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| Tardigradus; THE FINAL REMAKE. | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 24 2010, 03:55 PM (2,178 Views) | |
| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 24 2010, 03:55 PM Post #1 |
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Ok, so i screwed up a bit again with the tardigradus remake, so i am going to do a final project. The planet tardigadus's size and gravity is changed to 11500 km and 80% of Earths Gravity. Look on the original for all the environmental conditions (for those who don't want to look, it was 20C temperature, 25% oxygen content and 5% C02 content). The premise remains. A world populated by bacteria, algae, lichen and the only animal: A genetically boosted tardigrade species. It has supercharged reproduction, able to go hatch from the egg just 24 hours after being laid and being sexually mature by 10 days old. I will do it in the style of a generation by generation world builder like Sagan 4. I will do at least 6 time periods, including a prologue to set the scene. Scientists in the future populate Tardigradus, and using a time travel, decide to delve into tardigradus's future to study the populant's future evolution. I haven't decided all 6 time periods yet,but i have decided so far to do 35 million (to set the scene), 200 million and 320 million for the first 3 time periods. I promise to make this more realistic, yet more alien and strange than my previous incarnations, as if evolution is given different scenarios and different conditions, it will not follow an Earth like pattern probably. So expect this project to be MUCH better than previous incarnations of it. I imagine the lichen as the only land organisms to begin with, and as they already have a diverse array of forms (flat forms, leafy forms and bushy forms), I also imagine them evolving very quickly like the tardigrades and evolving in similar yet different ways to how our Earth plants evolved, with the fungus part of the lichen evolving into an armour slightly stronger, and much tougher than the chemical that makes up bark, So there will be diverse "flora" on tardigradus. Look up more on the previous versions for further details. I will say if any other details need to be changed, though so if anyone who isn't familiar with the previous ones sees this, go to my previous versions for further guidance. Expect a parralel, yet bizzare fauna to evolve into the distant future. See you next post! Edited by Forbiddenparadise64, Aug 16 2010, 11:51 AM.
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| Ook | Jul 27 2010, 03:04 PM Post #16 |
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well mine dont looks same as yours,al have 4 pairs of limbs like todays tardigrades..but taht filter feeder looks like mine and carnivore too i think that detritus feeder will most likely look like worm |
   
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 27 2010, 04:28 PM Post #17 |
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The ditritus feeder also can swim like a worm using it's squid like face tentacles to capture all the waste and debri left from flakes of skin, faeces and remains of dead animals and plants. I'll start a description story for 200 million AP. How does that sound? Edited by Forbiddenparadise64, Aug 16 2010, 11:53 AM.
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 27 2010, 04:29 PM Post #18 |
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The ditritus feeder also can swim like a worm using it's squid like face tentacles to capture all the waste and debri left from flakes of skin, faeces and remains of dead animals and plants. I'll start a description story for 150 million AP. How does that sound? |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 27 2010, 04:29 PM Post #19 |
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The ditritus feeder also can swim like a worm using it's squid like face tentacles to capture all the waste and debri left from flakes of skin, faeces and remains of dead animals and plants. I'll start a description story for 150 million AP. How does that sound? |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 27 2010, 04:31 PM Post #20 |
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Sorry for multiple posts! My mistake 
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| Ook | Jul 27 2010, 04:53 PM Post #21 |
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looks great,but i propably start draw some walking with future animals |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 28 2010, 09:37 AM Post #22 |
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Ok, now here is some species for the 35 million AP ocean. I am still thinking of ideas for the 200 million AD world, does anyone want to suggest something to me. Do it by sending me a message, so i don't have to introduce spoilers to any new lookers. Anyway, here the ocean species are below:
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| Ddraig Goch | Jul 28 2010, 12:30 PM Post #23 |
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They are all very good! My only concern is that they don't resemble their tardigrade ancestors very much... and there seems to be an awful lot of divergence for the first lot, given there has only been minimal time for them to evolve. |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 28 2010, 01:40 PM Post #24 |
