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Rodlox
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May 7 2017, 12:17 AM
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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".
What do you think of this? sounds okay. i can see it being popular at libraries, even if i myself personally wouldn't read it.
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May 7 2017, 09:04 AM
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Ok i have a idea, about a warhammer 40k like universe, with slightly soft spec, teraformed worlds, (still thinking about putting aliens), storytelling a lot (manly war stories), but mostly about life on many worlds, little "ancient aliens" (i know they are bunch crazy heads, but they give me some spec ideas) and small amount of "rule of cool" that i will try to make realistic. It has been going in my head for awhile, and it is prety much sorted out, but i am not sure where to put it, habitable zone or future evo. Main thing is humans interacting with those worlds and creatures, and not creating them. And if anybody asks if there is posthumans, answer is no.
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Projects (they are not dead, just updated realy slowly, feel free to comment): -World after plague After a horrible plague unleashed by man nature slowly recovers. Now 36 million years later we take a look at this weird and wonderful world. -Galaxy on fire. They have left their home to get out of war. They had no idea what awaits them.
My Deviant art profile, if you're curious.
Before you get offended or butthurt read this -If something i say sounds racists or sexists, I AM NEITHER OF THOSE, it is language or cultural barrier, if you get offended please note me of that so i may correct myself. -English is not my native language, so gramar mistakes are expected, I will only accept your corrections if mistake makes comment unreadable, or if is something important like project post or com. Don't be a grammar-nazi, people dont like that. -I often use a common terms when writing, so yes I know birds are dinosaurs and that whales are cetaceans, no need to correct me i know that. -Sarcasm is something I commonly use in jokes, and before you get butthurt please check is it my sarcastic joke. -My goal is not to offend anyone, unless somebody is seriously getting on my nerves, and in that case all this is off!
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Lowry
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May 10 2017, 06:25 AM
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So I've been throwing an idea around in my head for quite a while now since I first came up with the idea of the Trawn in Aprils more serious (less feet orientated) COM.
One iteration of the idea was that I could have a future scenario, where various life forms from humanities attempts at transforming barren worlds into lush ecosystems has yielded life which kind of hijack ol' Humie tech and begin to strive to regenerating us as a species. They succeed and the entire project would be the newly born humans exploring the new cosmos and the life within it. Sophont 'Prawns' would be the most advanced race of the setting.
Another iteration of the idea was an alternate K-Pg Scenario, where the impact is severely larger than in our timeline and a heck of a lot earlier, eradicating the majority of vertebrate life and a large swathe of all invertebrate life. The entirety of photosynthetic life has had their biodiversity rapidly reduced, leaving less prevalent members of their trophic tier to take over. The world would be inhabited by new classes of life that make the reality hopping human explorers feel as though they have reached a literal alien world. The most complex life would be largely highly derived Decapods which now fulfill that realities version of vertebrates, however, the scenario has altered plate tectonics creating a greater separation for all the continents, meaning different landmasses can have entirely different evolutionary lineages. The project would follow the team of reality exploring scientists as they trek through the new Earth they have found. Sophont Prawns would be present.
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Karkinos: Where faith meets myth on a world of the strangely familiar. Under New Suns: The forums own colonisation race! Steep yourself in my lore....
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May 10 2017, 05:55 PM
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- Lowry
- May 10 2017, 06:25 AM
So I've been throwing an idea around in my head for quite a while now since I first came up with the idea of the Trawn in Aprils more serious (less feet orientated) COM.
One iteration of the idea was that I could have a future scenario, where various life forms from humanities attempts at transforming barren worlds into lush ecosystems has yielded life which kind of hijack ol' Humie tech and begin to strive to regenerating us as a species. They succeed and the entire project would be the newly born humans exploring the new cosmos and the life within it. Sophont 'Prawns' would be the most advanced race of the setting.
Another iteration of the idea was an alternate K-Pg Scenario, where the impact is severely larger than in our timeline and a heck of a lot earlier, eradicating the majority of vertebrate life and a large swathe of all invertebrate life. The entirety of photosynthetic life has had their biodiversity rapidly reduced, leaving less prevalent members of their trophic tier to take over. The world would be inhabited by new classes of life that make the reality hopping human explorers feel as though they have reached a literal alien world. The most complex life would be largely highly derived Decapods which now fulfill that realities version of vertebrates, however, the scenario has altered plate tectonics creating a greater separation for all the continents, meaning different landmasses can have entirely different evolutionary lineages. The project would follow the team of reality exploring scientists as they trek through the new Earth they have found. Sophont Prawns would be present. Wait. You said the majority of vertebrate life, not all of it. That means there is some left. How would decapods fully take over if there is still some vertebrates?
