Preview - 'Multisapiea' (DisNES)
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TerrisH
Mischief?
the Kri'tisk are a member of rapidly evolving subgroup of Insects. around 6 million PF, a mutation appeared in(don't know the name of the swamp/floodplain. it's the one in the central part of the map, and has 3 rivers running through it to the sea.) among several insects in the Area, allowing them to grow even larger (the largest of which was a beetle like insect about the size of a human head. it liked to eat trees). Rampart competition and almost not predators inside the swamp it's self literally turned evolution into high gear within the swamp, though the Giant Terror birds that inhabited the plains surounding their domain limited their expansion. eventually, a few species did manage to get through, but the lack of an intial to-hold limited their ability to live in other areas. (there are but a few dozen types of these subspecies living outside this swamp today, while there are several million in the swamp.). but inside the swamp, competition is a bit to feirce.
but the Kri'tisk did not evolve in the swamp it's self, but further south along the coast, between two rivers. around 4 million PH, the forerunners of the Kri'tisk. they were a small, communal, wasp sized insect about the size of a human fist. A queen, and 2-3 drones would build a small hive, usually at the base of a rock. they would have about 30 workers who would travel out from the hive and forage for dropped fruits and small animals, ocasionaly even stealing and egg from the terror birds.. the Queen and the drones would tend to the young grubs, and defend the hive, along with any workers who where home at the times, from any attackers. after about a half a million, a froth cast had developed, the builders, with primitive hand-claws.. they used them to move an integrate small stones into the surface, making the hive stronger and more resistant to attack.
and there they stagnated. a few spicies spun off of them, but the Terror Birds kept there poulation down. and up to 2 million PE, they were stable. then the Terror birds were wiped out by the cold. Kri'tisk's ansectors flourished in the apsence, multiplying and increasing in size to compensated for the cold. and eventually, a population was reached. there were to many. a few of the hives started raiding one another. many died off, but several of them developed Soildiers. the numbers of hives decreased,a nd the bugs got largest as they could claim more territory and support more. the queens stopped tending to the young and went to being solely egg layers.
time passed and about 500,000 PE, overcrowding became a problem again. and in the wars following, they grew smarter. some started using tools, building multi-story hives. some queens started cowaperationg and join their hive to fend off the others. eventually, a balance was reached, and the hives stabilized Wars were constant between the hives, and clashes along their boarders were almost constant.
then about 45PE, a few of the queens relized the wars were doing nothing but drain the hives dry of recorces. and that more then one hive could easily overtake the others. after a series of messages (in the form of drones) were sent between a small cluster of 5 hives, an Aliances was formed, and civilization began for the Kri'tisk. the 5 hives, no longer having to Gaurd their internal boarders with them, were able to easily crush the hives surrounding them. a few other hives joined them, and few other hives created their own Aliances and survived, but the hives have made peace. but the peace is still fragile. will the Kri'tisk grow and expand out of the limited area they are found in, or will they fall once again into internal strife from poulation pressure.
advantages:
highly communal
individual castes that excel at their tasks (construction/invention: builders ; fighting: soilders ; diplomacy: drones)
mindless working caste (free labor. yay.)
Disadvantages:
Hive Loyalty (each hive is loyal only to its self. while the younger hives our more quapertive to each other, they will tend to look out for each other. the pre-war hives are VERY untrusting, only cowaperating because they have to to survive(for if a hive doesn't want to join the Aliance, they are quickly consumed by the other hives.))
that's all I can think of. and a basic history of how I see they evolved in this world. take it, re-write it however you want, or completely toss it out. this has been a fun bit of theocratical evolution.
