Life-form
Life-form is a broad unofficial category encompassing reality's content that is not an object and can be classified by most standards as alive. The "unalive" and usable objects are classified as assets.
Life-forms are distinguished by these features:
| Life-form feature | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Individuality | Famous or Typical | How much that life-form is distinguished among it's species; |
| Composition | Organic, Mechanical, Synthetic, Energy, etc. | What's the life-form made out of; |
| Species | Human, Synthetic, etc. | Similar traits in construction and form to other life-form entities (these can have subcategories like gender or model); |
| Job | Driver, security bot, etc. | In-world profession or task script (can be multiple, used as story flavour); |
| Function | Merchant, quest giver, etc. | The in-world function that characters can interact with (can be multiple); |
| Allegiance | Cornucopians, Terra Uprising, etc. | To what group that life-form belongs to, either willingly or not (can be multiple); |
Characters
A character is an unofficial term for a special life-form. They all originate from Earth and are the only life-forms that can inhabit an avatar.
Famous Life-forms
A famous life-form is a life-form that has been individualised among it's peers from the same species. Either by deeds, heritage or both these life-forms have distinguished themselves from the general flock.
Typical Life-forms
A typical life-form is a life-form that exhibits all the attributes of it's peers from the same species. They do not exhibit any major or special traits that would distinguish them from the general populace.
Population
A population is an unofficial term that groups a number of life-forms that share the same common cultural traits.