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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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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Rodlox
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May 10 2017, 09:15 PM
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- May 10 2017, 06:25 AM
So I've been throwing an idea around in my head for quite a while now since I first came up with the idea of the Trawn in Aprils more serious (less feet orientated) COM.
One iteration of the idea was that I could have a future scenario, where various life forms from humanities attempts at transforming barren worlds into lush ecosystems has yielded life which kind of hijack ol' Humie tech and begin to strive to regenerating us as a species. They succeed and the entire project would be the newly born humans exploring the new cosmos and the life within it. Sophont 'Prawns' would be the most advanced race of the setting.
Another iteration of the idea was an alternate K-Pg Scenario, where the impact is severely larger than in our timeline and a heck of a lot earlier, eradicating the majority of vertebrate life and a large swathe of all invertebrate life. The entirety of photosynthetic life has had their biodiversity rapidly reduced, leaving less prevalent members of their trophic tier to take over. The world would be inhabited by new classes of life that make the reality hopping human explorers feel as though they have reached a literal alien world. The most complex life would be largely highly derived Decapods which now fulfill that realities version of vertebrates, however, the scenario has altered plate tectonics creating a greater separation for all the continents, meaning different landmasses can have entirely different evolutionary lineages. The project would follow the team of reality exploring scientists as they trek through the new Earth they have found. Sophont Prawns would be present.
Wait. You said the majority of vertebrate life, not all of it. That means there is some left. How would decapods fully take over if there is still some vertebrates? there were still some dinosaurs left after the K-T....yet mammals still diversified all over the place.
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May 10 2017, 11:01 PM
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- Rodlox
- May 10 2017, 09:15 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- May 10 2017, 05:55 PM
- Lowry
- May 10 2017, 06:25 AM
So I've been throwing an idea around in my head for quite a while now since I first came up with the idea of the Trawn in Aprils more serious (less feet orientated) COM.
One iteration of the idea was that I could have a future scenario, where various life forms from humanities attempts at transforming barren worlds into lush ecosystems has yielded life which kind of hijack ol' Humie tech and begin to strive to regenerating us as a species. They succeed and the entire project would be the newly born humans exploring the new cosmos and the life within it. Sophont 'Prawns' would be the most advanced race of the setting.
Another iteration of the idea was an alternate K-Pg Scenario, where the impact is severely larger than in our timeline and a heck of a lot earlier, eradicating the majority of vertebrate life and a large swathe of all invertebrate life. The entirety of photosynthetic life has had their biodiversity rapidly reduced, leaving less prevalent members of their trophic tier to take over. The world would be inhabited by new classes of life that make the reality hopping human explorers feel as though they have reached a literal alien world. The most complex life would be largely highly derived Decapods which now fulfill that realities version of vertebrates, however, the scenario has altered plate tectonics creating a greater separation for all the continents, meaning different landmasses can have entirely different evolutionary lineages. The project would follow the team of reality exploring scientists as they trek through the new Earth they have found. Sophont Prawns would be present.
Wait. You said the majority of vertebrate life, not all of it. That means there is some left. How would decapods fully take over if there is still some vertebrates?
there were still some dinosaurs left after the K-T....yet mammals still diversified all over the place. It doesnt work like that. Mammals and dinosaurs are both viable competitors for megafauna. It just happens dinosaurs got there first. And after the kt, mammals where in a less degraded state than dinosaurs.
But this is different. Vertebrates are the undisputed kings of megafauna. They have mastered the art, and no other clade presents any viable competition for these niches. Other animals may "dominate" for a short while, but once vertebrates are back on their feet, they claim the megafaunal niches instantly.
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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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
More pictures
Other cool things
All African countries can fit into Brazil
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May 11 2017, 03:12 AM
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- Lowry
- May 10 2017, 06:25 AM
So I've been throwing an idea around in my head for quite a while now since I first came up with the idea of the Trawn in Aprils more serious (less feet orientated) COM.
One iteration of the idea was that I could have a future scenario, where various life forms from humanities attempts at transforming barren worlds into lush ecosystems has yielded life which kind of hijack ol' Humie tech and begin to strive to regenerating us as a species. They succeed and the entire project would be the newly born humans exploring the new cosmos and the life within it. Sophont 'Prawns' would be the most advanced race of the setting.
