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The SE giants project; Brace yourselves, they are here.
Topic Started: Nov 28 2016, 02:48 PM (14,705 Views)
IIGSY
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What? One of the featured projects got an update featuring a new giant. I thought it would be nice to inform him.
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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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Well, is not new looking that the update for that giant was around december, as is not really necessary to be notified about new stuffs from other projects, I always check the projects.
Projects

"Active" projects

The Future is Far
Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making.

The SE giants project
Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer

Coming one day
Age of Mankind
Humanity fate and its possible finals.

The Long Cosmic Journey
The history outside our world.

The alternative paths
The multiverse, the final frontier...

Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again!
Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past.
Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness.




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GlarnBoudin
Jan 26 2017, 08:29 PM
Question: Why not add Steller's sea cow? The thing was *massive*, man.
He isn't taking real animal requests anymore.


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Feb 1 2017, 08:36 PM
You should add the new thunderwhale from settlers from the deep


Do you see the problem here?
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In his comment he said "Real animal requests", as in requests specifically for the real animals size chart. Doesn't make his post about Settler's of the Deep any less pointless, but your example doesn't entire work.
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Dang it.
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IIGS maybe you should just trust that Dragonthunder keeps an eye on all the projects and if he sees something worth adding to this project he'll do it
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- Official Project
- Foundation
The Beryoni Galaxy: The Biologically Rich and Politically Complex State of our Galaxy (Habitational Zone)

- Beryoni Critique Thread (formerly: Aliens of Beryoni)
The Ecology of Skull Island: An Open Project for the Home of King Kong (Alternative Universe)
The Ecology of Wakanda: An Open Project for the Home of Marvel's Black Panther (Alternative Universe)

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After a long time without any main activity about the spec creatures into the main chart, and apart of the real life chart, I started slowly the next wave of creatures that will be included in the V2 chart, including species not originally have added with the others, some new emerged over the months, and coming next new species for others projects. It has been a long time because of the focus I have given to other projects, personal things on real life and mainly because I have been trying to read the large number of existing projects to add such organisms into this new update, and I still have to read many more.

I was also considering the points by which some other projects could or could not be added, I will still keep the same principles, adding others as complexity of the work and above all the fact that these should be mostly related to the SE community that we know (The SE forum, DA community) and nothing fan-made works and things that streak with poor developed fantasy.

As an example here some already painted animals.

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Several of the serine titanic birds, a retouch of a rhinograd in conjunction with other giant species that I had not noticed at the beginning, the Thunderwhale from settlers from the deep, the great Colossopede from Diyu, the dreadnought from the Alithocene, the giant snail (yes, looks like a big slug but is a descendant of a snail) psychophant (look where it came from, here), and the strange Tiamat from Perdido.

And here the first sight of the Alien chart

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The largest terrestrial and aerial organisms from Nereus, Darwin IV, and just because they are already done, the Snaiad fauna in comparison with sme of the biggest walking and aereal organisms extinct and alive.

Remember, is just the beginning, there is a lot of aliens yet to be added :)


I think it would be good to also establish that I will not add some things that several Speccers know as Primeval or Metazoica. Primeval because they barely show something more deep about the future worlds where the few future animals came, because “monster television show” and Metazoica because I still see some things that are not plausible like multiple giant groups of mammals, mammals are the predominant group in air, land and water (?), etc.
Projects

"Active" projects

The Future is Far
Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making.

The SE giants project
Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer

Coming one day
Age of Mankind
Humanity fate and its possible finals.

The Long Cosmic Journey
The history outside our world.

The alternative paths
The multiverse, the final frontier...

Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again!
Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past.
Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness.




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http://dragonthunders.deviantart.com/art/SE-chart-Is-big-full-body-673915138

I knew the Emperor Sea Strider was big but mama mia
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Well, that's supposed to be published tomorrow, but now...


Since it is unlikely that I will put the biggest known beings by SE members in the same size chart (for now) I decided to do some charts separately on a smaller scale to compare to one of the larger beings made for a fictitious ecosystem...

