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Raiju; The Lightning Lands; Idea creds to Holben
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Topic Started: Feb 18 2016, 12:18 PM (864 Views)
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Feb 18 2016, 12:18 PM
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Platypodes. Electric Rays. Knifefish. Olms. Many species across the world use electricity to navigate, communicate, or, in extreme cases, such as in the case of Electrophorus electricus, use electricity to stalk and kill prey. What would happen to a world where there were only these creatures? How could they radiate out into a strange new world of animals? And would such an electricity-filled planet be any different, fundamentally, than our own?
Raiju The moon Raiju is a moon only slightly smaller than earth, about 90% of the size. It has an atmosphere that is very similar to earth’s, only slightly denser and with an oxygen concentration of about 27%. The moon is much warmer than our own earth, and has almost no ice caps, along with high sea levels and warm equatorial currents. However, Raiju had a very large ocean and not much land mass. Because of this, most of the moon’s land mass is one long chain of large islands stretching from north to south pole. These islands are mostly tropical and marshy, except for the large expanse of plains in the southern hemisphere and the temperate tundra of the far north. 
Raiju’s fauna is the result of a strange seeding project by an unknown alien force. The faunal ancestors seem to be all earth fauna of the 21st century, but only species that are in some way capable of using electricity and electroreceptive organs in hunting or sensing things. The best estimate is that approximately 38 million years have elapsed between the seeding of the planet and the arrival of robotic probes to scout out Raiju.
Ancestral Life of Raiju
Mammals:
-Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
-Long-Beaked Echidna (Zaglossus spp.)
-Short-Beaked Echidna (Tachglossus aculeatus)
-Guiana Dolphin (Sotalia guianensis)
Amphibians:
-Olm (Proteus anguinus)
Bony Fish:
-Neotropical Knifefish (Gymnotiformes, ~150 species)
-Freshwater Elephantfish (Mormyrinae, ~170 species)
-African Knifefish (Gymnarchus niloticus)
-Electric Catfish (Malapterurus spp.)
-Stargazers (Astroscopus spp. and Uranoscopus spp.)
Cartilaginous Fish:
-Electric Rays (Torpediniformes, 69 species)
-Sawfish (Pristidae, 7 species)
-Skates (Rajidae, ~200 species)
-Chimaeras (Chimaeridae, 50 species)
(You may notice I did not include Elasmobranchii (sharks) above. Reasons? This project is meant to be speculative and...very different from real life, and as sharks are known for their evolutionary stability, I didn’t include them so as to open up niches for the weirder fish...and co.)
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Plants
-10000+ species of Algae
-~50 species of water weeds(Elodea, Hydrilla, Egeria, etc.), as well as frogbit (Hydrocharis, Limnobium) and others
-100+ species of green seaweeds
-200+ species of grass (includes ‘ornamental’ grasses and cattails)
-Bald Cypress trees (Taxodium
-Blue Gum tree (Eucalyptus globulus)
-Rhododendron (Rhododendron subg. Rhododendron)
-Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
-1000+ species of mosses
Notable Macroscopic Animals
Raiju contains a thriving ecosystem of invertebrates, which were introduced first, from Arthropods (Springtails, Millipedes, Ants, Copepods, etc.) to Molluscs (Land Snails, Sea Slugs, Bivalves, etc.) to Annelids to Cnidarians (Jellyfish, Anemones, although no coral) to Echinoderms (Starfish, Sand Dollars, Sea Cucumbers, etc.), filling roles of aquatic and terrestrial decomposers, producers, and small to medium sized consumers, as they do on earth.
Fungi
Fungi are cosmopolitan on land in Raiju, molds decomposing microscopically, mushrooms running hyphae through entire forests and swamps, etc.
Table of Contents BiomesEquatorial Swamps: -Overview ( This post) Fauna- Duckgong- Sailies( Will be updated as things are posted)
Now that logistics are out of the way, here is the first piece of art and writing!
