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Cytelbearn 3 - game thread
Topic Started: Aug 20 2016, 06:31 AM (2,652 Views)
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Current Rules

1. You many choose any creature to work on and post any many as you want (10 per generation).
2. While bacteria and viruses do exist, they aren't covered, with Protocytelia being the first eukaryotic life.
3. Generation two shall be the only week in which single-celled life can be evolved from Protocytelia with each one being a global genus. On generation 3, multicellular life is evolved from them.
4. You many only evolve from a previous generation or before. (Not the same generation).
5. Each generation has 10 species.
6. There is NO time limit (such as 1 per day) to do them so each generation is done when it reaches 10 species.
7. Each week is done when it reaches 7 generations no matter if it takes 7 days or 7 months.
8. At the end of each week the game shall be paused so I can post the species on the wiki, update the map and see what species have gone extinct.
9. To apply for the game, please make a species evolved from a previous one and post it onto the Application Thread. When it's accepted, please repost it in the game thread(This one).
10. Images must also contain the generation number.
11. Each species/genus must have the following information filled out so it may be added to the Wiki.

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Common Name (Scientific Name)

Creator:
[ that would be you ]

Ancestor:
[ see ancestor ]

Size:[Any Species under 1 millimetre is microscopic)

Habitat:

Diet:

Reproduction:

Description:
[ any other information not stated above ]


The starting organism is protocytelia:
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Creator: Vailnoff
Week/Generation: 1/1
Habitat: Tidepool
Size: 10 micrometers
Diet: Varied
Reproduction: Binary Fission
For billions of years, the third planet from the star Cytelbearn has been barren and devoid of all life. Yet now, a cometary impact upon the planet has brought water and the micro-organism Protocytelia. While it is small now, its descendants have the potential to bloom and bring life to the planet...


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This was inspired by the Primordial Evolution Game and Sagan 4.
Edited by Vailnoff, Aug 24 2016, 03:50 AM.
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Aliquerline (Aliquerlinus prima)

Creator: mnidjm
Ancestor: Aliquerba
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Shallows, Ocean Floor
Size: 100 micrometers Tall
Diet: Photosynthesis
Reproduction: Mitosic

The Aliquerline is an offshoot from their ancestors that has adapted to a colonial life style. They live together in this microscopic "hairs" that are one cell thick. They share nutrients amongst each other, and remain anchored to the seabed. If they are broken apart, each piece is capable of reforming a new one.


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Lumenpseudopodia (Lumenpseudopodia Aestus)

Creator: Vailnoff
Ancestor: Cytelpseudopodia
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Open Ocean
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Consumer
Reproduction: Mitosis

Lumenpseudopodia developed from an offshoot of their ancestors who, as a result of endosymbiosys with glowing bacteria, have now gained the ability to glow, therefore attracting prey. They have also migrated to the deeper areas of the ocean where there is less light.

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Colonial Noralgae (Noraphyta Conglobo)

Creator: Vailnoff
Ancestor: Noralgae
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Open Ocean
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Photosynthesis
Reproduction: Binary Fission

The Colonial Noralgae have begun attaching themselves together in large clumps and colonies, to provide defence from other consumers such as Cytelpseudopodia. These colonies mostly drift around in the open ocean, with clumps of colonies occasionally breaking off to later form their own groups.
Edited by Vailnoff, Aug 29 2016, 09:59 AM.
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Turbiquerba (Aliquerlus Turba)

Creator: Vailnoff
Ancestor: Aliquerba
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Shallows
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Photosynthesis
Reproduction: Mitosic

The Turbiquerba are an offshoot from their ancestors who now use the glue-like substance they attach themselves to rocks with to attach to each other, forming colony like structures. This allows them to share nutrients between themselves and also provideds added protection against consumers.
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Shloworm (Kekulia cyctisie)

Creator: mnidjm
Ancestor: Shlowae
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Ocean floor, Open ocean
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Methylotrophy, Consumer
Reproduction: Mitosis

The Shloworm is a more complex descendant of the shlowae phylum. They act as a pseudo-organism, living as one colony, though they lack the specialization indicative of true multi-cellular life. The worm-like organism propels itself through the water with a corkscrew like motion. They survive mostly on organic particles that float out to sea.


