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| A Jurassic World; Dinosaurs shall inherit our world | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 9 2017, 02:13 PM (4,042 Views) | |
| RoyalPsycho | Feb 9 2017, 02:13 PM Post #1 |
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A Jurassic World Is Made: It all began with Ingen and a wild dream of a park that featured prehistoric animals. In 1993 that dream was realised thanks to fantastic new discoveries in the fields of genetic engineering and clever innovations made specifically for the project the genius scientific teams were undertaking. Within a matter of years not only had the company successfully reconstructed a close approximation of the genome of numerous dinosaur species – filling in the gene sequence gaps with compatible material from other, modern species – but had also managed to create and hatch living specimens. The attempt to display the park on Isla Nublar before experts in order to alleviate safety concerns ended disastrously. In 1993 the park was closed after numerus deaths. In 1994 an attempt to extract reconstructed dinosaurs from the production facility on the nearby island if Isla Sorna ended in a similar disaster thanks to sabotage and short-sightedness. The rampage of a Tyrannosaurus Rex in San Diego practically ended Ingen. In 1998, following the death of company founder John Hammond, Ingen and all its assets and patents were bought by Indian businessman Simon Masrani, the CEO of the Masrani Global Corporation who had been interested in acquiring the company since 1997. An idealist and believer in Hammond’s original dream, Masrani invested massively in the development of a new park on Isla Nublar. Dubbed Jurassic World, the park was an unprecedented success. Opening in 2005, Jurassic World saw continuous success with new attractions opening up on a regular basis, new species successfully recreated and new technological developments being made, all of which enriched the park, the Masrani Corporation and Ingen. It was in 2015 that a brave new step was taken by all three institutions to push the boundaries of the technology they had pioneered. Worried about a stagnation in park attendance and a mild decline in profits, Ingen and Masrani commissioned the creation of an original, hybrid species that would be unlike anything seen in natural evolution. The undertaking was massive but nowhere near impossible and soon the new Indominus Rex, a terrifying, artificial hyperpredator with no precedent in the fossil record, was announced. Despite being set to debut in the Christmas Season, the announcement of a never before seen hybrid drew unseasonably large crowds to Isla Nublar. Though people were scared by the viciousness of the creature and some concerns were raised, thrill-seekers more than compensated for the worried visitors and the Indominus exhibit was a rousing success for the company. Reinforcement of the enclosure was necessary after a near breakout but the situation was, thankfully, handled by security and the park was spared a catastrophic disaster. Now free from the restrictions of having to provide accurate – in so far as public expectations allowed them to be – depictions of dinosaurs, Ingen began producing new and spectacular species. The first great expansion of Ingen’s hybrid program was when a successful military contract was made for engineered attack beasts. Though there were objections from Masrani himself as well as other influential figures in the company the contract’s opportunities eventually won the majority around. The first derivatives of the Indominus Rex were developed. Training techniques pioneered by Owen Grady on the park facility at Isla Nublar were developed further to help keep the animals under control. The attack dinosaurs were a success in the field though there were still concerns about how much control the handlers had over the animals. The next generation of animals were developed with more domestic temperaments that still preserved their capacity for violence and intelligence when released into the field. With this success the proverbial floodgates had been opened. Proposals were made for all kinds of new hybrids. Plans were made for new model species that could be displayed in parks in colder climates. Soon Dinosaurs of the Ice Age themed parks were opened both offshore and on the mainland of other countries and furry dinosaurs were exhibited to the public to great acclaim. After seeing massive success in these new facilities the original park was pressed to introduce new tropical animals. As new parks appeared, many of them being given new themes, competition emerged between the different facilities. As the 2010s moved into the 2020s and further on, an ‘arms race’ emerged within Masrani’s genetics institutions. In 2027 the next great phase in genetic leisure products began. Despite protests from various groups Ingen began to release engineered dinosaur pets. Miniaturized versions of the company’s authentic species as well as their artificial ones and even brand new designs were released to the public in the US. They were even more successful abroad in Europe, Australasia and Japan. This was followed by a period where the rich would also buy specially designed specimens for private zoos and menageries. For years these fantastic new creatures were sold to the public and governments to great success. Few companies were able to match Ingen and Masrani but some new pets and products were made to match their expertise. It was this that would doom humanity. In 2034 an epidemic bloomed in South Asia. It spread quickly, crossing borders into the developed world and drawing international attention. Proposals were just being drafted when it became clear just how far and fast the disease was spreading. Entire populations were infected with no-one being spared, people began to die in droves and as the disease spread, it infected people faster. Speculations emerged that the disease was artificial and one laboratory studying infected victims did manage to reach a reasonable conclusion