Spherimals

The Spherimals, also known as the Spheronians, are a fictional alien race in the action/comedy webcomic series Team Season with Superpsion that worship and serve the Light, which they know as "The Giver". They are a sapient race of humanoids that resemble furries, but possess the ability to roll their bodies into spheres, hence the name "Spherimal". The Spherimals have existed for approximately twice as long as humanity, predating them by at least five billion Earth years. They are also native to the primordial exoplanet Archenar, the planet on which they evolved. Following Archenar's destruction at the hands of the Black Moon Clan some time around 5,000,000,000 BC, the Spherimals became nomadic. The Sperimals who had survived the destruction of Archenar combined their transport ships into massive Hiveships, mobile colonies consisting of hundreds of transport ships connected together. These Hiveships began moving from system to system in search of a new home planet. After evading the Black Moon for two Earth decades, the Hiveship known as Exodus Prime discovered an ancient paracausal device known as Angel's Favor in the center of the Geometrica Nebula, a cloud of scattered gas, dust, and ice in the middle of an empty region of interstellar space. According to Spherimal legend, Talkon "Tal" Rex then used the data key left to him by his missing mother to activate the device and summon the Angel Michael Clearwater. Just as the Black Moon Clan's battle fleet, including the experimental Eraser flagship that had destroyed Archenar, arrived in the Nebula to attack the Exodus Prime, the Angel used a Light-aligned angelic power known as Genesis. Using this ability, he converted the entire fleet, along with the gas, dust and ice of the nebula into a new, habitable star system. The sixth planet of this system, which the Spherimals dubbed Spheron, became the new home planet of the species, and the planet's two (soon to be three) moons also became host to Spheronian colonies. From that day on, the Spherimals would also be known as the Spheronians. Notable members of this species include the Season and Holliday families, as well as Team Superball, who fought against the human occupation.

The Spherimals are a deeply pious and spiritual people who live under the blessing of the Light, which they regard as a god. The Spherimals lived by the Light's teachings during the Age of the Elders, but often misinterpreted them as being far stricter than they actually were, restricting the rights of their citizens in the process. In the late 25th century, the Spheron High Elders, a theocratical government that controlled all of Spheron and its moons and for which the Age of Elders was named, exiled the Season Siblings to Earth. They claimed that it was because some of the Season Siblings had an unrestrained disregard for religion and worship, while the others had hedonistic lifestyles. However, the truth was that the Season Siblings had been sent to Earth for the sole purpose of fighting the revenant supervillain Lord Lochindorb to prevent him from taking over all of Vertvale City, the rest of Earth, and quite possibly the universe after that. The plan ultimately succeeded, with Lochindorb's armies defeated, and Lochindorb himself permanently killed. However, the Spheron High Elders faced immense political backlash for exiling the Season Siblings under false pretenses, which resulted in the dissolution of the Elders and the creation of a democratically-elected Spheronian Senate. Patrick Holliday, a member of the Holliday family, ran for senator some time after he and his siblings returned home with their cousins.

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