Lehola Galaxy Megathread

Khemehekis · Post by **Khemehekis** » 02 Aug 2021 05:36

266-word blurb on the Lehola Galaxy:

Lehola, a galaxy 325,000 light-years from the Milky Way, has an Interplanetary Council of its many inhabited planets that discusses when to make official contact with Earth. Although its Law of Secrecy now requires advanced Leholan sapients forgo official contact with planets until the people there are "ready", some Leholans, the crackcreepers, will reach contactees in a low-profile way, so when the contact with the planet's government becomes official, it will be less of a shock. Lehola has FTL travel, but its biggest difference from current Terran scientific understanding is the Iteli, a form of guided evolution that allows the same syndromes of species ("bioswaths") to evolve independently on multiple planets. The planets range from Kankonia, a quasi-anarchistic human planet, to Tziel, a planet ruled by fundamentalist Greys that genetically engineered a colony of humans who can do no evil on a colony on Shaleya, to Hapoi, occupied by the Reds, with a Heraclitean view on what the meaning of "is" is, to Pluos, inhabited by the telepathic homa who often live in ufopoleis (flying-saucer-borne cities), to Doyatl, inhabited by time-traveling glomas, to Natwri, whose sapients the pynas have one culture obsessed with powers of two, to Mensinghi, whose underwater monarchy is under one queen, to Rathar, home of Lizard People who often invade and menace other planets, to Bodus, home of super-evolved Domeheads, to Saros, whose lef have a culture-war division between rebellious evangelicals and orderly, civic seculars, to Keitel, home of the hyper-intelligent chais, to Danton, a dictatorship under the heshra, to Chedam, whose militaristic nation of Kebsabhaz summarizes everything that's wrong with America.

Lehola Content around the CBB:

Lehola Galaxy Lifespeeding & Resulting Discussion [Split]
The Tederian Onion
Celebrating 25 years of Kankonian
Made me run vs. sent me flying -- A grammar discussion kick-started with an OP about Kankonian verbs
List of Kankonian dog breeds
Talking about Shaleyan morphosyntactic alignment
Bodus and the Bodusians
Geopoetical Meanderings -- A conversation with Elemtilas
The KANO -- A universal translator, sort of
The World Aside -- Conworlding within a conworld
I talk a bit about Kankonian's lexicon
Happy Mango Friendship Weekend!
Alcoholic beverages in Lehola
Why I conlang
Belesudo -- The mystical Tentan personality typology of insos

Lehola Content elsewhere on the Internet:

My Kankonian grammar
Kankonia homepage
Zidrova and the Ritoni
Quick Review of the World's Largest Conlang Dictionary, that of the Kankonian Language by "Khemehekis" aka James Landau -- Larry Rogers reviews my Kankonian dictionary spreadsheet file
Is Fuiras Shtud Ham/skuyaae vaezhon -- a pop collaboration with Reyzadren, sung in a mix of Kankonian and Griuskant
Is Fuiras Shtud Ham + skuyaae vaezhon on YouTube

Khemehekis · Post by **Khemehekis** » 02 Aug 2021 05:45

Lehola Species Word Master List
(For building the vocabularies of big-time Leholangs)

UNIVERSAL WORDS (20)

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MYTHICAL (10)

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HUMAN BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (9)

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EARTH SPECIES (200)

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NON-TERRAN HUMAN BIOSWATH (69)

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GREY/TAN/ALBHIKAR/CETACEAN SPECIFIC (15)

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PSITTACOTIAN SPECIFIC (12)

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RATHARIAN SPECIFIC (3)

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PTASIKLONIAN BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (1)

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PTASIKLONIAN BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (91)

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THOEM BIOSWATH (33)

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BANSAK BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (1)

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BANSAK BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (22)

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MONODERM CATEGORIES (2)

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MONODERM BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (35)

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DORSAL CATEGORIES (4)

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DORSAL SPECIFIC (18)

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BODUSIAN PLANTS (13)

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TUBAN BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (6)

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TUBAN BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (94)

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QUONTS (13)

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ZESMAN BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (4)

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ZESMAN BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (74)

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GINTH BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (3)

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GINTH BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (46)

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HAJON BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (10)

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HAJON BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (47)

