A non-comprehensive list of Indigo groups and lifestyles

Ocean Blues — have leaned into into their semi-aquatic nature and taken to dwelling full-time in bodies of water. Plenty live in freshwater, their name notwithstanding.

- Some Ocean Blues have genetically engineered and artificially enhanced themselves to help them thrive in their aquatic lifestyle - Some have opted to go the “natural-breeding” route. (Yes, this very eugenics.) - Some have made friends with, even domesticated, other aquatic species

Flotsam — let the waves carry them. Many Indigo believe their early ancestors evolved to raft atop the water, using whatever debris is available or forming one from their bodies. They are adapted to survive fully underwater for a good couple of hours, to hunt swimming organisms, and even filter. They can store energy in fat stores for a while, and do the kangaroo rat urine thing (when oceanic). They need to go back to land occasionally, but they can spend months at a time in open waters. These surfer rodents are happy to let the current determine their next destination.

Masterjacks — skill and experience collectors. They hop between different crafts and places, mastering a particular skill before moving on to the next, ad infinitum. Plenty of crossover with other nomadic types.

Biopunks — have leaned into the massive potential of guided biology to develop technology and entire subworlds driven by biological processes. If you can dream it, they can develop it with a few generations of experimentation and engineering. Poised to be the greatest factor in helping return Earth to a mammal-favorable balance after humans inevitably fuck it up. (Indigo are exasperated with this behavior, but they’ve been there themselves. They understand we need to take our unheroic, animal power-grabbing as far as it will go, followed by experiencing the consequences, before we can grow more constructive as a species. Life will go on. Ecosystems will recover. And Indigo will be there to help guide it.)

- One biopunk Indigo played Rain World recently. Now it’s working on recreating RW for real, in miniature.

Animalia — embrace their animal natures and live as such. Many live wild in a variety of biomes, urban included. A small number have opted to live as human pets, but without access to Indigofera tempora,

their fur returns to neutral colors. Their human “owners” tend to see them as slightly odd, long-lived chinchillas or something.

Spacefarers — plenty of these. Indigo living on asteroids, housed in self-sustaining long-term spacecraft, ISS commensals, one particularly huge moon colony. For the record, there are also Indigo nations on (well, under) Mars. They’ve been there for so long, distantly-settled groups are almost certainly different species from each other (using bio definition), and *definitely* different species from Earth Indigo. Haven’t had in-person contact in a while, but some groups do keep tabs on each other via ansible. They’ve definitely still got personhood.

- There are Indigo who have struck out for more distant homes. [I, the author, haven’t yet done the research to determine whether they could keep meaningful contact with each other for the time it would take to reach another habitable body. Rain check.]

Transcendent — same hat as the spacefarers. Indigo have the technological development for pretty much all of those great science fiction concepts (though they still haven’t cracked backwards time travel. Present consensus is that it’s inherently uncrackable). And for every idea that’s inspired a lot of people, there’s at least one Indigo org doing it.

- Anyway, Transcendent is the self-given name for Indigo who have uploaded their minds to their equivalent of a cloud, existing digitally and, in theory, immortally. Other groups twitch a nose at the name. Many are skeptical as to whether this can really be true transcendence (monks especially would like to have a squeak with them), or whether the essential memory-independent kernel of *self* can even make the jump between mediums. But hey, the Transcendents seem pretty happy with their arrangement.

Documentarians — dedicate their lives to observing and documenting one particular thing. Thousands of subgroups within this category

- Niche interest followers — have taken a shine to some specific aspect of their world and decided to record it in exhaustive detail. Autism is alive and well within Indigo, and they thrive with it. A huge fraction of interest documentarians have high standards for their work, so a lot of these docs are of excellent quality. They’re wildly popular among all those who consume a lot of media. - Human documentarians — realized these smooth apes are actually a really big deal for any ecosystem they set flat foot in. Which, now, is all of them. Indigo have been present in the corners of almost every single major historical event, and they have recorded it all in a variety of mediums. Some try to be as unbiased as possible, while others let their worldviews heavily tint their recreations. Human-historians comprise a sizable group, and it would take several Indigo lifetimes (several *dozen* human ones) to consume all professional-grade published docs on humans. - Civilizational documentarians — Not all civilizations in history have been human :)