Creature seed: Digital Spiders.

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Digital Spiders

 

Well, the spiders themselves are not digital.  And the webs that they spin aren’t digital, either. More or less.  What the webs are are virtually perfect, organic optical fiber cables that work better than anything that’s not the absolute cutting edge (and, in the early Interstellar Era, ‘cutting edge’ can mean ‘mono-molecular’).  The cables are also easy to repair; Digital Spiders can be easily trained to walk the webs and fix breaks as they occur.

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