Queen Luxia

So this has always been interesting to me, because this one sentence raises so many world-building questions about the mermaids and their planet and their history and their past contact with other races

Did they actually go to space themselves or did they just welcome travelers onto their planet? And if they were a space-faring race how did they manage it? Ships full of water? Or are the mermaids semi-amphibious and they can get around on dry land? Maybe their tails are muscular enough to support them on land so they could have ships that don’t need to be completely flooded, and instead just have pools to swim in when they need to

Or if they only stayed on their planet and people came to them, what did that contact look like? Were the mermaids traders? A popular vacation destination before the planet froze? How did they accommodate visitors? I would assume not everyone would be as comfortable under water as humans are; did they have facilities on land for visitors who literally couldn’t go in the water? Is there even any land on their planet?

And assuming they were in contact with other races before the baku came and the planet froze, what did those other races think when suddenly there was no more contact from the mermaids? Did they assume the Galra got to them? Did they send probes to see what happened? Or maybe they sent recon teams, and maybe the baku ate them too and when the explorers never came back those other races assumed the mermaids were all dead and the planet had turned inhospitable? Did they mourn the loss of an entire race?

And then there’s the question of how exactly did an entire planet freeze over? IIrc there’s a mention of hydrothermal vents. So did it used to be a warm planet? Or maybe it was always an icy planet but with certain warmer oases where the vents were? Are the mermaids we saw the sum total of the planet’s inhabitants or were there other mermaid tribes? Maybe each warm vent had its own tribe living around it? And if so what happened to them? Has the baku been doing this for far longer than we thought? Eating its way through tribe after tribe of mermaids and once there are none left in one area it moves to another, leaving behind a dead thermal vent, which eventually lead to the freezing of the whole planet?

I love world-building so much, it’s such a fun sandbox to play in. Please talk to me about the mermaids and their planet and their civilization pre- and post-baku

(via ladiesofvoltron)