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The planet looks like an ideal spot for colonization from a distance. Covered with a range of biomes, from lush forest to long coastlines to roaring rivers. However, when the Amentans arrive they quickly notice anomalies on their scans.
A population of humanoids lives on the planet, scattered - sometimes individuals are spotted alone and other times they appear in groups of up to a few thousand. They appear similar to child Amentans, except for a general lack of bright hair colors. Civilization appears primitive - in some cases so primitive that it's confusing how they survive at all, with small groups managing to survive in environments as harsh arctic tundra huddled around campfires, in sandy villages in a desert with a single well. A small number of cities exist, most without obvious sources of sufficient food to support them.
As the Amentans investigate further they notice more anomalies of a far less consistent nature. There's an aurora in the northern hemisphere that shines continuously, day and night. One of the cities appear to change subtly in composition and position constantly, with no obvious construction visible. A group of the humanoids appear to live underwater, alongside a gigantic manta ray, hundreds of feet in breadth. A giant skeleton statue of green crystal seems to be moving. A blur of feathers and wings zooms across the planet like a missile at one point. Except for the humanoid species, none of the anomalies repeat.
These are just the anomalies they notice easily from orbit, more may be found on closer inspection.
Fika points at the Esteel Tree, the beach they are on, and a place where a cool looking pinecone is buried.
Lucien will talk a bit about who lives in each area and how easy the logistics would be. He also asks for copies of the picture of they can have them.
Fluffeld should not do that please. Does the pinecone do anything or just look cool? Here is a spare everything for Lucien, here is how to look through the pictures.
They don't have all that many spares on hand but they can import more. How many total?
Um. Could all the amaliens who want one have one? If they have enough that all the amentans who want them have them.
They have plenty, but hundreds of thousands of everythings will take longer to arrange than, like, a hundred.
They make them! In factories! Here is a video with plinky music about the process of making everythings.
Yep! All the way back and back till they just had rocks and sticks they have made things with other things.
Since none of them were around that long ago they don't know for sure - writing was not among the very first things made - but archaeologists think that next they worked on getting rocks into better shapes and at some point learned to make bags, probably out of animal skin!
They have rocks in cool shapes and some bags but animal skin is sort of harder to get then some plant fibers, and they are pretty sure that making soft blankets is easier than making bags.
Spinning took inventing! It's hard to be sure when they came up with it but archaeologists seem to think animal skins came first. Animals are edible, so they had reasons to get animals to skin anyway.
...some of those foods they tasted had some meat in them. Are any of them feeling sick?
Maybe, like maybe any animals that were tasty to amaliens have evolved to not be safe to eat any more. Amentans do a thing where they control the evolution of animals they keep for food, so they have gotten tastier over time and not poisonous.