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Wow, the Malaware sound like real assholes.
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Ironically, they don't have assholes. Maybe they just feel really constipated
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@Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt A project of that scale - if executed properly, which would be a massive challenge given that you're starting from so very little and in such a basic form - sounds like it has tons of potential.

As for making things alien enough, the big thing is creating new structural templates - remarkably easy to do here since you're working with (essentially) the basal bilateran form. Big thing there is, start out small and build things up slowly - the addition of a few swimming cilia could sponsor the development of muscular attachments to them, which in time could lead to a creature covered in innumerable onychophoran-esque/polychaete-esque "legs"/pseudoparapodia. A good example of this would be Serina - things start to snowball after a while, but everything changes slowly and cumulatively. Given that you're essentially re-writing metazoan zoology, you'd also have to work with an extremely long timeframe; you'd be effectively re-tracing animal evolution since the Proterozoic.

All in all, this could potentially be something splendid, but it'll need twenty tons of research and a whole lot of hard speccing to fuel it.

P.S. - apparently eyes of some sort have evolved something like thirty-seven times over the course of animal history (and in tons of different ways - here's a brief list), so they'd probably acquire some type of them eventually (probably multiple times, even). But again, they're another line with which to work if you're redesigning things so utterly - who needs exactly two frontal eyes when you've got an entire animal history to re-write?
Edited by Sphenodon, Dec 13 2016, 08:12 PM.

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Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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Dec 13 2016, 08:08 PM
Ironically, they don't have assholes. Maybe they just feel really constipated
What I mean is that the Malaware sound like very dumb creatures. I mean, destroying other species just because you think they're better then them? That's just childish and wrong.
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

Future Projects
- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

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- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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Dec 13 2016, 08:11 PM
@Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt A project of that scale - if executed properly, which would be a massive challenge given that you're starting from so very little and in such a basic form - sounds like it has tons of potential.

As for making things alien enough, the big thing is creating new structural templates - remarkably easy to do here since you're working with (essentially) the basal bilateran form. Big thing there is, start out small and build things up slowly - the addition of a few swimming cilia could sponsor the development of muscular attachments to them, which in time could lead to a creature covered in innumerable onychophoran-esque/polychaete-esque "legs"/pseudoparapodia. A good example of this would be Serina - things start to snowball after a while, but everything changes slowly and cumulatively. Given that you're essentially re-writing metazoan zoology, you'd also have to work with an extremely long timeframe; you'd be effectively re-tracing animal evolution since the Proterozoic.

All in all, this could potentially be something splendid, but it'll need twenty tons of research and a whole lot of hard speccing to fuel it.

P.S. - apparently eyes of some sort have evolved something like thirty-seven times over the course of animal history (and in tons of different ways - here's a brief list), so they'd probably acquire some type of them eventually (probably multiple times, even). But again, they're another line with which to work if you're redesigning things so utterly - who needs exactly two frontal eyes when you've got an entire animal history to re-write?
So, basically ecdysozoan polychaetes? Interesting. Though, because the nematode bauplan so stubbornly stable, I think it would take several million years before the first major anatomical changes happen. Until then, I think it would be basic things like color, size, lifestyle, etc.
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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You know what's interesting to me? There was a thing with surrealist art, if I'm remembering this right, that after painting techniques got as real looking as possible, we flipped to the other direction and started experimenting with the strangest designs we could imagine.

I feel like we're starting to do the same thing here. After years of trying to make things as realistic as possible, we've started to see how far we can push the boundaries.

Which, as I have made no secret, is endlessly entertaining to me. :D
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@Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt A project of that scale - if executed properly, which would be a massive challenge given that you're starting from so very little and in such a basic form - sounds like it has tons of potential.

As for making things alien enough, the big thing is creating new structural templates - remarkably easy to do here since you're working with (essentially) the basal bilateran form. Big thing there is, start out small and build things up slowly - the addition of a few swimming cilia could sponsor the development of muscular attachments to them, which in time could lead to a creature covered in innumerable onychophoran-esque/polychaete-esque "legs"/pseudoparapodia. A good example of this would be Serina - things start to snowball after a while, but everything changes slowly and cumulatively. Given that you're essentially re-writing metazoan zoology, you'd also have to work with an extremely long timeframe; you'd be effectively re-tracing animal evolution since the Proterozoic.

All in all, this could potentially be something splendid, but it'll need twenty tons of research and a whole lot of hard speccing to fuel it.

P.S. - apparently eyes of some sort have evolved something like thirty-seven times over the course of animal history (and in tons of different ways - here's a brief list), so they'd probably acquire some type of them eventually (probably multiple times, even). But again, they're another line with which to work if you're redesigning things so utterly - who needs exactly two frontal eyes when you've got an entire animal history to re-write?
So, basically ecdysozoan polychaetes? Interesting. Though, because the nematode bauplan so stubbornly stable, I think it would take several million years before the first major anatomical changes happen. Until then, I think it would be basic things like color, size, lifestyle, etc.
That's just an example of one way you could feasibly develop an "alien" body plan (and about like a polychaete, yes). As for nematodes being so stable, that's part of the reason why you're going to have to work with an incredibly long timescale to get anywhere - to get to diversity resembling even the Ediacaran period, much less the Cambrian Explosion, you'll need a couple hundred million years of relatively benign evolution. If the ecology has been so thoroughly nuked, it might take 50 million years or more for macroscopic forms to develop, much less anything more derived than a basic worm.
Edited by Sphenodon, Dec 13 2016, 08:27 PM.