that it was though no-one could tell where it came from or how to counter it. By 2035 the majority of humanity was dead, by 2037 they were all gone and so was the disease. It was surprising how quickly the entire species was rendered extinct. Untended, the artefacts of civilization rotted away and collapsed and the wild environments humanity had cut back returned, swamping cities and monuments. Animals kept in captivity escaped into the wild and bred and amongst the natural creatures that had been held in cages were the engineered creatures, now forced to find their place in the new ecosystem. In the post-human world there was chaos as the ecosystem tried to reach a balanced equilibrium. Indigenous wildlife battled with transplanted wildlife and artificially created wildlife for niches. After 1000 years the new ecosphere has been somewhat stable for centuries and man’s creations have risen to dominance. This is a new age of dinosaurs. A real Jurassic World. Here's something that came to me after marathoning the franchise and rereading the TV Tropes page for Jurassic World. It got me thinking. What would happen if the Indominus Rex situation hadn't happened as it did in the movie? What if they did shrink it down and sell it to the military? If they can make bizarre hybrid dinosaurs, then what are the limits of what they can and will design? This is an exploration of that and what they might do if humanity was then taken out of the picture. |
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| RoyalPsycho | Mar 17 2017, 06:33 PM Post #61 |
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They're at the same level as higher apes so they're not as intelligent as Deinonecos and Rostromentia. They actually have hands and shoulder more adapted for wielding sophisticated tools but they haven't yet reached that level of cognition. |
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| RoyalPsycho | Mar 18 2017, 02:22 PM Post #62 |
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Mucervosaurus Timidus (timid mouse deer lizard): Not all creatures made by Ingen were massive and impressive. Mucervosaurus was made to fill the niches that smaller herbivores were supposed to occupy as well as provide a more approachable and adorable exhibit for visitors to Jurassic World Canada. Built to evoke the mouse deer of South America, this small and timid Ungulasaur was as small as its name sake and made to appear as unassuming. Small, fast-breeding generalists, the Mucervosaurus thrived once they broke out of their Jurassic World facility. Despite competition from actual deer, they quickly found their place and managed to weather the short and savage battle to establish a new equilibrium. Since then they have managed to spread across much of North America and even penetrate into South America. They can even be found in the Amazon, picking at foliage alongside their mammalian namesake. Mucervosaurus is a diminutive creature, standing at a little over a metre at the shoulder and two metres from snout to tail. Due to this small size they are low level browsers, often existing in forests of varying density and picking at the underbrush. They are adaptable generalists, allowing them to browse on a wide variety of vegetation which has granted them the extensive range that they have. They normally feed in small herds of around ten to fifteen individuals but a given environment will often have large numbers of these herds that occasionally overlap. During particularly bountiful periods of growth, some herds will even allow herds to move between their territories and feed as they wished. During the mating season the males will normally perform complex dances to intimidate rivals and impress females. Mated pairs last as long as the coupling itself and then the females will go to prepare a nest. During the incubation period, the herds will stay in one place, prompting the herds to find nesting sites in areas with enough food to support them through this period. Hatchlings are able to walk immediately upon emerging from their eggs and will grow quickly, reaching sexual maturity in about three years. All adult individuals have a thin covering of fine feathers that serve as insulation. This plumage is more similar to down during infancy and covers more of the body. The colouration is also dark enough to allow Mucervosaurus to hide in dense foliage. As one of the few dinosaur hybrids intentionally designed to be small, unassuming and relatively unspectacular, Mucervosaurus has been a rapid success story. They are still spreading, new herds moving further and further south with every generation and readily competing and coexisting with the herbivores of South America, small, nimble and able to hide in the woodlands they favour, the Mucervosaurus looks ready to succeed as much on the southern American continent as they have in the north. |
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| RoyalPsycho | Mar 20 2017, 08:11 AM Post #63 |
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Longudraconia (long dragons): Jurassic World France, looking for suitable giants for their park, looked to the iconic and ever popular sauropods as a new spectacle and immediately began developing new engineered hybrids to turn the immense herbivores into creatures that would look at home with Dragon Land. Longudraconia are designed to be imposing giants and though they are all herbivores they are still intimidating creatures. Most species reach anywhere from six to seven metres tall and twenty one to twenty two metres long with the largest reaching an impressive twenty four metres long despite needing an exceptionally thick neck to support the large head and batteries of teeth it needs to graze. Due to this predilection to large size and the environments they exist within, the majority of Longudraconia species have gone extinct but several have managed to pull through and have begun to thrive in Southern Europe and West Asia. Though they all have a familiar sauropod body design, the Longudraconids all share the spines and osteoderms that