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SAROS BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (5)

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SAROS BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (87)

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ISPATCHI BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (8)

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ILTI BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (9)

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ILTI BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (200)

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TLOKWA BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (1)

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TLOKWA BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (16)

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PACHAM/XAZHOE BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (5)

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PACHAM/XAZHOE BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (73)

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GWUELATL/SHUGL/TUROGH BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (4)

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GWUELATL/SHUGL/TUROGH BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (52)

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LAPAN/NUK/APIIL BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (6)

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LAPAN/NUK/APIIL BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (90)

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TETRAMANTOID BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (3)

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TETRAMANTOID BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (41)

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SHALEYAN BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (24)

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SHALEYAN BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (215)

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Khemehekis · Post by **Khemehekis** » 02 Aug 2021 05:48

Continued . . .

CHAIS BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (26)

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CHAIS BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (478)

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VLCHEK/BIWI BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (13)

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VLCHEK/BIWI BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (321)

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BIWI BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (12)

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RITONI/PACWAO BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (9)

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RITONI/PACWAO BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (309)

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PACWAO BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (4)

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GLOMOS BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (6)

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GLOMOS BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (112)

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BHUR BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (5)

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BHUR BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (56)

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BLACK PLANT BIOSWATH CATEGORIES (30)

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BLACK PLANT BIOSWATH SPECIFIC (689)

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LISSETI LIFE-FORMS (66)

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KAMATO LIGHT BALL SPECIES (4)

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SAPIENTS (99)

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TOTAL: 3,933 entries

Khemehekis · Post by **Khemehekis** » 09 Sep 2021 00:56

I just edited the OP to add a link to the collaboration Reyzadren discusses here.

Check it out!

Khemehekis · Post by **Khemehekis** » 20 Sep 2021 05:46

Just edited the OP to link to Reyzadren and my collaboration on YouTube. I am listening to the song on headphones with my eyes closed.

Khemehekis · Post by **Khemehekis** » 06 May 2022 05:59

Lately I've been thinking of this post of mine over in Aevas' "If you were to write one novel . . ." thread:

I had a vision of one specific chapter in my story way back in 2003. This chapter would have the protagonist landing on a planet and finding that all the adults on the planet are currently under arrest. There is a force field that arrests all the non-government folks over the age of puberty whenever anyone commits a crime, to give the police time to investigate and find out who did it. He discovers that the planet has become authoritarian in the extreme, and the people have become very docile so as to accept their arrests. The protagonist then would take one little girl and her pregnant raccoon-tailed cat -- I imagined this breed of cat as being called a ferpa cat (rhymes with "Sherpa") -- onto his spacecraft with him. As he and she take off, he sets something off that will blow up the planet he and the little girl are leaving behind.

I've been coming back to this idea from 2003. I really do want to build a planet, with a one-world government, like this. I was thinking about the justification for arresting everyone and the question of how the people got to be so docile. I've been thinking I could tie it into religion, since when religion's involved, people can come to believe just about anything (just look at cults!) Maybe the state religion that everyone's forced to follow has teachings about imperfection, fallibility, and failure . . . like the Christian idea that "we have all sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God". Regularly marring the records == and reputations -- of all the postpubescents on the planet with an arrest can be used to break down people's pride and remind them that they're not perfect. Tie this in to religious bits of dogma about the fall and failure of this sapient species (which I have yet to think of a name for). Do any of you have ideas as to how the dogma for this state religion could work, and what its chain of reasoning would be?

I've decided to create an all-new bioswath for this planet. I haven't made any bioswaths with indigo plants yet, so, yes, this planet's plants are going to be indigo instead of green or black, and it will have the sun type, distance from the sun, etc. to support indigo plant life. Most of the chordologue (vertebrate-analogue) species on this planet are going to have spikes, spines, scales, etc., but the domesticated, docile sapients and their domesticated animals will not. They will need to live within the ecumenopolis to protect themselves and their livestock and pets from the wilderness which they cannot face. Perhaps the tiny number of ruling oligarchs will maintain these defense mechanisms on their bodies, and only breed with each other to keep commoners from genetically inheriting them, but the commoners -- the masses who get arrested regularly -- will have been genetically engineered to be without them. There will be no nails or claws for scratching, but the farm animals whose ancestors had hooves will be allowed padded feet like a camel's, so they can do their farmwork, walking around, without getting uncomfortable and bolting. Guns will be denied to the masses, but knives and other blades will be legal due to their practical necessity in cooking and slaughtering livestock, as well as some religious rituals that I have yet to think up, so, much like the knife stabbings that have replaced shootings in England, there are still a lot of stabbings that warrant mass arrests and examination, not to mention theft, vandalism, and rape.