We have a Discord server! If you would like to join, simply message myself, Flisch, or Icthyander.
Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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Dec 13 2016, 08:27 PM
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@Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt A project of that scale - if executed properly, which would be a massive challenge given that you're starting from so very little and in such a basic form - sounds like it has tons of potential.

As for making things alien enough, the big thing is creating new structural templates - remarkably easy to do here since you're working with (essentially) the basal bilateran form. Big thing there is, start out small and build things up slowly - the addition of a few swimming cilia could sponsor the development of muscular attachments to them, which in time could lead to a creature covered in innumerable onychophoran-esque/polychaete-esque "legs"/pseudoparapodia. A good example of this would be Serina - things start to snowball after a while, but everything changes slowly and cumulatively. Given that you're essentially re-writing metazoan zoology, you'd also have to work with an extremely long timeframe; you'd be effectively re-tracing animal evolution since the Proterozoic.

All in all, this could potentially be something splendid, but it'll need twenty tons of research and a whole lot of hard speccing to fuel it.

P.S. - apparently eyes of some sort have evolved something like thirty-seven times over the course of animal history (and in tons of different ways - here's a brief list), so they'd probably acquire some type of them eventually (probably multiple times, even). But again, they're another line with which to work if you're redesigning things so utterly - who needs exactly two frontal eyes when you've got an entire animal history to re-write?
So, basically ecdysozoan polychaetes? Interesting. Though, because the nematode bauplan so stubbornly stable, I think it would take several million years before the first major anatomical changes happen. Until then, I think it would be basic things like color, size, lifestyle, etc.
That's just an example of one way you could feasibly develop an "alien" body plan (and about like a polychaete, yes). As for nematodes being so stable, that's part of the reason why you're going to have to work with an incredibly long timescale to get anywhere - to get to diversity resembling even the Ediacaran period, much less the Cambrian Explosion, you'll need a couple hundred million years of relatively benign evolution. If the ecology has been so thoroughly nuked, it might take 50 million years or more for macroscopic forms to develop, much less anything more derived than a basic worm.
Well, it's a new eon, we've got plenty of time to work with. The phanerozoic has been going on for about 541 million years. Remember, the mighty empire called 'animalia' started out as tiny sponge-like opishkonts. Now look where we are. Just wondering, have you seen any other projects involving the end of the phanerozoic?


Also, know that I probably wont start this project any time soon because I am still working on 'A New World: Arthropods'. I am just sharing an idea for a potential second project. You could call this some 'early brainstorming' if you will. But don't let that discourage you from putting your own input.
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


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It might not necessarily take as long as you guys think to get off the ground. Mass extinctions promote evolution. Life experiments, it's an open template, before the maladapted is weeded out and the successful diversifies. In a normal scenario, nematodes wouldn't go much of anywhere, but you're gonna get extremely fast diversity for a little bit once the world becomes habitable again.

If you do decide to do this project eventually I'd suggest deciding on a lot of the fundamental biology before actually writing or posting the project. Maybe get some help through PMs and the like. Re-inventing the animal is no small task.
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Ironically, they don't have assholes. Maybe they just feel really constipated
What I mean is that the Malaware sound like very dumb creatures. I mean, destroying other species just because you think they're better then them? That's just childish and wrong.
They aren't dumb. Not in the slightest. It's just their culture. You wouldn't call christians dumb just for believing an all powerful narcissistic asshole that punishes you for being gay or aetheist. Nor would you call white people dumb for enslaving an entire ethnicity. It's just culture. Terrible terrible culture.
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It might not necessarily take as long as you guys think to get off the ground. Mass extinctions promote evolution. Life experiments, it's an open template, before the maladapted is weeded out and the successful diversifies. In a normal scenario, nematodes wouldn't go much of anywhere, but you're gonna get extremely fast diversity for a little bit once the world becomes habitable again.

If you do decide to do this project eventually I'd suggest deciding on a lot of the fundamental biology before actually writing or posting the project. Maybe get some help through PMs and the like. Re-inventing the animal is no small task.
What are PMs? Anyway, you've got a good point. Do you have any ideas for other potential survivors. So far, the only ones are the devil worm and some bacteria.
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


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Private message. The inbox icon at the top of the forum links to it, as does the button at the bottom of any members post thats says "on | pm" or "off | pm". It's a conversation, similar to a thread (but simplified; there's no editing or deleting, for example), but only between two members.

I couldn't really help you there. I don't really know much about anything that's not a tetrapod, nevermind not an animal.
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Private message. The inbox icon at the top of the forum links to it, as does the button at the bottom of any members post thats says "on | pm" or "off | pm". It's a conversation, similar to a thread (but simplified; there's no editing or deleting, for example), but only between two members.

I couldn't really help you there. I don't really know much about anything that's not a tetrapod, nevermind not an animal.
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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Ironically, they don't have assholes. Maybe they just feel really constipated
What I mean is that the Malaware sound like very dumb creatures. I mean, destroying other species just because you think they're better then them? That's just childish and wrong.
They aren't dumb. Not in the slightest. It's just their culture. You wouldn't call christians dumb just for believing an all powerful narcissistic asshole that punishes you for being gay or aetheist. Nor would you call white people dumb for enslaving an entire ethnicity. It's just culture. Terrible terrible culture.



Uuuuuum........ You know white people were not the first or only people to practice slavery, and they didn't enslave the whole black race, either, right? Not to mention the vast majority of white people didn't even own slaves.


That's a very insensitive generalization, and I have half a mind to report you.
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He never said that white people were the only people to enslave others, merely that they did. He never said he was specifically talking about black people either.

Either way, his point was very obvious.
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