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Pinkie Pie (MLP)

**Pinkie Pie** (full name **Pinkamena Diane Pie**) is a pink hyperactive earth pony. Her cutie mark, a trio of balloons, represents her talent for spreading hope and joy, and her desire to entertain her friends. She is a party planner at Sugarcube Corner, a bakery and confectionery store that resembles a gingerbread house, and owns a toothless pet alligator named Gummy. A comic reliefcharacter who was raised on a "dreary rock farm", Pinkie is defined as a "hard worker" motivated in seeing people she loves smile and relieving them of stress, by randomly throwing parties and acting as outlandish as possible; but has a lack of confidence and a fear of being rejected by others. Pinkie is a source of much of the series' humor, and several of the show's "wacky gags" are kept exclusive to her (running gags include breaking the fourth wall and "appearing suddenly in unexpected places", as well as an ability to predict future events through various body reactions, which she calls the "Pinkie Sense"). While Pinkie appears to be the naive party animal of the group, she also displays admirable skill in science and engineering. In "Swarm of the Century", she devised a technical solution to Ponyville's infestation problems in a scenario where magic had failed, and built a flying machine to keep up with Rainbow Dash in the episode "Griffon the Brush Off".
Spike (MLP)

**Spike** is a purple baby dragon with green spines. Spike was orphaned as an egg and hatched by a young Twilight Sparkle as part of her entrance exam for Celestia's academy; he is raised among Twilight's family as her adopted younger brother. Spike fulfills the role of Twilight's "number one assistant" to which he is named so for his loyalty and skill at helping Twilight solve problems and learn lessons. He also has a crush on Rarity, an insatiable appetite for sparkly gems, and the ability to send letters via his fiery dragon breath. In season eight's eleventh episode "Molt Down", he gains wings after going through molting. At the end of the show, he becomes Twilight's royal adviser. Spike acts as a foil to Twilight and her friends in terms of personality, size and shape which "provides plenty of opportunity for exploring this difference in storylines". Faust envisioned the character as "the sensitive little boy who has a lot of sisters and just seems to get along better with girls".[10] On Spike's role as a dragon outsider living among ponies, Meghan McCarthy says, "He's trying to figure out who he is. What beyond being Twilight's assistant is his role in this world? I think he really reflects how everybody feels at some point in their life".[11]
Bugs Bunny

**Bugs Bunny** is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.[4] Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the *Looney Tunes* and *Merrie Melodies* series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Though a similar character called Happy Rabbit debuted in the WB cartoon *Porky's Hare Hunt* (1938) and appeared in a few subsequent shorts, the definitive character of Bugs is widely credited to have made his debut in director Tex Avery's Oscar-nominated film *A Wild Hare* (1940).[1] Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray and white rabbit or hare who is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality. He is also characterized by a Brooklyn accent, his portrayal as a trickster, and his catch phrase "Eh...What's up, doc?". Due to Bugs' popularity during the golden age of American animation, he became not only an American cultural icon and the official mascot of Warner Bros. Entertainment, but also one of the most recognizable characters in the world. He can thus be seen in the older Warner Bros. company logos.[5] Since his debut, Bugs appeared in more than 150 cartoons produced between 1940 and 1964.[6] He has also starred in feature films, compilations, TV series, music records, comics, video games, award shows, amusement park rides, and commercials. He has also appeared in more films than any other cartoon character,[7] is the 9th most-portrayed film personality in the world,[7] and has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[8]
Rarity (MLP)

**Rarity** is a white glamorous unicorn with a curled violet mane. Her cutie mark, a trio of diamonds, represents her talent for prospecting gemstones and her love of art and beauty. She is a ladylike fashionista and businessperson who speaks with a Mid-Atlantic accent and runs a franchise of brand name flagship stores throughout Equestria; she operates out of an *haute couture* salon in Ponyville called Carousel Boutique. Despite her arrogant and melodramatic tendencies, she has a generous spirit and strives to create dresses that capture their wearers' inner beauty. She owns a pet Persian cat named Opalescence who is commonly nicknamed Opal, and has a younger sister named Sweetie Belle.
Kite Mites

The **Kite Mites** are a group of air-dwelling mites living in the Second Carboniferous.

## Description

Kite Mites are large, flat, mat-like organisms which spend their entire lives in the air. Adults range from two to ten feet in diameter depending on the species. They evolved from scavenger mites which adapted for a largely airborne lifestyle and, facing few predators in the air due to the mass extinction, were able to grow very large. Incapable of powered flight, Kite Mites instead rely on their light weight, low density, and aerodynamic shape to stay aloft on air currents for their entire lives. A grounded Kite Mite will usually not survive.

Lacking intelligence, these animals feed continuously and automatically on streams of small airborne organisms, including bacteria, protozoa, tiny spiderlings, and other airborne mites and springtails. They use their pedipalps, modified into long strands covered in thick setae, to filter these organisms out of the air and scrape them directly into their mouths.

