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Areye - Spider Files 011: Silk Silk and more Silk [Worldbuilding Sketch]

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It's kinda crazy It's taken me till entry 11 to do a deep dive on O!elli silk haha. Like... what's a spider without its silk anyway? I have a LOT more nitty gritty ideas but I think this works as a general overview!

O!elli people have the natural ability to produce super strong silk from their spinnerets, which can then be used to weave a wide range of useful things! What originally evolved as a means to create egg sacks and protective burrows has long since exploded into a vast array of skillsets and artforms.

The silk production industry is huge on O!elli as a result of this. The oldest O!elli textiles predate the entirety of recorded human history by a rather significant margin, suggesting that even ancient cultures on the planet placed great value in silk artistry.

Traditional settlements still incorporate silk into a majority of their tools and structures. Modernized regions of the planet have more restrained applications, reserving silk structures for areas of cultural importance or leisure.

There's a long history of silk being used for various forms of courtship performance and entertainment. Bondage and other forms of silkplay are extremely common in the bedroom! Stimulation of the spinnerets is considered an intimate process due to their sensitivity (there are even reports of "silkgasms" from certain individuals, but you didn't hear that from me )

The Conglootimax Trading Company saw a lot of potential of O!elli silk and began to export it from the planet during their attempted colonization. A prolonged period of exploitation followed this, where native O!elli people were forced into hazardous and abusive work environments for the corporate overlords.

Since gaining independence, a large focus of the new government has been to improve working conditions of the silk industry! It has sense reestablished itself as a point of planetary pride.

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