Types of Sentient Being

The following is a partial list of those beings - semi-/divine, organic, and mechanical - that have exhibited sentience in Oh These, Those Stars of Space episodes.

* *Altarenes*. Altarenes are an organic humanoid species, who sometimes have silver skin and elfin ears. Donatello Rosejack, architect of the Correxian-Vermont Alliance's ship Gigantix, was an Altarene, suggesting that their home planet may lie within the CVA. To date, no PC has been an Altarene.
* *Angiosperms*. Angiosperms are an organic plantoid species. Begonia Bloodterror, Hellebore Chokevenom, and Magentena Chokevenom were all Angiosperms. Many more Angiosperm NPCs appeared in Flower Power. Their home planet is Angio Prime, and their government structure is monarchical. They first appeared in The Little Bambinos.
* *Bobobians*. The Bobobians are an enigmatic, lint-based life form that have appeared, as NPCs only, in many Oh These Those Stars of Space episodes. Their home planet has been referred to as both Bobob and Bobobia. Its location and political structure is yet to be revealed. Bobobian space bandits perpetrated the wicked deceptions of A Tablespoon of Danger, and Bobobian remains were visible aboard the Vanguard vessel from which Feniac 100 was rescued, raising the intriguing question of whether they were raiders or if Bobobians serve in the Concilium. Bobobian culture is also mysterious, although, as a Bobobian worked at the theatre in Spacemellow Hollow and was staging a play from Earth, at least one Bobobian has displayed a familiarity with or even fondness for human culture. The mysteries of the Bobobians have been partially illuminated by Her Grace the Duchess Brown's dalliance with Werimether in Hint. If she and her husband are representative members of their species, and if she is a reliable source--far from certain, in either case--then we know that Bobobian lifespans are short, or that their homeworld has a very lengthy orbital period (or both), since "three years" is deemed a hefty age gap between sexual partners. We know something more of their anatomy, futhermore, through this source: that Bobobians don't have noses, and have no "real" sense of smell, despite the ability to "sort of fluff [a nose-like protuberance] out"; that Bobobians reproduce sexually; can receive and sure do enjoy cunnilingus; can have penises, which can in turn suffer from age-related erectile dysfunction (which *may* imply a circulatory system). Finally, their lint-like nature is incompatible with Bubbsriel's reincarnation powers, suggesting that Space Jehovah is not worshipped on Bobob.
* *Bretonians*. The Bretonians dwell exclusively on the icy world of Bretonia Prime, mostly in the lush jungles of its deep canyons. They were hyperwarp-capable once, but had little interest in space, at least until Threadcount 900 illegally gave them Vanguard spacefaring technology. They are a horny, organic, humanoid people, who wear too many earrings and have an extra nostril on their chin, an evolution it is believed they developed for extra smelling. They are sexually incompatible with Philadelphians, though one at least has shown willing to fail in the attempt. Clare President described them as a semi-democratic, Kardashev Type-1 society, whose social hierarchy is based on psyches. So far, they have only appeared once, in Everybody Must Get Stone.
* *Butterfly People*. Only one Butterfly Person has appeared in Oh These Those Stars of Space so far, Mary Chesterfrank, played by Ali Fisher, in King of Queens.
* *Carcosans*. Only one Carcosan has appeared aboard the CSS Cavalierso far, Baron Baudelaire, played by Taylor Moore. Carcosans, like camp followers, are not formally part of the Vanguard, but permitted to run services and businesses in their infrastucture. They have evolved a symbiotic relationship with the species known as God's-Bottoms. Their home planet is Carcosa. They first appeared in The Resilient Children. There has also been one Carcosan NPC, Holdus Takeus, whose palanquin was *not* carried by God's-Bottoms. He appeared as the antagonist in Claremire.
