#phobins

Phobins are a "species" of ghostly pathogens, which originated from Cyule, the planet of the Tinkerex, an intelligent, curious species of physically weak, bat-winged creatures. Highly adaptable and quickly evolving, the parasite which created the Phobins killed countless native beings on the planet, starting an epidemic which even managed to reach a few of the planet's far-flung moons due to the travels of space-faring species. Those who lived the longest with the disease were most susceptible to its secondary effect, rising from the dead as a partially sentient pathogen. Thousands of Phobins crawled out of shallow graves during the height of the epidemic, mostly from a species of fragile flora-folk, the Photolure. The Photolure often laid their loved ones to rest in flower gardens, inadvertently creating a breeding ground for disease as fungus fed on their corpses. The Tinkerex knew better than to bury their dead and incinerated them instead for fuel, managing to evade the Phobin disease, though their numbers still suffered, plummeting from millions to mere thousands in just a few years. They launched the most valuable inventions and ships containing replicas of ecosystems into low orbit, hoping to restart their society from scratch after the illness wiped out the entire world. This plan worked, for the most part, though the Phobins interfered, eventually causing one valuable canister of microorganisms to be flung into deep space, eventually landing on a small planet known as Starmitum... From there, the species became dormant, evading the shifting climates by going into hibernation... until the arrival of the Nimbunnies, that is...