but the Kri'tisk did not evolve in the swamp it's self, but further south along the coast, between two rivers. around 4 million PH, the forerunners of the Kri'tisk. they were a small, communal, wasp sized insect about the size of a human fist. A queen, and 2-3 drones would build a small hive, usually at the base of a rock. they would have about 30 workers who would travel out from the hive and forage for dropped fruits and small animals, ocasionaly even stealing and egg from the terror birds.. the Queen and the drones would tend to the young grubs, and defend the hive, along with any workers who where home at the times, from any attackers. after about a half a million, a froth cast had developed, the builders, with primitive hand-claws.. they used them to move an integrate small stones into the surface, making the hive stronger and more resistant to attack.
and there they stagnated. a few spicies spun off of them, but the Terror Birds kept there poulation down. and up to 2 million PE, they were stable. then the Terror birds were wiped out by the cold. Kri'tisk's ansectors flourished in the apsence, multiplying and increasing in size to compensated for the cold. and eventually, a population was reached. there were to many. a few of the hives started raiding one another. many died off, but several of them developed Soildiers. the numbers of hives decreased,a nd the bugs got largest as they could claim more territory and support more. the queens stopped tending to the young and went to being solely egg layers.
time passed and about 500,000 PE, overcrowding became a problem again. and in the wars following, they grew smarter. some started using tools, building multi-story hives. some queens started cowaperationg and join their hive to fend off the others. eventually, a balance was reached, and the hives stabilized Wars were constant between the hives, and clashes along their boarders were almost constant.
then about 45PE, a few of the queens relized the wars were doing nothing but drain the hives dry of recorces. and that more then one hive could easily overtake the others. after a series of messages (in the form of drones) were sent between a small cluster of 5 hives, an Aliances was formed, and civilization began for the Kri'tisk. the 5 hives, no longer having to Gaurd their internal boarders with them, were able to easily crush the hives surrounding them. a few other hives joined them, and few other hives created their own Aliances and survived, but the hives have made peace. but the peace is still fragile. will the Kri'tisk grow and expand out of the limited area they are found in, or will they fall once again into internal strife from poulation pressure.
advantages:
highly communal
individual castes that excel at their tasks (construction/invention: builders ; fighting: soilders ; diplomacy: drones)
mindless working caste (free labor. yay.)
Disadvantages:
Hive Loyalty (each hive is loyal only to its self. while the younger hives our more quapertive to each other, they will tend to look out for each other. the pre-war hives are VERY untrusting, only cowaperating because they have to to survive(for if a hive doesn't want to join the Aliance, they are quickly consumed by the other hives.))
that's all I can think of. and a basic history of how I see they evolved in this world. take it, re-write it however you want, or completely toss it out. this has been a fun bit of theocratical evolution.
TerrisH
Mischief?
*winces* ow...
sorry, forgot spellcheack befor I posted. and was wrighting with a headache. sorry. will fix it ASAP
edit: fixed. somewhat. it should be atleast readable.
sorry, forgot spellcheack befor I posted. and was wrighting with a headache. sorry. will fix it ASAP
edit: fixed. somewhat. it should be atleast readable.
Concona
Son of Etheliar
Oh sorry never mind me lol 
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Hell yeah!Lord_Iggy said:
Lord_Iggy said:
Umm have you looked at your hands recently?
MaybeLord_Iggy said:
That swimming speed is over twice as fast as a normal penguinLord_Iggy said:
! and that has no modifications for tool use and brain size!Lord_Iggy said:
That sounds good - remember whne writing that a click sound can be represented as an exclamation mark
well thats pretty standardLord_Iggy said:
agreed. but robotic prosthetics are a long way offLord_Iggy said:
Lord_Iggy said:
Problem - how the heck are they going to swim like that? I also thought of a sort of helmet made of copper with a sharp beak spike for the primary weapon, using the natural pecking action.
@TerrisH: I'll get right on working that up.
Kozmos
Jew Detective
Looks like Xindi stuff this NES.
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Cleric said:
Say wha????
Edit: Thank you wikipedia - Kind of like the Xindi, but with less of the extreme suck caused by association with 'Enterprise'
erez87
Lord of Random
This idea looks extremly nice I'll try working out a nice race but dunno about playing 
I will keep an eye on this thought!
