Well this is an interesting quest! What got me to binge read this was the part where the QM wrote about a proto-planet picking up orbital debris and made it sound like high-class food porn. It sure has gotten a little overwheming since then, I can't keep track of all our priorities. I've got a few questions
What is our surface pressure in Bars approximately, and how bad would it be if it went up a bit?
I understand we've been doing some funky stuff with convection coils in our core to do more funky stuff with our magnetic field. This has lost me, is this what earth does ITL or did we do some fancy sci-fi stuff? And if the latter, what exactly have we achieved?
In some vent beds, it even appears that the water (together with whatever happens to be dissolved in it) weakly polarizes passing radiation asymmetrically.
For now, a couple votes:
[X][Orbital] Spin faster
SPEEEEN
[X][Observation]Check up on Donutsteel, see if there's any pattern to its mischievous behavior
Pretty damn high, and we don't want it to go up.
We worked pretty hard getting to the point where we don't have super critical CO2 oceans anymore and actually have a water cycle.
Baseline, I think we are still like around 20–30 Bars.
I don't think we even exceed 10 myself, and with our high gravity, that kind of pressure means at Himalayan height, you get earth like pressure
As evidence I bring up that liquid CO2 no longer exists in significant quantities, and hasn't since turn 46. 20-30 bars means a boiling point of -19.5 to -5.5 degrees Celsius, and we have been VERY cold for much of the time since turn 46.
the truth is that we don't know exactly how high our pressure is. The last big threshold we covered while lowering the pressure was getting low enough that our air could carry enough moisture to get a proper water cycle going. I have no idea what pressure that point is, especially since that point is also temperate dependent, my googling skills have failed me. In quest that point was reached once the pressure was no longer outside the upper dot I don't think an increase in pressure would be bad, but then I wanted to stay at one notch above the dot and just heat up to get our water cycle.
I don't know how you plan to increase pressure, but long term we want to lock up much of our CO2 anyways
I understand we've been doing some funky stuff with convection coils in our core to do more funky stuff with our magnetic field. This has lost me, is this what earth does ITL or did we do some fancy sci-fi stuff? And if the latter, what exactly have we achieved?
it is exactly as it says on the tin; we have coils of solid metal floating in our outer core. The other guy that responded to you actually came up with the basic idea. It mostly means we have a ridiculously strong magnetic field that we can break.
[X][Orbital] Get some sense of what orbit we should actually be aiming for
[X][Atmospheric] X-TREME WEATHER!
[X][Geological] Go Wild! Go Crazy!
[X][Observation] Keep an eye on that mysterious biological matter we found
[X][Life] Undergo extinction event
-[X] A mix of extreme temperature changes, solar flare-up, and all the dead biological material from the so-called 'extinction' event has created turbo-charged toxicity levels across the planet
--[X] And then maybe getting too close to the system asteroid belt wasn't very healthy for us either
---[X] Weather getting extreme usually isn't friendly to stuff that needs to live
----[X] Also having a 'Geological Incident' isn't healthy for life either
-----[X] Basically, the planet is having a very, very bad time
I presume they want to accelerate the evolution of life, a multiplier on every other life action.
I'm quite certain that life is in no danger of getting wiped out though. Some forms maybe, although the groups we have outlined are mostly still very broad, as I don't think any of us want to world build an entire detailed (multi?) global ecosystem.
Also many scientists think that Earth froze over entirely multiple times for millions of years, and while there is evidence for that, there is no evidence to my knowledge of any significant extinctions happening during that time. Life is tough
Ninja'd. The extinction pressure will continue until someone dies.
Honestly, probably the most blunt way of putting it.
(Though realistically the fact that we're getting 100% boost effect this turn and the heightened likelihood of some genuine extinction happeing plays a major role in it; Odds are that next turn I'll just shift back to emphasis on manipulating what life we do have regardless unless something major happens to justify another shot at clearing some of the board.)
