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Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,374 Views)
Nembrotha
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A world I've thought about for a story is a sort of "Realistic Hell". However, to the people of the world, Hell is called Gryx (pronounced Gricks). Rather than being a sea of fire and lava, Gryx is a planet orbiting a red dwarf. Through some reasons, probably wormholes, Earth organisms ended up on Gryx, including Humans.

Because the planet orbits so close to its parent star, it is tidally locked. Due to this, many organisms are cathemeral. Some organisms I'm thinking of are supposed to be realistic demons from different sources and mythologies, such as the Ars Goetia. Some of the animals inhabiting Gryx are endothermic temnospondyls, terrestrial placoderms, terrestial flying acanthodians, vertebrate-like nudibranchs, and woolly Indricotheres among others.

Not sure I'm gonna go through with this, though
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Leaellynasaura72
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A world I've thought about for a story is a sort of "Realistic Hell". However, to the people of the world, Hell is called Gryx (pronounced Gricks). Rather than being a sea of fire and lava, Gryx is a planet orbiting a red dwarf. Through some reasons, probably wormholes, Earth organisms ended up on Gryx, including Humans.

Because the planet orbits so close to its parent star, it is tidally locked. Due to this, many organisms are cathemeral. Some organisms I'm thinking of are supposed to be realistic demons from different sources and mythologies, such as the Ars Goetia. Some of the animals inhabiting Gryx are endothermic temnospondyls, terrestrial placoderms, terrestial flying acanthodians, vertebrate-like nudibranchs, and woolly Indricotheres among others.

Not sure I'm gonna go through with this, though


It depends on how well you can pull it off. Terrestrial placoderms and flying land-acanthodians seem a little hard to justify, but not impossible.
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Apr 23 2017, 01:17 AM
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Onychophora (might also remove out of fear of them turning into new arthropods)


Trust me, they have such a different anatomy they're more likely to become the new gastropods and the new arthropods. Their primitive water-control and breathing mechanisms mean that although they'll have an initial advantage over other groups, the speed of competition means they're unlikely to evolve a chitinous exoskeleton suitable for large size or dry environments before another Panarthropod group does.

I'd suggest you set this on some kind of static exoplanet, that can live longer than Earth. You're going to need a lot of time to allow many of these groups to evolve beyond their microscopic or basal forms.
But arthropods come from very velvet worm like ancestors that once had the same anatomical limitations. And, keep in mind, that happened in an environment with competition from other big players like chordates, mollusks, and annelids. Now that these are all absent, this could possible happen sooner than it did on Earth. The only reason I'm not worried about tardigrades is because of their eulety.
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Apr 23 2017, 10:51 AM
It depends on how well you can pull it off. Terrestrial placoderms and flying land-acanthodians seem a little hard to justify, but not impossible.
You're right. Now that I think about it, flying acanthodians do seem kind of far-fetched. My concept for them was that acanthodians become terrestrial, tetrapod-style, their cartilaginous skeleton becoming ossified, and then millions of years later develop powered flight (they'd look most similar to early pterosaurs.)
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Just in case anyone cares, I did go ahead and start my prior mentioned project. It is titled The Islands of Donoghue, or just click here to go straight to it, http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8092910/1/#new
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Apr 23 2017, 12:06 AM
I'm working on a concept for a lost world scenario where an island broke off from Europe in the Kimmeridgian age of the Jurassic period. It drifted into the Tethys sea and then down in between Africa and South America in the Cenozoic era. I've drafted the first stages of the map and where it would be located, as well as planning out multiple species that would be found throughout the island. I'm giving it a bit of storytelling from the perspective of a late Victorian exploring scientist who first discovered the island and its endemic fauna and flora. I've been collaborating with Uncanny Gemstar for a short while, and he plans to help me with my first project.

A few groups that will have descendants on the island include: Stegosaurs, basal Tyrannosaurs, basal Iguanodonts, Megalosaurs, multituberculates, (possibly) Sparassodonts, and basal Marginocephalia. We will also have more modern groups that joined later such as Sirenians, Chiropterans, Pinnipeds, Salmonoids, and modern Avians.

