/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Messenger bird communications are the backbone of the Black Fleet intelligence network. They allow the Admiralty on Mori's island to be made aware of events in the Holoempire's capital in /hlgg/ in two weeks or less, by sending the messages over carrier birds through a complex mesh of relay stations, across thousands of kilometers.

This feat is a miracle of logistics and of cross-national collaboration, but credit is due to the creatures who shoulder the burden of actually carrying those messages. The Kustori Buzzard may be occasionally observed all over the Holosea coast, but is found in greatest numbers on Moriji, where the species nests.

Mori-type chuubanite affects animals in a variety of ways, but a notable effect is a pronounced densification of the skeleton, and its mineralization through iron-based goethite. The result of this is that animals displaying those adaptations are universally unable to fly, being too heavy. The kustori buzzard's evolution found an interesting path around this issue. Mori-type chuubanite tends to accumulate in hard and tough materials, the harder, the more effectively it draws the chuubanite in. Thus, the buzzard's kidneys evolved to intentionally develop extremely hard, crystallized kidney stones which remain in the body until saturated with chuubanite. Once it reaches this point, the kidney stone is expelled through the cloaca. Through this process, the chuubanite absorbed by the bird which would normally accumulate in its skeleton is cycled through these stones and removed from the body, preventing the adaptation from occurring, and allowing the bird to continue flying.

Since most native fauna is unable to fly, and any foreign birds would have to cross hundreds of kilometers of ocean to reach the island, the buzzard can nest on the island in relative safety. Thus, the buzzard presence on the island and its ability to cross vast swathes of ocean quickly made it a natural choice for the Black Fleet.

Discussed a while back, but not put down on paper until now.

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Anchor https://rentry.org/morig-fauna as a replacement for the current Fauna lore rentry for /morig/, thank you.