[X][Orbital] Move to a lower orbit, stop just a bit before the increased energy would start to cause problems (like boil the planet)
[X][Atmospheric] Decrease albedo (aim for temperatures slightly below Turn 53 levels after everything is settled if possible)
[X][Geological] Reduce the major radius of the gas torus to within Inky's orbit
-[X] Make sure the bottom of the torus does not touch our atmosphere
[X][Life] Increase mutation rate
[X][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: Encourage pyrite utilization
[X][Alquarian] Develop new feature: The airborne and close to the surface variants start to develop more efficient methods of taking in large amounts of CO2 from the air.
[X][Norðrljós] Lighter and lighter spores that stay airborn longer and higher
[X][Lapis-Kea] increase heat and pressure resistance
[X][Clotho-kea] A few of the Klotho-Kea, more heat and pressure resistant than their fellows, unexpectedly slip ever deeper into the hydrothermal vents they inhabit-- an attempt to get even closer to the source of the heat, where they would not have to compete with their fellows for what they consider to be the source of their nutrition.
I changed my gas torus vote from reducing its major diameter to reducing its minor diameter so we can take advantage of the anniversary reaction concordance boost and accomplish two things at once. Between the 50% minor radius reduction and 50% major radius reduction, its volume should drop by a factor of 16, or more if the major and minor radii fall more that I expect. Hopefully, this bumps up the gas density enough to have significant pressure at its center.
[X][Alquarian] Develop new feature: The airborne and close to the surface variants start to develop more efficient methods of taking in large amounts of CO2 from the air.
[X][Alquarian] Develop New Feature: The closer to surface variants start to develop rudimentary Grexing behaviors ; or progression towards multi-cellular / colonial life.
[X][Alquarian] Develop oxygenic photosynthesis
-[X] If this has been developed already, become more resistant to oxygen produced by oxygenic photosynthesis
[X][Norðrljós] New carbon structures start to develop inside the cells, that allow to utilize the static electricity inside the clouds for energy or creating new materials.
[X][Geological] You have something that almost looks like a ring of mountains near your equator. Finnish that ring in order to create wind still interior.
[X][Life] Undergo extinction event
-[X] A mix of extreme temperature changes, solar flare-up, and all the dead biological material from the so-called 'extinction' event has created turbo-charged toxicity levels across the planet
--[X] And then maybe getting too close to the system asteroid belt wasn't very healthy for us either
---[X] Weather getting extreme usually isn't friendly to stuff that needs to live
----[X] Also having a 'Geological Incident' isn't healthy for life either
-----[X] Basically, the planet is having a very, very bad time
[X][Tempo] Maintain current tempo
-[X] Specifically countervote any attempts at abandoning planethood and becoming a biosphere if it would otherwise pass
[X][Lifedetails] a new branch of the Alquarians, the Jegerians. Pacworld's first ever predators!
-[X] Habitat: Right now the open ocean, as they are descended from the shallow water Alquarians that fled to the deep sea during our warming period, but really they would do well anywhere there is liquid water and compatible life.
-[X] Basic metabolism: they eat other cells. The ability to break down intracellular polyphosphate chains as proven to be very useful, and continues to mutate into a broader ability.
[X][Clotho-kea] A few of the Klotho-Kea, more heat and pressure resistant than their fellows, unexpectedly slip ever deeper into the hydrothermal vents they inhabit-- an attempt to get even closer to the source of the heat, where they would not have to compete with their fellows for what they consider to be the source of their nutrition.
