NESLife VI

[Lord_Iggy]

 

[Daftpanzer]

Very nice. I feel like I want to land my spaceship on this world and collect some bio samples.

 

[Daedwartin]

Very nice. I feel like I want to land my spaceship on this world and collect some bio samples.

hehe...a asteriod has now impacted the world, wiping out all filter feeders

 

[Nailix]

Organism: Horra
Ancestor: Toilotil
Selective Pressure: A need to outgrow other Toilotil
Mutation: The Horra have sprouted wider bases, deeper roots and have grown taller. This growth has given them the ability to extend past their ancestors and soak up more sunlight then previously possible. At the top of the Horra they have sprouted shrub like foliage that have been known to grow almost as wide as their bases and block the sunlight from reaching other Toilotil below them. The deep roots allow for them to have access to more nutrients while they take the time to reach their maximum height and expand the shrubby tops.

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

Organism: Waltzer
Ancestor: Sinker
Selective Pressure: Continued pressure among filter feeders for lower ocean food, as well as seafloor predation.
Mutation: Waltzers are Sinkers which have developed a single spine-like leg, long enough for predators to be unable to attack the core of the Waltzer at the top. This leg stabilizes Waltzers as they idly move around with currents along the seafloor. This leg will also immediately launch off the sea floor if attacked, allowing Waltzers to glide temporarily while they evade seafloor predators.

 

[Grandkhan]

Sejessian

Organism: Drainer
Ancestor: Freefloater
Selective Pressure: Lack of minerals and nutrients which are not available from sunlight.
Evolutionary adaptation: The Drainer has evolved a set of draining root-like appendages, which it uses to fix itself onto Floater Islands and ground-grabbers. These rootlikes are used to suck mineral-rich fluids out of the host organism by osmosis, supplementing the Drainer's nutrient production and allow it to become larger and thicker, such that large nets of Drainers spread over the surface of floating islands stealing their nutrients.

 

[momo1000]

Organism: Harvester
Description: An armoured amphibious grazer with 10 articulated legs for swift locomotion, jaws and two primitive stalked eyes.
Niche: Visual armoured, amphibious omnivore.

Organism: Paravester
Ancestor: Harvester
Selective Pressure: The Roototils, the Harvester's main food supply, have been outperformed by their mutations so the Harvesters have less to eat as their jaws cannot pierce the bark of the Toilotils.
Mutation: First the Paravester developed sharper and stronger mandibles, allowing it to pierce the hard outside of the Toilotils. Next the Paravester borrows into the plant, and lives off the ammonia absorbed by the Toilotils. Additionally, Paravester began to develop socially, allowing whole colonies to live in groves of Toilotils.

 

[Randomness]

Organism: Gliph
Ancestor: Zeph:Haskone Sea
Selective pressure: Competition with it relatives for food
Mutation: In order to reach higher zeppus, and to reduce the amount of energy needed to leap out of the ammonia seas, some Zeph developed sacs of light weight gas and larger, thinner, wings. Although they were still too heavy to fly, could glide through the air for much longer than their ancestors. Most of these early Gliph dried out and died during their glides, but a lucky few had thicker skin than most. With the ability to be higher and longer out of the sea, Gliph wings became more dextrous, allowing for some control mid-glide.

 

[Lambda Ignaceae]

Really loving the divide between the different seas!

 

[filli_noctus]

I've compiled all the updates and maps/environmental creature breakdowns. Iggy, would you mind copying this into the OP and keeping it updated with new eras to make things easier to find.

Epoch 0: The Filtratious Epoch
Epoch I: The Floaterian Epoch
Epoch II: The Towerian Epoch
Epoch III: The Hitcheric Epoch
Epoch IV: The Sundering Epoch - breakdown 1, breakdown 2, map, tectonics
{Epoch V: The Masada, You Asked For It Epoch}
Epoch V: The Graderian Epoch - breakdown, map
Epoch VI: The Hobonian Epoch - breakdown
Epoch VII: The Ankunian Epoch - breakdown, map

 

[Angst]

[lurker's_comment]

Let's not jump to conclusions so quickly. Lots of non members read the NESing forum; maybe this one has had enough of being outside and looking in.

Welcome Lambda Ignaceae!

I agree with this.

Welcome Lambda Ignaceae!

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I've compiled all the updates and maps/environmental creature breakdowns. Iggy, would you mind copying this into the OP and keeping it updated with new eras to make things easier to find.

Thank you very much fili, I'd been meaning to do this.

 

[filli_noctus]

You are most welcome.

 

[Thlayli]

Organism: Tenku
Ancestor: Anku
Selective Pressure: Increasing migration through lower-ammonia environments.
Mutation: Development of airborne chemical markers and gymnosperms.

The wandering Anku of the previous Epoch achieved great success, but they were individual actors that reproduced with a waterborne sporophyte cycle. As beautiful as translucent baby floating mushroom trees rising out of the water might be, it was a serious limitation in the reproduction cycle. The main morphological adaptation of the Tenku was the development of a delivery system for nutrient-bearing gymnosperms that could implant in the ground with only moderate levels of moisture. The Tenku developed long, filamentous, seed-bearing pod-strands trailing down from the main canopy, which would incrementally burst during different periods in the float migration cycle, seeding the land with thousands of new Tenku as they travel.

The second, invisible adaptation is that other filamentous pods burst with various airborne chemical factors, which either signal the beginning of a reproduction cycle or a migration cycle. This is then propagated throughout the entire Tenku forest which then seeds or uproots and migrates, or both, as one. This is not a hive mind or even a neural structure, simply a collective chemically-propagated tropic response. (An analogue might be the lytic and lysogenic cycles of certain earthborne bacteria.) Tenkus now tend to migrate in fixed patterns, seeding the ground with discarded seed pods and desiccated corpses to build up the layers of humus necessary for future generations of larger Tonudae forests.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I need a few more placenames for continents, seas, straits, etcetera!

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

Nassirian, Bosporic, Sundentian...

Just to toss a couple out there

 

[filli_noctus]

Boskon, Zabriska, Nevia, Velantia, Delgon

 

[Daftpanzer]

Iggy said the outline of the Sejessian Ocean looks like Germany Cue bad taste remarks about maintaining the racial purity of Sejessian species...

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

Indeed, all non-sejessian species must be sent to the oxygen chamber.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Yet another thing I have done instead of updating the stats...

Here is Lambda, clearly superimposed in front of its planet, Thor.