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Also, to emphasize this: it's not insane that the species we see all end up experiencing suicidal ideation. They're all symbolic. Literally all of them. The fishes represent the existential dread of losing your life or your loved ones' to uncaring natural causes you can't control or overcome, the dragons represent depression from experiencing loss to the point you stop caring and let yourself die, the Ea represent the overwhelming horror at realizing there is an impending end to all you love and there is nothing you can do to stop it (the parallels to climate change IRL are very obvious here), the warring factions embody blind bellicism to the point of mutual annihilation (fear of nuclear death, among other things), the omicron embody abject fear of the unknown ruling your life and leading you to make hurtful decisions that destroy your chance at happiness, and the Ra-lans represent the gaping void we all feel when we accomplish what we set out to do and can't find a new thing to strive for and become despondent. As an existentialist, I was eating this shit up like popcorn because it was such an effective representation of it all. It was a stark contrast to Amaurot, where the apocalypse is factual and not symbolic, and all the better for it.

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Shine on, you crazy diamond.