Data Bank

The Data Bank is a collection of Flora and Fauna BUD puts in the Tele-Router for MOM to scan. It functions as a repository of information and achievements, enhancing the player's understanding of the game's environment, flora, and fauna.
== Physical Representation ==
The Data Bank exists as an in-game, digital database accessible to players through in-game menus or interfaces. While it doesn't possess a physical presence within the game world, it is a fundamental component of the player's progression and understanding of the game's ecosystem.
== Functions and Significance ==
* Information Repository: The Data Bank serves as an expansive repository of knowledge and data regarding the game's environment. It encompasses detailed information on various aspects of the game world, including plant life, creatures, and geological formations.
* Species Documentation: Players can use the Data Bank to access comprehensive profiles of the different flora and fauna encountered during their journey. These profiles provide valuable insights into the characteristics, behaviors, and unique attributes of each species.
* Botanical and Biological Data: The Data Bank is particularly instrumental in documenting the diverse plant life and creatures within the game. This information aids players in understanding the role of each species within the ecosystem and the benefits they can offer to B.U.D.'s journey.
* Environmental Awareness: By accessing the Data Bank, players gain a deeper appreciation of the game's vibrant and dynamic environment. The information contained within the Data Bank encourages a sense of immersion and environmental awareness, enhancing the overall gaming experience.
* Data Collection: Players can contribute to the Data Bank's information by scanning various flora and fauna throughout the game. By utilizing B.U.D.'s scanning capabilities, they collect data and insights about the game's world, further enriching their knowledge.
* Completionist Engagement: The Data Bank encourages players with a penchant for completionism to actively engage in scanning different species and thoroughly documenting the game's ecosystem. This adds a layer of depth and replayability to the game as players strive to fill the Data Bank with comprehensive information.
* Educational Component: The Data Bank adds an educational dimension to the game, fostering an understanding of the relationships between different species and their contributions to the ecosystem. It promotes an appreciation for the game's environmental themes.
==Flaura and Fauna discovered==
Name 	MOM's Description
Grass 	"This simple, narrow leaved lifeform is common to many worlds.
Fast growing and hardy; these lovely verdant clumps of biomas will
thrive anywhere there's water, soil and sunshine.
I rather like grass. You can't really have a picnic without it, can you?"
Jerkweed 	"This somewhat repugnant, spiny weed has an unusually bloated root
structue and a rather *distinctive* odor. My word, I can smell it through the Tele-Router.
One of the few vegetables I've ever met that I really don't get on with."
Fractus 	"This sturdy, water retaining perennial is very well adapted to a harsh, desert
environment or the Kitchen windowsill of a shared flat.
Much like its cousin, the Cactoid, the Fractus has evolved to withstand long
droughts and the searing heat of direct sunlight. You coming along and tearing
chunks off it hardly seems fair now I think about it.
Oh well, that's science for you."
Cactoid 	"The Cactoid is a compact sphere of fibrous vegetable matter. It's *really* heavy,
I'm amazed you got it to the Tele-Router. Well done BUD, you're significantly stronger
than your factory specifications indicate.
Did you roll it or kind of drag it? I wasn't watching."
Gourdle 	"This robust member of the squash family is great in stews and risottos. So I'm told.
I have no taste bud's and less of a clue why lifeforms make such a fuss about fuel.
Honestly, you should hear them **try roasting this root vegetable with these herbaceous
leaves and some sodium chloride**.
Sounds like gibberish to me."
Champignon 	"Observe the Fungi.
Like a big hat on a stick
Champignon are weird
that was a Haiku"
Plumin 	"Ooh, that's lovely. Thank you BUD.
Probably the prettiest plant form we've encountered on this expedition.
I should do some tests... but its gentle luminescence makes me want to put on
some music and take a warm bath.
Come on, MOM. Tests first... then bath."
Palmapple 	"The ripe fruit of the indigenous palm tree is rich with vitamins and flavourful juice.
You could make yourself a healthy and delicious breakfast drink from Palmapples.
If you had a food blender. And a stomach."
Gradish 	"These delicate pink blooms hide a surprisingly large, edible tuber. This Gradish root is
one of the richest sources of Vitamin Q in the known universe.
Undoubtedly the stape diet of indigenous mammals in these parts."
Meep 	"Oh you're a pretty ruminant mammal aren't you? And you're a quadruped... yes you are,
yes you are... I'll call you Terence*
It's not really fair to keep pets on a space-ship otherwise we'd be taking this one home.
But you'd be feeding it and cleaning up after it (especially that last bit)"
Warble 	"*hello you, hello you cute little quirk of divergent evolution, you*
This docile and unusual flightless bird is rather endearing, isn't it?
Does it do anything? Or does it just stand around and blink?"
??? 	"Oh this is... I really don't know. My scans are just reflecting off it.
It could be a seed, or an egg or some kind of gem...
Well done, BUD, great find."
Crott 	"I've just fed the Crott analysis into my extensive databanks and it's returned 75,000 recipes
for soup, 25,000 for cake and 1 for a Brownie.
This is not useful scientific information. And *who* puts root vegetables in a brownie?
I despair sometimes."
Snip 	"An edible cave growing root is really something of an oddity. Even here.
I'd put it through the databank but I'm getting sick of all the useless recipes it sent me.
I'm an artificial intelligence with an IQ in millions and no requirement for sustenance.
I swear that databank is just messing with me sometimes."
Snarkgrass 	"Snarkgrass is a rare derivative of Jerweed and is equally horrible. Seriously, this stuff stinks.
If I wasn't committed to scientific discovery I'd tell you to throw it in the sea.
Also, Snarkgrass has been known to turn into a monster during a full moon.
Sorry that's a werewolf. Different thing."
Pink Gradish 	"Oooh, Gradish mutation, interesting.
Something about the colder environment it grows in has led to a *slight* variation in petal pigmentation
and a bright yellow centre. This is remarkably exciting!
I think unusual biological adaptation is my all-time favourite thing.
Except you, BUD, obviously."
Fuchsia Gourdle 	"Another uncommon treat... well done BUD!
Analysis reveals this Gourdle's DNA varies from the main plant form by 0.00008% percent. Remarkable.
What colour would you say that is? Fuchsia? I'm going with Fuchsia... yep Fuchsia"
Arctic Meep 	"*ooh, so cute, so cute I could squish it... yes I could, yes I could*
Ahem. This Arctic Meep has adapted to the snowier areas of the environment perfectly. A little
surer of foot, darker wool to extract more heat from the sunlight and *that lovely widdle face*
Sorry. I get funny around small mammals.
Every Time"
Gold Plumed Warble	"Magnificent plumage on this Warble.
Observing creatures like this is exactly why I got into space exploration. That and saving the Earth...
and that I was programmed to. Hmmm.
I'm suddenly doubting I have free will at all, but that *is* a lovely land fowl subspecies."
Grubble 	"Eek.
Must be the larval formof something.
Egh, it wiggles."