Kite Mite reproduction happens entirely in the air. The sexes release their separate gametes, spores which mingle in the air and develop into larvae. Although fully aerial life cycles are most common, some Kite Mite larvae live partially terrestrial lives, feeding on detritus before eventually getting the urge to launch themselves into wind currents where they will spend the rest of their lives.
Sunset Shimmer

Sunset Shimmer is a unicorn from Equestria who resides in the alternative universe as a student at Canterlot High. In the films, the character is depicted to be a renegade student of Princess Celestia, who was once corrupted but is later reformed. She is the main antagonist of the first film, but gradually puts her past behind her and completes her redemption. She is now one of the protagonists and leader of the parallel universe counterparts of the main characters. In *Friendship Games*, she helps save Twilight Sparkle's parallel universe counterpart from magical corruption. She is a guitarist and backup vocalist in the Rainbooms, and can read others' minds by physical touch.
Body decoration

**Body decoration** was a part of every salticid culture. It involved scavenging or creating decorations which were then attached temporarily or permanently to the body as adornment.

## Differences From Human Body Decoration

Unlike humans, salticids never wore clothes, due to a lack of both the concept of modesty and physiology involving body heat. Body decoration for salticids ranged from limited to extreme, but was entirely based on aesthetics. Also unlike humans, due to the sturdy nature of arthropod exoskeletons and the fact of molting, permanent modification of the body was seen more often.

## Materials

Materials used in salticid body decoration include:

* Pieces of spider exoskeleton, collected from dead bodies or exuvium, from the wearer or another spider;
* Exoskeletons from other arthropods, mainly insects and especially colorful beetles;
* Bone plates, hollowed or thinned into decorative wafers;
Riku

Riku (リク) is a childhood friend and rival of Sora who resides with him and Kairi on the world of Destiny Islands.[1] Originally appearing as a non-playable character in the original game, where he is introduced as 15 years old, he has a playable role in the "Reverse/Rebirth" story mode of *Chain of Memories*, the multiplayer mode of *358/2 Days*, and the core story of *Dream Drop Distance*. He is also a computer-controlled party member exclusive to the final level of *Kingdom Hearts II*, and is temporarily playable during a sequence where Sora is incapacitated in the game's final boss battle. Riku is also briefly playable at several points in the "Dark World" in *Kingdom Hearts III* and is playable a few times in the *Re Mind* expansion of *Kingdom Hearts III*. His signature weapon is the "Soul Eater" sword, a manifestation of the darkness in his heart. During the first game, Riku is revealed to be the rightful owner of Sora's Keyblade, which is bequeathed onto the five-year-old Riku by Terra during the events of *Birth by Sleep*; however, his reliance on the power of darkness causes the Keyblade to reject Riku in favor of Sora. In *Kingdom Hearts II*, the 16-year-old Riku acquires another Keyblade of his own, the "Way to the Dawn"; this Keyblade is later broken in *Kingdom Hearts III*, leading him to obtain a new Keyblade, "Braveheart". During the invasion of Heartless in *Kingdom Hearts*, Riku immerses himself in darkness to discover new worlds beyond his home. Arriving at Hollow Bastion, Riku is manipulated by Maleficent into aiding her plans for world conquest in exchange for knowledge to restoring Kairi's missing heart. He is later tricked into allowing Xehanort's Heartless, Ansem, to possess his body. Following Ansem's defeat, Riku helps Sora and King Mickey close the door to Kingdom Hearts, remaining on the other side with the king. In *Chain of Memories*, DiZ helps Riku escape from the dark realm. Initially rejecting his darkness out of guilt for his betrayal, Riku resolves to wield both powers of light and darkness to battle Ansem, whose essence lingers in his heart. In *Kingdom Hearts II*, Riku is forced to harness Ansem's power to capture Roxas in order to restore Sora's missing memories, assuming the Heartless's physical appearance as a result; after the Heartless is destroyed by DiZ's exploding heart encoder, Riku returns to his regular appearance, and he and Sora return to the Destiny Islands together following Xemnas's defeat. In *Dream Drop Distance*, he and Sora undertake a Mark of Mastery exam in preparation for Xehanort's return. Riku is promoted to Keyblade Master after venturing into Sora's dreams twice in the form of a Dream Eater to protect him from Xehanort. He subsequently embarks with Mickey in *Kingdom Hearts III* to rescue Aqua from the realm of darkness.
Ants

**Ants** are a diverse and near-ubiquitous group of hymenopteran insects found in most environments on Earth in the Second Carboniferous.

## History

Ants as a group evolved from a ground-dwelling wasp ancestor in the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous Period. Their morphology and eusocial lifestyle proved extremely successful, and ants made up a significant amount of the global animal population from that time through the late Anthropocene. While the Sixth Mass Extinction did damage to their populations, especially more specialized species, it did not cause their extinction and more than half of ant species survived the event.

Second Carboniferous conditions allowed ants to grow much larger than before, though most did not increase in size substantially. One notable exception was the Solenopsid population of the Eurasian Mountains, whose individuals grew extremely large and formed a vast supercolony.
Portian Calendar

The **Portian Calendar**, measured in **Portian Time** or **PT**, is a measurement of time created by Portian salticids and implemented throughout Pangea Proxima 1 through Portian colonialist rule.

As it is presented on this wiki, it is a simplified way for modern humans to measure events occurring in salticid history.