Another iteration of the idea was an alternate K-Pg Scenario, where the impact is severely larger than in our timeline and a heck of a lot earlier, eradicating the majority of vertebrate life and a large swathe of all invertebrate life. The entirety of photosynthetic life has had their biodiversity rapidly reduced, leaving less prevalent members of their trophic tier to take over. The world would be inhabited by new classes of life that make the reality hopping human explorers feel as though they have reached a literal alien world. The most complex life would be largely highly derived Decapods which now fulfill that realities version of vertebrates, however, the scenario has altered plate tectonics creating a greater separation for all the continents, meaning different landmasses can have entirely different evolutionary lineages. The project would follow the team of reality exploring scientists as they trek through the new Earth they have found. Sophont Prawns would be present.
Wait. You said the majority of vertebrate life, not all of it. That means there is some left. How would decapods fully take over if there is still some vertebrates?
there were still some dinosaurs left after the K-T....yet mammals still diversified all over the place.
It doesnt work like that. Mammals and dinosaurs are both viable competitors for megafauna. It just happens dinosaurs got there first. And after the kt, mammals where in a less degraded state than dinosaurs. But this is different. Vertebrates are the undisputed kings of megafauna. They have mastered the art, and no other clade presents any viable competition for these niches. Other animals may "dominate" for a short while, but once vertebrates are back on their feet, they claim the megafaunal niches instantly. please read the thread name: project ideas.
Lowry's idea is no more unlikely than about half of the ideas you yourself (or i) have voiced in our time here.
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May 11 2017, 05:24 AM
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- Rodlox
- May 11 2017, 03:12 AM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
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- Rodlox
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- Lowry
- May 10 2017, 06:25 AM
So I've been throwing an idea around in my head for quite a while now since I first came up with the idea of the Trawn in Aprils more serious (less feet orientated) COM.
One iteration of the idea was that I could have a future scenario, where various life forms from humanities attempts at transforming barren worlds into lush ecosystems has yielded life which kind of hijack ol' Humie tech and begin to strive to regenerating us as a species. They succeed and the entire project would be the newly born humans exploring the new cosmos and the life within it. Sophont 'Prawns' would be the most advanced race of the setting.
Another iteration of the idea was an alternate K-Pg Scenario, where the impact is severely larger than in our timeline and a heck of a lot earlier, eradicating the majority of vertebrate life and a large swathe of all invertebrate life. The entirety of photosynthetic life has had their biodiversity rapidly reduced, leaving less prevalent members of their trophic tier to take over. The world would be inhabited by new classes of life that make the reality hopping human explorers feel as though they have reached a literal alien world. The most complex life would be largely highly derived Decapods which now fulfill that realities version of vertebrates, however, the scenario has altered plate tectonics creating a greater separation for all the continents, meaning different landmasses can have entirely different evolutionary lineages. The project would follow the team of reality exploring scientists as they trek through the new Earth they have found. Sophont Prawns would be present.
Wait. You said the majority of vertebrate life, not all of it. That means there is some left. How would decapods fully take over if there is still some vertebrates?
there were still some dinosaurs left after the K-T....yet mammals still diversified all over the place.
It doesnt work like that. Mammals and dinosaurs are both viable competitors for megafauna. It just happens dinosaurs got there first. And after the kt, mammals where in a less degraded state than dinosaurs. But this is different. Vertebrates are the undisputed kings of megafauna. They have mastered the art, and no other clade presents any viable competition for these niches. Other animals may "dominate" for a short while, but once vertebrates are back on their feet, they claim the megafaunal niches instantly.
please read the thread name: project ideas. Lowry's idea is no more unlikely than about half of the ideas you yourself (or i) have voiced in our time here. Your right. It is just an idea.
But there is surly nothing wrong with stating why a project may or may not work.
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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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
More pictures
Other cool things
All African countries can fit into Brazil
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May 11 2017, 06:07 AM
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I don't think the highly specialised cave lancelet I plan of having is going to escape the ridiculous freshwater cave system I have for it, so I'd say my project is fine in plausibility. Plus just because something survives my initial impact it doesn't necessarily mean I can't kill it off shortly after. Before turning towards judgment on my ideas, first develop an opinion I respect.
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Karkinos: Where faith meets myth on a world of the strangely familiar. Under New Suns: The forums own colonisation race! Steep yourself in my lore....
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May 11 2017, 12:24 PM
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The Everdark Forest - The plants here have adapted a "near perfect light absorption rate", eliminating sight as a viable sensory option.
Even allowing for the light absorption hand-wave for the sake of the setting, I'm starting to question using this one. The reason for the pseudo-science plants was because I wanted a dark environment where even bioluminescence wasn't an option, and eyes were completely useless, but I don't know if that's enough to carry the project...well, maybe if it was an anomalous part of an otherwise normal earth, and you got to see troglodyte-esk versions of certain animal groups...
