Like the rest of the cast, they're actually just advanced cyborgs who "evolved" from humans, but they're so heavily altered that it's hard to say if the fleshy-looking parts of them are really flesh or not anymore. Blame features a race called the "Silicon Creatures" or "Silicon Lives".
Haruhi Suzumiya: Silicon-based Data lifeforms were responsible for the mysterious happenings in one of the two stories of the eighth volume.
The Tekkamen from Tekkaman Blade look like they are simply wearing Powered Armor after their Transformation Sequence, but it's explained in-series that they are actually transmuted into crystalline-based entities.See also: Living Statue, Golem, Rock Monster, Crystalline Creature, Sentient Sands and Body to Jewel. Sometimes other elements are used, which don't have to be in Group 4 of the periodic table.įor some reason, a siliconer is very likely to be a Starfish Alien, even if they're the sole example in a sea of Human Aliens and Rubber Foreheads, despite those tropes being equally implausible regardless of chemical composition.Įven when a setting has Loads and Loads of Races, there isn't likely to be more than one planet of Siliconers, their biochemistry likely being one of their defining characteristics. Authors have a lot of fun with the possibilities. Most of the examples below are not hard science fiction. At the very minimum they will likely still be unable to eat the same food as humans (averting No Biochemical Barriers in the process), even if everything else in the setting can. These "Siliconers," if you will, are weird in some other way, or perhaps even par for the course when compared with all the other carbon-based aliens in the setting.
Furthermore, silicon isn't even absolutely necessary for the building of a computer in the first place any material that can be used to make a wire will do, it's just that Silicon is the most practical material to use. They aren't anything-based, as there are no internal chemical processes in the first place. Note however that while Mechanical Lifeforms are potentially plausible, calling them "Silicon based" would be a case of Critical Research Failure while Computers do use a lot of silicon at the current technological stage, they aren't Silicon- based in the same sense that Earth life is Carbon-based. They might've been built at some point in the past, or evolved naturally.
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