## Measurement

A Portian Calendar Year consists of about 350 twenty-five-hour days. The Portian equivalent of a leap year occurs every ten years, where an additional day is added at the end of the year. This is known as First Spider's Day, a holiday during which the Royal Canopy turns a blind eye to heresy and citizens are given the opportunity to let loose.

## Reckoning

The Portian Calendar reckons from the supposed date that the first Document was taken by Portia, 0 PT, about 1500 years before present. This is approximately the end date of the Terran Mingle, when each species had officially separated from the whole.
X9 Team

The X9 Team is a Ragtag team of Rank X inklings who are devoted to protect the videogame worlds from threats outside turf wars from the regular Splatoon games. Each of the 9 Team members are team captains of their own four member teams. Their numbers are further increased by the Femme 9, and some of the other Inklings and octolings in Legend's Splatoon Universe. Also, they are assisted by the Ninjala Team, Coroika Teams, The Warriors of Light from Kingdom Hearts, and the Smash Fighters.

## Members

### Leaders/Primary Team Captains

* Legend (Prime Leader)
* Legionnaire
* Templar
* Wanderer
* Gardna
* Treasurer
* Paramed
* Ranger
* Saboteur

### Femme 9/Secondary Team Captains

* Rose Diamanta
* Aurantia Leo
* Flava Stella
* Caela Aven
* Rubra Equen
* Caerela Draco
* Viritia Zinnia
* Purpre Prunes
* Cinisi Pythonia

### Teammates

#### Legend's Teammates

* Hiroto
* Miyuki
* Itsumi

#### Legionnaire's Teammates

* Heiichiro
* Asako
* Chizuru

#### Templar's Teammates

* Daisuke
* Fujiko
* Himeko

#### Wanderer's Teammates

* Atsushi
* Megumi
* Hijikiko

#### Gardna's Teammates

* Hidetoshi
* Hatsue
* Hisako

#### Treasurer's Teammates

* Chujiro
* Jitsuko
* Mikiko

#### Paramed's Teammates

* Keiichiro
* Kotori
* Maria

#### Ranger's Teammates

* Katsuji
* Chisato
* Ayane

#### Saboteur's Teammates

* Kiyomoto
* Kazue
* Nodoka
Founding of Portia

The **Founding of Portia** occurred in about 0 PT and marked the creation of the colonial superpower Portia on the continent of Pangea Proxima 1.

## History

Portian salticids were originally part of the Terran Mingle and developed alongside Mingle culture. However, after the creation of the first Document, tensions between the various species skyrocketed, with various interpretations of the Document competing for prominence - specifically, a disagreement between proponents of the two ideologies that would become Documentism and Sun Worship. This culminated in the breakaway of Portia from the whole and the theft of the Document. Legend holds that the Knighted Queen Schifshech, the first Portian Queen and infamous trickster of Portian myth, stole the Document from its communal pedestal and fled past the mountains, setting up camp in modern Portia with her Queensguard and consort.

## Impact

As Portians made up a significant part of the Mingle population, the sudden disappearance of almost every Portian salticid had a major impact on Terran culture. What was once a closely-knit community of communities was destabilized, eventually leading to the formation of separate Terran ethnostates.
Ant War

The **Ant War** was a campaign of extermination led by Portian and Mopsus salticids in Great Portia and Vast Mopsus against the Solenopsids of central Pangea Proxima 1, beginning in the late sixth century PT and ending around 600 PT. It resulted in the near total extermination of the Solenopsids, which were driven into the deepest parts of the Eurasian Mountains, with many populations left without a queen.
Old Kingdom Hyllus

**Old Kingdom Hyllus** was a state and former superpower of the Terran continent. It was known for its technological prowess and incredible infrastructure. It was destabilized and mostly destroyed by Portia in the Burning of Hyllus, with most of its forests unusable and spiderless nearly two centuries later.

## History

Old Kingdom Hyllus emerged from the Terran Mingle. It separated from the Mingle when a large group of Hyllus salticids took after Portia and declared war in 380 PT against the Helpis, who were taking steps to establish their own government. The Hyllus felt that they were being excluded from the efforts of the Helpis and the Mopsus to create infrastructure and elevate their communities through technology. A superior Helpis and Mopsus military effort pushed the rebellious Hyllus to the west, where they faced aggression first from the Solenopsids and then from the Portians, who interpreted their presence as an invasion. The Hyllus surrendered, accepting a treaty that sent them to live in the dry forests just south of Portia.

Despite facing these difficulties, the Hyllus managed to establish a thriving nation in the southwestern peninsula. They used massive silk filtration systems, boiling facilities, and long acqueducts to transport desalinated sea water for inland use. Formerly dry forests began to thrive, drawing the ire and jealousy of Portia, which had expected the Hyllus to die out.

Portia declared war against the thriving state in 500 PT. When it found Hyllus to be an even match for its own technology and military efforts, Portia took drastic measures and set fire to large areas of Hyllus forest. The resulting fire lasted almost a full year, taking hundreds of thousands of Hyllus and several thousand Portian lives. The Portia-Hyllus War ended in 508 PT with the signing of a treaty and the retreat of Portian troops.

