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Vabmojer; Dinosaurimimidae now online. Go to Vabmojer to find out more!
Topic Started: Sep 27 2009, 03:37 PM (4,955 Views)
Ddraig Goch
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First of all... hi! This is my first post on this forum (wow). Um, yeah. So anyway, about Vabmojer...

Vabmojer is an alien world which I have made with several of my friends. It is an earthlike planet, but we have done our best to make the animals as un-earthlike as possible. We are working on a website, although right now it is not complete. Still, feel free to have a look! (And I apologise in advance for the artwork - I'm not the best drawer ever)

Type this in the address box;

www.vabmojer.bravehost.com

See what you think!
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Sysphod got me to wondering, is the gravity on your world a little weaker then Earth's? A fast moving biped at that hight is sort of odd to imagine. Scary, but hard to imagine.

But it's really cool too. Probably the neatest one on there.

The others give me a graboid-feeling. I don't know why (really, the resmblance is probably only there is you look for it) but I do.
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Yes, the gravity is slightly weaker. I think I read that Earth is 1.0 (I have no idea what unit), so I've put Vabmojer at 0.9. Keep a look out for the biomes guide coming soon, and also the pages on the Novuphysidae and the Dinosaurimimidae.

By the way, what is a graboid?
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It a fictional primitive organsim with reptile like characteristics, Here's a wikipedia article.

The measurement would be 1 G. Basically G is equal to Earth's gravity, like how astronomical units is 1 equals the distance between the Earth and the sun (I think it's astronimcal units).

You might want to start putting links here that go directly to a page you've updated. Right now it doesn't matter, we can simply find it with no real effort, but if your site grows a bit, it'll start being hider to find the pages.
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Thanks for the tip. Do you think that the tongue-idea for the Maws is plausible?
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You mean as a sensory device? Sure, but I'm having a hard time with it working for the Maw-seprent and Syphod alone. The maw-serpent I can get past, assuming it has a well developed sense of touch and mostly stays in the same area (learns where limbs are and such) so it can move around easily. Otherwise I don't know how it could find it's way around, especially trying to get back up in a tree.

Syphoyd, I have no idea how it keeps from running into things. Just a large rock could kill them if they ran into with enough force, and without any way to see their surroundings, I'm not sure how they wouldn't. Unless, somehow, they smell the rock and can tell it's distance.
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Yes, and i also think all your ideas are well within reason. But that doesn't make them likely, only as likely as an Aardvark or an advanced civilisation on a backward planet called earth.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I see what you mean about the syphoyds... can you think of some way to overcome this problem, without them developing eyes, or echo-location?
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Are you plausible?

Here's an idea. Maybe this critter has a really good sense of air currents around it, and can extrapolate from that interaction on its skin just how those air currents are interacting with the environment around it (rocks, walls, trees, whatever) The range for this doesn't have to be too wide, just wide enough that the syphoyd can slow down.

Also, I noticed something on your world page. You have a region near the north pole labeled "Northern Glaciers". Glaciers are sheets of ice that move over land. Is there land under that region?
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Thats a good idea, but wouldn't it require massive brain power?... I mean, these things are smart, but not that smart.
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Are you plausible?

Are they not smart enough to feel and interpret the movement of hair or whiskers at key points on its body? Or is that beyond them?
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Oh, I see. No, they are intelligent enough to do that. Sorry, I don't know quite what I was thinking.

I don't know if the Rahzak has come online yet. If it has, d'you reckon thats feseable? It is, after all, the size of a T-rex.

By the way, no, there isn't any land underneath the Northern Glaciers. It was a name given to them which kinda stuck.
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The Rahzak is now online, the last of the Sordicocephalidae. Sorry that it's taken a while. The Novu's, I've been assured, will be online soon.

In the meantime, I'm open to further animal and plant design-ideas. So far, the plants are split into the green plants, which are better suited to moister areas, and blue plants, which are adapted to arid conditions, such as deserts and rock plains.
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Pretty good.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Thanks!
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Every planet is Earth coloured i've seen though. A little spice? What colour is this atmosphere?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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