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2026-05-26T01:27:04Z

GreytideSkye moved page User:GreytideSkye/Sandbox/Money/Lore:Moths to User:GreytideSkye/Sandbox/Lore:Moths over redirect: oh god I didn't know

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GreytideSkye: GreytideSkye moved page User:GreytideSkye/Sandbox/Lore:Moths to User:GreytideSkye/Sandbox/Money/Lore:Moths

2026-05-26T01:26:27Z

GreytideSkye moved page User:GreytideSkye/Sandbox/Lore:Moths to User:GreytideSkye/Sandbox/Money/Lore:Moths

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GreytideSkye: /* Mothroaches */ get iconed, nerd

2026-02-20T01:32:48Z

Mothroaches: get iconed, nerd

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	Carbon fiber wings -- which would be easier to print out with lathe and printing technology being this far advanced in the future -- are an option for moths in the fleet. Lighter, durable, and more importantly doesn’t ignite like traditional moth scale. (At least until you hit temperatures in excess of 400C/673K)		Carbon fiber wings -- which would be easier to print out with lathe and printing technology being this far advanced in the future -- are an option for moths in the fleet. Lighter, durable, and more importantly doesn’t ignite like traditional moth scale. (At least until you hit temperatures in excess of 400C/673K)
	<span id="mothroaches"></span>		<span id="mothroaches"></span>
	=== Mothroaches ===		=== Mothroaches [[File:Mothroach.png\|alt=A cute mothroach\|Mothroach]] ===

	Mothroaches are an engineered species, grown specifically to organically produce compatible organ structures to transplant into an injured Moth. While Limbgrowers exist, they require precision mechanisms, electricity, and flesh. A mothroach requires a fistfull of cloth to survive the day. While the organs of the mothroach are not immediately transferable, they serve as enough of a template for surgeons to graft and further develop, coaxing the body’s natural healing to accept and expand them into fully functional replacements.		Mothroaches are an engineered species, grown specifically to organically produce compatible organ structures to transplant into an injured Moth. While Limbgrowers exist, they require precision mechanisms, electricity, and flesh. A mothroach requires a fistfull of cloth to survive the day. While the organs of the mothroach are not immediately transferable, they serve as enough of a template for surgeons to graft and further develop, coaxing the body’s natural healing to accept and expand them into fully functional replacements.
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	<span id="moth-diversity"></span>		<span id="moth-diversity"></span>

	== Moth Diversity ==		== Moth Diversity ==

GreytideSkye: /* Moffs */ spacing and battletech reference

2026-01-28T09:02:02Z

Moffs: spacing and battletech reference

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	Carbon fiber wings -- which would be easier to print out with lathe and printing technology being this far advanced in the future -- are an option for moths in the fleet. Lighter, durable, and more importantly doesn’t ignite like traditional moth scale. (At least until you hit temperatures in excess of 400C/673K)		Carbon fiber wings -- which would be easier to print out with lathe and printing technology being this far advanced in the future -- are an option for moths in the fleet. Lighter, durable, and more importantly doesn’t ignite like traditional moth scale. (At least until you hit temperatures in excess of 400C/673K)

	<span id="mothroaches"></span>		<span id="mothroaches"></span>
	=== Mothroaches ===		=== Mothroaches ===
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	Genetic engineerng and NIF polymorph tech is most likely acceptable, if not encouraged. The survival of the GNF matters greatly, and adapting to one’s environment is a facet of that. Changing one’s shape, size, features or even gender and sex would not be as taboo as in early human cultures.		Genetic engineerng and NIF polymorph tech is most likely acceptable, if not encouraged. The survival of the GNF matters greatly, and adapting to one’s environment is a facet of that. Changing one’s shape, size, features or even gender and sex would not be as taboo as in early human cultures.


	<span id="mothic-language"></span>		<span id="mothic-language"></span>
	== Mothic Language ==		== Mothic Language ==
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	It basically has to be, considering it’s a second generation language that evolved from the GNF rather than on Va Lumia, and more than that, it was developed as a means of faster and reliable communication adapting to life in the fleet rather than on a planet. It would have had to had referenced ideas, idioms and memes from an ancestor language.		It basically has to be, considering it’s a second generation language that evolved from the GNF rather than on Va Lumia, and more than that, it was developed as a means of faster and reliable communication adapting to life in the fleet rather than on a planet. It would have had to had referenced ideas, idioms and memes from an ancestor language.

