Terrahemmionids

The Terrahemionids were an ancestor species of modern day Hemmoians, evolved on the forest continent of CCHemmo on the planet Orceron.

At some point in their evolution, through some twist of fate, a Pre-Hemmionid strain adapted to living on the shores of the forest continent of CCHemmo, slowly evolving into a species of their own. The mid-sized continent was completely separated from the Orceronian mainland, where the other soon-to-be dominant species, the Orcs, were developing. Thus the two species never came in contact with each other as they evolved into sentience, separated by the vast ocean between their continents.

The diverse forest environment of CCHemmo provided a boost for the Terrahemmionid evolution, forcing them to adapt to work with a complex ecosystem with countless different types of life, as opposed to their previous ocean environment where only a handful of different species prevailed. The Terrahemmionids of this time were symbiotic that formed relationships with trees and other plant life, exchanging nutritions and growing vast multi-kilometer mycelium networks, interwoven with the roots of other plants. The fruiting bodies formed by the mycelium were slowly increasing in size in this period, as there were no limiting factors for their growth.

The mycelium networks, allowed to grow freely deep into the soil, soon became unbelievably complex. Flowing with various chemicals, nutritions and digestive enzymes alike, forming colonies and breeding grounds, they began to develop a new feature; bio-electric pulses running through auxiliary "neural hyphae" that could transmit crude packages of sensory input from one part of the mycelium network to another, helping it coordinate its growth and organization. The first Hemmoian nervous system had been born, and along with it, the new species of Neurohemmionids.