Recent content by Lord_Iggy

Phytophage Evolved From: Xerophage Genes Added: 1x Plant Eating, 1x Swimming, 1x Gills Genes Removed: none Description: The Phytophage is the product of tens of millions of years of natural selection acting on Xerophages in a world that has steadily grown more competitive, and more dangerous...

Rask quietly flicked his eyes between the aquarium before him and his diagrams. The various genera of Clinger and their Thoraxenia hosts were definitely one of his favourite symbioses, although the tangled webs of the Kleptotrons and Aerotrons definitely made a decent contest of it. Before him...

Cavalier Evolved From: Clinger Genes Added: Exoskeleton, Filter Feeding, Mass Reproduction Genes Removed: none Description: Cavalier larvae drift passively on the ocean currents, using feathery structures to collect even smaller plankton and to traverse great distances while expending minimal...

Don't forget that there is already a reason to prune unnecessary genes, which is that there is a metabolic cost to maintaining traits that don't provide a benefit, so a species that is more streamlined than one that has a bunch of genes which don't provide it any immediate benefits!

Thoraxenia - Lord_Iggy Evolved from: Slugster (Era 5) Genes added: 1x Symbiosis (Auxiliary Stomachs), 1x Scent Detection Description: Faced with ever-increasing predation, the Slugsters which survived best were those which had some ability to resist predation. Thoraxenia is descended from one...

A small convention was gathered in a medium-sized orbital station, resembling nothing so much as a glassy marble, its interior a green swirl of gardens stretching hither and thither with no particular regard for gravity. Rask stood on a small platform, a smallish penguin who asserted his...

Rask watched the perpetual twilight through the sealed biodome. An energetic field repelled all unauthorized outside contact, reducing anything that got too close after ignoring the first repulsion into a fine cloud of ash, a fine way of keeping a totally sterile barrier between his...

The first great predator of the nascent inland aquatic plants would not be an animal... but would instead be one of their own. Kleptotron Evolved from Falgetron Genes Added: Saprotrophy (You could call them parasitic tendrils for consistency), Transport Tissues Genes Removed: Description: In...

Harpazo - Lord_Iggy Evolved from: Dissolver Genes Added: Harpoon Organ, Gas Exchange Genes Removed: Description: The Harpazo's most significant development is a series of heavily-vascularized, interior channels extending out of its mouth. These internal channels greatly increase its ability to...

Vorzord Evolved from Crawlzord Genes Added: Burrowing, Scavenging Genes Removed: None The Vorzord has evolved to tunnel and push its way through the soft, muddy bottoms of the sea floor, keeping the mass of its body beneath the surface to avoid predation. Its fourteen tentacles stretch out...

It's not a parasite, a parasite actively harms its host. This one is either commensal (neutral to the host) or outright symbiotic (helps its host).

Xerotron Evolved from Algaetron Genes Added: Mucous Production, Cryptobiosis Genes Removed: None The Xerotron is a descendant of the Algaetron. The long photosynthetic coils of cells produce a coating of mucous, which provides two benefits for the organism. First, it is mildly discouraging to...