I'm think of calling the arrest force field a byeshchfield, with byeshch- being the verb root in the national language for "arrest". The decided word ferpa, with its syllabic R (except the ferpa won't be a cat! . . . just a cat-like domesticated animal from the mammalogue class of this bioswath), reminded me of Czech, so I decided to give this language an Eastern European aesthetic. I'm not implying that it's supposed to be like Putin's Russia (nor, as you can probably tell, like Zelenskyy's Ukraine).

The bioswath of this yet-unnamed planet is going to have some entomologues, some arachnologues, some worms, and some marine invertebrates (including crustaceologues), but there will also be a chordologue phylum. Usually my chordologue phyla have an ichthyologue class, an amphibiologue class, a reptologue class, an ornithologue class, and a mammalogue class. With this bioswath, though, I'm doing something different. There will be two classes of ichthyologues -- they all have a backbone and fairly fish-like bodies, but one class will have scales like salmon, carp, or sharks (most fish on Earth), whereas the other will have no scales and instead be slimy like lampreys and eels. From the scaly ichthyologues will be descended two land-dwelling classes. One will be scaly and cold-blooded and will essentially be reptiles (except more spiked). The other will be warm-blooded and have breasts, and they will also have scales, but their scales have evolved from their reptologue ancestors into scales made of hair. Think pangolin. A few more classes will descend from the slimy lamprey/eel class. One will be a lot like amphibians, except with a lot of spikes. Another will have soft, one-piece skin with feathers (and lots of fancy head ornaments); this will be the ornithologue class on this planet. Then there will be the creatures with soft skin and usually spikes or shells, plus fur or hair like non-pangolin mammals have, which are warm-blooded with breasts. This last class will be the one to which the sapients and most of their spikeless domesticated animals will belong.

I've thought what else I could do with this bioswath once I've created this creatures. I'm thinking of making another planet, not too far away, that also has the indigo plant bioswath and a slightly different array of plant and animal species. The sapient species on this planet, though, will belong to the reptologue class. I'll call these sapients the biwis, since that's what the species' name in the planet's lingua franca sounds like to human ears (biwi languages have a birdsong-ish sound to them). The biwis will often abduct commoners from the mammalogue species on the other planet I mentioned, and biwis drink bodily fluids of other sapients and non-sapient animals. The biwis will have an agreement and a partnership with the ruling class, and will work with them, clandestinely, to oppress the commoners in exchange for favors from the ruling class and a pact to leave the ruling class alone (i.e. not drink their bodily fluids nor abduct them). There will be rumors of biwi involvement in the ecumenopolis' government by the commoners, but most commoners will dismiss these as paranoid conspiracy theories. Maybe the ruling class of the mammalogue species will also have milabs wherein they dress up in realistic-looking biwi costumes?

Oh, and forget what I planned to write in my novel. Nobody's going to blow this planet up.

Thoughts?

Cellular Automaton · Post by **Cellular Automaton** » 06 May 2022 19:01

Khemehekis wrote: ↑06 May 2022 05:59 [...] The biwis will often abduct commoners from the mammalogue species on the other planet I mentioned, and biwis drink bodily fluids of other sapients and non-sapient animals. The biwis will have an agreement and a partnership with the ruling class, and will work with them, clandestinely, to oppress the commoners in exchange for favors from the ruling class and a pact to leave the ruling class alone[...]

This is concerningly blood-libel-y, especially since they're lizard-people - that is, "reptologues".

