Choanozoa

Before you ask me if SiJA is no longer continuing, it will continue. I will run this alongside it, and hope it won’t get to worky.


Beginnings

A billion years before our timeline’s present, a small microorganism evolves. It is around 25 μm in diameter, but it is a titan in life. The little ball of flagella and cells is not unimportant. It will give rise to creatures of pure power…

How to play

You name your organism when you first join. Don’t get too attached to the name though, because you will have to change it every other mutation. You can mutate every generation, which in this FG is 10 million years. Don’t make the mutations too crazy though, like for example, turning the starting organism instantly into a fully-functioning Godzilla. If you go too crazy with one mutation, I will deny it and make you start again.

Trichobala progenita

Trichobala is a choanozoan around 8 to 16 cells in size. This is what it looks like:


It mainly feeds on bacteria, like e. coli and cyanobacteria. It mainly reproduces by budding, but it has capability for sexual reproduction. It’s not really two gametes fusing and developing, but one colony putting some of it’s genes into the bud of another.

Alright, hope you have fun with my kakhitt ripoff inspired forum game!

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This is Timmothy (Thimmothius primus) he is a cell roughly 115 μm in size.
He has a nucleus and 3 small choloroplasts to eat light. He reproduces via mitosis and mostly sits
there doing nothing else other than PHOTOSYNTHESIS.


Im assuming that you make your own starting organism.

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I am assuming, like in Kakhitt, you mutate the starting organism.

This is Trichobala tribozahexasomata. Like its predecessor, a cell buds off the main organism to becoming another full multicellular organism, which separates from the parent organism. Also, it can undergo sexual reproduction.

It has tri-symmetry, where each side of the triangular multicellular organism is made of two individual cells. The apical surface, the outside, is the one made of the flagella pointing out. There is currently nothing on the lumen surface, or inside, yet. Since the organism is slightly smaller, it is also slightly faster in moving than its predecessor.

Each cell has also mutated a way to make ATP from light using a light-induced proton pump called Proteorhodopsin. Obviously, there are more Proteorhodopsins in each cell than what can be drawn. Thus, Trichobala tribozahexasomata gets extra ATP during the day.

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How far into the non-lawk can we go?

No… Trichobala progenita is the starting organism.

I am assuming, like in Kakhitt, you mutate the starting organism.

Correct.

How far into the non-lawk can we go?

I’ll allow thermoplasts, but no more.

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Well AA introduced a protein not present in the base game. Will you do anything about it?

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Can we use organelles that planned to be in the game? Like the Hydrogenosome?

Also, PR may not be in the game, but it does exist in real-life…

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Very interesting just gonna see how one is gonna mutate before I do one myself.

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How much time do we have to evolve? 1500 Myrs?

PR is LAWK because it appears in cells on earth. You have 8 billion years to evolve, by the way.

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Does this FG take place on Earth or somewhere else?

Earth. Because Choanozoans are an earth clade.

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How come are we supposed to survive Sun’s last lifestages?

“That’s the neat part, you don’t”

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Well… How about 2 billion years?

Seems much more reasonable. I guess that’s the time until when we need to escape Earth, right?

Yeah. Because if you don’t, you’re gonna go extinct. Or hope the current species of intelligent life is nice enough to bring you along for a ride.

We’ll have 200 rounds until our stay here ends… Which is longer than how long any recent FGs lasted.

The rounds will be a bit shorter… Hopefully.

You mean a round’s timeframe will be shorther in the future or will we be forced to leave sooner?