most creatures from Jurassic World France were designed with. One Longudraconid, which used to be part of a large family of related species, has armoured skin similar to a crocodile’s rather than bony plates. Some of these spines can aid in defence but most are actually more useful as simple decorations instead. Mating for many of these species is difficult due to the size and impracticality of some of their dorsal spines and plates. Though their largest representative is a grazer, most Longudraconids are high browsers, usually confining them to heavily forested regions around the Mediterranean. Their lack of insulation also means they need to remain in areas where they can keep warm during the winter. Sheer size does help them in cold conditions but the lack of food often forces them south. By this point most species have developed migratory habits to allow them to find new food sources during the changing seasons. Like other sauropods, the Longudraconids lay their eggs in large numbers and trust in the sheer quantity of young outweighing the high attrition rate they suffer. Most will flee into forests where they will live until they reach sexual maturity, commonly in around five years, wherein they often become too large to remain in woodland. Eggs are laid in the warmer climates and the young will not migrate until they have left to join herds of adults. By the time they have reached maturity, they will have the size necessary to survive colder conditions but before that point they are too vulnerable to travel north. The major species are: Spinolophia Maximus (giant spiny ridge)-Spinolophia is the largest Longudraconid that was bred, reaching lengths of twenty four metres in length and the pride of Jurassic World France, eclipsed only by the iconic Regnadracos. These creatures are grazers and their bodies have been carefully designed to accommodate that lifestyle with reinforced necks and longer heads with batteries of teeth. Their spines are large but also fairly hollow as they serve more decorative purposes, their sheer size offering better protection than body defences. Longudraconia Megas (great long dragon)-The definitive species of the group. This species is a high and mid browsing herbivore that is around twenty metres long on average and migrates between the deciduous and evergreen forests of Northern and Southern Europe. They still have the familiar teeth structure and internal digestive system of normal sauropods. Their dorsal osteoderms and spines serve as both display structures and defensive tools. Corneatitania Acutus (sharp horny titan)-the second largest of the Longudraconia at twenty two metres, this immense creature is powerful but also infamous for being the most heavily decorated of its kind. Adorned with a dense array of spines and osteoderms, this sauropod is a terrifying prospect for most predators. Its underbelly is still exposed but it is capable of throwing the armoured portions of its bulk at threats that get too close. Durutops Galeatus (helmeted hard head)-The smallest of the Longudraconids at fourteen but also the most distinct. This creature is a low level browser that is defined by both its heavy armour and the hard, bony helmet that covers its skull. It has a reinforced neck to support the heavy, protective ornament on its skull which helps protect it. Bizarrely, it is also seen to use the helmet to headbutt opponents in mating battles and against smaller threats. Edited by RoyalPsycho, Mar 20 2017, 07:39 PM.
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| GlarnBoudin | Mar 20 2017, 02:22 PM Post #64 |
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YES. Dragon-sauropods for everybody! |
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| RoyalPsycho | Mar 22 2017, 11:32 AM Post #65 |
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Hortudorsus Magnus (large garden back): The largest creature produced by Biosyn, this animal was also their most ambitious. As Ingen was producing all manner of bizarre and alien hybrids, including the debut of Jurassic World Australia’s impossibly massive arthropods, Biosyn struggled to catch up. It was then that one of their researchers made a proposal to create an animal that Ingen had yet to successfully release to the public, an animal that could carry vegetation directly on its body. Hortudorsus is derived from some dinosaurian DNA, primarily that of hadrosaur ornithopods but much of its genetic make-up is actually taken from lizards. This has given the Hortudorsus a bizarre shape as they now have fully erect limbs, slopped backs with large hindlegs and shorter forelegs like hadrosaurs but their stance is entirely quadrupedal and their hands have slightly splayed, plantigrade fingers. These fingers are somewhat short and end in hoof-like toes but they are still separate from one another. Their heads are also more lizard-like but adapted to graze openly with wider, longer snouts that have batteries of teeth. Fully grown, they are typically twenty to twenty one metres long and eight metres tall and the hip where they are highest. What makes Hortudorsus so unique though is what grows on their backs. In order to finally present an animal the likes of which the world had never seen before, Biosyn gave the Hortudorsus the ability to grow spongy skin tissue over the scales on their back. This tissue is still connected to the flesh of their back but is distinct enough not to be too deeply connected to their nerve endings. It is also connected to the animal’s circulatory system and even delivers the nutrients needed for healthy flesh and skin growth. It’s purpose, though, is to serve as a substitute for soil. Through this fleshy deposit on their backs, the Hortudorsus is able to let plant matter grow on their bodies healthily. When they’re young, the Hortudorsus grows moss, lichen and grass whilst grown adults can have bushes and sometimes even small trees extruding from their bodies. The roots are often shallow but sturdy enough to remain on the animals without either tearing out or injuring the host. Seeds often come