[Spaceships] Actually GMing a world with Pseudovelocity drives?

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Actually he does. In Lensman the assumption is that exactly how the Arisian life spores that fill the First and Second Galaxies express themselves depends almost entirely on planetary conditions.

He uses the 'spore' concept in the Skylark stories, too. At one point in the last of the four Skylark books, an alien scientist mentions that he had actually discovered and isolated such a life-spore, and had been studying the life-forms descended from it since.

It's an old concept, of course.

So an almost entiely Earth-like world you get Earth-like (possibly to the point of being interfetrile) humanoids. See also his alphabetic classification scheme. Humans are Type AAAAAAAAAA and so are Aldebaranians but Rigellians are AAB-something (because of the gravity and other environmental differences) and Palanians are straight Zs.

Incidentally, the inhabitants of the South Pole of Jupiter in Spacehounds are morphologically _very_ similar to Velantians.

True. IDR anything morphologically like the Hexans of North Polar Jupiter in Spacehounds in the other books, though their hostile racial personality has plenty of presence in other species in his other stories.

In the Lensman stories, it's mentioned that all life in the two galaxies derived from the life on Arisia via the spores, and that the Eddorian spores, 'while undoubtedly present' were too alien to thrive on any planet in our universe.