Tell me your thoughts and opinions (and the blaring, completely obvious things that make this project impossible that I missed with my limited scientific knowledge.) and what you think I should do. Thank you. :)
sounds like it'll be a very crowded place.
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Mr.Scruth
Apr 23 2017, 01:17 AM
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Onychophora (might also remove out of fear of them turning into new arthropods)


Trust me, they have such a different anatomy they're more likely to become the new gastropods and the new arthropods. Their primitive water-control and breathing mechanisms mean that although they'll have an initial advantage over other groups, the speed of competition means they're unlikely to evolve a chitinous exoskeleton suitable for large size or dry environments before another Panarthropod group does.

I'd suggest you set this on some kind of static exoplanet, that can live longer than Earth. You're going to need a lot of time to allow many of these groups to evolve beyond their microscopic or basal forms.
But arthropods come from very velvet worm like ancestors that once had the same anatomical limitations. And, keep in mind, that happened in an environment with competition from other big players like chordates, mollusks, and annelids. Now that these are all absent, this could possible happen sooner than it did on Earth. The only reason I'm not worried about tardigrades is because of their eulety.
and the ones that didn't, became velvet worms. just because their ancestors had two options open to them, doesn't mean their descendants do. (whales evolved from things that could have evolved into fast-running plains beasts...but that option isn't there for whales now)
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I've had an idea for an Alternate Universes project set in a hyperbolic space.

The planet would be a horosphere (which I'm pretty sure has finite gravity). The surface would be Euclidean, but creatures which burrowed along straight lines to get from place to place would be able to cover vast surface distances with very little relative effort, giving burrowers a huge advantage and crippling the traveling capabilities of fliers. (Similarly, plants which spread via stolons would have a massive advantage over those which used seed dispersal.) Sufficiently big creatures would run into the problem that, whenever they tried to move, they would feel a lot of tugging forces caused by the lines the various parts of their body were traveling on diverging. The extent of all these factors would depend on the fundamental length of the space.

Alternatively, the planet could be the complement of a horosphere, which would also have finite gravity, but provide a reversed situation, with fliers being able to cover immense distances in almost no time at all, and burrowers traveling along very inefficient paths. In this world, you could have immense cave systems/burrowing space, as the amount of available space increases exponentially as you go deeper. Similarly, seed dispersal could allow plants to spread for immense surface distances.

Alternatively, there could be a spherical planet, which is likely more realistic (and can be extremely close to the horospherical case, while still being finite, which may be desirable.) The complement of a sphere would not have such a realism advantage, though it could act as a bounded version of the complement of a horosphere.

Or, the planet could be a plane, meaning that the surface would appear hyperbolic, allowing life unimaginably vast area to spread out over (the amount of area within a given distance grows exponentially with distance, in the literal sense of the word.) Not sure how gravity would be handled, though. An equidistant surface would display similar behavior, but with a bias towards burrowing or flying.
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I kinda though up of this on-the-spot, so it's probably poorly thought out and outlandish. <_<

Thousands of years ago, in the time of, say, the Sumerians or Egyptians, a highly advanced alien species came to Earth. They did some things like contacting humans before leaving for another planet. The catch?

The visitors left some of the fauna from their planet on Earth. Despite the odds of living on a completely foreign planet, the alien animals managed to adapt to the conditions of Earth. In the process, they've wreaked havoc on ecosystems across the globe. But, after some time, things would settle down, and eventually the aliens would find their place in Earth's ecosystems. This project would detail these invaders: Their appearance, diet, habitat, and maybe what to do if you encounter them. Some of them may even be the inspiration for many mythological creatures and cryptids...
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I've had this idea about a sort of botched terraforming where all of the non human organisms would be born, raised, and released a long time before the humans, but something goes wrong, and almost all arthropods and vertebrates were destroyed before they could be born. After a much longer time than intended the humans finally wake up on their new home (haven't decided how long yet) to find a completely different world than intended. Nemerteans, Polychaetes, echinoderms, and lancelets became the dominant animals on this swampy world (another flaw of the broken terraforming ship).
The humans exit the ship to find it wreathed in banners and a small temple near by. They meet their new neighbors, extremely derived sapient starfish with early metalworking

