Thread:Wormulon/@comment-5496489-20141011025315/@comment-1073312-20141011153312

Hello, I assume you want a taxonomy classification? I can do that for you later.

The page design and layout looks good, and there is a good amount of information starting it off. I will say though, that if you intend it for the fiction universe, I'd work on the personality a bit more. There is a lot of races with a general sadistic personality, a lot with toxic bites and with great agility, so those traits alone don't make the Vanara stand out (if that matters to you).

My main factual concern is the boron based biochemistry. Boron can make complex molecules like carbon but its relative cosmic abundance (and levels in Earth's lithosphere) are extremely small. For boron is produced not by stellar nucleosynthesis, but natural fission caused by cosmic rays. I don't think you should abandon the boron based chemistry, I don't think anybody has really used that option yet! Something to work on might be postulating what sort of environment caused more boron to be abundant in the lithosphere of the Vanara's homeworld, like maybe a a stronger source of cosmic rays. Or maybe they are artificial. One thing that concentrates boron-based compounds on Earth is water, like water soluble borate minerals. However some boron-based compounds are explosive in Earth's atmosphere, so maybe their world has low temperatures and uses a different solvent like ammonia. Perhaps rather than containing radioactive elements, these lifeforms are quite resistant to cosmic ray strikes.