Galactic Biology

Life is a fundamental concept in this universe which happens to be teeming with it. The types of life present in the known universe are as myriad as the stars which fleck the night skies of every world in the galaxy, ranging from common and familiar cellular chemical-based life to the extraordinarily rare and ethereal radiobeings. However, the broad concept of life can be broken down into two rather distinct categorical phylums: sophonts and non-sophonts.

Sophonts
A sophont is defined as a being that possesses a base reasoning capacity that demonstrates the core characteristics of sapience. Sophonts of the known universe are incredibly diverse, both in life basis and in intelligence type. At present there are fifty known species of sophont (not counting the vast range of ICIs). See the list of sophonts for articles on each.

Nonsophonts
There is so much nonsapient life in the cosmos that compiling a database of every known lifeform inside humans' current CES-format information network would be literally impossible. As such, only lifeforms of particular note or those mentioned in the published canon of the Arcverse have pages here. Please see the list of Life by Planet to further narrow down your search.