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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,361 Views)
trex841
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Been working of some "alien" races lately, and I kind of want one to come from a terraformed world, probably a testing ground for genetic engineering projects. I was inspired by agatharights's Squiddies, but I also remembered that Tartarus had a similar idea last year, at least in regards to the transforming.
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Inceptis
Jul 7 2017, 03:08 PM
I've always wondered what jellyfish could do if left in isolation, no, Radiata as a whole. Introduce some species from every major clade in a small inland sea along with non-animal plankton and let evolution go nuts. What do you think?
well, we know they (jellyfish) can and have turned into terrestrial parasites...so I imagine they'd definately surprise us.
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Wait, really? What species is that?
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trex841
Jul 9 2017, 10:56 AM
Wait, really? What species is that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxozoa
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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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I know this has been done quite a few times before, but I do want to try an Alternate Universe project of a world that is mostly covered in water, with only a few islands for land. There might be a continent or two, but they'd be small either way (largest one may be the size of Madagascar?). I know it seems to be a running theme on this forum, but I think I might go through with it, actually.

Some animal concepts I have for this project are:
- Filter-feeding ichthyosaurs
- Semiaquatic, hippo-like ceratopsians
- Flying protomammals (probably sphenacodont descendants)
- Therian-like Therocephalians (Probably the most underrated protomammals ever!)
- Flightless toothed birds
- Ungulate-like afrotheres
- Pelagic Nudibranchs (something I've wanted to do for a long time)
- Terrestrial eurypterids that look like a cross between a scorpion and a spider
- Marine salamanders
- Endothermic temnospondyls that resemble basal archosaurs
- Terrestrial descendants of basal acanthodians, their cartilage becoming true bone
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An inversion of all the Lanikea-style projects, with an alternate universe consisting of an infinite desert.
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

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

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A planet whose surface is covered only by huge deserts and some plains which are dominated by plants which are extremely tough and dry on the outside, almost like husks, which are very hard to break. Within these husks, they store water and nutrients. These husks are buried underground and have leaves which look like hairs almost, which are green, dry, and easily regrown. These don't have much value as food for animals here but are eaten nonetheless. The distance from the star is quite far away, making for a very cold global temperature average. Gravity here is about half of that of Earth and the air density is quite low. The rotational period is 12 hours. The only water sources besides caves and rivers are a.) two polar ice caps and b.) a few large lakes around the planet. There is exactly one forest on the entire planet, near the equator and besides the largest lake of them all. This forest is dominated by towering plants related to those in the plains and a few other types of plants as well.

The "vertebrates" would be decapods, with a head made out of ancestral legs as well. Most would be dull colored, but could on occasions be brightly colored. Small organisms litter the land, small shelled invertebrates which retain water when it rains and stores it within itself. There are many of these, very numerous and very widespread. They would reproduce with seeds, much like plants, which drift along the winds and blot out the sun on certain occasions. Worm-like organisms are common, as burrowing into sand allows for cover from the sun and burrowing into dirt allows easy access to the juicy husks of the plains. Animals tend to be larger than on Earth, owing to the lower gravity. Flying organisms are quite rare (compared to Earth) as the air density requires any flying animal to have a larger surface area in order to fly than here on Earth and only one group has ever attained flight, small relatives of the "vertebrates" (they share a common ancestor) which fly around with modified bones as wings.

I might actually get around to posting this soon enough. Note: I did kinda improv this in about thirty minutes so please excuse any misspells or weird ideas.
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Well, there's little stopping me now from posting Fonix.

And so it begins.
Edited by Inceptis, Jul 24 2017, 04:30 PM.
This was getting fairly big.
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A world where the only introduced species are zooplankton, unicellular algae, and lancelets, along with various microbes.
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For a future evolution idea, a while ago I had this sort of implausible (but cool in my mind) idea of land gastropods somehow becoming dominant life forms after a mass extinction.

