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The Astro Norns

The Astro Norn Breed is now ready and waiting for you at the Creature Labs Mall.

New Norn Breeds are a great way to get more diversity into Docking Station or Creatures 3. Continuing with our new Norn Breeds we are now offering the colourful Astro Norns. These new breeds are a result of genetic experimentation by the Lone Shee - star of the Docking Station Story.

Rather than travelling around looking for new kinds of Norn, he has started to play around with the genomes he already has - everything from existing Norn breeds through to the plants and critters found on the Shee Ark and the Capillata. As the base for most of his experimentation is the ever-faithful ChiChi Norn - and as a result these new Norn Breeds share nearly identical genomes. The second result of his genetic engineering are the Astro Norns, which were made in an attempt to gain even more precise fur patterns - I think you'll agree he did a rather good job!

You can buy the Astro Norns
at the Creature Labs Mall.

Extra Astro Norn Eggs

Available from this page only is an Extra Egg Pack for the Astro Norns. This Pack allows you to hatch Norns with the Astro appearance, but with the genome of other Norn breeds. So you can create Toxic-Astros, Treehugger-Astros, Hardman-Astros and Bondi-Astros!

You don't need to own those Norn breeds already and what's more, this Extra Egg Pack is completely FREE! (But you'll only be able to see them as Astro Norns if you've bought them from the Mall.)

Click on the link below to download Extra Eggs for the Astro Norns. Just save the file into your My Agents folder and restart your game - the eggs will appear as new breeds to choose from in the Egg-layer.

- Download Extra Astro Eggs Pack 1.

Please note, the Norns hatched from these extra eggs will only look like Astro Norns if you have already purchased and installed the Astro Norn Breed from the Creature Labs Mall.

Astro Norn Wallpaper

You can find free Astro Norn Wallpaper for your desktop by clicking on the link below.

- Get Astro Norn Wallpaper.

The Astro Norn Story
From the Docking Station Story

The Lone Shee liked his new Zebra Norns very much, especially the striking stripe pattern he had created for them. The striped Norns were everything he had wanted them to be, and more. But for some reason they weren't quite as enjoyable as tea and biscuits, and that troubled him terribly.

With this simple fur pattern done and dusted, he couldn't help but think of what other patterns could be possible. Maybe he could actually get quite intricate with his genetic engineering - designing an elaborate set of patterns using appealing geometric shapes. Perhaps he could even make them change over time!

It seemed impossible for him to find a creature that displayed such a high level of fur pattern detail - even to Nature this kind of thing was unprecendented. Realising that made him even more determined to try and create something very special indeed. So he looked through his Gene Library, and started recharging his genetic screwdriver.

Soon he'd decided on the basic look he was trying to achieve. Combining his interests in both Genetics and Astronomy, he started his plans for the Astro Norns which would be liberally sprinkled with both moons and stars.

One friendly ChiChi later and soon he had another beautiful little Norn egg sitting on the heat-pan incubator. It took only moments for the tiny Norn embryo to develop deep in the warm insides of the tiny egg. Soon his first Astro Norn was there smiling in front of him; a cute male Norn with a half-moon pattern on its tummy. Now he just had to wait and see what happened to that pattern as the Norn got older...