Point of Reference #4
Automata (Thlayli) - the energy of Neinom rises against you. It has greater resonance with this world. Asteroids, tectonics and climate all work against you. As you skip through the eons, your war of biology shows hints of success. Rapid evolution occurs. But the end result is a world of lifeforms resonating with Neinom's essence. Collectivity is broken ; You lose focus, exiled and drifting...
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Status: undefined
Affinity: organic chemistry x3*
Neinom (merciary) - you are victorious, but your biology bounds ahead uncontrolled. Oxygen builds up in the oceans ; a substance poisonous to the earlier, innocent ones. They seek refuge in hidden places. Calamities strike the planet's surface ; multi-celled life emerges to claim the sunlight. But this is now a tangled food-web of predators and usurpers. Parasitic methods of reproduction are common. Each species wields its own single-celled parasites as weapons against others.
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Status: Planet
Affinity: organic chemistry x3*, core manipulation
Basic Lifeforms: Hungryscum (durable, toxic, carnivorous), Deathblossom (versatile, parasitic, photosynthesisers)
Intermediate Lifeforms: Red Swimmers (parasitic, filter-feeder, mobile), Hydrasponges (collective, regenerative, toxic, filter-feeder)
Quatana (TerrisH) - you create more trouble. You have many ideas, but your focus is divided. Nothing works out as planned. You push and pull at planets in your system - some smaller moons tumble out of their orbits and fall inwards towards the central sun. You try to draw planets from other stars - all you get are asteroids and comets, some of which crash into Neinom and yourself. You try to make your planet more welcoming of these carbon-based lifeforms - it is a slow process. Your efforts to create a space-bound plant result in some hardy living cells on your two planetoid moons.
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Status: Planet
Affinity: water, planet formation, gravity*, organic chemistry*
Basic Lifeforms: Ventblobs (durable, chemical converters), Spinoblobs (durable, collective, photosynthesisers), Drifters (versatile, chemical converters), Green Drifters (versatile, photosynthesisers)
Mask of Phobos (tuxedohamm) - much experimentation. You cast the one known as 'Orb' through to your other side. Portions of Khnosos and Journey are sent back and forth. But the energy of others is difficult to overcome ; Your final target is the sleeping black hole, 'Petro'. Something strange happens when you merge with it. You become open-ended. There are no equations to describe you now. Many possibilities.
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Status: localised time-space anomaly
Affinity: high energy physics x3*, time-space tunnelling x2*
Khnosos (Seon) - you are able to disentangle yourself from Mask of Phobos. You also release Boriss from your grasp. Your focus is then drawn towards a new star, with a planet that will eventually be suitable for carbon-based life - such is the trend. But for now you are interested in creating huge caverns beneath the surface. As soon as the young planet has cooled off, you see to it that crystalline forms appear within. There are similarities with Karadan ; perhaps echoes of its crystalline-lifeforms are finding resonance here. Some of your former nebula home is lost ; the rest protectively wraps itself around the new star.
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Status: Star
Stored Energy +2
Affinity: high energy physics, subtle energy manipulation, planet formation*, delicate matter*
igae (Lord_Iggy) - you are born from a splintered limb of Khnosos. Disturbed filaments of consciousness re-combine as igae. For now you exist in a peaceful state of observation and reflection.
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Status: Nebula
Affinity: subtle energy manipulation x2*
Nihil (hbar) - you rest within the singularity, exploring its structure. You are both caged and guarded by the one known as Thom. Shall you remain here?
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Status: Localised energy construct
Stored Energy +1*
Affinity: space-time distortion, gravity*
Thom (thomas.berubeg) - you become a spherical shell of energy surrounding the event-horizon of Nihil, which rests beneath. You capture incoming energy. More and more... Your tendrils reach out to nearby stars, old creations of Fuschia ; Still resonating with foreignness, but not immune to your touch, they begin change ; Some kind of mutual exchange? Your energy is getting out of control now, crying out for transformation. Will you continue in this form?
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Status: Localised energy construct
Stored Energy +3*
Affinity: subtle energy manipulation*
Fuschia - enough turmoil. Now you build sheltered habitats. As you desire, each one is varied - a volcanic-warm ocean beneath a crust of ice, a planet kept warm and humid by a thick atmosphere, germs growing in a sea of hydrocarbons, and more besides. You watch and wait. Is this satisfactory?
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Status: Star
Affinity: high energy physics, star formation, planet formation, atmospheric manipulation*, core manipulation*, gravity
Eirikkr (Kraznaya) - "release the light and plunge my spear through the darkness". Your energy responds to these thoughts. It finds something darker than normal. But a tentative poke at Nihil-Thom just seems to be absorbed ; Your energy recoils, perhaps waiting for a grander opportunity.
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Status: undefined
Stored Energy +2*
Affinity: none
Karadan (Neverwonagame3) - you shift focus away from the planet 'Moravia', to the red-orange star you call 'Wallachia'. From this vantage point, and with a burst of energy, you instigate organic life in a couple of places in this system, including you old home, Moravia - will the crystalline forms survive this change? Meanwhile, another part of your awareness looks for an isolated free-floating planet. It finds several candidate objects, none too far away. But you would have to leave your current home to experiment...
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Status: Star
Affinity: delicate matter, gravitation, organic chemistry x2*
Mreset (Matt0088) - a time for rest and contemplation. You watch events in local space, and much further beyond. You home seems safe for now. Your strange lifeforms coexist agreeably. They evolve slowly and playfully.
