Even though they're indigenous to Terra, it sounds like we're going to see them on other planets. We don't have to wait until Terra comes to see them?
TL;DRDave Haddock says yes, the idea is that terraformed planets get reseeded with animals like these, so assets can be reused instead of designing unique biomes for every planet.
Yeah, I mean, it was one of the weird things that we were trying to bake into the terraforming thing to save us some trouble in the long run. Obviously we had the Garron II incident that kicked off the downfall of the Messers, but the idea being that terraforming wipes out all the life on the planet, and so they reseed it once they're done with it. In the hopes that basically that would mean that we didn't have to come up with entirely unique biomes for every single planet in the game. We have naturally occurring ones, which would be like Terra; it's naturally occurring, we didn't terraform it, so it could have its own animals. But these animals would be migrating around the universe as people are settling on them. They would terraform a planet and they would have to populate it, so they would bring in space cows and stuff like that. So we could basically reuse assets and have a smaller panoply of animals and plants to work with. So that was sort of the idea with it.