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Rilln; A Sequal to Snaiad
Topic Started: Nov 17 2008, 08:58 PM (2,371 Views)
Canis Lupis
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

On the introduction to Snaiad, Nemo Ramjet says that some Earth countries have spread throughout the galaxy, settling various planets. He says that America settles a planet with glass trees and nanotechnic creatures. He also says that Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, and other countries in that general area settle a planet of two-headed animals (i.e. Snaiad). So I wondered: what planet was settled by China?

And so I came up with Rilln: a super-Earth in which tripedal animals with copper-fortified "bones" (muscles) and copper-fortified plants.

Here's a link to the map:
http://specbiofan.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-Rilln-103898557

Here's the three major kingdoms and their respective phylums or super phylums:
1. Kingdom Mungela (filter feeding organisms without copper fortified muscles): contains phylum Microgela (microscopic Mungelans) and phylum Macrogela (macroscopic Mungelans)

2. Kingdom Coppeflora (yellow plants with copper fortified bark): contains phylum Gigaflore (tall Coppeflorans), phylum Domaflore (dome-shaped Coppeflorans), and phylum Wiraflore (grass-like Coppeflorans).

3. Kingdom Coppetuata (tripedal animals with copper fortified muscles): contains superphylum Unapedula (an extinct group of Coppetuates with one foot), superphylum Bipedula (a living group of Coppetuates with two feet), and superphylum Tripedula (a living group of Coppetuates with three feet.


What do you think?
P.S. This is based off of the planet in "All Tomorrows" where the Qu introduce Therizinosaurs.
P.S.S. Not meaning to steal your ideas Nemo Ramjet.
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O hey! Very nice! This is turning out to be a cool idea factory! :D
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A note on reproduction:
MICROGELA: reproduce asexually by splitting down the middle.
MACROGELA: create many zygotes within their bodies and release them all through either the "head" or "tail".
GIGAFLORA: has holes in the bark. These holes form pods, which break away from the "tree" and fall to the ground where they start to sprout.
DOMAFLORA: has tiny holes in the main dome of the plant, where spores are releases in the same fashion that a volcano would release magma.
WIRAFLORA: the "roots" grow out. At certain points, seed packets form, which is where new blades of Wiraflores sprout (the Wiraflores create zygotes with no help from the outside. These zygotes travel along the ever-expanding root system).
COPPACRUSTATUM: during mating season, the male leaves a trail of sperm behind him when he moves. The females seek out these sperm trails and lick them, fertilizing the eggs they have stored under their tongue. In order to lay the eggs, they throw up, releasing the eggs. This nutrient-rich barf provides food when the eggs hatch. Adult males and females die immediatly after mating season.
EXOCUPRUM: their genatalia is located near the anus. They stand on their two front legs, revealing these. They stand back to back for a while, then the female walks off. The eggs a layed from this same spot and the famales stand in the exact same position they were in during mating.
QUAPATINA & BIPULLIPEDA: the genatalia are located under the tail (or between the legs in the case of Bipullipeda). The Quapatinans lift their tails and mate like that while the Bipullipedans spread their legs and latch on back to back. There is a hole below these mating genatalia. Both phylums give birth to live young.
RADIATRILATERUS: the males reveal their genetalia (located on the arms). They insert this into holes in the arms of the female. The releases sperm travel to the center of the female's body, where three eggs are fertilized. When the first eggs fully develops, the offspring (they give birth to live young) travels up a tube and clings to the top of the mother's body. This cuts off the blood supply to the rest of the undeveloped eggs and they die.
CHORDACUPRUM: the genetalia of both genders are located on the neck. They have a flap of skin which covers the genetalia when they are not mating. When mating, they link their jaws, reveal their genetalia, and start mating. After mating, the female goes off. The zygote that forms travels to the underside of the body, where a tube is present. After a gestation period that varies from species to species, these creatures give birth to live young.

Hope this didn't sound to pornographic.

Link to the picture of your Screw idea (called a Dreel):
http://specbiofan.deviantart.com/art/Dreel-for-Rilln-104601333
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Oh, you corny mon! MY DREEL WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS! XD
But I have a much snakey thing in my mind's eye when I made the Cable Eel... and as I saw it, the mouth was directly in front of the body, the body being small, so that it looks somewhat like a sperm with a mouth... and maybe a fin or two... well, it could be a related but different species...
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Huum. Where to take that.

Maybe your Cable Eel could be a kind of cleaner fish, cleaning the teeth of Rillnian "whales". Or a kind of parasite. Or a pack hunter that gangs up on tiny "fish". Don't know about its lifestyle, but it will definately go in the order Helexappendos and the family Torpediformes.

I'll put a Rillnian fish drawing out there sometime soon.
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It could have an amphibious variant that could drill into soft mud... ambush predators? Kinda reminds me of Moray eels... anyway, the cable eels would have to work in reef-like conditions, with lots of nooks and crannies...
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Hmmmmmm. Biome idea!

Thank you for giving me an idea for a biome. Tomorrow after I get fat from turkey, I'll draw a biome map. Reefs will be included. Not sure of the rest of them, but there will definately be reefs.
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Hmmm... maybe not reefs like we know it... maybe the skeletons of an organism that uses iron oxides as their calcium? For in Rilln there's things with copper on their organs... why not something else metallic?
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Good idea! Rilln would have to be mineral rich in order to have organisms that go around with copper skeletons.

Maybe these organisms could be another type of plant? Or just vast plains of copper or some other metal (only with coral-like projections)?
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Maybe something that is less like sprog... coral-ish yet alien. Howsabout fungi-like organisms? The coral-like landscape is created when they corrode through the originally ironclad landscape and deposit excess iron oxides + a coagulant to form defensive 'shells' around their soft 'stemroots'/'branches', for this species doesn't have skeletons. When they die these shells still stay in place, and they pile on each other like a whole lot of linked macaroni-spaghetti...
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I like the idea.

Just one question: do they have shells made of copper, some other metal, or just hardened muscle?


I'm working out taxonomy for the Gigaflores right now. Still working on the biome map, which will be up before midnight.
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Well, like I said before, they eat through the iron and uses the waste product as the shell. That is, the shell is made of iron oxide and a type of organic coagulant (ya know termites? they use their spit as a coagulant.)
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So an iron skeleton? Alright. Do they feed on detritus, other organisms, or do they filter feed?
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Well, there's a kind of phase thing going on... at first, after the 'spores' land, they grow into the iron by spraying small amounts of acid. It dissolves the iron (and any bacteria that's eating it) and absorbs the resulting goop. Because bacteria alone isn't enough, in time they grow specialized 'nozzles' to trap detritus or absorb sunlight or trap prey (depends on the species and/or family). These 'nozzles' and their variants are retractable. The ones eating detritus would have nozzles that look much like sea anemones / moth antennae, the ones who photosynthesize would have large, flat dome-ish structures to collect sunlight, while the ones who eat live prey would have appendages that looks like harpoons on a tentacle or a kind of shocker (still, depends on the species).
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So I take it this is a whole other kingdom?


By the way, I'm working on a website for Rilln. Here's the link: http://planetrilln.webs.com
It's not done yet, so it will be constantly updated.
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Yes, it would be a fungi analogue. But bigger than ours, probably... Just to add more biomes...
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