By the Portian colonial period very little remained of Old Kingdom Hyllus. A small independent state still existed, but it had virtually no infrastructure and only a couple thousand inhabitants.
Vast Mopsus

**Vast Mopsus** was a federation of loosely-organized states in eastern central Terra. It was destroyed by Portia during the Portian colonial period, with most of its inhabitants either fleeing to Helpis or being subjected to Portian rule and silk slavery.

## History

Vast Mopsus originated in the Terran Mingle from the members of the Mopsus species group that did not choose to split from the Mingle and become the Mopsus Coastal Culture. These Mopsus stayed in the Mingle the longest, never choosing to depart but eventually being forced to declare statehood after the peaceful departure of the Helpis in 400 PT. Helpis was one of Vast Mopsus' greatest allies and trade partners, with many unique crops, livestock, and mined materials being transported back and forth between local trade unions, especially along the border.

Over the course of the early 8th century PT, Portia invaded Vast Mopsus and captured local government after local government. Employing cruel and unusual practices such as silk slavery, Portia hoped to outsource much of its labor to support its growing elite class. By 740 PT Portia had not only taken over the majority of Vast Mopsus territory, including its islands, but the state of Helpis as well, leaving most central Mopsus salticids either dead, enslaved, or hiding out in the Helpis-Mopsus Contested Territory.

## Society

Vast Mopsus was fairly unorganized, made up of modest local societies and governments prospering on their own with little in the way of national infrastructure. It had no national religion, with many of its members practicing variations on the Terran Religion such as Sun Worship, First Spider Worship, and strict Documentism. Some religious followings were locally enforced, while other governing bodies did not specify.
The Highest World (Terran myth)

**The Highest World** or **Highest Forest** (sometimes **The Forest of the Highest World**),in the Proto-Terran Religion and its associated belief systems, is the realm of the gods and the source of divinity.

## Origin

The Highest World originated from the curiosity spiders felt toward the sky and the limits of the world. Before the character of Sky was conceived, the Highest World was said to exist somewhere in the sky, but later versions held that it existed above and beyond Sky, who was situated above the Earth but still within it.
Portian Civil War

The **Portian Civil War** was a conflict in Portia from 242-244 PT between the Shachan and Chendan descendants of Queen Hischecha, the third Queen of Portia, over the Portian throne. It ended with a Shachan victory and the crowning of Queen Blishah, who killed the previous queen, Queen Schishech IV, herself.

## History

In 40 PT, the death of Queen Hischecha led to the crowning of one of her youngest daughters, Schichichenda, with the Portian parliament invoking a specific rule in the Portian constitution stating that the Queen's heir must be born while the Queen is reigning, not before. Hischecha's eldest daughter and formal heir, Schifshacha, was not pleased, and the general impression from the public was that Schichichenda was selected purely due to her youth and, in turn, the fact that parliament could control her more easily. This grudge would be nursed for about 200 years before culminating in the Civil War.

In December of 242 PT, Schifshacha's descendant, Schichiff, led the Shachan canopy into a direct attack on the Chendan Royal Canopy, with assistance from a few sympathetic members of parliament. Much of the Queen's Vital Force was wiped out in the surprise attack, but the Queen, Schifshech IV, was successfully evacuated to a nearby satellite canopy, and Schichiff was fatally wounded in the battle. Her younger sister and next-eldest of the Chendan line, Blishah, took up her older sister's cause and, under threat of violence, forced parliament into creating the necessary documentation to declare Blishah the Portian Queen. Over the next two years, Queen Blishah's forces chased Schifshech IV and her remaining Vital Force defenders to the west until they reached the broken coast. Schifshech IV refused to surrender and was fought to the death by Blishah, who, out of a desire for revenge for her sister, wanted to personally see to the Queen's destruction.
Moon (Terran myth)

**Moon** is a character in Proto-Terran Mythology and its descendant religions. She is a tragic character who embodies the Moon and a central goddess of the Terran pantheon.

## Origin

Moon was conceived of as the Pliant counterpart to Sky's Vital and Ground's Virile. Her stories served two purposes: to explain certain cosmological and natural objects and events, and to be a rhetorical device for Vital designated salticids to control Pliant designated salticids. The Moon as it is in the sky is explained as Moon's sleeping sac, with her parasite being the catalyst for an imagined apocalypse.

## Interpretations

Most Terran cultures share the concept of the Four Tragedies of Moon, a long-form tale explaining Moon's greatest sin: wronging the Great Flower and destroying the paradise enjoyed by the very first salticids. Moon is used as an example in many cultures, especially those with rigid gender hierarchies, of how Pliants should behave, with the consequences of stepping out of line being severe as exemplified in the story.
New Moths

**New Moths** are neocloeopteroid plastic insects which have evolved convergently with modern moths and butterflies, whose extinction left many niches open during the Second Carboniferous which were subsequently filled by other animals. Like modern lepidoptera, the New Moths occupy a number of roles, primarily that of pollinators.
Burning of Hyllus

The **Burning of Hyllus** was a Portian act of wartime aggression that occurred in 508 PT. It resulted in the near total destruction of Old Kingdom Hyllus and the loss of millions of Hyllus lives, along with several thousand Portian lives in a botched retreat.