* *Cats*. Cats have appeared as both player characters and NPCs in Oh These Those Stars of Space, although they vary so wildly in size, sentience, and abilities that it is far from clear if they all belong to the same species. At the large end of the spectrum is player character Chestashire, played by Ali Fisher, and at the other end of the spectrum is little Marvin Blond, played by Tim Platt. There have also been NPC cats, such as General Eisenhower, a non-verbal, non-Irish cat appearing in The Normal Show. They first appeared in Crisis on Luthlex-7.
* *Correxians*. The dominant partners in the Correxian-Vermont Alliance, the scaly, micro-brewing Correxians are a humanoid organic species who have largely appeared as the main antagonists in Oh These Those Stars of Space so far. Their political structure favours powerful feudal aristocrats, such as the hot-sounding arch-duke who enjoyed hot sex with Legs Loveless on Xanadu Hard, and most of the Correxians we have seen have been overtly hostile towards Vanguard ships. However, the mild-mannered yet conventionally-attractive schoolteacher of Spacemellow Hollow, who flirted pleasantly with Groomda, was also a Correxian. To date, Correxians have only appeared as NPCs; the first named one was Bradley, who transgressed his nation's strict laws against non-craft beers by drinking a Bud Light Lime offered him by Baron Baudelaire in The Resilient Children.
* *Crunbos*. The Crunbos of Crunbos Prime are a devious, humanoid organic species with two noses and therefore, maintaining the universal constant nose-balls ratio, four balls. Thomas Dewey, who has treated a thousand or so species across the universe, was very perturbed by the uniqueness of their two noses (however, the fact of the nose-balls constant suggests that there are species with *more* than two noses, or perhaps decimals). They have sky-blue skin and their culture currently favours the roomy and stylish robe in bright, power-clashing colours. Crunbos Prime has coasts and riding animals that resemble diminutive Space Horses. So far Crunbos have only appeared once, in The Curious Case of the Crunbo.
* *Digi-Lords*. Only two Digi-Lords have appeared in Oh These Those Stars of Space so far, in These Electric Kings, These Digital Lords!. They are neither organic nor do they exist in physical space, but they are sentient, united, and highly motivated.
* *Drillians*. Organic, mammalian organisms, Drillians are said to resemble four foot tall yellow moles. So far they have only been seen as NPCs, in Bride and Vroom.
* *Fallacenes*. Only one Fallacene has appeared in Oh These Those Stars of Space so far, Scorpio Ni-Yeer, played by Branson Reese. They first appeared in The Jungle Book.
* *Foldavians*. Only one Foldavian has appeared in Oh These Those Stars of Space so far, Cargo Pantangelo, played by guest Mattie Lubchansky in Footsteps. However, Mattie stated that you could tell Cargo was a Foldavian "right off the bat as their entire sexy little body is wrinkles and folds", suggesting that Foldavians have a very iconic and seldom-varying appearance. Their homeworld is Wrinklo-6.
* *Gods*. Space contains four confirmed Gods, as revealed in Zoosex the Mighty. Two of these are accounted for: Kwoo, who appears in Who Do Dare and Mission Accomplished, and Space Jehovah, who appears in The Resilient Children, Top of the Computer To Ya, and Connect the Botz. These Gods are shown to have very different value systems. The remaining two confirmed Gods have not yet featured on the podcast.
* *Groomda*. According to the research of Aubrey Lysander, and the events of The Prince and the Tentacle, Groomda is not, precisely, a species at all. He is certainly organic, and exhibits multiple characteristics of some sort of pluralised sentience, however, and so *Groomda is on the list*.
* *Humans*. This vanilla species, organic and humanoid, whose homeworld is Earth, forms a major or minor ethnic bloc within the Correxian-Vermont Alliance, the Concilium, and the Astro-Soviet Collective. All of the cast has played humans, including five characters within the first episode, Who Do Dare. Some humans within Oh These Those Stars of Space are mutated to the point that it is not completely clear that they are still humans, such as the urchins Limoncello and Boboli, and the débutante Froglevel Casketshowroom. Other humans, such as the three-armed, severally-genitaled Legs Loveless, have been explained to simply be the beneficiaries of futuristic body modifications.
