The GalaxiVI Journal
Original lore studies, astronomy explainers and design notes. Launch articles are editorial features, not breaking news.
5 articles
Exploring the imagined world of Mantids
The Mantids destination in GalaxiVI is a fictional presentation world. Its terrain, atmosphere, body designs and spacecraft are artistic choices, not a discovered.
Mantids · 2 min read ↗Mantids and the problem of a single timeline
An unfamiliar anatomy prompts useful questions for a designer. Articulated forelimbs need working space, sensory organs need a field of view, and a control surface should suit the body using it. Those.
Mantids · 2 min read ↗The Mantids spacecraft design notebook
Our bioship uses repeated rib structures and translucent planted compartments. Organic-looking does not mean that a vessel is alive. The illustration leaves open whether those shapes represent grown material,.
Mantids · 2 min read ↗Locating Mantids: the map and its limits
The origin label for Mantids is: Not established; encounter and channelled accounts differ. That is a source association, not an established inhabited.
Mantids · 2 min read ↗Mantids: an introduction to the stories
Mantid or insectoid beings appear in some encounter narratives, but no single home world or history is established. The resemblance to a terrestrial mantis is a descriptive comparison, not a biological.
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