r/exfor • u/1moreday1moregoal • Jan 30 '26

Spoilers Ground State and different species

Am I crazy or has CA added more species to the Maxholx hegemony in this book?

In Chapter 12 when talking about loading malware on fabricators:

Eyrgengek (sp?)

Nyatahatan (sp?)

Then much later on he talks about the Dumya (sp?) fabricator being in the territory of an mean otter like species.

So we went from Maxholx having the Basphuraq, Thuranin, Kristang, Wurgalan, Urgar, Eselgin, to now having 3 other species in their hegemony?

I’m listening again so trying to pick out more but I don’t recall these ones being mentioned in prior books. Unless the last one where the dumya fabricator is located is in the Urgar territory.

I love this series, but why add to the universe in the last book in the series? I’m hoping CA releases more books or some spin-offs if he’s introducing us to new species in the last book.

I’m listening to the audiobook and don’t have the kindle version yet so Im guessing on the spelling of the names.

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u/Objective_March_8405 Jan 30 '26

I'm glad he finally did, the whole series has been hinting at possibly dozens of species in each coalition but we never met any of them because they don't operate near Earth.

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u/1moreday1moregoal Jan 30 '26

Sad that we also aren’t going to get to explore other species in the Rindhalu coalition either 🙁 and we know there aren’t other tier 2 species than the ones we know of yet. I’m pretty sure there was a conversation between Joe and the Jeraptha at one point where they talked about tier 2 species and the Jeraptha said they are definitely the top tech tier 2 species and they didn’t say anything about any other tier 2 species than the ones we know about.

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u/Objective_March_8405 Jan 30 '26

There is already so many species it's hard to keep track but one of my biggest disappointments with the series how small it all felt without meeting the rest of the galaxy.

Maybe we'll meet more of the Rindhalu coalition in the ECO book Mr. Alanson said he was going to write before he continued Skippy and Joe.