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| Man After Man: the reboot.; This is gonna sound CRAZY (but not as crazy as teh original, hopefully) | |
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| Topic Started: May 23 2010, 01:42 PM (1,727 Views) | |
| Forbiddenparadise64 | May 23 2010, 01:42 PM Post #1 |
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Ok, We all knew (and many of us hated) man after man, right? Well, although this is (a lot) less plausible than my WWTF project, I've decided to start a remake of it, with more plausiblilty, greater time periods, an absence of pcychics, more detailed ethical and genetic engineering backdrops, and more emphisis on the other survivors. There will be 8 periods explained here: 2250: The "metahumans" are first introduced to a devastated Earth, as biodiversity has plummeted. They soon colonise the Earth's surface and aid the recovery. note: human extinction at 2400 as mankind is wiped out by a combination of supervolcano, magnetic reversal and famines. Colonies on places such as mars survive. 40,000: A new ice age returns, metahumans start to adapt to new climates and evolve to further tighten their new grip on Earth. 100,000: New species start to appear in various habitats, many small. The ice age ends 500,000: The ice returns, and the climate dries. Homo sapiens flourishes elsewhere in solar system and beyond, but never visits home. 2 million: Ice ages end, the climate warms to miocene levels, cold loving species decline or adapt to new world. 10 million: The oceans teem with life, and as continents move and islands form, metahumans are isolated and reunited, unable to recognise each otehr anymore. 20 million: Biodiversity has now fully recovered. Whole new groups of animals evolve alongside metahumans. 60 million: Strange new fauna exists all over world. But soon catastrophe strikes, wiping out over 95% of all organisms. 250 million: It has been a stagerring 190 million years since life was nearly wiped out. Life is now much unrecognisable, but it thrives and is recovered from the extinctions of past. Metahumans are more dominant than evert, but not in the ways you'd expect. this project is, as i said, less plausible than my other, but hopefully better than the original man after man, as this world is more for fictional side than my other one. i hope someone can help design some fauna, metahuman and others some time 
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| Ook | May 23 2010, 02:03 PM Post #2 |
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i can create some animals but i dont want to be part of team,just create some animals
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| Practically Uninformed | May 23 2010, 03:50 PM Post #3 |
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Interesting. What parts of the original Man After Man will this project retain? |
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| The Kiat | May 23 2010, 05:45 PM Post #4 |
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I hope it'll be a little more realistic than the original Man After Man. |
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| Black_Panther | May 23 2010, 07:12 PM Post #5 |
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Please, tell me there won't be any of those ball-shaped things living in space... |
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| Practically Uninformed | May 23 2010, 07:19 PM Post #6 |
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But...I liked the ball-shaped things... |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | May 26 2010, 01:17 PM Post #7 |
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It will retain the GM backdrop, but with a more accurate understanding of ecosystems, so there will be a greater number of post-human species in each habitat, including carnivores, and in the ocean, their are several species as well. But as metahumans diversify so do the other survivors, so there are lots of rats, rabbits, weasels, large predatory birds, large squamates and sharks in the project as well, so don't worry it won't be too biased. It also retains mankind going out into the stars, but they prefer to terraform rather than engineer themselves, as after the GM era, they regain their ethnicity (the reason the GM humans were used to repopulate was because cloning the extinct turned out useless). The time periods are greater, and in the catastrophe at 60 million AD, a deep sea human exists, but other humans also survive so it doesnt't have the oceans to itself, fortunately. |
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| Scrublord | May 26 2010, 02:02 PM Post #8 |
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Will it retain any of the specific species from Man After Man? |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | May 26 2010, 02:21 PM Post #9 |
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Some of the prototype GM humans will be kept, abeilt minor modifications. I would do the slothlike people and the sabre tooth men at some later point, like 20 million or 60 million, but I will heavily edit their anatomy and maybe ancestry too. I personally think the original was rushed on matters like this, making species evolve ridiculously quickly (as in tens of thousands of years) and than remaining completely unchanged for greater periods of time (millions of years), which i consider implausible. And, thank goodness, NO Psychics or space living people! Why would you want a species able to survive in space when you can just use more advanced spacesuit technology? The piscanthropus species is expanded into the piscanthropid linaege, as there are lots of species, including the ancestor which is similar to man after mans, but with some alterations. |