Dont worry, with 100% concordance bonus, you've probably ensured a complete and total extinction of the planet's whole biopshere... save for whatever escapes into orbit / the crust
Dont worry, with 100% concordance bonus, you've probably ensured a complete and total extinction of the planet's whole biopshere... save for whatever escapes into orbit / the crust
[X][Tempo] Advance orbital (requires >50%): 28.6%
[X][Tempo] Maintain current tempo: 28.6% - PASSED
[X][Tempo] Retire from planethood to become a biosphere instead (requires >90%, min. 3 votes): 28.6%
[X][Tempo] Maintain current tempo -[X] Specifically countervote any attempts at abandoning planethood and becoming a biosphere if it would otherwise pass: 14.3% - PASSED
[X][Orbital] Collect more ice (difficult!) -[X] put it into the torus: 33.3%
[X][Orbital] Move to a lower orbit, stop just a bit before the increased energy would start to cause problems (like boil the planet): 22.2%
[X][Orbital] Accrete gas onto torus -[X] put it into the gas torus: 11.1%
[X][Orbital] Accrete to... -[X] not self: 11.1%
[X][Orbital] Spin faster: 11.1%
[X][Orbital] Get some sense of what orbit we should actually be aiming for: 11.1%
[X][Atmospheric] Collect more gas (do not accrete to self) -[X] put it into the torus: 25.0%
[X][Atmospheric] Large amounts of lighting storms: 12.5%
[X][Atmospheric] Get living spores off planet: 12.5%
[X][Atmospheric] Collect more gas (do not accrete to self): 12.5%
[X][Atmospheric] Decrease albedo (aim for temperatures slightly below Turn 53 levels after everything is settled if possible): 12.5%
[X][Atmospheric] Mess with wind systems, cloud cover and albedo randomly: 12.5%
[X][Atmospheric] X-TREME WEATHER!: 12.5%
[X][Geological] Reduce the major radius of the gas torus to within Inky's orbit -[X] Make sure the bottom of the torus does not touch our atmosphere: 20.0%
[X][Geological] continue to increase pressure on random chunks of materials: 20.0%
[X][Geological] Reduce the major radius of the gas torus to within Inky's orbit: 20.0%
[X][Geological] Reduce the minor diameter of the gas torus as much as possible, to one fourth of our diameter or smaller: 10.0%
[X][Geological] You have something that almost looks like a ring of mountains near your equator. Finnish that ring in order to create wind still interior.: 10.0%
[X][Geological] Increase weathering (smoothens terrain, decreases atmospheric CO 2 ): 10.0%
[X][Geological] Go Wild! Go Crazy!: 10.0%
[X][Observation] Observe our rings, What are our rings made of?: 1
[X][Observation] Secure the Dust Grain and proof it from being affected by the torus: 1
[X][Observation]Check up on Donutsteel, see if there's any pattern to its mischievous behavior: 1
[X][Observation] Keep an eye on that mysterious biological matter we found: 1
General:
[X][Life] Increase mutation rate: 42.9%
[X][Life] Decrease mutation rate: 28.6%
[X][Life] Don't undergo an extinction event: 14.3%
[X][Life] Undergo extinction event -[X] A mix of extreme temperature changes, solar flare-up, and all the dead biological material from the so-called 'extinction' event has created turbo-charged toxicity levels across the planet --[X] And then maybe getting too close to the system asteroid belt wasn't very healthy for us either ---[X] Weather getting extreme usually isn't friendly to stuff that needs to live ----[X] Also having a 'Geological Incident' isn't healthy for life either -----[X] Basically, the planet is having a very, very bad time: 14.3%
Alquarians:
[X][Alquarian] Develop new feature: The airborne and close to the surface variants start to develop more efficient methods of taking in large amounts of CO2 from the air.: 5
[X][Alquarian] Develop New Feature: The closer to surface variants start to develop rudimentary Grexing behaviors ; or progression towards multi-cellular / colonial life.: 1
[X][Alquarian] Develop oxygenic photosynthesis -[X] If this has been developed already, become more resistant to oxygen produced by oxygenic photosynthesis: 1
[X][Norðrljós] Lighter and lighter spores that stay airborn longer and higher: 7
[X][Norðrljós] New carbon structures start to develop inside the cells, that allow to utilize the static electricity inside the clouds for energy or creating new materials.: 1
[X][Norðrljós] Feature development target: Develop better compounds for energy storage (looking at ATP here, something similar or better).: 1
[X][Lifedetails] a new branch of the Alquarians, the Jegerians. Pacworld's first ever predators! -[X] Habitat: Right now the open ocean, as they are descended from the shallow water Alquarians that fled to the deep sea during our warming period, but really they would do well anywhere there is liquid water and compatible life. -[X] Basic metabolism: they eat other cells. The ability to break down intracellular polyphosphate chains as proven to be very useful, and continues to mutate into a broader ability.: 1
Anankae:
[X][Lapis-Kea] increase heat and pressure resistance: 6
