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There are three major factions in Moonlitter politics: Pro-AW, who seek anything from closer ties to outright formal union with the Allied Worlds, Pro-Partisan, who are the same but for the Partisans, and Nationalists, who want both the AW and the Partisans of...

The Unionists are a manifest destiny movement within the Allied Worlds that seeks to unite all of Focus under the AW government. Their slogan is <rdr scrg, rdr rmLg, rdr rJhg, rdr rgHHGg> One star, one species, one throat, one rule. Their symbol is a filleted...

Some sects of neoshamanists employ exorcists to expel evil spirits from places and objects. Some wayfarers also seek out the services of an exorcist, but as with everything surrounding demons, the Claravian magisterium frowns on discussing them at all, even ne...

Hearthkeepers use dielectric chrism instead of blessed milk when performing rites of blessing on electrical equipment. Since yinrih milk is water-based and organic, it may interfere with sensitive electronic components. The chrism can take the form of a liquid...

A slightly modified tail gesture ring design. This time done in Plasticity rather than Blender. Plasticity is more CAD-like, so it makes modeling tech a bit easier.

A musical instrument played by the tail. A spacer terraboo.

Moots fill the same social niche as the nuclear family. Childermoots are a special kind of moot, but moots can be formed without the intent to raise a litter. Biological factors limit childermoots to twelve members divided evenly between the sexes, but moots g...

While the Allied Worlds is the chief source of entertainment media, a few offerings from outside the AW have managed to achieve system-wide success. The Train of Wonders is a children's educational TV show from Hearthside starring a litter of pups and their c...

Kissing the glass of the star hearth is a common pious practice among Wayfarers. For yinrih, "kissing" means gently touching the wet part of the nose to a surface and quickly exhaling. Star hearths in more devout corners of Focus are covered in nose prints. Th...

As yinrih do not sweat, bathing is less frequent compared to humans. Yinrih from most cultures bathe weekly (about every 12 Terran days), usually before or after torpor. A comprehensive yinrih shower may take upward of an hour from start to finish, as a yinrih...

I'm figuring out UV unwrapping in Blender. I think my next step is to draw a model with techtonic plates, then I can sketch landmasses over that. The only set feature is that the yinrih's cradle continent, which I am calling Damsback (dam's back) in English, i...

I was just playing around with the shape builder tool in InkScape.

Logo of the Unionists, which is a reference to the standard Allied Worlds symbol. It's six circles inside a hexagon instead of four circles inside a diamond. The AW symbol done in the same style.

Here's a different version of the logo for the knights of the sun. It's more obvious that the arch in the center is Yih's ring.

Here's a 3D "render" of the Dewfall (really it's a screenshot of the Plasticity viewport because I'm too lazy to export it to Blender for actual rendering). While the colors are mostly there to differentiate the different parts, the forward impact shield is ma...

This is more or less what a womb ship looks like after it has landed. The force projectors (the green structures on the earlier image) and the impact shield (the blue outer shell) are jettisoned before the ship de-orbits. There are now "pawdles" (handle bars)...

Here's the Dewfall textured in Blender.

Myosteol is the human name for a chemical added to the potable water of orbital colonies that negates the bone and muscle atrophy that spacers would otherwise experience. It's toxic to humans. Humans can add tablets to drinking water to neutralize it. Human-fr...