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| Kerguelen | Jun 8 2017, 08:16 PM Post #1051 |
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Could you please explain the wasp's life cycle in incredible detail? |
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In the shadows and crevices they lurk. Hiding from human eyes they are Creatures From Beyond Upcoming Projects A merciless world where the rains never come. With rolling dunes and gigantic mountains. Welcome to the land of Aridia Far far away in a distant land. Emperors reign and beasts prowl. Monsters and demons fill the deadly forests. Let us take a Journey to the East A lab experiment gone wrong. A flash of thunder and lightning. Mankind finds itself cast into a new world. Predators of the Plioence | |
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| Nembrotha | Jun 9 2017, 03:39 AM Post #1052 |
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A terraformed world where no land animals are introduced. Eventually, terrestrial nudibranchs evolve into tetrapod-like creatures and diversify into many different creatures. The project would start out in the 2800s, when humanity is spreading out to other planets. They terraform the world said above, putting no land animals but lots of aquatic invertebrates. Timeskip to 200 million years later, we get to the tetrapod-like nudibranchs. |
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| trex841 | Jun 9 2017, 04:00 AM Post #1053 |
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That will depend a bit on species, and I've still got a few details to iron out. Chiefly, if an ovipositer can be non lethally injected into a uterus through the abdomen, or if they would have to use the more...direct...opening...which would change how I write about them. |
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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. (And this is just the spec related stuff) | |
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| Nyarlathotep | Jun 9 2017, 06:54 AM Post #1054 |
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The Creeping Chaos
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One idea found around in my head is one where animals are far easier to domesticate than in our timeline, a bit like the game Ark, though far more feasible. Less extinctions and more civilisations basically. Would be ASB of course and in alternate universes, but it would be interesting to see how the different animals interacted once domesticated and how civilisation may progress. Another is a scenario where a planet is terraformed and only settled with cave dwelling organisms and some basal plants, though it runs the risk of being too similar to Settlers of the Deep. And a third would be an above water Ontong Java Plateau, though it'd be hard to keep it interesting as possible as time progresses. |
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| gestaltist | Jun 9 2017, 07:12 AM Post #1055 |
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Infinite flat Earth, with ocean stretching in all directions, and landmasses strewn across this infinite space. |
| Scosya - my project | |
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| Lowry | Jun 10 2017, 10:32 AM Post #1056 |
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ARH-WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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So after having some discussions with Hangin on discord a while back I've been mulling over ideas for the project dubbed Prawntopia, with the plan on handwaving the introduction of various modern crustacean species into the Cambrian and their takeover of the world, by making it be the fault of pesky humanity accidentally misusing wormhole tech in the future and creating the multiverse as a biproduct. But I digress, the topic would have all the lovely quirks of a highly evolved invertebrate covered world with so many unique bauplans based off of the original blueprint. The main idea I've recently toyed with is a rather obscure naming scheme, with Scandinavian Myth being a somewhat prominent part of the creative process |
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Projects Currently Being Worked Upon: 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): - Galapagaia - Rich Man's Ark (nice little bit of community spec :P) - Ichor Projects for a latter day: | |
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| IIGSY | Jun 10 2017, 06:39 PM Post #1057 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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A world with only one metazoan. The giant tube worm. |
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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 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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| Dapper Man | Jun 11 2017, 03:09 AM Post #1058 |
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* I am fed up with dis wuurld *
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Something I might get working on someday: Oxfordia: A world in which the only animals introduced are those from the Oxfordian and Callovian stage of the Jurassic. I may end up posting this, but for now, it's up for grabs. |
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Speculative Evolution: Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack. | |
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| Nyarlathotep | Jun 11 2017, 03:56 PM Post #1059 |
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The Creeping Chaos
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Perhaps as an alternative to terraformed world projects, we could do ones where an animal or group travels back in time and alters the past? Examples would include Zorc's grass project and my own Tardigradus. |
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| trex841 | Jun 11 2017, 04:29 PM Post #1060 |
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Both have their interesting points |
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| IIGSY | Jun 11 2017, 08:18 PM Post #1061 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Introduce modern arthropods to early neoproterozoic earth
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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 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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| Fazaner | Jun 12 2017, 08:55 AM Post #1062 |
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Шашава птичурина
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Interesting, imagine some hardy mammals transported into carboniferous? It would be a gamechanger. |
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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 | |
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| gestaltist | Jun 12 2017, 11:22 AM Post #1063 |
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Idea for an "Alternate Universe" project: a universe where reality is only stable within a few mile radius. There is gravity, but other than that, anything goes: you could have Earth-like atmosphere or Venus-like atmosphere, land or sea or a cloud of methane, etc. However, conditions will always change slowly, and contiguously as you move. I.e., it's kinda an infinite multiverse fit into a single pseudo-planet. Kinda similar to my idea a few posts back, but much more wacky. |
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| IIGSY | Jun 12 2017, 02:07 PM Post #1064 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!1!!!!!!1!!!!!!! On a more serious note, I have a better idea. Introduce cyanobacteria to time when life just emerged. This means the great oxygenation event will have happened much earlier. Or we could just crank up the Devonian extinction and kill all 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 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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| Inceptis | Jun 12 2017, 05:08 PM Post #1065 |
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I kind of gave up on reading the papers and decided to wing it a bit. Tell me if this seems too unlikely. Fonix's original name was TESS 1728c. Labeled as a super-earth 25% bigger than Earth with an orbit of roughly 11 days, it was considered too close to its parent M8 dwarf for life to develop. As such, it was catalogued for nearly a century before the system came close enough for the detection of atmospheric oxygen on the planet. Considered exceptionally unusual for the development of life given the nature of the system's hyperbolic orbit through the galaxy as well as the age of the star and its sibling placing it beyond the formation of metal-rich stars, preparations for probe missions were made, with the possibility of manned missions in the future if the biosphere proved hospitable enough. Fonix itself has a constantly fluctuating orbit and eccentricity due to its siblings' gravitational influence, and although the variations are mild, this makes it impossible for the planet to tidally lock, meaning the usual issues involved with an eyeball planet developing life have been reduced significantly. However, as the probes began to explore the planet, they discovered something odd: Fonix appeared to be younger than its location suggested. Not only were the oldest rocks found almost 3 billion years younger than TESS 1728a, its parent, but it had a very different composition as well, containing significant amounts of iron and other heavy metals. It soon became clear that the planet did not originate here, but had been rejected from its parent system and became a rogue planet, only to be adopted by a wandering red dwarf binary later in its life. No doubt this had immense effects on the life living here, and fossils discovered from early in Fonix's history show that the planet had already entered a sort of Cambrian Explosion right before orbital ejection. The most significant result meant the death of then-living photosynths, with current plant analogues having evolved no later than 1 billion years ago. However, the time spent in darkness not only meant the loss of some of its ocean to radiation, but it also produced a necessity for chemosynthesis, resulting in the birth of multicellular lithotrophs. But perhaps the strangest result from the eons of darkness was the creation of a clade of prokaryotes capable of utilizing the currents themselves for chemical energy: the sonotrophs were born, and with them perhaps the most interesting autotrophs the galaxy has seen. Let's just say that the first probe to land down received almost more information from its microphone than its camera... |
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