However, watching game play of Scanner Somber got me thinking about caves. Big caves. Caves that could easily hold complex ecosystems of mega-fauna(Maybe Mr Mysterio's Dungeon ideas are also coloring my judgment). The 3-D environment could be fun to play with, from tiny nooks and crannies to sheer walls and ceilings. The base autotrophs would probably have to be Chemosysthetic, but I wonder what biology the rest of the organisms would have to breath out hydrogen sulfide and keep the cycle up, if any could at all. The main question is if stuff like continental drift would cause cave ins, or if new area could open up over time. Might need to play with the world to see if a stable system could form.
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F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.
At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting. Protectorates of the Proan Empire- The Sundered Realms - A fantasy realm where the world is divided into different sections. (Following names subject to change)
- The Gavell Kingdom
- The Everdark Forest
- The Lunar Tundra
- The Sand Sea
- The Asteroid Cloud
- The Rotting Shard
- The Orbital River
- The Outer Shadow
- Bottle Beasts - This Universes version of Pokemon.
Worlds Impacted by the Enlightened/Visceral War- The 'Verse Whale - The Homeworld of the two forces, a planet sized organism, and the unique life that has flourished on it.
- замороженный конец - An Ice Age world populated by tripodal organisms.
- [To Be Named] - A world of creatures with an arm for a head
- [To Be Named] - The Homeworld of a species where only the males are sapient.
- [To Be Named] - The home of a race of carnivorous, trap building beings.
- [To Be Named] - A planet of organisms that can link their minds, where two forms of intelligence have arisen.
Unaffiliated Universes- [To Be Named] - A parallel earth where the Synapsids took over after the Permian Extinction, among other resulting changes.
- نيو نيو امستردام - An abandoned Dyson Cylinder containing an Ecumenopolis now catering to our former pets and pests. (A concept developed entirely separate from DroidSyber's Arcology, I swear.)
- The Bleed - A vast universe where physics are more a suggestion than a rule.
Parakosmos Minor - Known Earth Pocket Universes, Natural or Artificial.- Island of Marsupials and Armadillos off the coast of South America
- A world inhabited by Woodpecker descendants (Again, not meant to be a clone of Serina, I in no way have that much detail ready for this.)
- Katiwala - Your typical Lost World...if i decide to go that route...
(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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May 11 2017, 01:47 PM
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The Everdark Forest - The plants here have adapted a "near perfect light absorption rate", eliminating sight as a viable sensory option.
Even allowing for the light absorption hand-wave for the sake of the setting, I'm starting to question using this one. The reason for the pseudo-science plants was because I wanted a dark environment where even bioluminescence wasn't an option, and eyes were completely useless, but I don't know if that's enough to carry the project...well, maybe if it was an anomalous part of an otherwise normal earth, and you got to see troglodyte-esk versions of certain animal groups... However, watching game play of Scanner Somber got me thinking about caves. Big caves. Caves that could easily hold complex ecosystems of mega-fauna(Maybe Mr Mysterio's Dungeon ideas are also coloring my judgment). The 3-D environment could be fun to play with, from tiny nooks and crannies to sheer walls and ceilings. The base autotrophs would probably have to be Chemosysthetic, but I wonder what biology the rest of the organisms would have to breath out hydrogen sulfide and keep the cycle up, if any could at all. The main question is if stuff like continental drift would cause cave ins, or if new area could open up over time. Might need to play with the world to see if a stable system could form. Not all planets have continental drift. You need a sufficiently wet mantle for that. You could easily have a planet that mostly dried out and doesn't have drift - maybe there is only residual water in the caves, not enough to "grease the gears" of tectonic plates?
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May 11 2017, 03:42 PM
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I don't think the highly specialised cave lancelet I plan of having is going to escape the ridiculous freshwater cave system I have for it, so I'd say my project is fine in plausibility. Plus just because something survives my initial impact it doesn't necessarily mean I can't kill it off shortly after. Before turning towards judgment on my ideas, first develop an opinion I respect. I hate to be "that guy", but lancelets aren't vertebrates. I think you meant chordates.
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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.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
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May 11 2017, 03:58 PM
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True, though doesn't that stagnate evolution by preventing variation and genetic drift? or anything else I'm not thinking of? I suppose other factors could compensate, I just to make sure there are reasons for 'complex' life to evolve.
