C. M. Kösemen has many times given extra information about many things, especially upon fan request. So my question is, is there any extra info on the Asteromorphs and their evolution, I feel like this topic hasn't been hypothesised as much as it could be. Like how did they evolve their intelligence(I saw a post going deeply into this, exploring the role of simple brain expansion in ape and human differences - Asteromorph intelligence, is biological superintelligence plausible?), how does their society work, how do they even think beyond just describing their cognition to be incomprehensible to mortals.
The new physical version of the book with new art and bonus information was just released and some people in the community already have it now or about get it delivered. Can anyone with the physical copy tell me if there's any new bonus info on this topic (just art would suffice too)?
I’m not sure about anything official (especially since I don’t have the book), but I have heard that Kosemen will expand on the daily lives of the Spacers in the Redux.
As for fanon, I like this idea: (https://www.reddit.com/r/AllTomorrows/comments/1kvgv2j/comment/mubhj2p/?force-legacy-sct=1) Essentially, it speculated that they sort of guided their own evolution, letting children with the largest possible brain be born, and selecting those traits. Essentially eugenics, but to make people smarter.
Apologies for not really answering your question.
Then I'm looking forward to the redux even more now
That's actually pretty good I like it, now I finally understand what people mean by the name 'nero'. I've read it in a few comment sections before
It's not speculation. The book states both that their brains expanded in space but also that they guided it. What I think likely happened is that they observed the phenomenon of their brains expanding in empty space, and hence got a blueprint or basically their evolutionary future, so they accelerated this process artificially. The book mentions that it was done by choosing infants and genetically modifying infants with a larger cranial size as much as possible, maybe quit on normal reproduction for this very reason (I'm really sure they eventually started cloning instead of regular reproduction. I came to this conclusion because of artwork of the asteromorphs wearing no clothes. For example their ancestors 'spacers' did wear clothes, so did the posthuman species. Clothes mostly serve the purpose of hiding sexual/ reproductive organs, that's how they came to be, not to mention this was also around the time the spacers were genetically modifying themselves by artificial means into the Asteromorphs. All of this leads me to believe that the Asteromorphs and their descendants - divine forms - Asteromorph Gods, do not have reproductive organs and instead clone new ones of their kind into existence). Eventually their brain expanded outwards into those wing like features on their heads which you see on the asteromorphs and a prominent feature of the Asteromorph Gods(view my pfp). There is some interesting speculation you can make from this - brain expands into thin wing like film.
No, this comment was quite helpful. Thanks
Yeah that makes sense if they stopped reproducing naturally. Especially if they’re guiding their own evolution, it almost makes more sense to run some type of super advanced algorithm based on their genetic data, and then gestate the DNA sequence that creates the Asteromorph with the biggest brain.
As for the whole clothes aspect, I disagree on the primary purpose of clothes being to hide sexual organs. Humans wear clothes mostly because our bare skin is delicate and susceptible to hot or cold weather, though I do agree that it does help in hiding sexual organs. Although this might just be a problem for territorial/dominant races like humans.
For example, the Pterosapien in the book wears no clothes besides a hat, her genitals on display. This is probably because she lives in a warm climate, and also because Pterosapiens are super egalitarian and could probably mate with anyone if they desired.
Likewise, you could have a Satyriac-like species who migrated to a cold climate, and, despite being sexually open to anyone, wear clothes so they don’t freeze.
I think clothing can just serve as environmental protection, just for hiding sexual organs, or (like in humans) serve both.
Of course the Asteromorphs didn’t have any need for environmental protection, having created an environment perfect for them to live in. Therefor, clothing may not be needed in such an environment. You also have to consider that a zero-g environment might make any clothing outside of a skintight suit impractical— mostly because flowy clothes could get snagged on things.
Though I would also agree that the absence of genitals would help people further get on board with the idea of getting rid of otherwise unneeded clothes. It was probably a combination of factors that led them to give up clothing.
I found a video talking about the Spacers in the Redux!!!!!!
It’s at about 2:36 (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwM5kTFECHg&pp=ygUUQWxsIHRvbW9ycm93cyByZWR1eCA%3D)
This is amazing!! Exactly what I was looking for, Thank you