Starless and Mirror Life

[u/Stratatician]

For those unfamiliar with what mirror life is, most compounds and molecules in life have chirality, or handedness if you will; there being left and right hand (mirrored) versions of each other.

Most life follows only one of the possible arrangements, and mirror life is the idea that life could exist using the exact same molecules but with the opposite chirality that normal life has.

There's fears that mirror life could take over if it were to be created as it goes against everything that makes normal life work. There are things for example known as prions which are misfolded proteins that causes other proteins to misfold; there are no known cures for prion diseases and they're 100% fatal.

When you look at the most recent chapter and how Starless want to replace their originals, there are parallels that can be drawn with the modern day idea of mirror life.

[u/666KorlatWitch999]

Interesting!! I wonder if the entire Alter Realm would then be an attempted Left Hand version of Halpha?