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| Te Uru-kahikahika; The Broken World | |
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| Topic Started: May 7 2017, 02:21 PM (1,540 Views) | |
| TrilobiteCannibal | May 7 2017, 02:21 PM Post #1 |
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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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http://trilobitecannibal.deviantart.com Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea Te Uru-Kahikahika My project about the aftermath of a broken terraformer on an alien world | |
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| Inceptis | May 26 2017, 06:45 PM Post #16 |
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No, it's fine. There are quite a few things going on around this time of the year, so it's easy to be busy. Also, I meant to say this earlier, but there are already terrestrial nemerteans. Does your project happen to have those at the start? Edited by Inceptis, May 26 2017, 06:49 PM.
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This was getting fairly big. Spoiler: click to toggle
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| Kerguelen | May 26 2017, 07:59 PM Post #17 |
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Will it take place in an O'Neil Cylinder or a regular space ship
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In the shadows and crevices they lurk. Hiding from human eyes they are Creatures From Beyond Upcoming Projects A merciless world where the rains never come. With rolling dunes and gigantic mountains. Welcome to the land of Aridia Far far away in a distant land. Emperors reign and beasts prowl. Monsters and demons fill the deadly forests. Let us take a Journey to the East A lab experiment gone wrong. A flash of thunder and lightning. Mankind finds itself cast into a new world. Predators of the Plioence | |
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| IIGSY | Jun 23 2017, 06:23 PM Post #18 |
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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I remember you talking about this project once. Didn't you say all the vertebrates and arthropods would die? |
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Projects 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. Quotes Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things All African countries can fit into Brazil
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| TrilobiteCannibal | Jul 1 2017, 04:27 AM Post #19 |
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I changed my mind on them being completely wiped out, but they're pretty much non existant. arthropods being quite bit more prevalent than the vertebrates, but far from one of the major group
a normal spaceship. the interiors were modified for terrestrial use as a building after the deaths of the generation who set out with the ship. Is it necromancy if it's your own project? |
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| IIGSY | Jul 1 2017, 11:12 AM Post #20 |
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Well, as long they aren't too major of a group, things should be fine. Rise of the...vermes(?)...! |
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Projects 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. Quotes Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things All African countries can fit into Brazil
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