[X][Lapis-Kea] Move some of them deeper in the weirdest corners you can find: 1
[X][Clotho-kea] A few Clotho-Kea found themselves lost outside the caverns of their ancestors. Piercing through the Seafloor: 2
[X][Clotho-kea] A few of the Klotho-Kea, more heat and pressure resistant than their fellows, unexpectedly slip ever deeper into the hydrothermal vents they inhabit-- an attempt to get even closer to the source of the heat, where they would not have to compete with their fellows for what they consider to be the source of their nutrition.: 1
Plagiarismonadota:
[X][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: Improve photosynthetic efficiency: 4
[X][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: Encourage pyrite utilization: 2
[X][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: DNA repair: 1
[X][Lineagename] Photosynthetic Plagarismondota rename to -> Plagarisynthesites: 1
[X][Plagarismondota] Coastal Plagarismondota/Plagarisynthesites develop adhesives used to form stromatolites: 1
Sun: Pixelle
Small scorched planet: Doom
Evaporating greenhouse planet: Marathon
Boiling wet planet: Bomber
(Nothing)
(Nothing)
Rocky asteroid belt: Tetrimino Asteroid Belt
You: Pacworld
Gassy terrestrial planet with two major moons: Mobius
Donutsteel
Small gas giant with one major moon: Mario
>Mushroomia
Qubert
Gas giant with many major moons and big rings: Ralph
Ice giant with two major moons: Zebes
>Popo
>Nana
Decadently triangular forces greatly speed up your projects this turn, although time seems to pass slower to compensate for mysterious and poorly understood reasons, and you also don't end up advancing any timer in particular.
You scrounge up what little ice remains in your vicinity and incorporate it into your gas torus. Luckily, the ice disintegrates and goes to gas fairly quickly, or it might cause confinement issues. More gas also goes into your torus, thickening it a bit more as you gently pull it close back inside the orbit of Inky. In some ways, it's easier to maintain here with Inky's enthusiastic help, but in others, it gets trickier especially given how the increased pinching has rendered it narrower than Inky is wide at less than a quarter of your own diameter. At least it doesn't intersect with your atmosphere.
Recalibrating your orbit is a tricky task on account of having to balance differing visions on what that should look like, but you ultimately settle for something about 40% out from your original orbit relative to Inky's initial one. Here, you once again enjoy decent ice cover and liquid temperatures on your moons except for Clyde and sometimes Pinky. This also gives you plenty of wiggle room in the future should you develop a mid-life crisis and decide to indulge an eccentric phase or need to relocate for rapid warming/cooling. You spin a bit faster to celebrate this joyous occasion, and your days now last just under 23 <hours>.
Great lightning storms flash and rumble about your oceans and continents once again, and immense floods ensue as the water of your seas falls back down as unceasing rainstorms. Furious tornadoes wrack the lands and draw dust and water up into your atmosphere, and raging duststorms blot out the sun for days on end. It's hard to separate out what's going on due to the sheer extreme chaos in your atmosphere, but when things calm down a bit, you find a slight net increase in rainfall, gentler winds, reduced cloud formation, and little net change to your albedo. Unfortunately, with even hydrogen finding it fairly easy to stick around in your atmosphere, your escape velocity is such that all this hubbub still isn't quite enough to send spores even to Inky by a few orders of magnitude[1]. Perhaps a more impactful trigger could do it?
Weathering increases a bit, capturing some more of your ever-present CO2. You also turn up the heat for the surface, and quite a few great eruptions result. Certainly enough results to enclose that nearly circular ring of mountains near your equator, which creates a patch of still air largely isolated from prevailing winds.
High solar activity, rapidly changing conditions, and recent swings in geological activity have caused a slightly overdue extinction event! It appears a long and persistent eruption of particularly heavy metal-rich basalt in your ridge zones has introduced enough toxic solutes into your oceans to kill off even your surface-fearing life forms even where rapidly increasing irradiation doesn't do too much. Under these combined pressures, life hops and skips to new equilibria in these ways:
One branch of the Alquarians has managed to develop a highly efficient pathway for carbon fixation, but the photosynthetic machinery of its members is now dependent on freakish concentrations of lanthanides. With high volcanic activity and rapid weathering generating lots of monazite, they're thriving and rapidly outcompeting their cousins, but this may not last forever.
