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| Really obscure and potentially impossible Xeno; I think I've dug myself a hole I can't escape. | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 17 2018, 02:07 AM (640 Views) | |
| Octoaster | Mar 17 2018, 02:07 AM Post #1 |
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Hey so yeah I was talking with Preradkor on deviantart and I thought of a really weird xeno concept that is potentially impossible. The general idea was, simply put, an asteroid belt with an atmosphere. Of course the atmosphere is not natural, and was put there by an ancient superciv, however, I have no idea how to get this to stay in place. The largest asteroids would have a gravitational pull, but that's barely good enough to hold a grain of sand. I'm trying to avoid having to make this an alternate universe, but so far it seems almost inevitable. It doesn't stop there either. This belt harbors life, alien in origin. They are descendants of probes sent there in an effort to make the belt suitable for a colony early in the parent star's life (hence the atmosphere) and went haywire, over the course of hundreds of millions, potentially billions of years, they mutated and evolved into various zero-gravity "animals" and "plants". The original probes would have consisted on large motherships housing bacteria-like forms and more advanced probes. But oh boy does it get worse. The Belt is inhabited by two lineages of life with two different biochemistries. Again, the earliest ancestors of these were not naturally evolved beings, rather created from once-natural stock. These two biochemistries are "familiar" carbon based organisms and the truly alien Organosilicates, with a base chemical compound of organosilicon (may end up being truly silicon based, undecided). Biodiversity booms in both lineages, and each dominates each half of the belt, however the rival lineages can be found littered throughout the other halves. What have I done. |
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| Lowry | Mar 17 2018, 05:35 AM Post #2 |
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ARH-WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Would they even compete with each other that much? Those are two pretty radical biochemical differences are they not? |
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| Sceynyos-yos | Mar 17 2018, 06:57 AM Post #3 |
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I did something similar in an altuni setting. |
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| Octoaster | Mar 17 2018, 07:00 AM Post #4 |
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Still not totally sure on how they'll develop. I'd imagine competition would occur in species that fill similar roles, likely not active competition. This is still a very barebones concept. |
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| Tartarus | Mar 17 2018, 08:02 PM Post #5 |
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I guess you could just hand wave it by saying the aliens used some amazingly advanced technology based on some physics our own civilisations do not know about or understand yet. Though I'm not sure if you'd find that to be a bit of a lazy cop-out explanation. |
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| Octoaster | Mar 20 2018, 01:23 AM Post #6 |
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I may not even go with an asteroid belt. I'm trying to find other things and the most appealing is certainly "Rocheworld". |
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| truteal | Apr 13 2018, 01:31 AM Post #7 |
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Would "Plantlife" grow on the asteroids and have alien "herbivores" graze on them? |
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| Terraraptor411 | Apr 13 2018, 04:43 PM Post #8 |
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Perhaps by having many asteriods in a single belt, and their collective gravity holds in the atmosphere? Or maybe, the ancient colonies built hundreds of struts between all the asteriods, connecting them into one large circle, like a zero-gravity jungle gym? I hope either of these helps, you have a very ambitious project idea here and I fully support it. |
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| Sigmund Nastrazzurro | Apr 28 2018, 06:15 AM Post #9 |
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The setting reminds me of the setting of Larry Niven's novels "The integral Trees" and "The smoke ring". Are you familiar with these novels? Perhaps they help with your project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smoke_Ring_(novel) |
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| Akurian452 | Apr 28 2018, 10:27 PM Post #10 |
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There was an idea similar to this in a comic anthology called Carpe Chaos where one of the major alien species, the Kaean, evolved on a habitable band of a planetary ring of a gas giant. |
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