	Think about how you would ~~prioritise~~ word construction if you needed to communicate to your fleetmates quickly about something important to the Fleet, as you are developing the language:		Think about how you would prioritize word construction if you needed to communicate to your fleetmates quickly about something important to the Fleet, as you are developing the language:

	[Danger in (3D direction)], [Repair Electrical], [Repair Atmospherics], [Repair Mechanical], pathfinding instructions, [Internals On], [Suit On]: would all become single words, contractions or compound words for simplicity’s sake. This would be reflected in the phonology of the Mothic sign language too. It would still mean what it means, but to an outsider it would be incredibly confusing to learn because it’s almost like Mandarin Chinese, a single letter/symbol/word communicates a concept. And these words can compound into more advanced concepts:		[Danger in (3D direction)], [Repair Electrical], [Repair Atmospherics], [Repair Mechanical], pathfinding instructions, [Internals On], [Suit On]: would all become single words, contractions or compound words for simplicity’s sake. This would be reflected in the phonology of the Mothic sign language too. It would still mean what it means, but to an outsider it would be incredibly confusing to learn because it’s almost like Mandarin Chinese, a single letter/symbol/word communicates a concept. And these words can compound into more advanced concepts:

	[Danger in (3D direction)] + [Fire Weapons] = [Attack/Defend from (3D Direction)]<br />		[Danger in (3D direction)] + [Fire Weapons] = [Attack/Defend from (3D Direction)]<br />
	[Danger in (3D direction)] + [Suit On] = [(3D Direction) is space/spaced] ~~etc.~~		[Danger in (3D direction)] + [Suit On] = [(3D Direction) is space/spaced]

	The ethos of how the language works reflects the mentality it takes to leave one’s homeworld to embark forever in a nomadic lifestyle and engineering within the maints of a mass of ships. One does not hold the ancestor language sacred like the Clans of Kerensky in ~~Battletech do~~. ~~“We do what we must in order~~ to ~~survive and persist~~, ~~and so we leave behind the formalities~~ of the ~~old and create a more efficient new in its place~~.”		The ethos of how the language works reflects the mentality it takes to leave one’s homeworld to embark forever in a nomadic lifestyle and engineering within the maints of a mass of ships. One does not hold the ancestor language sacred like the Clans of {{TooltipInline\|Kerensky\|Militant linguists who are in no way related to Battle or Tech. If you were wondering why it took SolFed so long to develop Sol Common, they're no small part of the problem.}} do.

	~~To a modern moth~~, the ~~ancient mothic language would be lyrical~~ and ~~convulted. Taking so much time to communicate~~ in ~~words what they actually mean~~.		“We do what we must in order to survive and persist, and so we leave behind the formalities of the old and create a more efficient new in its place.”

	<!-- https://discord.com/channels/1202740686768574566/1202779287791341609/1351009238700265553 -->		To a modern moth, the ancient mothic language would be lyrical and convoulted. Taking so much time to communicate in words what they actually mean. <!-- https://discord.com/channels/1202740686768574566/1202779287791341609/1351009238700265553 -->
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	~~<span id="va-lumia"></span>~~
	= Va Lumia =		= Va Lumia =

GreytideSkye: infodump, holy cow, arcana, you have done a lot over the years

2026-01-28T08:59:13Z

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2026-01-28T08:44:03Z

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{{LorePageHeader
|colour = dd5511
|hcolour = white
|bcolour = 007F0E
|bhcolour = #007F0E
|ebcolour = 005108
|img = Mothperson.png
|loretype = SPECIES
|mainname = Mothman
|denonyms = Moths
|othernames = Falida (in their tongue)

|relatedlore = [[Lore:Grand Nomad Fleet]], [[Lore:Space]]
|languages = [[File:Mothic.png|16px]]Mothic, sometimes [[File:Spacer.png|16px]]Spacer
}}

= Moffs =
Mothfolk are gregarious, communal driven people set on a forever pilgrimage from a dead solar system that collapsed itself into a nova. In the earliest years of First Contact, they survived in rusted generation ships drifting aimlessly in space under skeptical conditions, with the constant threat of dwindling supplies and an uncertain future hanging over their heads.

= History =
== Pre-FTL ==

The exact origins surrounding these personable nomads is murky, if wildly distorted from person to person at best. Unexplained causes surrounding their homeworld urged the mothfolk to exhaust all their resources in constructing uncomfortable, but efficient generation ships that managed to house tens of thousands. From hundreds to three, many ships didn’t survive the challenges of space. As a result, the circumstances surrounding their beginning and their home planet is lost to complete apocrypha. It’s not known what happened, where it is if it still exists at all, and no form of mothmade medium survived to recount the events. What is implied through the little hints scattered in cuisine, livestock, and plants that managed to survive, was that their homeworld contained a high oxygen atmosphere which enabled moths to evolve into the exoskeletal appearance they present today. Moths present little interest in discovering a past that has no bearing on present day needs. With very little evidence or documentation that survived the trip, they’ve long made peace with a past that refuses to surface, and currently remain as wild speculations shared over coffee.

== First Contact (TBD) ==

When they met humans, it wasn’t with the best first impressions. Limited fuel drove them to piracy over dialogue, and it was only through persistent attempt to contact was when trade realized the better option for their survival. Through joint efforts and trends bleeding into each other’s cultures, humanity has grown to acknowledge the mothfolk as a valuable friend. While moths were ahead of humans in the space race when first encountered, they hit a plateau - they didn’t have the resources or the manpower to grow until humanity caught up and equipped them with the means of interstellar travel that saw these generation ships grow into fully fledged, sophisticated vessels that gathered into the [[Lore:Grand Nomad Fleet|Grand Nomad Fleet]].



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