Flighty Norðrljós genera are generating spores that float about longer and higher, but part of this seems to have the side effect of making it more difficult for water droplets to nucleate and merge. This isn't an issue in most places, but high Norðrljós growth may be followed by local droughts in cycles. With copious rain for now, the enhanced dispersal as a result of this trait sees it replacing the gentler, often rain-positive version in short order.
Harvesting the seemingly unlimited static electricity from clouds to fuel internal reactions can't go wrong in any way! It's a good thing there's plenty of methane and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere and reduced metal in the oceans to soak up the rather toxic gaseous by-products.
A freak mutation has split off a distinctly heterotrophic variety of Alquarians. They have been named the Jegerians, and they thrive on feeding on the more light-loving life forms. However, the process of developing their feeding mechanisms seems to have come at the expense of their photosynthetic machinery, which is severely atrophied or vestigial in relevant species.
The Lapis-Kea have become drastically more resistant to heat and pressure to such an extent that they can seldom survive a trip up to the continental shelf. Part of this is that they genuinely do need the heat and pressure to form their lazurite cell walls, and the deepest, warmest ones are soon the most salient examples of Lapis-Kea. Shallower ones largely converge onto more typical Anankae phenotypes with pyrite cell walls and decent survival in shallow caves both on their own and as a result of gene swapping with their distant cousins or die out.
Clotho-Kea infiltration of hydrothermal vents proceeds rapidly, as does acclimation to the extreme conditions deep inside the vents. Having become dependent on high concentrations of mineral nutrients, some species have largely lost the ability to grow outside the steaming hot, solute-rich waters of the vents, but it's not unusual to find vents with distinct populations of Clotho-Kea occupying different layers/positions without intruding on others.
Photosynthesis among the Plagiarisynthesite-clade plagiarismonads continues to improve in efficiency, but it's generally become somewhat dependent on a low pH to proceed. The increased productivity and much softer exterior compared to most Alquarians has also made them more attractive prey for Jegerians (and maybe Maidari?).
Pyrite utilization proceeds quite nicely among the Plagiarismonads that find themselves near deposits of the stuff or living in Anankae-bearing caves. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the process consumes a pretty penny of fixed nitrogen and generates nasty sulfuric acid. The pyrite-utilizing Plagiarismonads don't seem to mind this too much, and in abiogenic pyrite deposits, this is more or less the end of the story. In Anankae-bearing caves, however, this tends to corrode their pyrite cell walls faster than they can redeposit them, which isn't the best for their health.
DNA repair mechanisms improve enough to let Plagiarisynthesites get closer to the surface just in time for the rise of the predatory Alquarians.
Some things do proceed without too much interference from the environment, of course:
Grex formation is currently exhibited by a few Alquarian species, but the adaptive advantage of this trait is such that it's rapidly spreading among Alquarians by lateral gene transfer. Surface-bound Norðrljós especially benefit from it, and golden carpets of Norðrljós fruiting bodies are becoming a common sight.
An emerging energy storage mechanism in the sedentary Norðrljós involves stockpiling cell material precursors gently inhibited from spontaneous polymerization. In times of nutrient stress, these precursors get metabolized for energy, whether to fuel sporulation or vegetative growth. Polyphosphate continues to be a primary mechanism for a wide variety of Alquarians, of course.
Littoral Plagiarisynthesites, too, have begun sticking to each other to form stromatolites. They're becoming a common sight in saline coastlines.
All told, it's not as bad as it could be, and perhaps the extinctions accelerated the development of some of these specializations?
Your rings were once mostly made of ice, but now they're mostly rocky silicates with a few scraps of metal.
The Dust Grain is secure, and the torus has now receded to below the orbit of Inky anyway. As for the wider electron radiation belt, it's well inside the orbit of Blinky, so it, too, is unlikely to cause problems in the near future.
You keep an eye on that mysterious biological matter. What mysterious biological matter?