from the wind or smaller animals that clamber on the creatures back, ensuring each dorsal garden is unique to each animal. When born, Hortudorsus grow quickly, becoming capable of harbouring vegetation at about two years of age. They are normally incapable of sustaining anything larger than grass until late adolescence however and only fully grown adults can support trees. When larger foliage like trees and bushes die they normally fall off, dragging large fragments of the spongy flesh they are rooted in with them. Damage like this is quickly healed over though and fresh layers are quickly and constantly growing thanks to genetic material from certain invertebrates. Many dorsal gardens will be sustained by the seeds of existing vegetation but new ones arrive regularly. Mating is a challenging experience for mature Hortudorsus and couplings often result in the devastation of most of a female’s dorsal garden. Once the female has been inseminated, the eggs will be laid in about three months and then incubated for an additional five before birth. A female will often give birth to a clutch of five or six eggs on average but attrition often means there s a low chance that the hatchlings will survive to adulthood. Like sauropods, young Hortudorsus are fully self-sufficient and must find safety in thick vegetation where they can hide and feed until they are old enough to join a herd. Miraculously, Hortudorsus have managed to do well for themselves in the American East Coast, almost excluding sauropods from the entire region east of the Mississippi. Their herds are small but they have large numbers of them spread throughout the region and their migrations north into New England and Quebec during the summer are spectacular. Often roosting birds and pterosaurs of various sizes, the Hortudorsus is a unique phenomenon and a success story for both their own species and Biosyn. |
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| GlarnBoudin | Mar 24 2017, 03:29 PM Post #66 |
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Question: What were the themes for Jurassic World UK, South Korea, and USA going to be? |
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| Yiqi15 | Mar 24 2017, 04:04 PM Post #67 |
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I'd say the UK Park would be themed around the history of palaeontology with some steampunk motifs and the US Park would be wild west-themed. Don't what what Korea would have been. |
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| RoyalPsycho | Mar 24 2017, 05:26 PM Post #68 |
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Jurassic World USA was going to be a sort of Jurassic Park classic that would bring a lot of the original species to the mainland. It was based on the San Diego facility featured in the 2nd movie but placed in a new location in Florida. That new site was supposed to be warm enough for the animals, close enough to a metropole to facilitate tourists but not placed within a major population centre. Jurassic World UK was actually going to feature Cenozoic mammals. There would be a sort of Victorian/London Museum of Natural History aesthetic to a lot of the park as the heyday of prehistoric mammal's popularity was during the 19th Century. Jurassic World South Korea was going to have a new speculative theme where the local designers were brainstorming 'alien dinosaurs' that evolved on a different planet from Earth. It would be sort of like a theme park where there would be a Disney-esque addition detailing this hypothetical alien world and its wierd dinosaurs. |
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| GlarnBoudin | Mar 24 2017, 05:38 PM Post #69 |
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What sort of planet would it have been like? |
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| RoyalPsycho | Mar 24 2017, 05:45 PM Post #70 |
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Earth-like, otherwise they wouldn't be able to survive outside of specially (and expensively) designed exhibits. It's an excuse to give them wierd features that hadn't already been taken by Jurassic World India. I had ideas of basing them on the idea that local aliens had domesticated them and so they look like they were designed for menial labour, war, etc. |
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| GlarnBoudin | Mar 25 2017, 10:52 AM Post #71 |
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Ah. I see. Also, another question: Did Jurassic World France cover creatures from different cultures' mythologies? It would be interesting to see their takes on Chinese dragons and bunyips. |
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| RoyalPsycho | Mar 25 2017, 12:52 PM Post #72 |
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Sort of. Its mostly European mythology that they took inspiration from but there were some influences from other mythologies (you might see Chinese Foo-dogs or something from Shintoism). For example, there's the Cuotl from Jurassic World India which was based on Quetzacoatl. |
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| Adman | Apr 3 2017, 03:21 PM Post #73 |
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So would that mean that there would be some historically inaccurate representations of extinct mammals? I'm talking about things like misinterpretations of mastodon fossils (the carnivorous incognitum and the giant missourium), and Deinotherium with claws and shaggy coats. |
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| GlarnBoudin | Apr 3 2017, 03:29 PM Post #74 |
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That would be fucking awesome. |
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| RoyalPsycho | Apr 3 2017, 06:17 PM Post #75 |
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I never really thought about that one to be honest. South Africa is the place that was really supposed to be where inaccurate depictions of prehistoric animals. I'd have to think about it. |
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