Biosphere and Man Committee

It is believed that from the crash of the Arc Ship to today the exobiologists in the survivors set out to do the best they could to catalog the life and natural systems of this planet. It is believed even as the technology began to fail there was a loose organization of these biologists communicating and recording their findings. The science discovered in those early years set up the colonies of survivors to prosper, and not cause an ecological disaster. However as the electronic media began to fade and fail much of this was transferred to writing.
This philosophical school continues on but with now a focus on being a conduit for the energies of the natural world. These philosophers study the wild array of the native life on this planet, and the alien life introduced to it and how both have adapted, evolved and how that balance is maintained.
The Biospherians usually have a complex outside the city with its own defensive walls to keep the curious out and other things in. The complex will have various zoo like areas for studying animals, wild, foreign, domestic, alien, mutant, etc. They may have a farm or pasture area for domesticated animals and gardens for studying various plants and trees. The oldest examples of their complexes may have domed and glazed areas. The community relies on the biospherians to help in time of crop failures, pests and vermin, monsters dens and mutants. they also teach farmers how to fix problems, improve the soil or use different methods.

Type

Religious, Deanery

Philosophical Clerics: These philosophers are interested in nature and biology. they like to be out in the field studying plants, watching behavior, smelling the soil and taking notes. They are also taught the various kinds of monsters in their region and how to fight them, subdue them, and discourage them. They get a wide training in armors and weapons and tend to be versatile and bring the best tools for the job.
Philosophical monks: Monasteries associated with the gardens of nature tend to be in the wilderness far from the cities. monks learn from the animals for their styles, embody their tactics and movements.
Philosophical Paladins: Oaths taken are usually defender, and they protect settlements from monsters and dangerous animals.