## History

When confronted with a mass exodus of the Hyllus from the Terran Mingle in the late fourth century PT, Portia agreed to give them the dry southern lands of the western half of Pangea Proxima 1. Old Kingdom Hyllus managed to transform these into a habitable and thriving nation, and Portia began to covet its technology and wanted the land for itself, going to war with the Hyllus in 500 PT.

As the war dragged on, Portia found itself confronted with the reality that it might lose. The Hyllus had not made northward progress, but Portia could not successfully take down more than a few Hyllus cities, so a different plan was concocted. Portia cut off the Hyllus water supply at a few crucial points to the west and east and set a huge, monstrous fire. Failure to inform the bulk of the Portian military of this strategy, out of fear that the secret would get out, led to a botched retreat in which about two thousand Portian soldiers were killed in the conflagration.

The fire lasted for ten months and finally ended in early 509 PT. A lack of rainfall in the African peninsula, which was going through its dry season, contributed to the lethality of the fire. When it finally went out, most of Old Kingdom Hyllus was gone, and the forest would not be inhabited by spiders for hundreds of years.
Terran Mingle

The **Terran Mingle** was an early salticid stem culture that consisted of multiple species in a loose community spreading across most of the Terran supercontinent. It is the source of the Proto-Terran Religion and the progenitor of multiple societies including the Portian Empire, the Kingdom of Hyllus, and Vast Mopsus, which spread variants of its values and ideology across the eastern hemisphere.

## Origin

Before the Mingle, most Terran salticid species lived in separate-species communities with their own relatively simplistic belief systems and loosely organized societies. Many were nomadic, hunting in one plot of forest and moving on when the largest prey seemed to be gone. Multi-species settlements eventually occurred for several reasons, chief among them the fact that monitoring prey populations in a larger network led to less overhunting and in turn less starvation.

The Mingle formally built up around the Lower Mopsus Wetland and eventually grew to encompass most of the continent, especially the central span of neoconiferous forest. Salticids did spread south and west, though most attempts to permanently settle these areas were thwarted by mountains and deserts.

## Values

Some of the values and concepts common between most cultures stemming from the Terran Mingle are:

* Gender roles with multiple divisions between females and one homogenous male group;
	+ Lower status for males if not outright societal exclusion;
* Foundational religion based upon characters and lessons from the Proto-Terran Religion, such as:
	+ The First Spider, who disappeared and is associated with forbidden knowledge;
	+ The Highest World or Highest Forest where the gods live;
	+ Sun or Sky, Moon, Ground, and the Great Flower;
	+ Moon's fall from grace explaining the burden of a secondary or tertiary female gender;
		- In cultures with more than three genders, a character (or characters) called Stars (or the Stars) is born from the Great Flower and her adventures explain her roles;
	+ The Great Flower being a source of ills or evils in the world due to Moon's actions;
	+ Moon's corruption and a fight with Sun or Sky, and her retreat to the highest world;
	+ Animals being considered lower than salticids and classified as prey due to an original sin;
	+ "Moisture" or "water" as a life force or inner essence of being which can be drained or corrupted;
Silk

**Silk**, also known as **web** or **webbing**, is a natural substance produced by spiders from specialized appendages called spinnaretts located on the tail end of the abdomen.

## Role in Salticid Culture

Since salticids are light and lack significant bodily strength to move heavy objects, the ability to produce silk has been the driving factor behind their material culture. It is used heavily in the creation of homes, sleeping sacs, community structures, art, and tools, along with being used for cultural necessities such as burial, hunting, trapping, fishing, and farming.

While most salticids employ a silken dragline as well as guidelines to find their way around in the dark, the production of silk in meaningful quantities, as well as the use of silk in repetitive productive labor, is usually heavily gendered in Terran societies and generally associated with secondary genders. Creation of art and the principles of aesthetic design are usually considered the domain of primary genders, who are seen as active creators as opposed to laborers, and the use of silk produced from one's own body for this purpose is accepted.

Historically, some salticid societies have engaged in a practice known as silk slavery, where prisoners of war or conquest are kept captive and forced to produce silk for the captor's society to use.
Burial

**Burial** is the practice of disposing of dead bodies in a way deemed respectful to the life of the individual who has passed. In most salticid cultures, this involves wrapping up a body in silk and attaching it to a tree in a designated grave area.

Silk mites are heavily associated with burial almost universally.
Sixth Mass Extinction

The **Sixth Mass Extinction**, or the **Second Great Dying**, was an event during which the majority of complex life on Earth died out.

## Causes and Aftermath

It is unclear exactly when the sixth mass extinction began, but it was primarily driven by humans through artificial climate change due to expansion of industry under global capitalism. Rapid consumption of resources followed by massive pollution and a catastrophic rise in global temperature led to the extinction of many species, especially large vertebrates and super-specialized organisms. By 2150 CE humans had died out entirely, their governments having dissolved and conventional agriculture no longer being possible. A hothouse Earth put pressure on other populations for an extended period with recovery continuing until about 10 million years later.