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Topuraworm (Sabulcomedus Trullostium)

Creator: Vailnoff
Ancestor: Topurakletkus
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Ocean floor
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Detrivore
Reproduction: Budding

The Topuraworm is a more complex descendant of the Topurakletkus phylum. To allow faster travel, Several of its cells have manifested together it small stubs which allow it to "crawl" over the seafloor. It has also gained a scoop-like protusion that allows it to scoop up up large amounts of of sand and detritus, and consume the nutrients. Finally, it has begun to use a new reproduction method in which it reproduces asexually by "budding" a new Topuraworm from an outgrowth, which then separates from the parent organism once it matured.
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Amoasulf (Cytelsulphid Montitegimen)

Creator: Vailnoff
Ancestor: Cytelamoas
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Deep Ocean Vents
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Lithotroph (Sulfur)
Reproduction: Mitosis

The Amoasulf's diet has changed from ammonia to sulfur, which it acquires from Hydrothermal Vents. To provide protection against consumers such as Lumenpseudopodia, they now come together in colonies which tend to look like thin slimy mats on the vents. Their diet of sulfur has also given them a dark blue hue.
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Shelball (Shelcidae Pilarm)

Creator: Vailnoff
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Open Ocean
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Methylotrophy
Reproduction: Mitosis

Floating in the open ocean, the Shelball has a thick outer layer surrounding the colony inside (A cross section of which is seen above) so as to protect them from large consumers. They mostly float aimlessly in the war equatorial waters like their ancestors, consuming free floating particles.
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Kletkorb

Creator: mnidjm
Ancestor: Topurakletkus
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Open Ocean
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Detrivore, Consumer
Reproduction: mitosis

The Kletkorb floats throughout the ocean. They have become a colony, with differentiation in cell functions on the inside and out. They eat either free floating particles, but do eat creatures such as the Shelball.


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Polyglobus (Polglobae Colonia)

Creator: Vailnoff
Ancestor: Polycytelia
Week/Generation: 1/3
Habitat: Open Ocean
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Consumer
Reproduction: Mitosis

Polyglobus are descendants of Polycytelia who, to provide added protection, have began to group together as a sort of pseudo-organism. The cell groups near the back have flagella to help propel them through the water. However, like their ancestors, they have no true cell specialisation.
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Tunnelworm (Sabulcomedus Foramas)

Creator: Vailnoff
Ancestor: Topuraworm
Week/Generation: 1/4
Habitat: Ocean Floor
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Detrivore
Reproduction: Budding

The Tunnelworm has grown larger than its ancestor and now utilises its "Mouth" protusion to dig burrows to hide from larger consumers such as Lumenpseudopodia and obtain more food. It does this be rotating its mouth protrusion in a clockwise direction, allowing it to act as a drill to tunnel through the sand. The only time it returns to the surface is to bud off a new Tunnelworm. Due to the lack of need for them, it has also lost its stubby "legs".
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Querbmoss ((Aliquerlus Petricola)

Creator: Vailnoff
Ancestor: Turbiquerba
Week/Generation: 1/4
Habitat: Shallows
Size: Microscopic
Diet: Photosynthesis
Reproduction: Asexual, Budding

These descendants of the Turbiquerba inhabit the shallows, growing on rocks and sand. Unlike its ancestor, Querbmoss has true cell specialisation with the outer cells photosynthesising light and turning it into food, after which the inner cells transport it to every cell in the body. The bottom cells are the ones which secrete the glue-like substance which attaches it to rocks. Occasionally, a piece of Querbmoss shall break off from the main structure, being transported through the water until it attaches itself to another rock, growing into another Querbmoss.
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Wow, this is cool keep it up
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I'd love to, but unfortunately no-one seems to actually be taking part in it. If you'd like to join, I'd be glad!
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I think it's cause it requires a photo.
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Some project ideas
The Future is Right
Ediacaran Explosion
Great Old Ones
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Unrelated:The Final Spec:What Could Have Been, And Still Can
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If you're not that good at art, you could just ask me if I could draw the picture for you. However the rest of the description ought to be of your own making.
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