MSS Notes: Extraterrestrial life

There is as yet no trace of tool using life forms in the planets explored by pre colonisation teams, apart from the Leonine life form (Known as ‘Felixes’ to the colonists) discovered upon New Philadelphia. While there are a great many earth-analogue planets, ‘intelligent’ life forms, apart from human colonists and visitors, appear to be completely absent. There are a great many apex predators, such as the highly dangerous ‘Snowbeasts’ of Einsteins world, and the swarming ‘Trinocs’ of Cordoba IV, but none that have developed cognition in a similar manner to humanity. There are no species more advanced than humans within the current sphere of colonisation.