Formian homeworld?


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Is there any info about the formian homeworld? (which I assume is called Formia or something)? All I can find is in the subtypes in Pathfinder it says it's a forest planet. Is there anymore info in Starfinder such as more about what it's like and how far from the Golarion system it is?


It's Castrovel.


I always kind of figure the ones on Castrovel are immigrants from this blurb:

Bestiary 4, Formian wrote:

Interplanetary Expansionists

After thoroughly occupying their home world, formians
came up with a creative solution for alleviating population
pressures. The most powerful queens coordinate their efforts
to build dozens of massive asteroids, each loaded with a
queen plus several myrmarchs and taskmasters, along with
hundreds of eggs. The occupants are then placed in stasis,
unable to wake until the asteroid crashes on a new world.
The asteroids are then ensconced in layer after layer of
magical protections and flung at nearby planets, serving as
interplanetary seedpods for the species.
After years, decades, or even centuries in transit, an
asteroid ship reaches its destination—or misses its mark
entirely and continues off into the depths of space, the
occupants safe though trapped in the asteroid until they reach
a habitable planet. Most of these seedpods crash on their
intended planets, though even then some of the seedpods
meet with calamity. In rare instances, either the stasis or
the protective magic fails, making the seedpod vulnerable
to violent entry into a planet’s atmosphere. Other times the
seedpod lands in an ocean or some other region of the planet
inhospitable to formians, leaving them to drown, freeze, or
meet some other calamity.
The safe arrival of a seedpod often creates a period of
destruction and chaos for the natives of the formians’ new
home. When the seedpod’s protections relax, the eggs hatch,
and the formians move forward with ruthless efficiency
toward creating their new hive.

Because they aren't overruning Castrovel.

But, yes, there is a large continent sized formian empire on the next planet over from Golarion.


Garretmander wrote:

Because they aren't overruning Castrovel.

But, yes, there is a large continent sized formian empire on the next planet over from Golarion.

Well the main reason they aren't overrunning Castrovel is because they've kind of been at war with the Lashunta for hundreds of years.


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thecursor wrote:
Garretmander wrote:

Because they aren't overruning Castrovel.

But, yes, there is a large continent sized formian empire on the next planet over from Golarion.

Well the main reason they aren't overrunning Castrovel is because they've kind of been at war with the Lashunta for hundreds of years.

yeah, but the point is that their pathfinder bestiary blurb mentions them having overrun/overpopulated their homeworld.

If that carries over to starfinder, I don't know, but if it does, Castrovel is not their homeworld.

Sovereign Court

I dunno. Castrovel is the planet where almost everything has antennae and is telepathic. Formians coming from there makes sense to me.

The Pathfinder Bestiary text is generally written a bit more setting-agnostic, not totally assuming the Golarion setting. So you don't need 100% matches.

Taking "thoroughly occupying their homeworld" a little less extreme, on Castrovel the formians occupy a large amount of the surface, and can't really expand further without winning war against the lashunta or moving on to other planets.

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