Equatorial Swamps Raiju’s northern continent is named, unoriginally, Boreas, after the god of the northern wind in greek mythology. The center of the continental mass is mostly an enormous equatorial freshwater lake. The edges of the lake are thickly forested freshwater swamps, filled with water weeds, tall cypresses, and shrubby rhododendrons. The saltmarshes just across the short spits of land separating the central lake system and the ocean are a completely different environment than the freshwater swamps, which are home to some of Raiju’s living fossils. These swamps would be the most familiar environments to any Earth ichthyologist coming to the moon, but even then they are still full of their own share of strange species, both to Earth and the rest of Raiju. Spoiler: click to toggle  The shoals of wave fish ( Undulatorus spp.) are a common sight throughout the ragged swampy streams and ponds. Each inlet has its own species that differs slightly in coloration, mating habits, and diet. Like most animals in these murky Raiju swamps, wave fish use low voltage electric pulses to tell where things are around them, detecting predators, like swamp shieldfish, prey, like tiny crustaceans, smaller fish, and molluscs, and obstacles that would impede their swimming. In order to survive in a murky environment filled with many other predators, wave fish have evolved a social structure of shoaling. By grouping together in even small schools, wave fish can use their combination of constant electric signals to cloud their presence to those predators that detect prey using electric pulses (read: all of them). Lining the fallen cypress logs are another almost-familiar species. At first glance these creatures resemble earth mudpuppies and waterdogs of the genus Necturus. However, these animals have only one pair of limbs and, more importantly, no eyes. These are lesser linnorms ( Pseudonecturus borealis), descendants of the olms first seeded here. These amphibians grow to be about half a meter, and use their sharp teeth to pick insects and snails off of logs and extract soft parts from hard exoskeletons. Linnorms in larger bodies of water are known to grow to as big as 2 meters and hunt large prey, but not the lesser linnorms in this part of the swamp. Swamps like these are the haven of ambush predators. 3 groups of fish compete for this role in these swamps, each one targeting certain targets and hunting in a particular way. Carpet Jolts ( Electropotamos spp.) are a genus of electric rays that have evolved convergently to their distant neotropical stingray relatives. Adapted to breathe freshwater, carpet jolts have evolved massively more powerful electrical organs on their bodies. Lying in wait, half buried in the sand and camouflaged perfectly, they wait for unsuspecting fish to pass by. They camouflage themselves from even the most electrically sensitive fish by emitting electrical pulses to jam the frequency of passing fish and to appear ‘invisible’. When a small enough prey item comes close, the carpet jolts emit a powerful electrical pulse, enough to either stun or kill most fish, and then lunge out, devouring their prey. Swamp shieldfish( Stegopenser stagnum) along with the other shieldfish, are the next in a long legacy stretching back to the cretaceous. Shieldfish, although externally very similar to their Acipenser ancestors, have developed bony protrusions from their tooth plates. They use these jagged jaw bones to snatch up small, soft bodied prey, rather than flat bony plates to crush hard prey. With their suckerlike mouths, shieldfish can suck up a small fish or crustecean moving in front of them and then lacerate it. Although almost completely blind, Swamp Shieldfish use their barbels and electroreceptors to detect prey and ambush it. Like their ancestors, these fish are armored heavily, something that protects them from any large predators that might encroach on their territories. Another group that found lots of success on Raiju is the stargazers. Descendants of stargazers, known as deadfalls, populate many fresh and brackish water ecosystems. In fact, these deadfalls have evolved strong tails and pectoral fins, originally useful for burrowing, that they can use to push themselves through moist land vegetation from one pool or stream to another. The most common deadfall in these large equatorial swamps is Jackson’s Deadfall ( Ambuloscopus jacksonii), which lurks as an ambush predator waiting for a small bottom feeding fish or invertebrate to walk near its mouth before lunging and swallowing it. Jackson’s Deadfall, named after the first probe to arrive on Raiju, is especially successful because of its habit of crossing land to small isolated pools and laying eggs there, so that young can develop safely under the protection of their mother, who stays in the pool and will fight off any other of her species who come to steal her nest. The Proboscis fish ( Probosicthys spp.) seems at first to be a typical elephantnose fish, if a bit stockier. However, these fish fall into a symbiotic relationship with the species of pondweed that fill the swamps. Each species of Proboscis fish lives in close proximity to one plant for all its life, having evolved a natural camouflage to blend in with the plant they live in. The plant’s root cluster provides a safe haven for the fish’s eggs and for the adult fish itself, and the fish defends the plant from any small invertebrates that would eat it. In addition, Proboscis fish will emit a low frequency electric pulse from their bodies which interferes with the senses of many other fish that live on Raiju, keeping them from eating either the pondweed or the Proboscis fish and its eggs. This environment, although containing a few odd species, is remarkably similar to what one might see in our planet. However, this illusion is dispelled as a large freshwater duckgong ( Platerhynchus dugon) slips into the water. This large mammal is a monotreme and is one of the largest animals in the area. Growing to sizes of up to 2 meters, duckgongs are amphibious opportunists. Having evolved a more robust digestive system than their platypus ancestors, these animals use their flat beak to scrape algae, molluscs, crustaceans, and small fish off of underwater plants, drifting like aquatic cattle and eating any living thing they sense with their electrosensitive snouts. They are impervious to attack from most creatures in these small inlets, but are vulnerable when the go farther out to deeper water, so they stay in the shallows. Duckgongs aren’t entirely aquatic, though. They sleep on land on river banks and will eat terrestrial prey as well, if they can catch it. Individual animal profiles, plants, and small animals will follow soon!
