Character Design - Tardigrade
Tardigrades
Tardigrades have long been known to be the makers of all that is known and unknown.
They are considered to be the seekers of knowledge even before time itself. They developed 'Tardi', a material that is spun and woven by master Tardigrades.
Every planet, satellite and star in this dimension and others are projects initiated by the Tardigrades. They shrink down to an appropriate size depending on the planet, and weave strings together to create the fabric of life. As they shrink down to sub atomic sizes, their skin becomes impenetrable and can withstand any amount of heat, cold, pressure and anything that can be measured, which makes it perfect to travel through space and time.
Humans tried to theorise this into string theory but haven’t managed to prove it conclusively with their limited understanding of things beyond the sub atomic level.
On their home planet, Tardigrades are large humanoid creatures that store all their knowledge in organic living plants which act like a supercomputer. They have long realised that no amount of advancements in technology would surpass what Nature had to offer. This supercomputer, if we can call it that, is fondly called the Garden of Stars. The plants due to their dense knowledge content, secrete a bioluminescent substance that create stars as we know it.
These stars act like relays for Tardigrades to transfer knowledge from all parts of the known and unknown world to their home planet.
Tardigrades have a very simple yet efficient hierarchy of functioning. There are four factions within Tardigrades.
Master Tardigrades - who resemble mages and are information processors. They are the only ones who can process this information and covert it into Tardi substance.
Botanist Tardigrades - who take care of the functioning of the Garden of Stars. They are like the the WBCs and the RBCs of this system.
Soldier Tardigrades - who are purely designed to protect the home planet at all costs. The sacred gate keepers.
Weaver Tardigrades - who are master weavers. They take the Tardi material and scale down to the appropriate size to weave life in all dimensions.
Botanist Tardigrades:
Tardigrades on their home planet are quite large in size. So they are not indestructible like they are when they are shrunk. To protect the Garden of Stars and themselves, they wear specially designed hazmat suits while going through their regular maintenance rounds. They spend most of their time nurturing plants and sorting and archiving knowledge stored in them. But if anything should threaten their sacred store of knowledge, they stand shoulder to shoulder with Soldier Tardigrades and put up a strong fight.
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