Cygiso 2021 Guide

Stay.

The Odyssey arrived within a year. Not a science vessel—a harvester. They lowered nets and vacuum pumps, intending to collect Cygiso by the thousand and ship them to bio-weapons labs. cygiso

And "enough."

Aris transmitted her findings. The linguists back on Earth were ecstatic. The military, less so. A species that could manipulate its mass at will? That could make itself heavy enough to crack a starship hull? That was a weapon waiting to be aimed. They lowered nets and vacuum pumps, intending to

Aris watched from a ridge as the harvesters descended. The great carousel formed—thousands of Cygiso overlapping, rotating slowly. They began their weight-language, but faster than she'd ever seen. A staccato of thuds and lifts, a percussion of presence. The military, less so

Humanity discovered Cygiso in 2189, when a prospecting ship crash-landed on Cygen-7. The lone survivor, a xenolinguist named Dr. Aris Thorne, expected to find creatures that communicated through light, vibration, or chemical trails. Instead, she found silence.