Also there is something of a civil war going on between the moderates and reactionaries, but it's a very eye opening experience and the place has geographic features, flora and fauna quite unlike anything in our universe. So put on your Hazmat PPEs, crank up your ionic air purifier fields and say hi to our extra-dimensional neighbors. Of course, you'll need immunization against the pheromone based nerve agents through a vaccine Drake and I have developed from Kai Allen's antibodies before heading through the dark alt gate, and it wouldn't hurt to graft an electronic translator module to your person or mecha to understand what the natives are saying (okay, I lied, installing the cybernetics is painful, about the same amount of pain as the surgery to receive a pilot neural implant).
It's a whole 'nother civilization for cripes sake. Where else do you get the opportunity to study live aliens that have been for the most part cut off from us back at so early an age in our evolution? The ways we are different and the same are pretty interesting. We each got our gene pool screwed with by Forerunners. Theirs are called NoRunners and instilled in them a quirky gene modding fever to continue altering their pool long after their master/creators had seemingly bit the dust to this very day. The Antihumans are who I am referring to. The other major sentient life forms in the Negaverse, rat people, are less into modding of their genetics and more about recycling, craft work and cultivating food. Some are nomadic. They are especially capable of eking out an existence in areas considered far too hazardous for most others to live and thrive amidst the decay. They're cute (if you find large furry bipedal rodent-like anthropoids cute)! Well, cute compared to the other horrors this dimension is host to. Such as rust beasts (horrible inside out looking creatures with deadly metal bones and claws that can metamorphose to amorphous goo and congregate together into a hideous ball of hybrid organic-synthetic acid spewing flesh), anabolically enhanced barbaric raiders with a permanent nasty attitude due to 'roid rage in the outland wastes, Man-eating vaguely cockroach-like invertebrates the size of cats and dogs and color of silverfish, and more!
Don't worry, the "people" here use niodes too, like us. Theirs are dark niodes though... which they use to power their shambling yet surprisingly agile monstrosities. Also, instead of doing cloning like we do here the Antihumans reanimate their dead and extend their lifespans using a sort of technological necromancy. Be advised not to handle a dark niode barehanded as the material seems somewhat toxic to humans.
The giant talking rats and squid faces with spider-eyes are quite interesting to have conversations with. Also, you probably shouldn't call them that.
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