Te Uru-kahikahika

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Te Uru-kahikahika; The Broken World
Topic Started: May 7 2017, 02:21 PM (1,539 Views)
TrilobiteCannibal	May 7 2017, 02:21 PM Post #1
Worm Lover Posts: 26 Group: Members Member #1,944 Joined: Jul 4, 2016 Gender: Male Favorite Quote: "Give a man fire he'll be warm for the night, set a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life" Also known as: InfernalVulture	Introduction The humans awoke, their care taking machines making sure everything goes smoothly. But then they left the inner chambers as they grew old enough, and they found an overgrown ecosystem inside the ship. With tall thin trees and a variety of rat derived creatures filling various niches throughout the ship. But as the young explorers travelled the ship, they found something odder than the arboreal rats. They found a sea star, about the size of a normal rat, walking along on extended tube feet and advanced eyes on the end of it’s arms. The small creature plodded along and nibbled at the fruit on the vines. The humans eventually figured out, from the rare non corrupted file or non glitched out robot, they were a failed terraforming mission to the planet Te Uru-kahikahika. The ship hitting an unanticipated massive asteroid and being forced down to the planet early, crashing into a mountainside. The terraformer damaged, the planet became a heated, swampy mess. Only a small amount of the planned animals and plants survived the broken machinery, most dying from a forced early birth before they could develop. And Humans waking up 197 million years late only skirted by because the machines constantly cloned them and replaced the storage every time a batch of the gametes died. Eventually the glitch sorted itself out and eventually released the humans into the luckily protected inner section of the ship dedicated to the education and raising of the first generation until they were eighteen, and releasing them to the main portion of the ship. They discovered the massive section of the ship dedicated to rebuilding and recycling robots as they broke down and the central overgrown hub. They spent 2 generation inside this overgrown, technological Eden, before they Stepped outside to the swampy mountainside. They did not just find a rat filled swamp, They found a floodplain inhabited by terrestrial echinoderms, nemerteans, polychaetes, and lancelets, completely different than the ecosystem inside the ship. The most amazing part though, was that the ship was draped in banners from some completely alien culture. There were huts, and a small temple all around the entrance to the ship. The timid humans eventually went out to greet their neighbors, and came face to arm with giant starfish Edited by TrilobiteCannibal, May 7 2017, 02:30 PM.
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TrilobiteCannibal	May 7 2017, 02:28 PM Post #2
Worm Lover Posts: 26 Group: Members Member #1,944 Joined: Jul 4, 2016 Gender: Male Favorite Quote: "Give a man fire he'll be warm for the night, set a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life" Also known as: InfernalVulture	Table of Contents The Ship Spoiler: click to toggle Trees: Rats: Stars: The Flood Plain Spoiler: click to toggle Stars: Urchins: Nemerteans: Polychaetes: Lancelets: The Mountain Spoiler: click to toggle Stars: Rats: Urchins: Nemerteans: Polychaetes: Chimerans: Edited by TrilobiteCannibal, May 7 2017, 02:43 PM.
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Yiqi15	May 7 2017, 03:02 PM Post #3
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,443 Group: Members Member #1,998 Joined: Oct 10, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Ontarian Gender: Male	I first read the idea for this on Your Project Ideas, and I still remember it. Question: what does Te Uru-kahikahika mean in Hawaiian (if it is even in Hawaiian at all)? Quote: With tall thin trees and a variety of rat derived creatures filling various niches throughout the ship. Now there's a concept worthy of its own project.
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TrilobiteCannibal	May 7 2017, 03:07 PM Post #4
Worm Lover Posts: 26 Group: Members Member #1,944 Joined: Jul 4, 2016 Gender: Male Favorite Quote: "Give a man fire he'll be warm for the night, set a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life" Also known as: InfernalVulture	Quote: Question: what does Te Uru-kahikahika mean in Hawaiian (if it is even in Hawaiian at all)? It's Maori, and it's one of Kiwa's children, and is apparently the source of eels, lampreys, and frostfish. Those are all long worm shaped fish, and some of the dominant animals are worms was my basic thought process Quote: Now there's a concept worthy of its own project And indeed I'll be starting with the rats, stars and trees of the ship
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TerrificTyler	May 7 2017, 03:23 PM Post #5
Snazz God Posts: 499 Group: Members Member #1,939 Joined: Jun 26, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: Afrothere Favorite Quote: Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it – you've got to go sometime. - Gerry O'Driscoll Also known as: Tyler	Well, this project certainly has some potential. I'm especially interested in those terrestrial echinoderms.
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TrilobiteCannibal	May 7 2017, 03:42 PM Post #6
Worm Lover Posts: 26 Group: Members Member #1,944 Joined: Jul 4, 2016 Gender: Male Favorite Quote: "Give a man fire he'll be warm for the night, set a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life" Also known as: InfernalVulture	Quote: Well, this project certainly has some potential. I'm especially interested in those terrestrial echinoderms. Thanks! Before I post about specific species I'm going to cover the basic anatomy of the group. So the stars are going to be first, then when I cover the flood plains I'll talk about the worms and urchins. And when I get to the mountain jungle, I'll cover a unique group of relics...