The sapient star fish have massive storage cells for their hydraulic fluid and have become more active. they have a single complex eye ringed by ocelli with a foldable tip that works like an eyelid on the end of each arm and their tube feet have become much longer and rigid and jointed holding them high up off of the ground. the evertable stomachs of their ancestors have become a sort of evertable mouth with five tusks for display and killing, with much smaller teeth for chewing and ripping. they are primarily carnivores but can digest limited amounts of plant matter.

the apex predators of the swamp plains surrounding are a group of large, pack hunting nemerteans that pull themselves along with their proboscis called Worfs (worm-wolf)
that's all I got so far though
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Apr 23 2017, 10:25 AM
A world I've thought about for a story is a sort of "Realistic Hell". However, to the people of the world, Hell is called Gryx (pronounced Gricks). Rather than being a sea of fire and lava, Gryx is a planet orbiting a red dwarf. Through some reasons, probably wormholes, Earth organisms ended up on Gryx, including Humans.

Because the planet orbits so close to its parent star, it is tidally locked. Due to this, many organisms are cathemeral. Some organisms I'm thinking of are supposed to be realistic demons from different sources and mythologies, such as the Ars Goetia. Some of the animals inhabiting Gryx are endothermic temnospondyls, terrestrial placoderms, terrestial flying acanthodians, vertebrate-like nudibranchs, and woolly Indricotheres among others.

Not sure I'm gonna go through with this, though
I could help you with that - I've got a similar project in the works.
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Apr 27 2017, 03:47 PM
I could help you with that - I've got a similar project in the works.
Oh? That would be great! :")

In other news, I've also had this idea since I first got into paleontology back in 2013: A lost continent out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, or maybe in a separate universe. This continent is inhabited by Permian and Triassic animals, for example gorgonopsids, cynodonts, therocephalians (which are the dominant tetrapods), early archosaurs and rhyncosaurs. How they haven't changed in over 250 or so million years, I have no idea.

A similar idea I have is a world where Florida became separated from other continents, essentially becoming the Madagascar of the Atlantic. This idea's a HUGE WIP, though.
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So yeah, this is my first project idea or journey to the east. It's basically about making stuff like the kappa, Chinese dragons, and Indonesian vampire demons realistic. Please give me some advice for my writing as well.
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So what happened to you this year?
 
I have a story idea. I probably wont carry on, at least not anytime soon because I am shit at story telling and character development. But, I think it's worth sharing nontheless. If you want to carry on with it, be my guest.

It's called "The Basement".

The main characters are two kids. It starts out as normal kid life stuff with school yada yada yada. Then, the one of the kids visits the other's house, because they are friends. It starts out normal, playing video games, eating stuff, etc. But then, the host kids shows the guest kid his basement. It's a cool, if slightly strange one. There is several shelves with an assortment of items new and old. At the end of the room is a wall of boxes. But here's where the fun starts. There is no wall behind the boxes.

The host kid pushes the boxes out of the way, revealing a vast world he calls "the basement". It has an orange polluted sky with no clouds, and stacks of boxes as far as the eye can see. It turns out, the kid discovered the basement 5 years ago and has been exploring it ever since. Since most (but not all) of the boxes are taped closed, he carries a box cutter to open them. They go exploring the basement, carried away in fascination until they realized the strayed to far from the entrance and are now lost. The story follows them trying to get back.

Here's a little information about the basement.

It's origin is completely unknown, as is what the end of it looks like, if there is an end. The scenery described above is all that there is. If other scenery exists, it must be very far away from the entrance. The boxes are all plain cardboard boxes, most of which sealed with duck tape. The stacks of the boxes themselves vary in size, as do the boxes themselves. The boxes come in every size they do in real life. Though, on rare occasions, an exceptionally large or small one may be found. The content of the boxes also vary. Usually, it's a random assortment of familiar objects. Sometimes it's a specific set, or just multiple of the same item. Sometimes, boxes are empty. Though modern day objects are most common, the boxes can contain items from all eras in human history, from 80's soda bottles to early stone tools. It can even contain strange, alien objects never invented or conceived by humans in all their known history. Food items, while not rare, aren't terrible common. They are usually things like water bottles of chip bags. No weather is present, nor is there any bodies of water. The only things known to lives in the basement are bacteria, mold, house geckos, and a couple dozen arthropod species. Y'know, stuff that lives in basements.


What do you think of this?
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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