Discovered OA a few days ago, amazed and happy!

[syzithryx]

Actually the history of Pantellia is quite complicated and it has what I think could be described as SI>1 intelligences which are were provolved by an extinct sapient race indigenous to the planet, who used genetic engineering to produce many other types of creatures. I don't have much time to write about it now but here's some links to a Reddit posts about various Pantellian things - I'll expand on it later:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/c...ple_world/
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/c...in_people/
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/c...isters_of/