I'll try working out a nice race but dunno about playing I will keep an eye on this thought!Oops.
Okay, howzabout we just make the sapient penguins 66% as fast as a normal penguin. (unless that's what you already did
)I was thinking more along the lines of tools specially produced for use with clumsy fingers, not robotic prosthetics.
The helmet and peak spike are good ideas. About the flipper blades, they would have to be removed while swimming. In an amphibious attack, they would be carried in watertight backpacks, strapped on underwater, then the penguins would walk up from the depths, to the terror of the local citizenry!
Picture it!
Mass pandemonium in a northern human settlement.
"The waddling death legions are hear!" screams one person.
"We can do nothing!"
"Retreat!"
"Why aren't we going to fight them sir?"
"Are you crazy? Look at them waddling and waving their wings in front of them! You'd be torn to shreds!"
"Oh no, now they're all out of the water! It'll take them a while to figure out how to open the town gate, but once they're in..."
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@Iggy, yeah I thought penguins were faster as well - turns out they are just very manuverable and so look faster on camera. What do you mean your not picturing Penguins in power armour :shock: ?!?
TerrisH
Mischief?
Lord_Iggy said:
could it be? has he never heard of "THE PENGUIN SELF DEFENSE FORCE!!!"
let me find the iste.. which seems to have moved.. hmm.
http://www.studioshinnyo.com/gmw.html there are some of the stories..
Andd..
BINGO SCORE!!!
after a bit of googling, I got the main site!
http://psdf.studioshinnyo.com/index2.htm
go, join the glorious leagons of penguins!
WWWWWWWHAAAAAARRKKKKK!
erez87
Lord of Random
Ubber Mega Terran Squid
60 milion years ago first squides evolved from a type of a sea worm that begun developing tentacles. Not far after Squids became on of the main spiecies across the seas, it was only a matter of time, and evolution, until they begun to invade the land.
Pre-Terran squids begun their land walks some 20 milion years ago and begun to evolve a way to breath both air and water quite like amphibians. The first Terran squid apeared about 17 milion years ago in swamps around the equator and it's subspeicies became the dominant animals in shores and swarmplands. 15 milion years ago swamps begun to dissapear as weather became hotter and hotter. As swamps dried the Terran squids begun dying out and thought they still live today it's only in small water holes and tiny swamp areas.
In the place of most terran squids came forward the speicies mega. This squids became larger and larger, able to keep huge amounts in their body and in this way they survived the deadly heat. They lived closed to water usualy and developed a way to keep water in themselves while also slowly skin was being evolved.
Only 10 milion years ago the skinned Mega Terrans apeared and easily took the place of the unskinned mega terrans.
2 milion years ago the pre-ubber mega terran squid apeared. He had a large brain and begun to use tools. While they were smaller the other mega terran squids that could reach 30m lenght from head to hunting tentacles. The pre-ubbers were only around 8m long but using tools they were able to feed on larger mega squids and many other animals that roamed the lands. Thick skin also helped as they did not needed to stay near water any longer with a cooling blood system and water-keeping-begs in their bodies. The first ubber squid only apeared half a milion years ago and became the dominant speicies in any evierment he apeared in.
This ubber squids are social and go hunting together and live together in groups of hunters. They are only meat (and any other living thing) eaters and cannot digest plants. They can reach 10m high above the ground and with hunting tentacles that can reach up to 15m. They communicate using speicel light-cells in their bodies which are pury controlled by their brain. They can change color and create images on their body and a language has been mostly developed but it still lacks. The have no voice.
usualy they walk so it's looks like their lying on the ground while their tentacles move them quickly on the lands. They can always create water jets in their behind to move much quicker. They can live in water when needed but this leads usualy to shorter life (from bout 40 years down to 10 years). They have yet to develop a true culture but ususaly there is one female ubber squid leading the group (usualy the largest one).
thats all I think
60 milion years ago first squides evolved from a type of a sea worm that begun developing tentacles. Not far after Squids became on of the main spiecies across the seas, it was only a matter of time, and evolution, until they begun to invade the land.
