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Erm, no TrueMetis I am afraid that is not the Pern series... it sounds familiar but I can not place it.
In the Pern series, a group of colonists landed on a \'earth like\' planet with native hexapoda/six limbed species... one of which was about the size of house cats and resembled the erath legends of dragons. This species displayed empathic abilities (the ability to transmit it\'s emotions to others) and could \'teleport\' via technobabble.
A decade or two down the line, a threat came along with a moon sized planet on an elliptical orbit (The Red Star/Planet) via a voracious organism that the planet pulled along with it from the system\'s oort cloud - this organism, called Thread, was capable of consuming any and all organic material. The only way to destroy it was heavy chemicals that dissolved it but also damaged the ground and surrounding enviorment.
Cue those little native teleporters who, if they consumed a native rock type (implied to be limestone with a brimstone and plantinum content which, when mixed with the \'fire lizards\' stomach acid produced hydrogen which would ignite upon exiting the mouth due to the trace amounts of plantinum) could \'breath\' fire.
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Erm, no TrueMetis I am afraid that is not the Pern series... it sounds familiar but I can not place it. (my apologies, I should have been more clear in my initial statement/query)

In the Pern series, a group of colonists landed on a \\\'earth like\\\' planet with native hexapoda/six limbed species... one of which was about the size of house cats and resembled the earth legends of dragons. This species displayed empathic abilities (the ability to transmit it\\\'s emotions to others) and could \\\'teleport\\\' via technobabble.

A decade or two down the line, a threat came along with a moon sized planet on an elliptical orbit (The Red Star/Planet) via a voracious organism that the planet pulled along with it from the system\\\'s oort cloud - this organism, called Thread, was capable of consuming any and all organic material. The only way to destroy it was heavy chemicals that dissolved it but also damaged the ground and surrounding environment.

Cue those little native teleporters who, if they consumed a native rock type (implied to be limestone with a brimstone and platinum content which, when mixed with the \\\'fire lizards\\\' stomach acid produced hydrogen which would ignite upon exiting the mouth due to the trace amounts of platinum) could \\\'breath\\\' fire.
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Jump forward at least 1,000 years (I forget the exact time frame, but it is somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 years). The humans on planet have forgotten their origins, largely becuase most of the tech brought with them ceased working centuries back due to lack of fuel and as the tech that made the support structure/parts for the rest of the tech was lost, the \'higher\' tech was simularly lost... which means all those records stored on computer files were simularly GONE. The thread falls in cycles, of course. 100 years of \'peace\' followed by 50 years of thread fall. To survive things became streamlined... and more and more was lost... Another example would be Piper\'s \'Little Fuzzy\' or \'The other human race (Fuzzy Sapiens)\' series. Specifically Fuzzy Bones, in which we discover that the sapient race discovered on Zarathustra was once a space-faring species who crash landed on Zarathustra 4-5 thousand years ago and, with their ship dead and the tech fried in the crash, had fallen to a \'stone age\' life style simply due to skills and history lost due to survival rates, etc.
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Jump forward at least 1,000 years (I forget the exact time frame, but it is somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 years). The humans on planet have forgotten their origins, largely because most of the tech brought with them ceased working centuries back due to lack of fuel and as the tech that made the support structure/parts for the rest of the tech was lost, the \\\'higher\\\' tech was similarly lost... which means all those records stored on computer files were similarly GONE. The thread falls in cycles, of course. 100 years of \\\'peace\\\' followed by 50 years of thread fall. To survive things became streamlined... and more and more was lost...

Another example would be Piper\\\'s \\\'Little Fuzzy\\\' or \\\'The other human race (Fuzzy Sapiens)\\\' series. Specifically Fuzzy Bones, in which we discover that the sapient race discovered on Zarathustra was once a space-faring species who crash landed on Zarathustra 4-5 thousand years ago and, with their ship dead and the tech fried in the crash, had fallen to a \\\'stone age\\\' life style simply due to skills and history lost due to survival rates, etc.
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