For xenobiology (what I'm most interested in) I've been having a hard time coming up with ideas for how to make the planet significantly different from Earth that haven't been done over and over before, although I had this idea for simple aquatic animals that are basically filter-feeding cones, but have radiated into a variety of forms, such as deep-water species that use their non-functional eyespots as lures for prey, or those that evert their digestive tract (which is sort of mesh-like) to capture small plankton. I'll get around to forming an actual project around it eventually.
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On a dead world, hospitable but otherwise empty of life, a lone facility sits. Built by human explorers, this facility is a Shell: a lone harbor of life on a lifeless planet. Most Shells are colonies: the human solution to worlds that would take too long to fully colonize. Even when the very elements themselves do everything they can to shun human life, humans are stubborn.

But this Shell is different, for the life inside it is decidedly not human. Indeed, the organisms themselves can only barely be considered "Earthly".

Initially, this Shell was an experiment in the development and use of pure organic technology: computers and machines grown from genetically-modified tissues, all connected and in-sync like a massive, fleshy brain. Monitored by the inorganic AIs of the Shell itself, these biological machines showed promise, until the project was abandoned, for reasons unknown. For several hundred years, the organic machines were left to their own devices inside the Shell, until, after almost five centuries, a lone AI revisited the Shell's systems and checked in on the abandoned experiment, out of pure curiosity.

Surprisingly, many of the machines were still alive, although much of their original programming had been forgotten over the multiple generations, and many of them were beginning to behave less like machines and more like, well, living things. This fascinated the AI, and so the old experiment became a new, yet very simple one: just what would these former machines become?

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Basically, lifeforms descended from organic computers, security cameras, and servers are left to their own devices and evolve into all kinds of stuff. I imagine many were originally created from gastropod stock (slugs and the like, mainly), and many employ a sort of GMed algae in their bodies. They're left to evolve within the Shell for maybe a few dozen million years, and then after a time, the Shell will "crack", allowing its inhabitants out into the world.
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Here's a project I've wanted to do for a while: a more realistic version of James' Cameron's Avatar. Although I'm a big fan of the movie, many people (among me) have pointed out the scientific flaws in the movie. This project will attempt to fix some of the issues present. For example, no more floating mountains. As cool as they are, by our current understanding of physics and magnetism they're impossible. So, instead of floating mountains, I'm planning to have them replaced by large cliffs carved out by an ancient ocean, also able to reach their height due to the lower gravity.

As for the flora and fauna, there isn't a whole lot I'll change, but there are some glaringly obvious issues, such as the hexapods' front and middle legs being way to close to each other. Thus, I'm going to give them a more insect-like leg configuration, which although it may slow them down, it probably would matter less in the lower gravity. Also, the concept of a biological supercomputer running the moon sounds ludicrous to me, so I'm probably just going to have that relegated to Na'vi mythology.

Speaking of Na'vi, making them plausible is going to be interesting. They'll have two queues (those antennae-like neural extension things) instead of one, much like the other Pandoran Fauna. They'll also have more "Pandoran" characteristics, such as a second pair of eyes and six limbs, although their middle pair will be vestigial, flap-like stumps. As for them being humanoid, I'll hopefully find an explanation for them being this way other than convergent evolution.
Journey to the Makrinocene, a world in the twilight hours of the Cenozoic! (Slightly Inactive, will eventually pick up)
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Have anyone done a "the last vertebrate" project before?

Edit: I realised that this was a stupid question. It is an idea I am working on regardless if other has done it before. I am making my own version.
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A Diyu-style project where a cavern forms in the Holocene and various animals enter it before its sealed off, and the animals inside gradually adapt.
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

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

My Zoochat and Fadom Accounts
- Zoochat
- Fandom
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Jul 28 2017, 12:21 PM
Have anyone done a "the last vertebrate" project before?

Edit: I realised that this was a stupid question. It is an idea I am working on regardless if other has done it before. I am making my own version.
Why not go a step further and do last metazoan?
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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