* *Kleepies*. Kleepies are said to "look like humans but have green hair". Only one Kleepie has appeared in Oh These Those Stars of Space so far, Très Bien, played by Tim Platt, in Bovine Alley.
* *Lucifarians*. The only *genetically* evil species, whose homeworld is Lucifar, the Lucifarians may have only appeared so far as NPCs, *OR* may have been played by Ali Fisher in the person of Doctor Red Field, depending on what her deal was in An Evening of Cards and Boxwine. Lucifar, and its many Lucifarians, appears in See You in Hell.
* *Luthlexians*. This formerly-doomed species look exactly like humans but with white hair (except for one Luthlexian who was black-haired. Since they were a baby, and the only Luthlexian child to yet appear, it is possible that, like swans or wild boar, Luthlexians change hue as they age). A highly-advanced but pompous civilisation, their home planet of Luthlex-7 was almost destroyed by unusual tectonics, which they mostly ignored. They were saved by the crew of the CSS Cavalier during the events of Crisis on Luthlex-7. Their green sun dampens abilities which the yellow sun of Earth would bring out; preliminary scans suggest these abilities include the proportional speed and strength of a spider, or possibly a preternatural facility with boomerangs. However, since their culture is profoundly isolationist, this is unlikely to ever be tested, especially since the one Luthlexian scientist with a penchant for stocking interplanetary missiles with babies has been killed. Only NPCs have been Luthlexians to date.
* *Nebraxans*. These, the organic inhabitants of Snaxxon-4 orbit a blue giant, live simple agrarian lives, and are strongly religious. Contact between them and the Concilium is interdicted by treaty with the Correxian-Vermont Alliance, who have infiltrated their society to ensure the treaty is respected. Any chances of them developing spaceflight technology themselves have been damaged by exposure to Albany Kids-Menu. So far they have only been seen once, as NPCs, in Ad Hominem.
* *Orcons.* Sometimes mistaken for Earth's dolphins, whom they closely resemble, the organic mammalian organisms of Orco can be distinguished therefrom by their flowing green hair. Delicious Caramel, Baron Baudelaire's old pranking frenemy and Correxian Viceroy on Vroomex-9: The Speed Moon, was an Orcon; that a non-Correxian/non-Vermonter has reached such an exalted position within the Correxian-Vermont Alliance implies that Orco lies somewhere within its borders. So far, no PC has played an Orcon.
* *Philadelphians*. Inhabitants of Earth's closest moon, the planet of Philadelphia, which orbits the earth at a dangerously low altitude, Philadelphians are giant cockroaches. Liberty Balboa is a Philadelphian, as was his opponent in Fightstar, Tuxedo Entrée, who went to Wharton. A small Philadelphian boy was also seen joyously whitewashing fences in Spacemellow Hollow. Philadelphians first appeared in Everybody Must Get Stone.
* *Robots*. Some non-organic, mechanical intelligences have appeared in Oh These Those Stars of Space, such as the android brothers Scion and Threadcount 900, the love-bot Don Valentino, and several NPCs. Some robots appear to have developed their own distinct cultures and territories, such as the duplicitous metamorphers of Deceitaplex-Delta. Griefscream, a competitor in Fightstar who could transform into a plane, hailed from Deceitaplex-Delta, and had participated in his planet's resistance to Space Bird occupation before he was tortured by Carboat Bin Laden.
* *Seculids*. An organic, translucent, humanoid species, who long to die for others, as doing so allows them to come back as a captain, but they can't choose their allergy, or in a random profession but with a chosen allergy, the only Seculid seen so far in Oh These Those Stars of Space is Eusebius Carter, played by Tim Platt in See You in Hell.
* *Silver Carperfish*. After the tauntings of Joe Lepore in Overtime that none of the cast had dared to play an ichthyoid organic species, Christopher Hastings stepped up by playing the podcast's only Silver Carperfish so far, Blooperno Illion, first appearing in Information War.