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Well the omnivore and predator are pretty similar. They share the basic features, like the mandibles and the structure in the legs (which in many species are now flippers), the eyes, the segmented body and other things. I am influenced by anthropomundus in a number of ways, but also wanted to add an extra bit of wierdness while still being plausible. Maybe I should increase date one to 35 million Instead? |
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| Pando | Jul 28 2010, 01:53 PM Post #25 |
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How about 50 million? I've heard that tardigrades are hard to mutate, but with so many open niches the adaptive radiation would get them. I like the ocean neodragus Also, Tardigradus has replaced the Tardigrade World Remake in Dynamic Projects. |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 28 2010, 02:10 PM Post #26 |
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The genome was altered to greatly accelerate the reproductive cycle, to increase the rates of mutation beyond the average for an Earth animal, and resistance to high levels of gases like carbon dioxide, which benefit the plantlife to grow too. Yeah I think 35 or 50 million seems reasonable though. And yet I can't wait to do 200 million. For that, I plan to make it resemble a retro ecosystem, with the oceans resembling a cambrian-on drugs world, while the land has lots of advanced 'plants' descended from lichen, some more than 10m tall. Thanks about the neogradus What does that mean? With your mod powers, could you delete the old tardigrade stuff and that terrarised worlds stuff i once did too. And what is dynamic projects again? Edited by Forbiddenparadise64, Aug 16 2010, 11:54 AM.
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| Pando | Jul 28 2010, 03:44 PM Post #27 |
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http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3622290/1 Actually, it's admin powers. The webpages are edited via the Web Pages section of the Admin CP. If you want me to delete the Terrarised Alien Worlds I will. |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 31 2010, 05:42 PM Post #28 |
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Yes could you delete terrarised worlds please? BTW, I can't think of that many ideas for species for 200 million, animal or plant.Can some one please message me some suggestions in the inbox, like bexi or pando, or holbein or draig, or whoever the heck reads this please reccommend some critters animal or plant. Each suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Edited by Forbiddenparadise64, Aug 16 2010, 11:54 AM.
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| Pando | Jul 31 2010, 10:54 PM Post #29 |
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I'd like some shark-like descendants of the Ocean Neogradus. They're my favorite so far and I'd like to see what they'll evolve into. I said that this replaced your Terrarised Alien Worlds. Also, try downloading GIMP to paint instead of Paint. You will have to download something first though, you'll have to research that on your own. Also, try searching the GIMP Plugin Registry. It has a lot of plug-ins that will make GIMP more equal to Photoshop. |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Aug 2 2010, 06:05 AM Post #30 |
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Ok, here is a rough idea i have for the plot with this serving as a prologue: 'After 6 months of research into period one (ie 35 million AP), the team decide to take a bound into period 2; 200 million AP. There is a big debate about what lurks in that future, some saying that evolution won't have enough time to work on them to make them significantly alien, but others arguing that 185 million years is plenty of time for species to evolve into specialised niches, especially with an oxygen rich atmosphere (which for 200 million AP has risen to 30% and it is known that oxygen levels increase biodiversity), and that it probably took as little as 80 million years for the first bilitarians to evolve into all the groups of the cambrian, so it would be plausible for them to evolve rapidly and bizarrely in the time frame. The team put on their suits to cope with the high concentration of carbon dioxide (which is 5% on tardigradus currently and the same for period 1. The team get their experimental equipment and small weapons incase something dangerous has evolved in the time frame. The portal opens to this distant future, the equipment sucks the pod which the crew are in towards it and into tardigradus's future. What they find, after 200 million years of change, both biologically and chemically, astonishes them.....' Ok, so how is that for a prologue? In the future, I will post a strange new world for you to lay your eyes one, along with the RECON team. I will probably give them some back story and personalities, though I'm rubbish at human characters, so someone else who knows RECON well could work on the characters. In the meantime, suggest organisms to inhabit the 5 habitats i plan to explore in period 2: forest, river, shallow sea/reef, ocean and deep sea. Edited by Forbiddenparadise64, Aug 16 2010, 11:55 AM.
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