In their wisdom, the founders of the Benthic Republic on the world of Oceana had brought with them a number of sea creatures from the old world, and they soon set to work breeding them into proper aquatic livestock.

It was sirenians that proved the most useful, as the Benthic were soon able to select them for increased mass, increased docility, and more milk production. The resultant strain was able to be milked for dairy products using a special apparatus, and provided a large amount of meat (and fertilizer) while requiring only open pastures of sea grass.

The venture was so successful, in fact, that offwolrders soon began to demand acess to these literal sea cows. The Benthics responded with a program to breed landgoing manatees for the purpose.

Some questioned the logic, noting that real cows could have been procured instead. But the novelty, and mild amusement, of the project won over, and Oceana was soon known as “the world where cows came from the sea.”

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