* *Skitterers*. A diminutive, nightmarish, organic species with an extraordinary capacity for violence, only one Skitterer has appeared in Oh These Those Stars of Space so far, Klaus Kitski, played by Branson Reese. The specifics of Klaus' homeworld's layout may have been obscured by the trauma of Klaus' immense guilt, since the information about it has occasionally been contradictory. However, the latest description suggests that Skittering-5 is one of a collection of contiguous planets arranged in a circular string-of-pearls configuration, allowing Skitterers easy access from one sphere to another.
* *Space Angels*. Only one Space Angel has so far appeared in Oh These Those Stars of Space, Bubbsriel, played by Carly Monardo. Bubbsriel appears to be a traditional angel of the post-medieval Christian conception thereof: she has only one pair of eyes, one pair of wings, no gold wheels, and does not exhibit Ismah in the podcast. However, Bubbsriel may be an atypical example of a Space Angel. They first appeared in The Resilient Children.
* *Space Birds*. The dominant species, or possibly clade, of the Space Bird Techtopia, the Space Birds were mysterious behind-the-scenes antagonists until Tale as Old as Space. They appear to be organic, aviform, and militaristic. They are known to hire outside their own species, or possibly clade, in order to obtain access to precocious talent, such as in the case of Spake torturers. They are known to value torture as an information extraction technique. They engage in interplanetary colonialism, as has been referenced in The Wa of Aqua and Fightstar. They export most of the Galaxium that the Concilium consumes, and according to the escaped slaves in An Evening of Cards and Boxwine, this is all mined using humanoid slaves. They have only a rudimentary notion of fiction as a concept, although when tantalised with a glimpse, they have liked what they saw. So far, the only Space Birds on the podcast have been NPCs; however, see below.
* *Space Ducks*. The bodily expression of love between a human and a bird in space, who may or may not be a Space Bird, has proven fecund in at least three cases: Rupert, Dupert, and Poopert, Gelmire's Nephews. Whether the boys' mother is a Space Bird, or if Space Ducks are a separate culture altogether, is currently ambiguous. Space Birds, as a group, include albatross-like organisms and owl-like organisms (see Hint), and most impartial observers would allow that ducks lie somewhere on the spectrum between those two types of bird. For the time being, the question can only remain unanswered.
* *Space Horses*. Only one Space Horse has appeared in Oh These Those Stars of Space so far, Scandal, played by Carly Monardo. In Incident on the Humphrey, the hive-like nature of Space Horses was discussed, with a single sexually-active mother known only as 'Mummy' responsible for all known Space Horse offspring. However, certain revelations that come within that episode make all such information dubious at best. They first appeared in Missionary Impossible.
* *Spakes*. Carboat Bin Laden, the CSS Cavalier's humble vape salesman, is a Spake. Another Spake was briefly seen in Incident on the Humphrey. Spakes appear to have a close but semi-independent working relationship with the Space Bird Techtopia. They are an organic species, straddling the border between arachnids and serpentes, but heavily augmented, in both cases we have so far met, with cybernetic implants. They first appeared in Information War.
* *Tootlords*. A long-lived, gaseous organism, known in the Concilium by the exonym 'Tampans', only one Tootlord has so far appeared in the podcast so far, Clare President, played by Taylor Moore. The Tootlords' home is a nebula, known by the endonym 'Heaven's Paradise' and by the colonisers' exonym of 'New Tampa'. Tootlords enjoy intermingling in a tradition they call 'The Soaking', and can also be inhaled by humans, as Gelmire Lysander demonstrated in Claremire. Sadly, although this process grants the human in question incredible powers, some critics have lamented that they do not quite go "full Venom". They first appeared in Everybody Must Get Stone.
* *Zinfandoliens.* A plantoid, organic orgamism, whose exonym is Zinfandaliens, (the humans "had some fun with it"), Zinfandolians resemble three-foot tall bunches of grapes with ice-blue eyes. They have powerful bioelectric abilities but if they can be defeated their corpses can be, and have been, turned into wine. So far they have only appeared as NPCs, in Claremire.