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This first one is going to aappear on the aliens chart at the same scale as the others, 1 m in the actual SE chart is equal to 2 cm, so the actual size of the Emperor Sea Strider in scale would be 380 cm tall, just imagine a model of that size :r

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This second being much smaller because if I did it in the scale on which I have been working would be suicide for my photoshop and my compute, being 2 cm equals to 10 m.

First on the left, the actual giant of 190 m tall, behind it, its twin from the documentary, followed by 2 of the largest animals ever, the whole organisms of the original size chart (plus :Sam: because is essential) with few new additions and finally with the tallest plants on earth.

To add something else I have not published on DA a comparison of the next few darwinian giants left to draw

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Projects

"Active" projects

The Future is Far
Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making.

The SE giants project
Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer

Coming one day
Age of Mankind
Humanity fate and its possible finals.

The Long Cosmic Journey
The history outside our world.

The alternative paths
The multiverse, the final frontier...

Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again!
Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past.
Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness.




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What are the criteria for having our own personal project included in this chart?
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What are the criteria for having our own personal project included in this chart?
the chart-maker decides to add them.

that's not facetiousness.
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"Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP)
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Yeah, no way the 190m sea strider can exist. Low gravity or not, the square-cube law limits the size of any living creature, one that evolved from normal sized ancestors at least. The blue whale is already near the size limits of a living animal.
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That's actually bigger than the largest version of Godzilla (which I believe in Shingodzilla, though I don't know his height, I just know he's a little taller than Legendary's Godzilla who's 105m).

Speaking of Kaiju, I know this is suppose to feature giant species from the SE forums but could Kaiju make it here?
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Future Planet (V.2): the Future Evolution of Life on Earth (Evolutionary Continuum)
The Meuse Legacy: An Alternative Outcome of the Mosasaur (Alternative Evolution)
Terra Cascus: The Last Refuge of the Dinosaurs (Alternative Evolution)
- Official Project
- Foundation
The Beryoni Galaxy: The Biologically Rich and Politically Complex State of our Galaxy (Habitational Zone)

- Beryoni Critique Thread (formerly: Aliens of Beryoni)
The Ecology of Skull Island: An Open Project for the Home of King Kong (Alternative Universe)
The Ecology of Wakanda: An Open Project for the Home of Marvel's Black Panther (Alternative Universe)

(Click bold titles to go to page. To subscribe click on a project, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "track topic" on the bottom right corner)


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But then you'd have to include monsters like Bagan who is 150m tall.

And then there's Ancalagon the Black (not a kaiju) from the Silmarillion who makes the Seastrider look like a walking mushroom.
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What are the criteria for having our own personal project included in this chart?

the chart-maker decides to add them.

Well, yeah, but also what I had already written in the first place

Nov 28 2016
 
I want to be honest, I’m not going to be complacent with everyone, and being direct, I will not add some concept and project just because these are in the SE or explores a scenario, I am going to take important aspects like development, quality and effort in each creature and each project, I will take some exceptions, however, there will be few. Something to keep in mind too, I will not include things like building a fake theropod, or JP, or anything that contains prehistoric/alien/future stuffs that have been more creature designing rather than an organism created for a speculative ecosystem or scenario.


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which I believe in Shingodzilla, though I don't know his height, I just know he's a little taller than Legendary's Godzilla who's 105m

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Speaking of Kaiju, I know this is suppose to feature giant species from the SE forums but could Kaiju make it here?

Just maybe godzilla, taking into account that it is the most famous kaiju.

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But then you'd have to include monsters like Bagan who is 150m tall.

Bagan is mostly a conceptual desing that has not had an important role in the lore of the kaijus movies or history, apart from some video games, so it would be irrelevant to add it.


Projects

"Active" projects

The Future is Far
Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making.

The SE giants project
Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer

Coming one day
Age of Mankind
Humanity fate and its possible finals.

The Long Cosmic Journey
The history outside our world.

The alternative paths
The multiverse, the final frontier...

Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again!
Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past.
Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness.




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