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Yiqi15	May 7 2017, 03:56 PM Post #7
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,443 Group: Members Member #1,998 Joined: Oct 10, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Ontarian Gender: Male	TrilobiteCannibal May 7 2017, 03:07 PM It's Maori, and it's one of Kiwa's children, and is apparently the source of eels, lampreys, and frostfish. Those are all long worm shaped fish, and some of the dominant animals are worms was my basic thought process Nice titbit. TrilobiteCannibal And indeed I'll be starting with the rats, stars and trees of the ship I'll look forward to the first update.
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Beetleboy	May 11 2017, 10:03 AM Post #8
neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three Posts: 3,700 Group: Members Member #1,776 Joined: Oct 2, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: British Favorite Quote: In the absence of proper data, speculate wildly. Also known as: Jacob, JurassicJacob, Beetle	This seems interesting, I'll be keeping a close eye on this.
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Corecin	May 11 2017, 02:34 PM Post #9
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,567 Group: Members Member #1,893 Joined: Mar 21, 2016 Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American :/ Favorite Quote: “Life’s too short to spend it being mean to people.” Also known as: Literally just any spin on Corecin Gender: Nonbinary	So I'm confused on how there are terrestrial and sapient starfish, while there are still rats around. I'd assume the rats would outcompete them for terrestrial niches, and if any animal were to become sapient, it'd be one of the rat descendants.



Yiqi15	May 11 2017, 04:42 PM Post #10
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,443 Group: Members Member #1,998 Joined: Oct 10, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Ontarian Gender: Male	Corecin May 11 2017, 02:34 PM So I'm confused on how there are terrestrial and sapient starfish, while there are still rats around. I'd assume the rats would outcompete them for terrestrial niches, and if any animal were to become sapient, it'd be one of the rat descendants. I don't know, maybe the starfish not only had more time to evolve and adapt, but the rats are too specialized to the ship's conditions.
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Nembrotha	May 11 2017, 04:46 PM Post #11
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Inceptis	May 11 2017, 06:00 PM Post #12
In-tro-vertebrate Posts: 241 Group: Members Member #2,119 Joined: Mar 25, 2017 Gender: Male Nationality: American, because USAlian sounds weird. Favorite Quote: "To do something great, you only need a fantastic idea and not enough time." Also known as: Inceptus (SE Ministry of Truth)	I'll be interested to hear how you solve the various problems that prevent echinoderms from even colonizing freshwater, let alone land. In sea stars, the water vascular system(which seems to perform half the functions in the body almost) is open to seawater through the madreporite, but sea slugs are more likely, having internalized this opening and have respiratory trees like inverted gills. A sea star could evolve this, but it would take quite a long time for the first terrestrial sea stars. 50 million years would be pushing it in my opinion.
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Lowry	May 12 2017, 12:43 PM Post #13
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TrilobiteCannibal	May 13 2017, 11:45 PM Post #14
Worm Lover Posts: 26 Group: Members Member #1,944 Joined: Jul 4, 2016 Gender: Male Favorite Quote: "Give a man fire he'll be warm for the night, set a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life" Also known as: InfernalVulture	Quote: So I'm confused on how there are terrestrial and sapient starfish, while there are still rats around. I'd assume the rats would outcompete them for terrestrial niches, and if any animal were to become sapient, it'd be one of the rat descendants. The rats were birthed after the aquatic life, and the salty creeks running through the (relatively recently crashed) ship allowing to escape into the saline water ways of the planet allowed them to get a head start, before the ship was completely sealed off by a landslide. By the time the ship's top was opened back up, the interior of the ship had been isolated long enough that two ecosystems were pretty much alien to each other. The climbing rats did eventually colonize the forest, they were pretty much helpless on the plains below, leaving them pretty much isolated to the rainforests of the mountains. Quote: I'll be interested to hear how you solve the various problems that prevent echinoderms from even colonizing freshwater, let alone land. In sea stars, the water vascular system(which seems to perform half the functions in the body almost) is open to seawater through the madreporite, but sea slugs are more likely, having internalized this opening and have respiratory trees like inverted gills. A sea star could evolve this, but it would take quite a long time for the first terrestrial sea stars. 50 million years would be pushing it in my opinion. The time frame is 197 million years. My idea was they stopped using water as their hydraulic fluid, but evolved a specific fluid to perform the function. I was actually gonna ask about this how plausible this is in the questions that don't need their own topics thread. They also have multi stage storage pumps, which allow them to be more active than modern echinoderms
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TrilobiteCannibal	May 26 2017, 06:28 PM Post #15
Worm Lover Posts: 26 Group: Members Member #1,944 Joined: Jul 4, 2016 Gender: Male Favorite Quote: "Give a man fire he'll be warm for the night, set a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life" Also known as: InfernalVulture	this project is not dead, the art and writing has been delayed
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