Additional engineered organisms contributed to, but did not primarily drive, the mass extinction, including engineered cyanobacterial growth and the selective breeding of plastic insects, modified Darkling beetles which would eventually diversify into a new order of insects.
Human Theory of the Sixth Mass Extinction

The **Human Theory of the Sixth Mass Extinction** was a hypothesis put forward by salticid scientists in 2941 PT regarding the importance of human beings in Earth's history, their salticid-like sapience, and their role in the Sixth Mass Extinction.

## History

Human fossils were recovered and accounted for in most of salticid history, being among the most widespread fossils on Earth and important markers of the Holocene and Anthropocene in the fossil record. Careful dedication by humans to the protection of the remains of their dead from the elements led to graveyards and mass graves being immaculately preserved, and many of these were discovered during early mining activity in the Terran Mingle. Fossilized human skeletons were connected to lizards, the most prominent extant land-dwelling vertebrates with four limbs, and for centuries humans were thought of as enigmatic ancestral lizards. Their bones were often used as trinkets and remained a consistent body decoration throughout the lifespan of salticid civilization.

Advances in thought about humans came with the first geological and paleontological schools in salticid society during and after the Portian colonial period. Human fossil omnipresence was explained by the hypothesis of a human civilization existing before the creation of salticids. Terran religious schools connected the idea to the forbidden knowledge of the First Spider, and much controversy followed over whether or not humans should be further researched. In spite of both protests and occasional violent opposition, research continued.

As an understanding of the fossil record and evolution by natural selection continued to develop, human evolution was mostly understood. Popular consensus dismissed and then re-adopted the theory that humans had a civilization, with anomalies in the fossil record (former museums and fossil collections which had been preserved with fossils completely out of place from where they were always otherwise found) being used as the primary evidence of their sapience, as they had to have been able to dig up and relocate fossils for their own purposes the same way salticids did. Eventually, the sudden emergence of Plastic Insects about 200 million years before the present, as well as geological evidence for the massive and rapid change in the Earth's composition around the same time, were connected to humans as a related school of phenomena.
Terran Sun Worship

**Terran Sun Worship** is a salticid religion in central Pangea Proxima 1, specifically in Helpis and Vast Mopsus. It is a polytheistic religion descended from Proto-Terran traditions, with a special focus on the Sun character.

## History

Sun Worship, along with Documentism, evolved as a crystallization and specification of earlier beliefs from the Terran Mingle after the emergence of Portia from the whole. In contrast to the Portian focus on the state and its ability to dole out justice to those who disobeyed the gods as a pantheon, Sun Worship was focused on an individual's personal journey to grow closer to and emulate their ancestral mother, Sun. It is likely that the ideological difference that led to the split between Documentism and Sun Worship was part of the conflict that led to the founding of Portia in the first place.

During Portian colonization, many Sun Worshipers were forced to adopt Documentism by the encroaching power, endangering the belief system.
Mopsus (Helpis prefecture)

**Mopsus** or **Mopsus Prefecture** was a semi-sovereign prefecture of Helpis formed and annexed after the Terran Coastal War.

## Origin

Mopsus was originally a string of independent Mopsus communities that split off from the Terran Mingle around 200 PT. It formed its own coherent culture and was loosely self-governed until aggression from Helpis led to the Terran Coastal War, culminating in the surrender of the Coastal Mopsus and the creation of the Mopsus state.

## Current State

As with Helpis, Mopsus Prefecture has been colonized by the Portian Empire. Since Helpis resistance has steadily pushed Portian forces out of the southeastern coast, much of the former Mopsus Prefecture is currently composed of disparate communities of Mopsus and Helpis, with the territory's ownership being disputed.
Sky (Terran myth)

**Sky**, or **Sun**, is a character in Proto-Terran Mythology and its descendant religions. She is the god of the daytime sky and the Sun, and the ancestral mother of all spiders.

## Origin

Storytellers in the Terran Mingle conceived of Sky as the bearer and ultimate canopy mother of all Vital spiders. The Sun was seen as either her physical manifestation or one of her eight eyes, with stories being concocted to explain why only one of her eyes remained.

## Interpretations

Most cultures believed that Sky was the superior to her siblings, Moon and Ground, and that she used Ground's sperm gifts to create the first generation of Terran spiders. Until Moon mated with the Virile children of Sky and Ground, all female spiders were strong; according to most myths, Moon's folly created the Pliants, who were weaker than the offspring of Sky and considered inferior. Some cultures, such as the Mopsus Coastal Culture, did not rely on the perceived Vital-Pliant split, so the gendered aspects of the Sky myth were downplayed or disregarded altogether.

In the oldest form of the Sky myth, and the one still outlined in Documentist and Sun Worship beliefs, she and Moon were considered rivals, and it was her fight with a parasitized Moon that led to the gouging out of seven of Sky's eyes, with the remaining eye becoming the Sun.
Vast Weavers

**Vast weavers** are gigantic orb-weaver spiders which populate the inland forests of every continent in the Second Carboniferous.