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Feb 18 2016, 12:23 PM
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I really like the art.
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Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems..
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Feb 18 2016, 12:29 PM
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Feb 18 2016, 09:11 PM
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Nice, original idea. I like it.
Thanks so much! The original inspiration came from Holben over skype, but I ran with it lmao. - Adman
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I really like the art.
Thank you! I'm very self-conscious about my art, so the comments make me smile :D.
Platerhynchus dugon  The duckgong looks at first just like an over sized platypus. However, its long fluked tail is its major form of locomotion. Unlike platypodes, which use their forelimbs for locomotion, duckgongs use their tail to swim. However, as a result the limbs of these animals have shrunk significantly. Luckily, their large size and lack of any real predators once full grown makes the duckgong's slow movement on land not a serious issue. ReproductionDuckgongs mate once every year in the dry season, laying eggs while the water is low so as to avoid flooding of nest burrows. Mating occurs underwater, as females hold onto males using their sharp hind claws. Male hind claws, like in their platypus ancestors, are mildly venomous, and are used as a weapon in inter-male conflicts over females if the conflicts escalate beyond splashing and snorting. A clutch is usually between 2 and 5 eggs, laid in a shallow burrow between trees, insulated with rhododendron leaves. While females guard their eggs, males will bring clumps of water weed laden with invertebrates for the females to eat. DietDuckgongs are opportunistic feeders, feeding on bottom plants almost all day as they swim. They use their short, broad bills to scrape through substrate and plants, swallowing algae, water weeds, insect larvae, small crustaceans, and small mollusks. If they come across larger prey, which they can sense with the electroreceptors set into their fleshy beak, a duckgong will use their flat broad teeth to crush whatever hard parts an animal has, shearing it into chunks before swallowing it. In order to support stronger jaw muscles and broader teeth, duckgong's bills have fused together in the front, making it a much stronger and bonier bill that can also more easily comb through sediment and plants. |
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Feb 18 2016, 09:50 PM
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This project is very great.
It is nice to have the platypuses, echidnas, electric catfish, electric rays and olms have more focus in a future evolution project.
Your pictures are awesome and I would like to see more of both pictures and more detail about the project in the future.
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Feb 19 2016, 05:05 PM
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Cool, world of the monotremes.
Out of curiosity, any reason you named this after Raijin's companion from Japanese myth?
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He was a skater birb, she said tweet you later birb
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Funny, isn't it, that our world needs Clark Kent a lot more than Superman.
- Xenoblade Chronicles
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Even though he is our creator, that does not afford him the right to take our lives on a whim.
But that is the thinking of a homs. He is a god. Such morals cannot apply to gods.
So you think we should just shut up and die?!
If that is the fate decided by a god.
You are mistaken if you think we will simply accept such a fate and wait to die.
We'll never stop fighting. Not till the end.
To Zanza, the outcome is the same. Thus your logic is flawed.
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When freaky aliens give you lemons, make freaky alien lemonade.
- Kid Icarus Uprising
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But Souls are delicious. They're like bacon - they taste good on anything.
But if you eat them, you completely remove them from existence! They can't move on or... or be reincarnated!
Huh. I never really gave it much thought. Besides, what do you mean by reincarnation anyway?
You know, being reborn as someone or something else.
Which means different body, different memories, different experiences, yes? So isn't being reborn as "something else" the same as being "removed from existence"?
I... I... eating souls isn't right!
That depends on your definition of "right". All living things survive by eating other living things.
So what? You're a god. You should be above all that!
Gods are above living things, which doesn't necessarily mean we care about them.