Khemehekis · Post by **Khemehekis** » 06 May 2022 23:19

Cellular Automaton wrote: ↑06 May 2022 19:01
Khemehekis wrote: ↑06 May 2022 05:59 [...] The biwis will often abduct commoners from the mammalogue species on the other planet I mentioned, and biwis drink bodily fluids of other sapients and non-sapient animals. The biwis will have an agreement and a partnership with the ruling class, and will work with them, clandestinely, to oppress the commoners in exchange for favors from the ruling class and a pact to leave the ruling class alone[...]
This is concerningly blood-libel-y, especially since they're lizard-people - that is, "reptologues".

To be honest, I wasn't even thinking about the myth that Jews drink Christians' blood. Nor did I notice the connection between reptoids and Jews in David Icke's conspiracy theory mythos. I was actually thinking about the things Greys are said to do to humans. As I mention here with the Greys of Bt!a, I also have Greys drinking people's bodily fluids on another planet in the Lehola Galaxy. On this planet, the biwis will be much to the commoners of this mammalogue species (I've decided to call them vlcheks) as the Greys and reptoids are to Earth's humans.

Besides, I don't know if you know this, but I'm Jewish myself (my IRL surname is Landau), as I mentioned in that thread that just got locked when it devolved into anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. So I could probably get away with having a species that drinks another species' blood.

Cellular Automaton · Post by **Cellular Automaton** » 07 May 2022 04:43

Khemehekis wrote: ↑06 May 2022 23:19 [..] Besides, I don't know if you know this, but I'm Jewish myself[...]

I did not! That does reassure me about your intent. Not that I had assumed the worst of you, but in a lot of fantasy-related spaces I find myself grateful when I've been cautious; hopefully you understand. btw, I'll see your Landau and raise you a Katz

On a different note, I think the bioswath/Iteli concept is interesting. A lot of sci-fi has something similar going on unspokenly, and it's interesting to see adressed in-world. Not to mention, I like Earth-like animals for the same reason I like Earth-like conlangs; gives the reader a frame of reference. It's easier to differentiate between succulent-like trees and conifer-like trees than between two kinds of sentient metal which might be equally different, just like it's easier to differentiate between variations on Spanish than variations on a completely a-priori aesthetic. I think the Iteli helps to create that frame of reference.

Khemehekis · Post by **Khemehekis** » 07 May 2022 09:00

Cellular Automaton wrote: ↑07 May 2022 04:43
Khemehekis wrote: ↑06 May 2022 23:19 [..] Besides, I don't know if you know this, but I'm Jewish myself[...]
I did not! That does reassure me about your intent.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Not that I had assumed the worst of you, but in a lot of fantasy-related spaces I find myself grateful when I've been cautious; hopefully you understand.

So you see a lot of alt-right posters on conworlding websites? Good thing most of them aren't here!

btw, I'll see your Landau and raise you a Katz

Do you mean your own surname is Katz? So you're Jewish too?

On a different note, I think the bioswath/Iteli concept is interesting. A lot of sci-fi has something similar going on unspokenly, and it's interesting to see adressed in-world. Not to mention, I like Earth-like animals for the same reason I like Earth-like conlangs; gives the reader a frame of reference. It's easier to differentiate between succulent-like trees and conifer-like trees than between two kinds of sentient metal which might be equally different, just like it's easier to differentiate between variations on Spanish than variations on a completely a-priori aesthetic. I think the Iteli helps to create that frame of reference.

Thanks! Yes, there is a continuum from planets that have humans and many of the exact same species as Earth . . . to planets that share many species and higher taxa with Earth but have a different sapient life-form . . . to planets that have green plants but a different arthrologue phylum and chordologue phylum . . . to planets with non-green plants and no species in common with Earth . . . to planets like Lisseti, which has black plants and mostly animals that don't even resemble vertebrates, arthropods, nor molluscs. Also, the percentage of higher taxa that are mappable onto human bioswath equivalents varies from bioswath to bioswath (Shaleya, for instance, has plant and animal taxa that don't map well in a one-on-one fashion to Earth's taxa).

Khemehekis · Post by **Khemehekis** » 21 May 2022 04:14

Just redid the two posts with the Master Species List. I have 3,933 items now. It was nice to add in all the creatures (and higher taxa) from the vlchek and biwi bioswath(s), and add some new sapient words. Also created the pacwao (monkey-like creatures with four squid-like legs and two arms from the same class as the Ritoni) a month or two ago, and added some words from their planet, Caopi.

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