Reminds me a lot of an idea I once suggested for the LegacyVerse (back in the old days when the "Legacy community" still existed). I suggested Greenland-sized filter feeders and somewhat smaller predators living in the atmospheres of gas giants. Based on actual scientific speculations of such creatures living in the clouds of Jupiter.
Anyway, lovely portrayal of a floating city. ^^
On your statement of it being a debated topic on how the three sapient species originated there, I imagine many or most researchers in the setting would have suspected a progenitor race. For even though the Alpha have never been observed, the discovery of modified humans living on various worlds would leave both Earth humans and every other humanoid race involved in the discoveries realising that a progenitor must have seeded early humans throughout the cosmos.
Anyway, lovely portrayal of a floating city. ^^
On your statement of it being a debated topic on how the three sapient species originated there, I imagine many or most researchers in the setting would have suspected a progenitor race. For even though the Alpha have never been observed, the discovery of modified humans living on various worlds would leave both Earth humans and every other humanoid race involved in the discoveries realising that a progenitor must have seeded early humans throughout the cosmos.
That line was mainly a lampshade of how Cliff thought that felt like too many races, even thought it was Don's idea to begin with 
Do you mean he felt there were too many sapient races coexisting on a single planet?
Yeah o3o
When one thinks about it, the idea of three sapient races on one world is not all that unreasonable actually.
As well as the "progenitors made it so" concept that seems to be the case here, the idea of multiple sapient races on one world also works within the context of naturally evolved races as well. After all, here on Earth we actually have a fair deal of creatures who are really close to being sapient (e.g. chimpanzees, gorillas, dolphins, crows, parrots, etc.), so its quite possible there could exist other worlds in the cosmos inhabited by more than one native sapient race.
As well as the "progenitors made it so" concept that seems to be the case here, the idea of multiple sapient races on one world also works within the context of naturally evolved races as well. After all, here on Earth we actually have a fair deal of creatures who are really close to being sapient (e.g. chimpanzees, gorillas, dolphins, crows, parrots, etc.), so its quite possible there could exist other worlds in the cosmos inhabited by more than one native sapient race.
I think he meant on the sense of having too many races in a place where there's no land and thus everything would be limited
Fair enough.
Normally it would make no sense to have civilised races on a gas giant due to the lack of land, but the concept of living on giant floating creatures seems to kinda justify it.
Normally it would make no sense to have civilised races on a gas giant due to the lack of land, but the concept of living on giant floating creatures seems to kinda justify it.