[Environment] Frost-Bellied Dawnstalker Declared Extinct

Frost-Bellied Dawnstalker Declared Extinct

Jentudin, Con Dannis Territories, Irune.

For thousands of years, it was the globally recognized symbol of the Unshaken City. Today, it's a statistic. As of this morning, the Frost-Bellied Dawnstalker is officially declared extinct.

“It’s the sort of news that gives you pause” said Fen Casglag, local relief worker. “When you’re building on the graves of clan, it doesn’t seem like a big deal. Then you remember the atlas you read as a first-rotation schoolchild, the Dawnstalker on the TriClan flag. You remember what’s depicted on the covers of the lawbooks retrieved from public museums. And just like that a part of Jentudin is gone and it isn’t coming back”.

The ground-dwelling animal known as the Dawnstalker, noted for its striking coloration and dignified pose, was indigenous to a small region proximate to the city, a region left devastated by Reaper weaponry during the occupation of Irune. While a dedicated population of pilgrims, refugees and ex-pats continue to rebuild the City that Never Fell, the surrounding environment has been deemed unsalvageable, its unique fauna and flora gone for good - and with it one of Jentudin’s defining cultural symbols.

“They’re adding species to the list every day”, said Rexis Autarion, leader of the Protectorate taskforce charged with overseeing the environmental reclamation of the volus homeworld. “This one received a bit of notice, because we’ve all seen its image on a seal or a banner. Most of the others are simply forgotten”.

One determined woman seeks to turn this grim catalog into a true memorial. Former Lecturer in Life Sciences at the University of Bem Ven Evess, later esteemed writer, Professor Kip Anyew has announced her latest and most ambitious project. "A Thousand Precious Jewels" is to be a compilation of images, factual articles and first-person narratives focused on the many Irunian species lost to the invasion and its aftermath.

“Most people are simply glad that ‘volus’ isn’t on the list, and leave it at that”, she noted on TwoEyesOpen, the reconstituted professional networking site on which she enjoys a considerable following. “Every species has a story. Every species had to earn its place through the process of natural selection, seizing an open niche and holding it through a thousand complications. Every species represents an epic we may never fully comprehend. Some of them were lucky enough to have their stories made, however briefly, part of our own. We all know the Dawnstalker and can mourn the loss. But every one of these species deserves a chance to have their stories preserved”.

For the new population of Jentudin, the loss of the Frost-Bellied Dawnstalker is far more than another entry on a list. Said local religious leader Cos Nemedu: “The people of the Unshaken City lived in accordance with the laws of balance and respect for nature. They left certain lands undeveloped to preserve the natural order, in thanks for the resources they took from further afield. It isn’t merely the city that has lost an enduring symbol. Something eternally Vol has died here”.

“All stories end” says Kip Anyew, “But no species deserves to have its story cut short. The people who lived in proximity to the Dawnstalker understood this. The Reapers, to no-one’s surprise, did not”.

I thought it was being fuckin' loud.

Krogan
Frog
spike
Furball
Jally
blink
drell
volus
hell, even the Quarians made it

and they pretty much tried to kill themselves

heh heh heh

heh heh heh

I'm sure someone is collecting DNA samples as we speak. In a few decades, when natural ecosystems are back, cloning them and reintroducing them to the wild will become an option.

Sad to see this happening.
In our days of technology we tend to ignore the ecosystems and how important they still are to maintain stable environments. You can't cntroll everything with technology on a planetary level and the diversity is what makes places special. I do think however, the volus as most other species, have DNA banks of their fauna and flora. We had cases before where infusions from stored DNA could help stabilize a diminishing species. Restoring the ecosystems will be a task for the next decades or centuries.

So sentient ommnivores with Prothean tech can make it. :P Poor newts.

Well if the stupid things don't want to die, then they better start learning how to do shit.

Or at least steal shit