Also I would probably need volcanism for the chemosysthesis, though once enough was pumped into the atmosphere the cycle should be able to keep going from there if the previous biology question turns out to be true.
EDIT: Aaand I took so long to write that I got knocked out of place. Ugh, Why can't I write fast?
Edited by trex841, May 11 2017, 04:00 PM.
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F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.
At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting. Protectorates of the Proan Empire- The Sundered Realms - A fantasy realm where the world is divided into different sections. (Following names subject to change)
- The Gavell Kingdom
- The Everdark Forest
- The Lunar Tundra
- The Sand Sea
- The Asteroid Cloud
- The Rotting Shard
- The Orbital River
- The Outer Shadow
- Bottle Beasts - This Universes version of Pokemon.
Worlds Impacted by the Enlightened/Visceral War- The 'Verse Whale - The Homeworld of the two forces, a planet sized organism, and the unique life that has flourished on it.
- замороженный конец - An Ice Age world populated by tripodal organisms.
- [To Be Named] - A world of creatures with an arm for a head
- [To Be Named] - The Homeworld of a species where only the males are sapient.
- [To Be Named] - The home of a race of carnivorous, trap building beings.
- [To Be Named] - A planet of organisms that can link their minds, where two forms of intelligence have arisen.
Unaffiliated Universes- [To Be Named] - A parallel earth where the Synapsids took over after the Permian Extinction, among other resulting changes.
- نيو نيو امستردام - An abandoned Dyson Cylinder containing an Ecumenopolis now catering to our former pets and pests. (A concept developed entirely separate from DroidSyber's Arcology, I swear.)
- The Bleed - A vast universe where physics are more a suggestion than a rule.
Parakosmos Minor - Known Earth Pocket Universes, Natural or Artificial.- Island of Marsupials and Armadillos off the coast of South America
- A world inhabited by Woodpecker descendants (Again, not meant to be a clone of Serina, I in no way have that much detail ready for this.)
- Katiwala - Your typical Lost World...if i decide to go that route...
(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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May 11 2017, 05:40 PM
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- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- May 11 2017, 03:42 PM
- Lowry
- May 11 2017, 06:07 AM
I don't think the highly specialised cave lancelet I plan of having is going to escape the ridiculous freshwater cave system I have for it, so I'd say my project is fine in plausibility. Plus just because something survives my initial impact it doesn't necessarily mean I can't kill it off shortly after. Before turning towards judgment on my ideas, first develop an opinion I respect.
I hate to be "that guy", but lancelets aren't vertebrates. I think you meant chordates. Oh lol, typo on my part. I did actually mean vertebrates I just didn't mean a literal lancelet, rather an equivalent derived from cave dwelling fishes. It should read as 'highly specialised cave lancelet-analogue'. And even when I say analogue, I mean on a visual level. Perhaps a better word could be used but meh. Thanks for pointing it out and being once again 'that guy'. Anything else about my posts you'd like to nitpick while we're at it? It's just I'm in a confrontational move and I don't want to clog this thread up too badly.
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Karkinos: Where faith meets myth on a world of the strangely familiar. Under New Suns: The forums own colonisation race! Steep yourself in my lore....
Projects in suspension (for when inspiration hits):
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May 11 2017, 05:52 PM
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- Lowry
- May 11 2017, 05:40 PM
- Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
- May 11 2017, 03:42 PM
- Lowry
- May 11 2017, 06:07 AM
I don't think the highly specialised cave lancelet I plan of having is going to escape the ridiculous freshwater cave system I have for it, so I'd say my project is fine in plausibility. Plus just because something survives my initial impact it doesn't necessarily mean I can't kill it off shortly after. Before turning towards judgment on my ideas, first develop an opinion I respect.
I hate to be "that guy", but lancelets aren't vertebrates. I think you meant chordates.
Oh lol, typo on my part. I did actually mean vertebrates I just didn't mean a literal lancelet, rather an equivalent derived from cave dwelling fishes. It should read as 'highly specialised cave lancelet-analogue'. And even when I say analogue, I mean on a visual level. Perhaps a better word could be used but meh. Thanks for pointing it out and being once again 'that guy'. Anything else about my posts you'd like to nitpick while we're at it? It's just I'm in a confrontational move and I don't want to clog this thread up too badly. IIGS has a habit of sometimes trying to outdo those of us who have Aspergers and other things - not always, granted, but...
and given the whole "debate" earlier (this thread?) about what is isn't an insect etc, one would think IIGS wouldn't knowingly repeat the whole shitestorm with lancets. *sigh*
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.---------------------------------------------. Parts of the Cluster Worlds: "Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP)
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