[quote=marcopolonian]
Are there organisms swimming around that aren't and have never been under anyone's influence, just doing their own thing? Or are our entities' taxons (and the taxons that separated from them, like the Forgotten) the only living things on the planet?If the former, would we be allowed to begin influencing those things?I don't (think I) need to know this for my next post, I'm simply curious.
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I'm thinking that, as the entities progress, they abandon their older creations for more recent ones. And so, the older taxons become free game, for those who don't want to start from scratch and experiment a little. We only have so much Sphere Space, after all.