Flo-Pet
Details
- Diet
- Microscopic life
- Habitat
- Xis (natural)<br/>UEE (domesticated)<br/>City sewers (released)
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A smuggled-off-Xis "Friendly Little Organism" — part housecat, part jellyfish, with jewel-like glowing innards — that became the UEE's must-have luxury pet before a crackdown loosed feral colonies into city sewers across the Empire.
Appearance
Flo-Pets are often described as a cross between a housecat and a jellyfish. Their bodies are partly translucent, showing off ornate, gem-like "bejeweled" internal organs — a feature the wealthy prized and liked to show off. The glittering internals are a big part of why they became a status-symbol pet rather than just another exotic animal. Visual development for the creature was done by concept artist Chris Olivia.
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Behavior & temperament
Flo-Pets are passive, gentle and famously easy to keep — friendly, low-maintenance, and quick to bond, which is exactly what made them desirable as domestic pets. They are also remarkably adaptable: when abandoned in human cities they thrived rather than died off, settling into warm, damp environments that mimic their native jungle. There is no indication they are aggressive or dangerous to people.
Where to find (in the fiction)
- **Native home:** the planet Xis (Kellog II), a Fair Chance Act–protected jungle world in the Kellog system, with deep multi-canopy rainforests teeming with insects and primates. - **Across the UEE:** feral colonies now live on many human worlds. They concentrate in city sewers and the damp "underbellies" of urban centres, which stay warm, humid and full of the microscopic life they eat — much like Xis itself. By the present day there are reportedly more Flo-Pets living off-world than remain on Xis.
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Diet
Microscopic life. A 2921 anthology note explains that Flo-Pets feed on the microscopic organisms abundant in warm, humid environments — the reason both the jungles of Xis and the wet underbellies of human cities suit them so well.
Lore & discovery
"FLO" stands for **Friendly Little Organism**. In the early 30th century a smuggler captured a handful of the creatures on Xis and slipped them past the planet's Fair Chance Act protections, originally betting they could be sold as an easily bred, compact protein source. That plan failed — Flo-Pets carry toxic amino acids and are inedible — but their charm as pets sparked a craze, and the rich and powerful raced to collect and breed them. The fad spread across the UEE among the wealthy. The government tried to ban ownership, but enforcement proved impossible; rather than risk fines or arrest, many owners simply released their pets, seeding the feral urban populations. The species adapted so completely that the ownership ban was eventually lifted.
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Game status (concept vs in-game)
As of mid-2026 the Flo-Pet exists in Star Citizen's **lore only** — there is no implemented pet system and no huntable/lootable Flo-Pet creature in the live game. A player-ownable pet system is a long-standing $64 million crowdfunding stretch-goal feature that has not yet shipped, so there are no in-game stats, loot tables, aUEC values or hunting mechanics to report. Treat all "where to find / how to hunt / drops" details as fiction, not current gameplay.
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Trivia
- A historical Flo-Pet outbreak so alarmed the Xi'an that their customs patrols adopted a hardline "shoot first, never ask questions" stance toward smuggled wildlife — part of why the Xi'an now refuse unauthorised import of off-world species. (Reported via wiki lore; not directly confirmed in the Galactapedia article fetched.) - The same Kellog/Xis lore that introduces Flo-Pets also describes the Orms, a primitive developing hominid species in Xis's northern polar region — context for why Xis is Fair Chance Act protected. - Their failed career as a foodstuff (easy to breed, short-lived, protein-dense, but poisonous) is the origin of the whole pet phenomenon.
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).