Gop are for all purposes simply a more highly evolved Garabrop branch species. It will be discussed at length later in this document the nature of time distortion phenomena effecting ON, however to explain the Gop's existence we shall delve shortly into the topic. At certain points along the breakout structure of ON a peculiar effect occurs, due to a very potent mixture of supermaterials, solar alignment and most likely a bit of good old fashioned magic, the Meta also finds purchase on ON. At this time the effects of this are quite subdued but during a 3 month period about an age ago (note, 1000 annum, ps, need a better timeline to place this at an exact date) it broke through spectacularly and wreaked all sorts of havoc, one of these effects was a time distortion bubble most likely around 300 meters wide which trapped about 6000 Garabrop with their food of choice (regular grass) and they continued to reproduce until the effects wore off, for them about 30 ages later. This evolutionary track produced a much larger and hardier Garabrop known as Gop. Gop are about 5 meters in diameter and extremely dense. Their biological processes utilize solar radiation as well as food, but can do without either for stretches of months. These factors mean they have a negligible impact on the environment and generally the Gop will not hunt. Mostly they hibernate.