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| Paleo_Specs | May 6 2016, 08:55 PM Post #1 |
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Earth is different. It's 350 million years from now, and things have changed. Picture ghostly and elegant creatures swimming through the oceans in place of whales, giant monitor lizards instead of leopards, and massive amphibians instead of deer. Yes, things have certainly changed. What happened to the world? Your main question is probably, What the hell happened to the earth?. Well, earth was a train wreck and got back on track, got wrecked again, then got back on track in the time we're visiting. After a few years of pollution and poaching, the earth was in very bad shape, and humans had killed off quite a few species, including big cats, a few elephants, rhinos, some sharks, and giraffes. After humans had killed off about 59 different species, the governments formed a union and decided to all live in one, massive city, located in the center of the US. The city expanded to most of America, and was not creating much pollution- humans were using eco-friendly fuels. After a few hundred years, humans started to send more probes to Mars- terraforming the planet. After that, they sent a massive ship filled with half the human race inside, but almost on their way to Mars, something failed, and half the human race was dead. The other half spent hundreds of years making sure nothing could go wrong, and soon almost allhumans were on Mars. They then sent the two probes Apollo and Artemis to Athena, and cheered when they found out it had life. They started becoming space nomads, traveling the galaxy and forming alliances with alien races, until one day, they got a transmission from a planet- Persephone-482 to be precise- a fuzzy one, saying the race were the Wa' Rissh, that their planet was a restricted area, and that they were our creators, and were amazed at how well we had done. Humans were doubting that, until a cloaked figure boarded the ship, and said he was an Wa' Risshi ambassador. Then, humans started respecting the Wa' Rissh, and the Wa' Rissh respected them back. Meanwhile on earth, scince pollution was dissapearing gradually, plants and animals' numbers boosted up- leading to more carbon dioxide and oxygen for plants and animals. But the humans that remained on earth were still there, evolving. 100 million years from now, an asteroid the size of Madagascar hit- and wiped out almost all life. The ones to take a foothold were the most adaptable, intelligent, and flexible groups- the ones we will go over next. The survivors The animals that survived the asteroid had to be Unspecialized, hardy, or just have sheer luck. Humans Rats Bats and mustelids Varanids Crocodillians Frogs Passerines Well, that's all I can type for now! I know this is similar to Terra Futura, but it is the whole redoing of it. Everything's different but the history and a few of the animal groups. Please don't start shit up here. Enjoy! |
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| Finncredibad | May 6 2016, 08:58 PM Post #2 |
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| Beetleboy | May 12 2016, 09:23 AM Post #3 |
neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Can you imagine trying to move every person on Earth (or at least every civilized person, if we exclude remote tribes and such)? The task would be immense, and what if people didn't want to leave their homes? Then you'd have an uprising on your hands. People would have to leave their jobs and their homes behind to go and live somewhere where everybody is packed together - every nationality and culture, all together? No, I don't think people would agree to this. Overall, I highly doubt this would ever, or could ever happen.
Woah, woah. Half of the human race?! In a giant space ship?! The cost of a ship capable of housing half of the population would be immense. Let's say that somehow, we did manage to make such a thing (and I'm doubtful), and we were planning to send half of the human race up to another planet. So first these poor people are forced to leave their homes to live in a new city, then they get sent of to another planet?! I can't imagine people agreeing to this. First, you'd have to train half of the human race to live in space. Far from easy. Then, you'd have to load them all on your ship, and somehow gather together enough supplies to last half of all humans in the world for the whole trip from Earth to Mars - and this is excluding the fact that somehow, we've managed to make an immense space ship, gather together enough rocket fuel, and convince half of the world's population to say goodbye to Earth forever (presumably this is permanent?). I suggest that this hasn't really been thought through very well . . .
What does 'almost on their way' mean? Did they die before they set off, being killed on Earth? Did they die in the take-off? Or did they die in space? How did they die? I think that engineers would have researched for years and years to make sure that they didn't accidentally kill a few million people. And what exactly went wrong? Again, I don't think you've thought this through.
How did they manage to make humans? Did they make all life on Earth? How?
Er . . . so, a 'cloaked figure' boards the ship, and suddenly they respect the Wa' Rissh? Why? What suddenly makes them believe everything the aliens had said?
Yet bats and mustelids are complete seperate groups. And why are mustelids dying? They're pretty adaptable. Competition perhaps?
I didn't think that flight helped save you from an asteroid . . .
Or you could have just edited it? People have told you about this before. Overall, I think you might want to think this project through a bit more . . . |
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