[Terr_]

It might be a lot more sedate, imagine crystalline creatures from deep below the surface of an ice-ball that rely on indirect chemical gradients or geothermal.

"Your planet is how close to that star!? H20 would be liquid! How do you protect yourselves from the polar solvent leaking down into the rock?"

[wahern]

Conversely, a slower rate of reactivity suggests intelligent life might not yet have arisen in such environments, or ever arise before the opportunity passes.