Uplift Octopus: Player's guide
Uplift Octopus
A fanbased addition to the project "Eclipse Phase", from Posthuman Studios.
A player's guide for "Eclipse Phase"
Eclipse Phase information is divided in 14 books. All relevant information about Uplift Octopi can be found in three of them: Eclipse Phase (main book) Transhuman and Panopticon. We encourage you to download those three here, hereand here.
An uplift Octopus is a fictional sapient creature in the Universe of Eclipse Phase. Uplift is the process of altering an animal species through genetic manipulation and making it sapient and self-aware.
You can find more information about this process in:
Panopticon, page 98.
Particularly, Uplift Octopi is one of the most bizarre examples of this process, as human species are very far from these molluscs. Its peculiarities are described in more detail in:
Eclipse Phase, page 108.
Panopticon, pages 103 to 104.
Panopticon, pages 113 to 114.
Transhuman 172.
The history of uplift animals is not a simple one: Scientific breakthroughs, moral dilemma, trial and error resulting in the death of millions, political movements pro and against these experiments and much more.
You can read about the science behind this process in:
Panopticon pages 101 to 108.
You can read about the corporations that started them in:
Panopticon, page 119.
You can read about how Uplift Octopi came to existence in:
Panopticon page 100.
To help with their socialization, Uplift animals are raised as human children would. However, Original octopus are lonely predators, and this is reflected in their personality despite their early socialization.
Cautious, reserved, tactical, manipulative... Uplift Octopus spend the majority of their lives in Isolation, and their interactions are usually strictly professional.
You can read more about that in:
Transhuman, pages 85 to 86 (See relevant advantages).
Their peculiar personality is not the only thing that makes their socialization difficult. Uplift animals are being discriminated or even prosecuted in many places of the Solar system. Some factions defend their rights, and other want them exterminated…
You can read about this in detail in:
Transhuman, page 81.
Transhuman, pages 79 to 80.
Transhuman, pages 172 to 173.
Panopticon, page 105.
Panopticon, page 123.