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You are being shagged... by a flightless parrot.
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Feb 19 2016, 07:44 PM
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This is really good! Keep it up, good sirs (Not sure whether to refer to you as sirs or madams)!
Thanks! Just call me Jason or Guppy or a combination idk - MechaSnowStalker
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This project is very great.
It is nice to have the platypuses, echidnas, electric catfish, electric rays and olms have more focus in a future evolution project.
Your pictures are awesome and I would like to see more of both pictures and more detail about the project in the future.
Thank you so much! More pictures and details will come, do not worry! - LittleIslander
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Cool, world of the monotremes.
Out of curiosity, any reason you named this after Raijin's companion from Japanese myth?
Yep! I named it so because "Raiju" literally means 'thunder beast' and since all life on Raiju is connected by the common thread of electrosensitivity, I thought it was fitting that they were all "Thunder beasts".
Getting these replies out of the way, but probably won't be updating for a few days because of school, but I'll probably get something out by Monday!
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I do art sometimes.
"if you want green eat a salad"
Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.
Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.
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Feb 19 2016, 08:15 PM
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This seems like my abandoned Yino, but better. I like it!
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Spoiler: click to toggle maybe i'll make a project
maybe i won't
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Feb 28 2016, 09:13 PM
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Sorry for the inactivity, life calls. New drawings will be up soon, but here's some tetrapods!
Glossupteria
The skies above Raiju's warm swamps and tropical islands are filled with myriads of insects. Enormous butterflies flit from rhododendron to rhododendron, spreading pollen and feasting on nectar. Dragonflies skim prey from the water only to be swallowed down by lurking fish. Even other arthropods, like the weather balloon spider, patrol the skies. This, it seems, is a chordate-less environment. However, these arthropods that flock must have predators, and not just predators like the swooping drake-flies or the torpedo-beetles. Predators like the order Glossupteria.
The two species of echidna that arrived in Raiju 38 million years must have felt cheated by the position they were in. Their cousins, the platypodes, quickly diversified into amphibious forms capable of feeding on the myriads of aquatic plants and fish, whereas the olms rapidly evolved into powerful carnivores on land and in the water. However, the insects that ate the unstoppable plant life provided food sources for these echidnas. But as the ground grew more dangerous and cypress and pine trees grew taller and taller, these echidnas moved upwards too. Curved digging claws can turn into curved climbing claws, and powerful sharp fingers can dig insects out of tree trunks just as well as out of the ground. However, the ancestors of Glossupteria took it one step further.
Glossupterians, also known as Sailies, are a family of monotremes descended from long beaked echidnas. Their movement upwards to the trees came with new adaptations. Sailies have longer, stronger beaks, and the tongues that echidnas are famous for have evolved to be longer and more flexible. The tip of the tongue is tipped with a keratinous and serrated blade that folds out when the tongue is extended. The barbed tip allows a sailie to take hold of a small insect, though some species of sailies have evolved to use this tongue in other ways. The spines of the echidna ancestors have flattened out into scale like plates that cover their back, giving them protecting from crushing jaws of land wyrms rather than from sharp teeth that don't exist on Raiju. These plates also allow for a more aerodynamic profile, which is helpful for the most radical evolutionary step possessed by the sailies.
Stretching from their wrist to their ankles, sailies have a patagium that lets them glide from tree to tree, drifting in search of new prey. The edge of the patagium nearest to their wrists is edged with long, thick spines. These spines, in conjuction with the curved claws of the sailies, provide a dual purpose. They help provide purchase on rough tree bark, but also allow boring into tree to get to insects hiding inside. Most sailies are part of the genus Glossuptera, insectivorous sailies that grow from between 20 cm, the least sailies, and almost 1 m, the spiny borer. There is also the genus Gruiglossus, which are sailies that live near water and eat small fish and aquatic invertebrates, as well as the genus Loriglossus which feed on nectar from flowers and on the insects that visit those flowers.
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I do art sometimes.
"if you want green eat a salad"
Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.
Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.
❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️
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When will this be updated, Jason?
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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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Nov 8 2016, 08:17 PM
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Whenever they want.
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Nov 8 2016, 08:20 PM
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Probably not for quite a while, the premise was too restrictive and I'm a slow updater anyways so I lost interest. Maybe it will return, but also maybe not.
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I do art sometimes.
"if you want green eat a salad"
Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.
Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.
❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️
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