## Description

Vast weavers are a polyphyletic group consisting of many assorted representatives from different species. They are large stationary predators that build intricate, distinctive webs to catch airborne prey. Post-Anthropocene orb-weavers relied on a steady supply of microfauna such as springtails, mites, and plastic insects for food. Unlike salticids they did not evolve sapience and have largely the same physiology as their modern ancestors, only magnified in size.

Ranging from two to six feet in body length, vast weavers are among the largest terrestrial invertebrates of the Second Carboniferous.

## Role in Salticid Society

Vast weavers are the prey of choice for most salticids, which convergently evolved specialized skills for coaxing orb-weavers into striking range. As salticids evolved social organization, they nearly universally began farming vast weavers, which are largely sedentary animals. Their domesticated counterpart is the livestock spider.
Humans

**Humans**, specifically **modern humans** or **Homo sapiens**, were a species of great ape that rapidly colonized and radically transformed the Earth during the late Quaternary Period. They were the chief agents of the global change that brought about the Sixth Mass Extinction, with the Anthropocene Epoch being named for them.

## History

Several groups of humans evolved in Northern Africa and Southern Europe in the Pleistocene from a single hominin ancestor. As with the sentient salticids that would eventually emerge, humans were powerfully intelligent and capable of changing their environment to fit their needs. Their population steadily grew until the early Anthropocene, when climate change brought about their extinction, along with the extinction of most life on Earth.

Salticids consistently recovered fossilized human remains during paleontological digs, but only were able to identify them and speculate about their role in Earth's history around the 30th century PT.
Anthropocene

The **Anthropocene** was the last epoch of the Quaternary Period. It was a relatively short epoch characterized by human-driven global warming and the ecological shifts it caused.

## Timeline

Alternate dates have been proposed to mark the start of the Anthropocene, but its chief agent of change, *Homo sapiens*, evolved around 350 thousand years before present. Its global expansion resulted in many localized extinctions and extreme modification of the landscape. Human-driven climate change as a process began around 250 years before present, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution.

The Anthropocene encompassed both the period leading up to the Sixth Mass Extinction and its aftermath. It ended 10 million years from the present with the start of the Recuperatory Epoch, leading into the Second Carboniferous Period.
Ground (Terran myth)

**Ground** is a character in the Proto-Terran Mythology and its descendant religions. He is the god of the Earth itself and the ancestral father of all spiders.

## Origin

In the basic gender trinary of early Terran culture, Ground was the Virile counterpart to Sky's Vital and Moon's Pliant. Forests, the basic habitat of salticid life, were conceived of as hair growing from Ground's body, with his body being the literal Earth itself. This established and reinforced the Virile gender as being below the other two, but ultimately necessary for life.

## Interpretations

As a Virile, Ground was rarely conceived of as an agent in the events of the world's creation, but instead a prize that the Vital and Pliant characters of Sky and Moon fought over. He was valued for his sexual contribution of sperm, which was viewed as Sky's reward for courting him.
Moonbluster (Terran myth)

**Moonbluster**, also called **Blustermoon**, **Blusterymoon**, **Moon-bluster**, or **Moon Bluster**, is a character in Proto-Terran Mythology and its associated religions. It is a parasite that infected Moon as a result of her mistreatment of the Great Flower and threatens to someday consume her completely, hatch from the Moon, and destroy the world.

## Origin

Moonbluster is depicted as various parasites common on the Terran continent which salticids often have to contend with. Conceptually, it represents an end-of-the-world scenario which motivates believers to stay loyal to the gods, in the expectation that someday they will need to seek the gods' protection from Moonbluster.

In the ancestral Terran language, a bluster is a ghost, demon, or spirit, making Moonbluster literally mean 'the malevolent spirit associated with Moon.'

## Interpretations

Most salticids consider Moonbluster to be a myth, and view it in the same cultural lens that humans view the boogeyman - as a theoretical threat to children gullible enough to believe that it might come for them. However, Documentist canon holds that Moonbluster is a real threat which will one day end the world, and deeply religious Documentists believe it will hatch and destroy everything during the end times.
Ukraine In OSC.

EDITION 1:

Ukraine debuted in edition 1, along with 18 other countries. The national final, ukrafest, was hosted in Kiev.

Maruv won ukrafest with her song "Drunk Groove" but at the last minute she backed out of OSC and Monatik replaced Maruv and got 2nd place with 75 Points.

EDITION 2:

Maruv came back to Ukrafest 2, also held in Kiev, but placed 3rd with 46 points! 2MASHI won Ukrafest 2 with 56 points! They came 3rd in Edition 2 with 84 points! We're hoping to win in edition 3 so we can have 1st, 2nd and 3rd place!

EDITION 3:

Ukrafest 3 was held in Odessa, Ukraine. LODOBA won with her song superstar with 182 points! Hopefully she can win OSC 3 aswell.

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The First Spider (Terran myth)

**The First Spider** is a character in the Proto-Terran Religion and associated mythologies. She is considered by believers to be the first sentient being to come into existence and the progenitor of the gods.

## Origin

The First Spider was conceived in the early Terran Mingle as the mother of all spiders and the creator of the world. As more characters were added to the pantheon of Terran myth, her role as a caring mother shifted to Sky, and she became a more neutral figure associated with raw creative power. Eventually, her place as a sort of pariah from reality itself was cemented, and she came to represent forbidden knowledge, hubris, and violation of rules.

