Llyr-Y-Ryll Agricultural Corporation
Plant-Based Lifeform.
Overview
The Llyr-Y-Ryll were a sentient, plant-based species of botanical origin, native to the lush world of Erenmar 4 in the Western Crescent of Estra. Recognized for their humanoid form and chlorophyll-rich green skin, the Llyr-Y-Ryll were a contemplative people who moved and spoke with deliberate calm. Their society was famed for its sustainable interaction with plant life—harvesting fruits, seeds, and leaves without harming the flora they cohabited with.
Yet beneath their serenity lay a profound and ancient anomaly: they were not born, but made—products of a rogue uplift project orchestrated by Chaulk Lynn elements of the Borthan Viniculum. These rebels elevated the Lyre Palm, a native tree of Erenmar, to sentience. For generations, the Llyr-Y-Ryll served their Chaulk Lynn creators until the day the Chaulk Lynn themselves rebelled against their Borthan overlords. In that upheaval, the Llyr-Y-Ryll were freed—and became their own civilization, devoted to harmony, healing, and the deep lore of life itself.
Legacy
In 3514, the Knights of Rancor fell upon Erenmar. Fire met fern. Their elegant defenses, grown over centuries, were dismantled in hours by cybernetic algorithms and neural-suppressing toxins. Cities of bark and bloom burned. The Rootway flickered and died.
The fall of the Llyr-Y-Ryll is remembered in the galaxy not through monuments, but through soil—their root-code still lingers, whispering in lost groves, buried vaults, and memory gardens hidden from cybernetic eyes.
A surviving myth speaks of Leafshade, a wandering world-ark that appears only during certain galactic alignments. It is said to house the last Verdant Speaker, cradling the final Heartseed, waiting for the galaxy to be quiet enough to listen once more.
Civil Structure
Llyr-Y-Ryll society was composed of communal units called Groves, each guided by a Verdant Speaker—a respected elder with the ability to commune with plants through bio-telepathic resonance. Governance was conducted by the Council of Roots, convening once per solar cycle to reach full consensus before any major decision could be enacted.
Social life revolved around shared ritual, seasonal observation, and bio-poetic expression. They prized patience above all virtues, believing that only through time and stillness could true wisdom be grown. One grove, upon encountering an alien disease in a forest glade, famously stood motionless in meditation for three weeks before devising a cure that both healed the flora and altered the pathogen into a symbiotic strain.
Military
Military doctrine among the Llyr-Y-Ryll was minimal and defensive. Their Leafblade Corps utilized camouflage, floral toxins, and mobile plant-strikes to disrupt intrusions without killing. Their starships were grown from hyper-adaptable rootstock, laced with reflective petals that dispersed energy and rerouted kinetic force.
A famous tactic, The Swaying Veldt, involved fielding seemingly defenseless landscapes that lured attackers into terrain seeded with defensive growths, which erupted into action only after a full lunar cycle of occupation—blossoming in vengeance once provoked.
Special Technologies
The Llyr-Y-Ryll developed technologies that interfaced seamlessly with the botanical world. Their most celebrated innovation was the Rootway Matrix, a galactic biosignal web carried through a network of symbiotic plants across hundreds of systems. They mastered the creation of living cities—structures grown from engineered plants that responded to the needs and emotions of their inhabitants.
Their pharmaceutical research was without peer, particularly in neuro-sympathetic remedies and molecular resonance therapies. The Aurelian Sanctuary, a massive orbital biovault, housed extinct plant genomes from over 11,000 worlds and sang lullabies to its garden in cycles of pheromonal pulses.
Leafblade Corps Trooper.
Roundel & Flag
Llyr-Y-Ryll Council of Roots official.
Capital system Lyra Starsystem
Largest system
Official
languages
Common Tradespeak
Ethnic groups
Flora Uplift
Religion
Deism
Government
Communal Grove System
Legislature
Upper house: Council of Roots
Lower house:
Number of
Starsystems 27,816,110
Currency
Oku, Alent, Terran Credit, Librat, Dena, Laba, Oku, Tetrak, Minat, Paprita Contract
