Greetings, people of OA

[Worldtree]

Kaiju are gigantic Japanese monsters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju

yeah, assuming any kind of organic life can survive in those conditions,  you could absolutely have giant humans who have altered their bodies to be manta ray shaped, a bit like CM Kosemen's All tomorrows series of future humans

the layered colonization effort definitely sounds good

Here's the inner sphere star list up to 100 ly
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49fc193234b06

If possible, is there a way to access pages of the EG on systems of about the same distance as Rho Ophiuchi (360ly from Sol)? Also, would a minor polity even be able to exist around a system like Rho Ophiuchi? I presume the system would be decently high-value due to having two B-stars in it. If a minor polity could exist, what would be the lowest plausible toposophic level capable of holding onto it (and building a basic starlifter)?

starlifting
https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/47897e8b1947c

you are very welcome to write a minor polity- even if it were around a high value star 1000ish years from now, you don't need to write the entire history of the star system- you can write a polity that exists for a mere 500 years in a single orbital habitat if you want, whether or not it exists within, or next to some larger polity. Yes a minor polity could absolutely exist around Rho Ophiuchi (360ly from Sol). this one ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho_Ophiuchi
also, the polity can exist tangentially to some S2 or S3 who inhabits the system, uses all the important strategic resources, but doesn't actually manage the society you describe. They could still be very important locally on the modosophont/ human level while still being the equivalent of moss growing on your houses' gutter on a cosmic / Transapient politics level. (we could probably argue that most modosophont polities are like this too). Hell, you can write a whole article about a planets history from the perspective of an individual person or the y11K equivalent of a tea cup...or a story of or a gigantic high pressure ocean world being converted into a giant planetary tea cup