A childermoot is a moot that has a litter.