[split] The Garden Worlds article off topic questions

[SaiShen]

Some waters and aethers might even create lifeforms. How does hyperspace tie in?

I think you should read through the setting a bit more - try searching either term using the search functions- Orions arm doesn’t have hyperspace and “aethers” 

https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-...=gen_canon

At least according to this old definition of Aether.

“According to ancient and medieval science, aether (/ˈiːθər/, alternative spellings include æther, aither, and ether), also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.”- Wikipedia 


However, we do use some fairly speculative forms of alien biochemistry
Xenobiochemistry
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/494398e092234

So you don't suppose that a physics and mathematics congregation of materials became energetically sentient and created a lifeforms?

That water was once and will be selfreplicating alongside air atmosphere and rather that it is a very changing process of evolving materials to metamaterials to intelligences, again rather than a hyperspace polchinski duplication building?

White goo sent to the past and teleport delivered to distant worlds that increases in free-form complexities?