You try to get some sense of what orbit you should actually be aiming for, and the obvious answer is whichever one lets you intercept that dastardly rascal Qubert before it gets much further along its cursed path to stardom.
Gauges of interest (not to scale!):
Average air temperature Freezing 🞀–––o–––🞂 Boiling
Average sea temperature Freezing 🞀–––o–––🞂 Boiling
Average asthenosphere temperature Dead 🞀––––o––🞂 Molten
Average surface air pressure Trace 🞀––––o––🞂 Crushing
Observation controls (vote once):
[ ][Observation] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))
Life controls (vote for as many as you want):
General life controls:
[ ][Life] Increase mutation rate
[ ][Life] Decrease mutation rate
[ ][Life] Undergo extinction event (reduces difficulty of other actions)
Generic lineage-specific controls:
[ ][Lineagename] Implement new metabolic cycle (varied difficulty, specify inputs and outputs)
[ ][Lineagename] Develop new feature (varied difficulty, specify feature and target)
[ ][Lineagename] Name a lineage of organisms
Special lineage-specific controls:
[ ][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: DNA repair
[ ][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: Encourage pyrite utilization
[ ][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: Improve photosynthetic efficiency
Life bounties/plans (accepting text/image elaborations/revisions for existing life forms):
[ ][Lifedetails] Parent (required): Which lineage does this one descend from?
[ ][Lifedetails] Habitat: Where does this lineage occur? What sorts of environments could easily follow in housing them?
[ ][Lifedetails] Basic metabolism: What do they take up and how? What do they produce as a result? What unique inputs/products/pathways distinguish them from their average cousin?
[ ][Lifedetails] Isolation: Is there something distinct or different about their outer coverings?
[ ][Lifedetails] Sensing: What information can they pick up on that their cousins seldom can?
It occurs to me I could possibly tuck the moons' maps into the corners of the Pacworld map, but I wonder how much work that would add to each turn assuming only Inky needs updates every turn for extreme volcanism.
Less orbital movement that I thought considering we still have Ice on the planet.
[X][Orbital] Collect more dust
[X][Atmospheric] Don't expel gas
[X][Geological] Increase weathering (smoothens terrain, decreases atmospheric CO 2 )
[X][Alquarians] Start to develop into working as groups to defend themselves against the predatory Alquarian branch
Its going to take a very long time to turn most of that CO2 into just O.
I don't think we have even made a dent into that since the development of photosynthetic life.
Its going to take a very long time to turn most of that CO2 into just O.
I don't think we have even made a dent into that since the development of photosynthetic life.
stick around in your atmosphere, your escape velocity is such that all this hubbub still isn't quite enough to send spores even to Inky by a few orders of magnitude
You try to get some sense of what orbit you should actually be aiming for, and the obvious answer is whichever one lets you intercept that dastardly rascal Qubert before it gets much further along its cursed path to stardom.
All in all, great turn. We finally got our orbit where we want it. Now our biggest task is panspermia, I want to create creatures bigger than our gravity allows
[X][Orbital] Bombard...
-[X] self
[X][Geological] Pinch Torus
[X][Atmospheric] Expel gas
-[X] Towards Moons & Torus
[X][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: Predation, with an aim towards utilizing foreign genetic material, though not necessarily reproducing such stolen material in offspring.
[X][Alquarians] Feature development target: Utilization of external electron gradients and/or flows to enhance metabolic efficiency.
[X][Norðrljós] Ride the Meteor's blastwave, carried by expelled atmosphere. Spread to our moons!
[X][Tempo] Do not retire from planethood to become biosphere.
sorry but there's work to do still 😔
[X][Orbital] Bombard...
-[X] self: Volcano
[X][Observation]Check up on Donutsteel, see if there's any pattern to its mischievous behavior
[X][Geological] Pinch Torus
[X][Atmospheric] Expel gas
-[X] Towards Moons & Torus
[X][Lifedetails] Parent: Anankae
[X][Lifedetails] Habitat: Wherever sulfuric acid acid may be found, and other sources of elemental sulfur, but most typically where pyrite-utilizing Plagiarismonads may be found.
