Creatures

Living creatures cannot be nanofabricated, they must be acquired via Resources trait or rep.

Training and commanding creatures is handled with Exotic Skill: Animal Handling.

Genetically Modified Organisms

A variety of transgenic, genehacked, and neogenetic creatures have become common in transhuman habitats.

Dino Pet: Genehackers have resurrected a number of extinct dinosaur species as small, colorful, and lovable pets. Varieties include pterosaurs, stegosauruses, ankylosauruses, triceratops, and many others.

Fur Coat: A so-called “fur coat” is outerwear made from a living primitive organism. The creature’s skin, fur, or scales are real. The organism is cultivated from transgenic stocks and grown around molds into clothing shapes, often with actual usefulness: polar bear parkas, seal diving suits, porcupine coats, etc. Fur coats are modified with wireless controls and haptic systems, so they can be made to move, shiver, massage, or prickle up on command.

Pollinator Swarm: Interbred and gene-modified bee and wasp variations pollinate habitat gardens. They also produce honey, hunt other insects, trim leaves, and collect debris. Though non-aggressive, some have been modified for use as assassin or guardians. They follow swarm rules.

Space Roach: Grown to the size of a small dog, these insects are often biosculpted for bright colors and patterns. They are favored as pets and useful for minor janitorial duties.

Squidling: These small-sized squid are adapted for air breathing and maneuvering in micrograv with natural air jets. They are favored as pets and snacks by neo-octopi.

Smart Animals

Smart animals are partially uplifted and bio-engineered. These have rudimentary intelligence and limited communication skills, roughly equivalent to a human toddler with a minor vocabulary. They make for fine companions and helpers.

Guard Dog: These smart dogs are trained for security and policing purposes and sometimes enhanced with combative bioware or cybernetics.

Police Baboon: Favored for police work on Mars, these partially uplifted Cape baboons can be vicious, especially when in a pack.

Rust Hound: These medium-sized transgenic hounds are modified to breathe the Martian atmosphere and handle its cold environment. They make excellent trackers.

Smart Hawk: Enhanced versions of peregrine falcons and other predatory birds are common in large, open habitats. The art of falconry has made a comeback, with birds trained for surveillance and tracking.

Smart Monkey: Employed by criminal groups for minor larceny such as pickpocketing, smart monkeys are useful intelligent aides.

Smart Raccoon: Similar to monkeys, smart raccoons are favored as personal aides.

Smart Rat: These upgrades of the common Norwegian rat are clever and dexterous, and they easily fit into a pocket or hood.

Swarm Cat: Bred on scum swarms for companionship, competitions, and weirdness, swarm cats are heavily modified with transgenic traits. No two are alike, with some incorporating traits from other animals in the suborder Feliformia, including mongooses, civets, and even hyenas. One swarm cat may look like a Siamese with purple bioluminescent fur and six legs, the next may look more like a snow leopard with four eyes, cybernetic scales, and wings.

Xenofauna

A few creatures discovered on exoplanets have been finding their way into private collections and transhuman habitats.

Clown Sprite: Found in the Echo system, these colorful, omnivorous, winged avian-primates normally live in a symbiotic relationship with carnivorous land anemones. These mischievous creatures have bonded with some transhumans. They are clever, playful, and prone to pranks.

Hexanewt: It is suspected that these six-limbed amphibians were partially uplifted by now extinct aliens on the exoplanet Droplet. They sometimes walk erect on 2 limbs, sometimes crawl on all 6. They are quite perceptive and have learned to mimic transhuman behaviors and tool use.