## Interpretations

All versions of the myth hold that the First Spider laid her eggs in strings which became the clouds, and that the primal gods - Sky or Sun, Moon, and Ground - hatched from them.

Portians use the myth as a canonical example of heresy and refer to followers of other belief systems as followers of the First Spider. She is associated with the perception of forbidden knowledge and depraved acts.

In Mopsus Coastal Culture, especially in the former Helpis prefecture of Mopsus, the First Spider combined with a figure from early Mopsus culture to form a new deity. She has devoted followers who consider her the one true god, while the other pantheon members tend to be considered demigods.
Skif

**Skif**, also known as **Schiffa** or **Skiffa**, was a Vital daughter of the Portian Queen Shichashess and a Princess of Portia. She was part of Obissa's Voyage and an ally of the rebel Kohess.

## Early Life

Skif was born in 821 PT to Shichashess I and an unknown Virile consort. She was not considered a candidate to become heir to the Empire. She was expected to join the Vital Force when she reached the age of twelve.

## Part in the Obissan Voyage

When the rebel Kohess was captured by Portian forces in 831 PT, Skif crept into the Royal Canopy's prison and set her free, in exchange for the promise that she would be able to secure a place in the rebellion against Portia. The two were joined by the young Obissa shortly thereafter, and traveled a significant distance across the globe. Skif offered crucial guidance to Kohess about the operation of Portia and the expected patrols and tactics of the Vital Force. Eventually, she helped to construct the bowl that would carry the three of them across the Atlantic Ocean and to the Hemiterran Continent.

After arriving in Hemiterra, Skif sustained an injury that cost her one of her legs, and stayed several months in the Marmorate Capitol to recover. There, she and Kohess met and joined up with Kitti, the Platycryptan chief diplomat. Kitti offered to assist the rebellion in neutralizing Portia and hopefully remove the threat of Portian expansion before it could come into conflict with the Marmorate. From there the voyage westward continued, with Skif and Kohess expecting to circumnavigate the globe and eventually reach the Rebel Stronghold situated on the eastern Terran coast.

## Death

Skif, Kohess, Obissa, and Kitti encountered a Portian outpost near the western coast of Hemiterra. Many of the local inhabitants had been driven away or killed by the Portian forces, which were in the process of leaving to report back to their base outside of the Rebel Stronghold. Two remained to watch the post, and the group was ambushed by these two, who injured Obissa attempting to kill Kohess. They urged Skif to abandon the rebellion and come back to Portia, where she would have an opportunity to challenge the power of her newly-crowned and unpopular sister, Queen Schifshech IX. Skif refused and was killed in the ensuing fight. Kohess and Kitti gave her a proper burial at the site of her death, meaning no remnant of her body has ever been discovered.
Recuperatory Epoch

The **Recuperatory Epoch** is the first epoch of the Second Carboniferous Period. It marks the shift from a post-Anthropocene hothouse Earth to a cooler, more stable climate. Arthropod diversification which began in the late Anthropocene continued in the Recuperatory Epoch, with more niches opening up due to the stable climate.
Mopsus Salticids

**Mopsus salticids** are a salticid species. They rose from *Mopsus mormon* populations in late Anthropocene Australia.

## Origin

Modern *Mopsus mormon* live in East Australia and New Guinea. At some point, during the merging of Eurasia with Antarctica and much of Oceania, a single population of Mopsus living in Australia evolved salticid intelligence. They were especially prevalent along the eastern coastal area of Pangea Proxima 1 and much of their unique material culture revolved around artifacts from the sea, such as shells, seaweed, and exoskeletal remains of aquatic arthropods such as springtails.

## Description

Mopsus salticids are sexually dimorphic, with females possessing a unique orange, black, and white pattern on top of the cephalothorax, while males have a dark brown face/legs and a distinct triangular "topknot" of setae. All are otherwise colored a light, almost translucent green. Their abdomens are usually darker in color than the rest of their bodies, with an orange, yellow, or white tinge, and streaks of red running lengthwise.

## Abilities

While physically average, they are known for the strength of their silk.

## Society

Mopsus salticids were latecomers to the Terran Mingle, preferring the coast for most of their history, but were represented among the four original Mingle species along with Portian, Helpis, and Hyllus salticids. Around 200 PT, after the founding of Portia, the Mopsus population of the Mingle split into two factions. One stayed with the Mingle while another split off and formed the new Mopsus Coastal Culture (and eventually Mopsus Prefecture). After Hyllus was founded, the Helpis and Mopsus peacefully parted ways, and those that remained formed a loose, wide state of staggered communities known as Vast Mopsus. Members of the various elite communities of Vast Mopsus would collaborate with Portia to drive the Solenopsids, which warred with both states, into the Eurasian Mountains.

Eventually, Portia would turn on Vast Mopsus and gradually subjugate its inhabitants in a campaign of slow violence, forcing many into silk slavery. The Coastal Mopsus would end up in an ongoing land dispute, with both themselves and the Helpis claiming sovereignty over the southeastern territories.