I was thinking of the Docker logo (pictured) and thought that a living container ship would be cool, so I made one.
Its canonicity is tentative, but it’s a fish (well, xenoichthys, I suppose) rather than a whale. It has a hard shell on its back. It’s a filter feeder that floats on the surface and eats photosynthetic plankton. The shell is there to deter airborne predators and parasites. Through the process of domestication the shell has been made flat to serve as a deck.
At the time of First Contact they’re extinct on Yih but can be found on Sweetwater. Attempts have been made to reintroduce them to their native range on Yih but none have succeeded, since the plankton they feed on can no longer thrive there.
I love the idea of selective breeding to make the shell wide and flat for human uses
I never said anything about humans.
Take the inspiration a step further and give your fish directions through syntactically picky yaml files with trash documentation that changes without warning anyway.
Make a slightly nicer version that is less mainstream, and uses a pod of seal-like creatures.
I have a rocky relationship with Docker. I run all my stuff on an ancient laptop running Proxmox or on cheap low spec VPSes. So when I see “copy this docker compose file” as the first installation step I start pulling my hair out. I don’t want to make a virtual turducken.
Just last night while reading A Wrinkle in Time i decided that pine-like trees that are rich in iron exist, and shed rusty needles that coat the forest floor. There was some line about rusty pine needles in the book.
