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WASSIES IN SPACE / WASSIES
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Wassies. In space.
History
Wassies are a biological species that first surfaced around 1957 following a terrible radioactive accident. Generally resembling some sort of cross between a duck, penguin, platypus and rat (depending on strain), Wassies are easily identified by their fatally low intellectual abilities. Although initially spawned in the Wassie-specific micro-continent of Wassland, Wassies have since spread to most of the galaxy and can be found in almost any environment, leading much of the human population to consider them pests.
Most curious of all is the ability of Wassies to respawn after death.
Left to their own devices, Wassies have a maximum lifespan of 14 days due to the half-life of radioactive materials that form their genetic material. Upon the cessation of life, corpses of Wassies quickly disintegrate into base atoms within 2 hours. Astonishingly, these base atoms quickly reassemble at certain spawning locations into a new Wassie which carries with it some memories of its previous life. While Wassies that die tend to respawn by default in Wassland, the location of the spawns of each Wassie can apparently be manipulated.
Exactly how much of the memories is retained is unknown and it is likely that the mode of death may have an impact on memory retention. Over multiple lifetimes, Wassies have been observed developing the capability to use rudimentary tools after multiple fatal accidents. Although Wassies tend to have incredibly short memories, certain Wassies have developed the ability to keep a record of their experiences.
Manifesto
Wassies are generally social creatures and enjoy the company of other Wassies as long as there are sufficient resources to support a community. Naturally curious but incredibly stupid, Wassies enjoy exploring the environment around them in incredibly fatal ways, and it is often after many cycles of death and respawns that a Wassie community is able to maintain a reasonable (approx. 5 day) life expectancy in a new environment.
Wassies are known to be quite risk-taking (this is aided of course by the fact that their consciousness is effectively immortal) and enjoy activities involving chance such as trading wildly speculative commodities with each other and engaging in games of poker. They do not however, develop strategies for these activities given their limited mental capacity, and view these activities as pure coin-flip games purely for entertainment purposes.
Wassies mainly communicate with one another through body language although some more advanced Wassies are able to communicate in a language known as ‘smol’ – a bastardization of the English language with regional differences. Although writings are rare since most Wassies are illiterate (although there are exceptions), artwork is a huge part of Wassie culture and Wassies spend a lot of time creating pieces of art often featuring their own likeness.
Charter
It appears that the radioactive nature of Wassies elicits a strong negative emotive response in some humans. This, combined with the fact that Wassies in human environments often build their communities around kitchen environments and inside of refrigerators has led to most humans considering Wassies to be household pests. Given the fact that their population remains broadly stable, they are not considered to be endangered species and there is no legislation in place to protect Wassies.