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| Pando | May 26 2010, 02:25 PM Post #10 |
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Ooh, saber teeth men. What about a fury arboreal man with a long, prehensile tail, pointy ears, a snout, ability to swing like a primate, opossable big toes, and claws? |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | May 26 2010, 02:29 PM Post #11 |
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Yay! arboreal humans all over again! Unlike man after mans unimaginatively named forest-dwellers, the new tree humans (perhaps arbropithicans) have been engineered to be monkey like in design, quite like what pando suggested, possessing arms and legs with as much swinging ability as a gibbons (the best swinger in the world apparently) and a strong tail like a spider monkey. In addition to this, the scientists have engineered it with extra vertabrae, further increasing its flexibility. They ahve several species filling in niches of monkeys lemurs and small apes. |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | May 26 2010, 02:37 PM Post #12 |
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Yay! It will be known as an Arbropythican. It has the features you suggested, as well as having very powerful flexible limbs like a gibbons (perhaps the best acrobatic in nature). In addition the engineers gave it extra vertebrae to add to its flexibility. It's genus is Arbropythicus, but there are several species, 4 herbivores, 3 omnivores, 2 carnivores, 3 insectivores (including a gliding form ;)) and 1 piscivore. They fill in the niches of monkeys, gibbons, lemurs, small cats and large insectivores (squirrels survive so the arbropythicans have limited availability in the temperate zones). But later, in evolutionary timescales they evolve ape like forms and even flying forms to replace bats and the reduced number of birds. I will provide an initial species description for each protospecies( by that i mean the species originally engineered by the humans. The specific species that evolve naturally will be described later). So next, I will probably try and do the several species of humans on the plains. Woo hoo! |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | May 26 2010, 02:38 PM Post #13 |
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sorry for the double post (now a triple post). But i promise to describe those plains species on Saturday after ive finished my exams.
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| Pando | May 26 2010, 02:41 PM Post #14 |
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Exams. Ugh. My last one (only one remaining) is on Friday too. Are you going to have baboon-like people? Man, human rights activists would have a party with these. |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jun 1 2010, 08:17 AM Post #15 |
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shit. i broke my promise. I'm really sorry, ok? Now, for those plains humans. The genus in Africa and Eurasia was engineered to resemble the ungulates of past. This genus, known as cyclopodus, is a large, quadrapedal herbivore, measuring between 1 and 2m at the shoulder, and weighing between 40 kg and 450kg, depending on the species. They are social animals, travelling in large herds on the plains. They have small horns on their heads, used for sexual display in the males, and defense in the females. A predatory genus also exists, filling in positions left by big cats, canids, etc: Carnosapiens. An unspecialised survivor, this beast is solitary, about the size of a grey wolf, and can live in other habitats as well as the plains, like forests, and even deserts. Is bipedal like human ancestor. In Australia, another group was engineered to resemble the former fauna. Named paramarsupialis, this genus has been engineered to resemble a kangaroo, possessing a tail, and even the leg structure. Unlike kangaroos or any other mammal, one species has been engineered a bird like hip (which would never happen naturally), so it runs like a bird. This archetypes range from 1-2m in length. They are soon hunted by a surviving population of tasmanian devils. The next species, will be the human of the tundra, homo glacis, The yeti. This beast is near identical to its counterpart in the original man after man, except it hunches over due to possessing a small hump of fat across its shoulders. Is the largest metahuman, standing about 3m tall and weighing 640kg. A smaller quadrapedal species, ceranthropus, has been engineered like a mountain sheep or a reindeer, with a hardy build, and horns to charge at predators or competitors. To compete with a reduced population of lemmings and marmots, the engineers created a small rodent like humanoid. No more than 20 cm tall on its hind legs, it has large incisors and claws to dig holes in the ground. It is capable of climbing trees, to steal nuts from squirrels, although in the future, the squirrels will find ways to repel them. Next post ill do a temperate woodland human, similar to the original man after man's, the new aquatics (or piscanthropids as i call them), a mountain human and even a tiny human, the smallest of all primates, existing in the rainforests. The post after that, I'll make some explanations for 40,000 and than explain new species for 100,000. See you soon! |
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