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Status: Planet
Stored Energy +2*
Affinity: chemistry, core manipulation, matter-energy conversion
Basic Lifeforms: Dendrachains (collective, regenerative, chemical converters), Gigatrunks (large, photosynthesisers, chemical converters), Requesterers (versatile, symbiotic, chemical converters)
Intermediate Lifeforms: Reanderers (crawling, sensitive, omnivorous)
Exotic Lifeforms: Cryptic Mites (social, intelligent, flying, matter-energy converters)
Phil (Condor_green) - a new generation of QuickSilver Mites become experts at riding the ionic bond with Mreset. Over time their forms merge with the first 'mutants' on Mreset. Now all are one family, although there is a lot of variety within. Chased by the dangerous 'QuickSilver Frogs', some begin to spend more time in the upper atmospheres of both planets. Some brave ones even begin to ride waves of radiation, heading towards other planets. Perhaps a few are now drifting into deep space, sleeping, heading for other stars... These voyagers seem to be sending energy back to you, somehow.
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Status: Planet
Stored Energy +1*
Affinity: heavy matter, heat, non-biological life x2*
Exotic Lifeforms: QuickSilver Frogs (durable, sensitive, fast, exoticovorous), Cryptic Mites (social, intelligent, flying, matter-energy converters)
Essencelessism (lord_joakim) - "I know what I see - I see the value white torched in the darkness, the value black it is written upon, the value of the signatures upon them." You exist.
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Status: undefined
Stored Energy +2
Affinity: consciousness x2*
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i' (Kentharu) - your child star 'iBen' draws energy from the wake of Journey. Instability strikes again ; iBen explodes, but a compact core remains, blasting radiation into space from its spinning and tumbling poles. Your other child 'iTom' experiences turbulence, radiation and asteroid impacts. Yet interesting things appear on some of its planets - Swirling clouds, oceans of liquid ; strange chemicals try to assemble themselves. From your vantage point in the in the surrounding nebula, you gently bend and shape the energised interstellar gas to shield your children.
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Status: Nebula
Stored Energy +1*
Affinity: star formation, planet formation x2*, subtle energy manipulation*
Khuqua, The Overseer (Dragonson) - the children of 'i' disturb you. Your plans for life suffer setbacks ; waves of radiation strike your planets. But eventually you find peace, sheltered behind the protective nebula. Living things stir on several different spheres ; climates are conductive to life, but this looks like a long process. Should you focus on speeding things up on one particular planet, or continue to guide all of them?
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Status: Star
Affinity: planet formation*
Journey (Vertinari118) - you fly across the galaxy, far from your old haunts. After crossing a relatively empty and boring zone, you seem to be entering into another spiral-arm. New things surround you.
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Status: Massive exotic energy form
Stored Energy +3*
Affinity: high energy physics, subtle energy manipulation
Lupus (Northen Wolf) - soulspirit continues to slumber on its moon. It does not cooperate. You desire a predator to stir evolution into action. You have to make one yourself ; It is surprisingly easy. The one known as Aeriole now shares this place with you. It helpfully tweaks the atmosphere to allow more interesting lifeforms to appear. All is going well until a great flash ; The nearby Blue Giant reaches the end of its life. Despite your best efforts to protect yourself, powerful waves of energy break through. It could have been worse - the one known as Journey seems to absorb some of the blast as it passes by. Your atmosphere is scarred and altered, although not entirely for the worse. Some life survives and adapts. Your home star is free to go its own course now.
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Status: Planet
Affinity: gravity, atmospheric manipulation x2*, water, organic chemistry*
Basic Lifeforms: Scarcells (durable, airborne, chemical converters), Cloudanemone (airborne, sensitive, filter-feeder), Proto-Cloudalgae (collective, airborne, photosynthesisers)
Areiole (Abaddon) - you shape the cloudforms to your liking. You keep the atmosphere moist. Your own living creations are destroyed in a great flash. But you encourage Lupus's lifeforms throughout all the turmoil, and are rewarded with some kind of energy feedback. Lupus seems at ease with you - but will you remain here?
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Status: Planet
Stored Energy +1*
Affinity: atmospheric manipulation x2*
Ui (Ninja Dude) - you trace the unknown entities back to their source - a planet near the centre of the galaxy, which looks like it has been completely consumed by artificial constructs - 'machinery' - mixed with some kind of crystalline life forms. This planet has a singular consciousness. It does not seem hostile. You watch the scouts move through local-space, but they commit no offence, other than being nosey.
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Status: Localised energy construct
Stored Energy +1*
Affinity: subtle energy manipulation, remote impulse x2, non-biological life*
NPC DIPLO:
From:
ORB
To:
Igae
"My awareness is limited. Are you food? Permission to replicate?"
NOTES:
The sleeping ones exist in a state of uncertainty. Stats will be revealed if they are active again. Currently soulspirit (Metaliturtle) and Boriss (Charles Li) are inactive. Inactive energy will be recycled eventually.
Stored Energy will not be used unless you say so.
Exact stats for lifeforms will no longer be shown unless you are playing as a planet.
I have decided to use my own custom words like 'exoticovorous'.
I ran out of time for doing graphics. More may be added later.
@Neverwonagame3, I updated Karadan before I read your message about quitting. Hope you don't mind it being in this update.
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