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 ===== Star System =====
-The Tlith home system, known as Tyaap (“Home”) is a binary system with a type A3 primary star (Vizt / “Light”) and a type L6 brown dwarf secondary (Povssa / “Hearth”). Planets have been found orbiting both stars.
+The Tlith home system, known as Tyaap (“Home”) is a binary system with a type A3 primary star (Vizt / “Light”) and a type L6 brown dwarf secondary (Povvsa / “Hearth”). Planets have been found orbiting both stars.
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 Tlith are liquivorous; using a sharp proboscis to penetrate fruits, tubers, as well as small animals, and injecting a digestive fluid to convert the interior into something that can be consumed. As such, ‘cooking’ is an alien concept to the Tlith, though one they are starting to adopt as they are introduced to various foods from outside their homeworld. Most foods can be placed in an “eating sphere” which can contain both foodstuffs and the digestive fluid.
+===Life Cycle===
+Povvsa is in an eccentric orbit around Vizt, period of 120 standard years. For fifty of those years, Povvsa - and Tyaap - are close enough to Vizt for surface temperatures to be habitable. For the remaining seventy years, Povvsa is far enough away that Tyaap's surface gradually freezes, enough to kill all large-scale life on the planet. As a result, life on Tyaap has evolved to account for the regular freezing. Most large-scale organisms, including the Tlith, will reproduce in the final months before the planet freezes, burying eggs deep underground to insulate them. The eggs remain in suspension throughout the seventy-year long winter, to hatch when the planet warms again.
+The Tlith also evolved an adaptation of inherited memory. When a Tlith reaches the end of their life-cycle, their brain proceeds to encode all learned knowledge into long-chain molecules encased in a gelatinous substance. This "brain jelly" is encased with the eggs; when they hatch, the larvae consume the jelly and begin to pupate. The newly adult Tlith emerges from their cell with a large amount of inherited knowledge, including language, basic skills and basic knowledge of science, culture, and mathematics. This in turn allows the new Tlith to essentially pick up where their parents left off.
 ===== Psychology and Culture =====
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 ===The Dione Incident and Project Distant Spring===
-In 2421, the Government of All Tlith proposed a joint deep-space survey mission with the Federation, with the stated goal of finding planets similar to Tyaap. The Luna-Class science vessel USS Dione was assigned to the mission with three Tlith planetologists onboard. Six months into the mission, the Dione was attacked by Tlith-built drone vessels augmented with Romulan weapons and cloaks. When the Dione sent out a distress call, the USS Brahe and USS Messier responded, but not before the drone ships had done serious damage to the Dione and stolen key survey data. One of the Tlith scientists was killed in the attack.
+In 2421, the Government of All Tlith proposed a joint deep-space survey mission with the Federation, with the stated goal of finding planets similar to Tyaap. The Luna-Class science vessel [[USS Dione]] was assigned to the mission with three Tlith planetologists onboard. Six months into the mission, the Dione was attacked by Tlith-built drone vessels augmented with Romulan weapons and cloaks. When the Dione sent out a distress call, the [[USS Brahe]] and [[USS Messier]] responded, but not before the drone ships had done serious damage to the Dione and stolen key survey data. One of the Tlith scientists was killed in the attack.
 At the same time, over twenty scientists from the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and various minor powers, having been invited to the Tlith homeworld had been kidnapped by some unknown group. Believing the attack and the kidnappings to be linked, Starfleet ordered the Brahe and the Messier to Tyaap to investigate. While the Messier hosted high-visibility talks with the Tlith government, the crew of the Brahe investigated the incident more directly. Their investigation uncovered two duelling conspiracies. One courtesy of the Institute for Tlith Ascension, a transhumanist organization seeking to alter the Tlith evolutionary process. The other was a secret project conducted by the Government of All Tlith, known as Distant Spring.