Union of Mecholife/Infrastructure

Description
The buildings of the Union of Mecholife are unique. They are living creatures, inside of which the members of the Union live. The structures have a symbiotic relationship with the Union members. The inhabitants protect, feed, and nurture the sessile building-creatures, and in return the building-creatures host them (similar to an anemone and a clownfish). However, since these are living creatures, they are protected from abuse by various laws.

In relation to buildings being creatures, they cannot be shaped against their will. Unlike plants, the are animals, like coral, and grow as they wish. They cannot move much, but they do have the capacity to shift their position and change their shape. They don't do so in a manner that harms the inhabitants, but because each building-creature grows in it's own manner, cities and towns look like convoluted coral reefs of metals and plastics.

The building-creatures are fully sentient and have their own feelings and emotions. Only in the Union can you have someone show up late for work and say "my house was having a fit". They can grow attached to their symbiots, and occasionally die of grief when they lose their inhabitants for any reason. Building-creatures are very loyal to their inhabitants, and can and will kill intruders to the property. If you kill an inhabitant... well, you won't live to make it out unless you can kill the entire building-creature. Even if you do, the city will never forgive you (literally, the city, building-creatures have the same sub-consious connections as all mecholife does), and you will have to flee into the great unknown of the universe.

Density of Structures
Since the building-creatures are like corals, and since the Union uses flying vehicles and transgates for the vast majority of it's travel, cities in the Union are usually massive collections of structures, lacking a suburb or transition phase. More often then not, the edge of cities is a sort of drop off, an area where the city just ends and a few anti-social building-creatures have slowly shifted themselves away. There are no full-time walls in a Union City, as "wild" mecholife won't attack the city itself or any of it's members, however, a wall can be formed by swift-growing wall-creature, which is more plant then animal, but can move and become a formidable defense in a short time against ground troops.

Quotes
"As I was brought into the vast city, I saw the buildings ripple, the grass and trees and even the roadways trembled as I passed. They sensed something exotic was near, something that was beyond them. One of my gaurds said I felt like a hole, a hole in the world. And it seemed the entire world agreed. As we continued with our journey into the heart of the city, I slowly realized something: these buildings were alive! Doors were mouths that opened and closed, the house itself was a hollowed out intestinal track. It was revolting... and yet beautiful. These creatures, damned as they were, had achieved a perfect harmony with their environment. It was said that mecholife had a group mind, and that all things on their worlds were really just a part of that mind, but you could never see it except when in a Union city. Everything was synchronized perfectly, doors open at the exact perfect time, trees grew in ways that only a conscious mind could think to grow them, and even the many animals throughout the city seemed to be working in unity. Children were allowed to play in the streets, and among the animals, without any fear they would be harmed. It was an amazing thing to see, this great synchronized city. The guards brought me up to the largest of these creature-buildings, I can only describe it as queenly. As it's mouth opened, I saw massive fangs, just waiting to snap down on any threat. The inside of the creature shifted and altered, doors opening and closing, mechons (mecholife creatures) moving swiftly in the massive buzz of activity, like a hive. Above my head arched massive ribs, with thick strong skin layered over them. And the skin! It was glowing with energy, filled with the tiny networks of golden lines that all true mecholife contains, always shifting and settling in an endless golden watery ripple of energy. It was a majestic show of what mecholife could do, I will admit that much. They brought me to their leaders, in a room with a grown table, made of some kind of dark substance that was just as alive and energized as the rest of the city was. They asked me my purpose, and I told them. They allowed me to leave, though they argued over it for some time. I am not telling this tale to make you love them, but to show that they are just as alive as we are. More so, even, then we are."

- Unknown

"A highly efficient method for accomodation. All the best designs are the ones inspired by nature."

- Cephalodian

"Waste of resources, lack of privacy, too much demand, too much stress, I wouldn't go with this, it destroys the foundations of Hallowanian life."

- An Empire of Halloway Human