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You are a cloud of dust (Riot? Quest)

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[X][Tempo] Advance geological (requires >50%)
[X][Orbital] Move high enough up to significantly lower planet air temperature (while keeping liquid water on moons if that is possible)
[X][Atmospheric] Increase albedo
[X][Geological] Start temporarily covering the land with reflective material if possible
[X][Observation] Do not study the Dust Grain further until all controls have been Advanced

Nope, nope, nope (increasing albedo decreases the amount of heat we keep in the short term so we also need to do this)

6 ZeV Proton said:
and for another turn or two
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Wait, the torus modification is temporary?
 
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@6 ZeV Proton
apologies if I missed it but how did the attempt at developing ammonia to nitrites in Plagiarismonadota go?
or was it doomed since I was the only one to vote for it?

okay cooling down planet well we have options like and the heat is so bad msinly because of our atmosphere being mostly co2 a greenhouse gas expelling co2, increasing weathering to suck co2 into rocks, creating or refining organisms to deal with co2, decreasing axial tilt maybe, increasing albedo maybe, probably others I can't think of off the top of my head
I wanted bacteria to make nitrogen so we could have something to replace or displace co2 in our atmosphere
we'll need that DNA repair bad for our lifeforms
and enough oxygen to create an ozone layer

[X][Orbital] Move high enough to be halfway between our birth orbit and Inky's original orbit
[X][Geological] Retain core heat (decreases volcanism)
[X][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: DNA repair
[X][Anankae] Develop as much heat resistance as possible
[X][Maidari] Develop ammonia oxidation to nitrites
[X][Alquaria] Feature development target: Develop better compounds for energy storage (looking at ATP here, something similar or better).
 
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[X][Orbital] Move high enough up to significantly lower planet air temperature (while keeping liquid water on moons if that is possible)
[X][Atmospheric] Increase albedo
[X][Geological] flatten huge areas of land until they're mirror smooth
[X][Plagiarismonadota] Feature development target: DNA repair
 
[X][Tempo] Maintain current tempo
[X][Orbital] Move high enough up to significantly lower planet air temperature (while keeping liquid water on moons if that is possible)
[X][Atmospheric] Collect more gas x0.5
-[X] put in gas torus
[X][Geological] constrict the gas torus
[X][Norðrljós] All of these storms are kicking far more stuff, including life, into the upper troposphere. Thanks to a better sense of the humidity of its surroundings and the perfect shape for raindrops to form around them, Norðrljós has started to take advantage of the abundant sunlight up high. Also it is much cooler up high.

I want to get life spread through our system, and I'm creating the life to do it.
This is a thing that happens in real life btw
 
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I'm not sure what else to do a the moment, so I'm just foccusing on building out the biospere.

Seeing an oppertunity to get a more broadly established version of the Anakea out there.
And this allows an excuse to create Lazurite crystals.

[X] Lapis-kea (the stone Anankae)
-[X][Lifedetails] Parent (required): Anankae
-[X][Lifedetails] Habitat: The greatest innovation of this species is that they group around in circles allowing them to have an easier time attracting magnetic material in water. And have an easier time thriving in iron poor waters away from the Hydrothermal vents.
-[X][Lifedetails] Basic metabolism: These organisms mostly replaced their diet of So2 to life further H2S Hydrogen sulfide and produce and H2O as main waste products and s3 some of accidentally reacts with Co to create CoS waste. But the Lapis prefer to use the S3 to create their cell walls (See isolation).
-[X][Lifedetails] Isolation: These organisms Reuse some of the the Trisulfer to create blue Lazurite walls
-[X][Lifedetails] Sensing: They can sense their neighboring Poli-kea and bud in a direction necessary to complete the circle pattern. They also the minor explosions syncronized they starve to force the higher layers of their off and the top neighborhoods into and force their upperlayers into the Sqores phase. Some colonies may fail to do so and die as hollow pillar like structures.
 
[X][Orbital] Collect more ice (difficult!)
-[X] put in gas torus
[X][Geological] Don't set off a supervolcano.
[X][Atmospheric] Increase albedo

[X][Alquaria] Feature development target: Develop better compounds for energy storage (looking at ATP here, something similar or better).

Over our Atmo heat, not to worried yet considering that 61% of our Atmo is still CO2.
That said things will get very interesting when we get to higher O % because things get very flammable.

[X][Life] Don't Undergo extinction event
 
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[X][Atmospheric] Increase albedo
[X][Life] Undergo extinction event (reduces difficulty of other actions)
-[X] The planet is kinda, you know, BOILING
[X][Orbital] Move the weird Dust Grain into the gas torus, in a Lagrange point of the moon in that orbit
[X][Geological] Set off a supervolcano, the volcanic winter will buy some time for life to survive.
 
[X][Tempo] Maintain current tempo
[X][Orbital] Collect more ice (difficult!)
-[X] put in gas torus
[X][Atmospheric] Increase albedo
 
Okay. We fucked around and found out. Our oceans are about to BOIL and if we do not address this crisis, next turn we will be Venus. The transition to a runaway greenhouse will take only a few thousand years, is difficult to reverse and will melt our surface, killing everything. I'm putting all of my votes into dealing with this crisis.

