<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=163921.msg7695098#msg7695098">Quote from: ReijiTabibito on 09-02-2013, 05:14:28</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">On the flipside, question.  Astrobiology, I would assume that's for biology of non-Earthian organisms, yes?  But wouldn't that be better titled Xenobiology?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Glad you figured it out. Also remember to put a '1' in next to any yellow-filled items on the gear-sheet (these are things your morph has automatically) so they show up correctly on the 'flat/printable' sheet.<br/><br/>Xenobiology = Study of alien life forms<br/>Astrobiology = Study of xeno-planet-formed terran life forms.<br/><br/>An astrobiologist would be all over Marsformed terran life (Rusters, Earth-lichen adapted for Martian soil/atmosphere), Europa-formed marine organisms, etc.<br/><br/>When you want to know why there's a problem with <insert planet-name>-adapted terran-based life forms, you talk to an astrobiologist. When you want to know what that freaky fucking thing from that exoplanet beyond the Gate is likely to be capable of, you get one to a xenobiologist for dissection.<br/><br/>When you want to know why that freaky exoplague is only affecting Europa-formed neo-octopi, you talk to both.<br/><br/>(If it isn't 100% clear, TERRAforming a planet means making it more like earth, while <insert planet name>forming a SPECIES is adapting that species (from some other planet) to live/thrive on the named planet. So Marsformed terran species...<br/><br/>In terms of useful medical skills, you'd want a xenobiologist to assist with emergency medical procedures on a whiplash or a scurrier morph, because those are both based primarily on exospecies, while an astrobiologist could help out with a Ripwing (which is a mixture of different terran avian and pterosauran DNA).