Optera
In the Robotech storyline, Optera is the homeworld of the race known as the Invid. The Invid lived in peace and harmony with their Flower of Life for millennia until the arrival of Tirolian scientist Zor. Zor seduced their female ruler, the Regis, who revealed certain secrets of the Flower of Life to him. These secrets were eventually developed by Zor into Robotechnology, a complex fusion of biology and machinery. After this discovery, Zor was returned to Optera with the Zentraedi Armada at the behest of his superiors, the evil Robotech Masters (who were also the ruling faction of the Tirolian Mercantile Empire). This would forever change Optera and the Invid, as following events led to the Flowers of Life being stolen from them and their homeworld left devastated by powerful herbicides.
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“Surely, of all creatures we eat, we are most brutal to snails. Helix optera is dug out of the earth where he has been peacefully enjoying his summer sleep, cracked like an egg, and eaten raw, presumably alive. Or boiled in oil. Or roasted in the hot ashes of a wood fire.... If God is a snail, Bosch’s depictions of Hell are going to look like a vicarage tea-party.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)