accessing the future via the past

[Drashner1]

Is there a current Muuh forum or thread?

Not a specific dedicated forum or thread, no. There have been several Muuh threads, but they tend to come and go organically as discussion of the Muuh comes and goes. We don't have any kind of policy or custom against permanent forums or threads, but just tend to find that few topics stay 'top of the collective mind' long enough to really justify it. More often we may make a thread 'sticky' so that we can refer back to it later for some reason. If a Muuh related thread were to see sufficient activity to justify it, we could certainly look at making it 'sticky' to keep it readily accessible. We're also fine if someone wants to pick up an existing thread and post new thoughts to it at any point.

I haven't yet found anything which refers to an individual Muuh by name, but there's something about their approach to things like architecture and provolution that speaks to me ... and the fact that they have the time to do things "right," for want of a better word. The Muuh biobot idea also fits in there somehow. I'm thinking that they may use bio(tech) solutions a lot. I could see them using the "natural" genetic engineering/genetic transformation abilities of micro-organisms to create everything from food to art. There's also something about them that says they have a deep sense of humor....
I'm imagining a story of a Muuh traveler who jumps on an iceship to Muuhome with nothing more than a few biobot seeds and a few capsules of concentrated micro-organisms crafted to meet all eir travel needs. Just throw them down in an icy corner, with maybe some nutrient powder, go to sleep for a hundred or a thousand years, and wake up to find that every traveler's desire has been met organically. They could even take advantage of the stages of microbial "evolution" being "faster" than that of lumbering multi-cellular organisms. Pre-defining each stage, perhaps, such that earlier, simpler micro-biota become food sources, or otherwise serve as a foundation, to the increasing genetic and functional complexity of later forms. Think of the variety of intoxicants you could make! Of course, you can't account for everything, so sometimes breakfast has an unexpected taste, but why does it matter? It's all part of the experience, and anyway, you'll be home in a million years or so......
Yeah, I see the Muuh as having almost an intuitive sense for the potential of biotech and all the necessary time to realize that potential. I see them anticipating, engineering, and using the emergent properties of increasingly complex systems, particularly living systems.
Of course that's just me, and I'm obviously new here, but I did get a little excited there..... Need to work on my OA pronouns, though.....

I have a vague memory of an individual Muuh being mentioned by name somewhere, but can't get it to gel. Maybe someone else will remember more clearly.

The various ideas you suggest are interesting and certainly viable topics of discussion and EG entries. I think the challenge would be to find ways to do it that keep them distinctly different from the Terragens approach (they are aliens after all) and also don't given the impression that their only thing is biotech. There are some Terragen civs that do try to do things that way, but the idea of xenosophonts basing all their tech on biology is an old and well- worn one and we like to try to be a bit different about things where possible

This is not to say the Muuh shouldn't be described as using a lot a biotech - just that we would want to give thought to how we describe what they do to make it feel more alien and also not like an existing SF trope.

I would suggest posting some specific topics from what you've covered here so that the group can discuss them in more detail with a goal of eventually generating some writeups and additions for the EG.

Todd