Pre-Terran squids begun their land walks some 20 milion years ago and begun to evolve a way to breath both air and water quite like amphibians. The first Terran squid apeared about 17 milion years ago in swamps around the equator and it's subspeicies became the dominant animals in shores and swarmplands. 15 milion years ago swamps begun to dissapear as weather became hotter and hotter. As swamps dried the Terran squids begun dying out and thought they still live today it's only in small water holes and tiny swamp areas.
In the place of most terran squids came forward the speicies mega. This squids became larger and larger, able to keep huge amounts in their body and in this way they survived the deadly heat. They lived closed to water usualy and developed a way to keep water in themselves while also slowly skin was being evolved.
Only 10 milion years ago the skinned Mega Terrans apeared and easily took the place of the unskinned mega terrans.
2 milion years ago the pre-ubber mega terran squid apeared. He had a large brain and begun to use tools. While they were smaller the other mega terran squids that could reach 30m lenght from head to hunting tentacles. The pre-ubbers were only around 8m long but using tools they were able to feed on larger mega squids and many other animals that roamed the lands. Thick skin also helped as they did not needed to stay near water any longer with a cooling blood system and water-keeping-begs in their bodies. The first ubber squid only apeared half a milion years ago and became the dominant speicies in any evierment he apeared in.
This ubber squids are social and go hunting together and live together in groups of hunters. They are only meat (and any other living thing) eaters and cannot digest plants. They can reach 10m high above the ground and with hunting tentacles that can reach up to 15m. They communicate using speicel light-cells in their bodies which are pury controlled by their brain. They can change color and create images on their body and a language has been mostly developed but it still lacks. The have no voice.
usualy they walk so it's looks like their lying on the ground while their tentacles move them quickly on the lands. They can always create water jets in their behind to move much quicker. They can live in water when needed but this leads usualy to shorter life (from bout 40 years down to 10 years). They have yet to develop a true culture but ususaly there is one female ubber squid leading the group (usualy the largest one).
thats all I think
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As I said in your thread , my personal life got in the way - what with the massive number of cuts and severed tendons possibly meaning I won't be able to use my hand properly for like ever. (this post took approximately 30 mins to type)
I've got some more surgery scheduled for thursday so if that goes well we'll see what I've got by next weekend.
@erez: sounds good - I'll work on that next weekend. couple of questions -
1.where do the water jets come from (I can see internal stores being enough for a weapon but a propulsion system?).
2.Do they walk like the megasquids from the future is wild? i.e 8 rod like tenticles under the body.
, my personal life got in the way - what with the massive number of cuts and severed tendons possibly meaning I won't be able to use my hand properly for like ever. (this post took approximately 30 mins to type)I've got some more surgery scheduled for thursday so if that goes well we'll see what I've got by next weekend.
@erez: sounds good - I'll work on that next weekend. couple of questions -
1.where do the water jets come from (I can see internal stores being enough for a weapon but a propulsion system?).
2.Do they walk like the megasquids from the future is wild? i.e 8 rod like tenticles under the body.
erez87
Lord of Random
Not octipuses!!!!! Squids the more jelly ones
1)All squids has jet's where their mouth is. So same place... and theirr ather huge! so they got the water to shot at land and move faster...
2) Not octupis! squids... (with skin now thought). So no they don't move like on legs, rather carry themselves on the lands... i'll make a pic later maybe...
the more jelly ones 1)All squids has jet's where their mouth is. So same place... and theirr ather huge! so they got the water to shot at land and move faster...
2) Not octupis! squids... (with skin now thought). So no they don't move like on legs, rather carry themselves on the lands... i'll make a pic later maybe...
