[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”.

just fucking clone it you whiny bitches

Uncaring: I suppose someone will try. Although since its habitat is apparently slag, they won't have anywhere to put it.

Mocking: Perhaps the krogan can clone it for them, though since I don't think these things can be ridden into battle, I doubt you'll be interested.

Agreed

probably tastes better than reelmeet

ANYTHING tastes better than reelmeet

I got to see a dawnstalker when I was a girl, just reading this...damn.

I think this sort of thing is going to happen a lot. It's like, people are going to see a cartoon character based on a rare animal and say "you know, I haven't seen or heard about them for years", and then they'll check and they'll be gone, or all but gone, or only surviving in some lab somewhere, second-hand. And it's not just animals. It's places and landmarks and monuments and all that. Right now we're all missing people. We'll always be missing the people, but eventually we'll come to terms with it. And then it'll be missing everything else. All those pieces of the worlds we knew, all the certainties gone. We'll think - I knew this, where is it?

Everyone knows the Gulimm Building is in Trendesash, don't they? Except... now it's not. And nothing you knew is really true anymore.

Hahahahaha, There is nothing to miss on Tuchanka, because it was already gone!

That's sad. I think that's all I can really say to that.

I, er, I'm not mocking. I mean it's... sad.

The last above ground settlement on Tuchanka fell when I was just a boy, I hadn't even undergone the Rite, that was over 600 years ago.... I need a drink

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Wouldn't you miss... sharamiks, or whatever? Some symbol of home that was lost? Some thread tying you to what came before?

I know - er, that is, I think I know - that you don't have much of a long-term planetary home, that you're "of Omega", but you've spoken on here before about what's going on back in the Confederation, and I -

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Sorry. I shouldn't have listened to that shrelling radio show. It's made me depressed. Thinking about things in general makes me depressed, to be honest.

No.


Got that, thanks.


Yeah.

If I wanted anything else to do with it after the shit that happened on Erszbat, I'd still be there. Let's not talk about it anymore, shall we?

I reiterate.

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Must be a slow news day.

I think it is sad...though it sounds like they've been dead awhile, and they're just calling it now. Why shouldn't people miss the things that got blown to hell? That's exactly what you should miss.

Because it wasn't strong enough to survive.

Gee, I hope you weren't bitching about the genophage.

No, we deserved that, I was merely pointing out that the scaley Pyjak wasn't strong enough to survive, and then laughing at it.

You know, if you keep saying pyjak I may just think you are talking about me

Pyjak... *shakes head*

Uhh, the list of things that can survive being hit by Reapers is kind of low. That's kind of the defining trait of the Reapers.