[X][Tempo] Maintain current tempo
[X][Orbital] Move high enough up to significantly lower planet air temperature (while keeping liquid water on moons if that is possible)
-[X] Don't move so far out that we freeze over
[X][Atmospheric] Increase albedo
[X][Geological] Increase weathering (smoothens terrain, decreases atmospheric CO 2)

[X][Plagiarismonadota] Some lineages develop biomachinery highly resistant to boiling temperatures
[X][Alquaria] Some lineages become able to survive extremely high temperatures during dormancy
[X][Anankae] Develop as much heat resistance as possible
[X][Maidari] Develop as much heat resistance as possible
 
Ordinary said:
...killing everything...
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well, while it would be very bad to become Venus, just like Venus we could have life survive in the upper atmosphere. After all, the upper atmosphere of Venus is the most Earth like place in the solar system outside of Earth itself. Plus with their role in seeding clouds plus any carbon dioxide consumed, airborne life can help cool the surface.
 
Ordinary said:
We fucked around and found out. Our oceans are about to BOIL and if we do not address this crisis, next turn we will be Venus.
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Agreed: While I personally have no dog in this race, surely it isn't too difficult to have 1 turn of discarded Atmo or Orbital actions to deal with this crisis first before going back to the regularly scheduled programming?

Collecting ice right now is just going to have it melt and potentially disappear, I'd think that's already a wasted action as-is?
 
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quantum lurker said:
At worst we jump back to previous orbit, at best given my write in we find the equilibrium point?
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I suppose, plus this
6 ZeV Proton said:
Land area: 40-45%
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Worries me. We just flash melted our ice caps, why do we have so little water. I have been slowly growing worried over our even decreasing seas, but I figured that was due to our ice caps, as ice caps grow best just under freezing, for maximum humidity. But now we have no ice and even less water
 
Space Murica said:
Worries me. We just flash melted our ice caps, why do we have so little water. I have been slowly growing worried over our even decreasing seas, but I figured that was due to our ice caps, as ice caps grow best just under freezing, for maximum humidity. But now we have no ice and even less water
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Our atmosphere is currently 26% water vapor because we are actively becoming Venus. On the previous turn, our atmosphere was 0% water vapor, with H2O not being mentioned as a major atmospheric component. I suspect that has something to do with the high land percentage.
 
Space Murica said:
But now we have no ice and even less water
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6 ZeV Proton said:
and your oceans are in danger of boiling if things don't change quickly. Drastic times may call for drastic measures...
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Well, air temp shifted from middle to maxed out in one update, and the ocean temp shifted two 'positions' - we aren't exactly going to get more water by staying here?

Ordinary said:
I suspect that has something to do with the high land percentage.
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Actually, that was also true last turn, so that's not the reason(s) why (but is high land percentage inherently a problem though?)
 
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okay so I changed my votes around to "Move high enough to be halfway between our birth orbit and Inky's original orbit" to see if this creates a happy medium of not too hot, not too cold
I added various life votes including one to try to develop nitritfication in another organism to help balance out the atmosphere and give more nutrients for other organisms
I did Retain core heat to try to offset and the increases from the super volcano so we don't get the astehnosphere tempature too high
Also not a vote bit observation from update
our axial tilt is now 35 degrees which is higher than earth's and means stronger seasons and the poles and tropics are both bigger and extend over more latitudes
so this could inspire some cool ideas for lifeforms and adaption
 
As a note on orbital changes to avoid boiling off your oceans, Inky's former orbit is basically empty, so any orbit between your birth orbit (current) and Inky's former orbit (one step up) can be considered stable.

quantum lurker said:
Wait, the torus modification is temporary?
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I assume it takes a bit of active work to maintain when it's a gas ring whose surroundings keep changing in a relatively short period of time maintained by some kind of interaction with ambient plasma/magnetic gases.
winters_eve said:
@6 ZeV Proton
apologies if I missed it but how did the attempt at developing ammonia to nitrites in Plagiarismonadota go?
or was it doomed since I was the only one to vote for it?
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Fixed; oversight on my end, here's the description of how that went given that last roll on the vote counter:
Nitrification unfortunately goes exceptionally poorly for the plagiarismonads, and instead of developing ammonium oxidation capabilities, they've acquired the ability to reduce nitrogen gas to ammonia. The upshot of this is that ammonia is still a vastly more useful and accessible form of nitrogen than dinitrogen, and perhaps the increased abundance of ammonia in plagiarismonad-populated waters will make future work on nitrification easier.
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Space Murica said:
I suppose, plus this

Worries me. We just flash melted our ice caps, why do we have so little water. I have been slowly growing worried over our even decreasing seas, but I figured that was due to our ice caps, as ice caps grow best just under freezing, for maximum humidity. But now we have no ice and even less water
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The map in general isn't very rigorously drawn, and I've already gone through several vague rules of thumb on the extent to draw the ice caps to by way of comparison with our own northern ice cap (which also doesn't sit on solid ground) given average/blackbody temperature.
 
[X][Tempo] Maintain current tempo

[X][Orbital] 'NOPE!' right on back to our prior orbit

[X][Observation] The strange dust grain

[X][Life] Undergo extinction event (reduces difficulty of other actions)
-[X] The planet is kinda, you know, BOILING
 
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