[Darkwind]

They might be cool as indies, actually. Makes me think of whole poptypes of just "native" space indies, with swarms of spacefish who explode when killed, the occasional sentient asteroid, and perhaps space-exiles who command this ragtag band of freedom fighters (or mad scientists who abuse them).

And, yeah, sentient algal blooms casting "Eagle Eye" or some equally odd spell sounds rather strange to me too. Where they'd get eyes, I don't know...