[X][Lifedetails] Basic Metabolism: Whether by consuming sulfate-reducing micro-organisms that utilize pyrite, or by intaking sulfuric acid itself these micro-organisms are capable of much of the same processes. Hydrogen sulfide is produced as a product, but more frequently producing pyrrhotite, and when supporting a colony of more typical Anankae, distributing the flow of sulfur across the colony. When in a colony they frequently form yet another layer, their holes allowing them to trap and process sulfate-reducing micro-organisms that seek to utilize pyrite.
[X][Lifedetails] Isolation: They commonly form pyrrhotite cell walls and exteriors when as an adaptation to make better usage of sulfuric acid in their environment, but pyrite exteriors and even the rare vallerite variety have been reported.
[X][Lifedetails] Sensing: Sources of elemental sulfur, whether sulfur-reducing organisms or that of sulfuric acid.
Eurgh, I want to make "Anansulfos" as a splinter and adaptation to keep Anankae either alive, or create another branch of it to keep the arms race going. I like these atypical fuckers. Im unfortunately dont have an organic chemistry background tho =w=;;
[X][Lifedetails] Parent: Lapis-Kea -> Vivian-Kea
[X][Lifedetails] Habitat: Colonies frequently form along the seafloor, with littoral varieties forming stromatolites.
[X][Lifedetails] Isolation: Their cell walls are a calcium silicate hydrate, followed by another wall of vivianite.
[X][Lifedetails] Parent: Alquarians -> Flokkroquaros
[X][Lifedetails] Habitat: The oceans, littoral zones, and rarely fresh water or the surface.
[X][Lifedetails] Isolation: Colonies operate along grexing behaviors, whether defensively (named for their 'schooling' behaviors, or for feeding.
[X][Lifedetails] Sensing: Potential predators in their environment.
Eurgh, I dont expect any of these will do well, but I do want to try getting an oppositional chirality branch of life. I feel like I regret missing the update where the origins of life were being voted on.
[X][Jegerians] Feature Development Plan: Adapting Heterotrophs
-[X] Develop New Feature: Nitrogen Fixation as a result of predation
-[X] Develop New Feature: pH tolerance to tolerate sulfuric acid
-[X] Develop New Feature: Pressure Tolerance
-[X] Develop New Feature: Predation with aim towards utilizing foreign genetic material
--[X] In order to achieve DNA Repair
-[X] Develop New Feature: DNA Repair
[X][Jegerians] They develop long flagellum, massively increasing their speed
[X][Clotho-kea] Clotho-Kea develop further pressure and heat resistance to push that much further into the source of heat.. and geomagnetism
[X][Alquarians] Start to develop into working as groups to defend themselves against the predatory Alquarian branch
[X][Alquarians] Feature development target: Utilization of external electron gradients and/or flows to enhance metabolic efficiency.
[X][Norðrljós] Ride the Meteor's blastwave, carried by expelled atmosphere. Spread to our moons!
[X][Norðrljós] The more land bound ones get better at storing energy, and start doing it collectively.
Could I ask that you specify "Expel Carbon dioxide"? We have way too much, and more importantly too little anything else.
The only source of significantly more non reactive gas I can think of is Argon from long term radioactive decay. Fun fact, 99.6 of Earth's Argon comes from the decay of radioactive Potassium.
Anyways, I probably should vote
[X][Tempo] Advance orbital (requires >50%)
[X][Orbital] Spin faster
[X][Atmospheric] Increase rainfall
[X][Geological] Spend asthenosphere heat to expel water from the mantle
[X][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: Improve photosynthetic efficiency
[X][Alquarians] Feature development target: Utilization of external electron gradients and/or flows to enhance metabolic efficiency.
[X][Norðrljós] Ride the Meteor's blastwave, carried by expelled atmosphere. Spread to our moons!
[X][Norðrljós] The more land bound ones get better at storing energy, and start doing it collectively.
[X][Clotho-kea] Clotho-Kea develop further pressure and heat resistance to push that much further into the source of heat.. and geomagnetism
[X][Jegerians] They develop long flagellum, massively increasing their speed
[X][Life] Undergo extinction event
Not much has really gone extinct yet, and until it does we might as well get the bounty of faster evolution
