Their right under yours
oh, i forgot about that.
They can replace the old ones.
i have been experiencing brian fog recently so i’ll probably be less active though the rounds will probably still come out faster than average due to it affecting my interest in video games and my ability to have a train of thought in my head more than anything else. the trains carrying my thoughts keep crashing into meter thick walls made of something that whenever i try to look at it in my mindscape looks like netherite with a dull green glow
EDIT: the issue has resolved itself, i just had to make the host of this brain return to existing.
ROUND 9.5: mutation results
(1900 years since game start)
(1900 years since game start)
@Nonametoseehere
attempted mutations: kleptogenetic pilus replacing perforator pilus, simple eyes, anguilliform locomotion
trait to select for in kryto namenaldi: weaker spikes
Results
4,2,6,1
spike selection failed but kryto namenaldi now drastically boosts your population gain
species details
base element: silicon
information storage molecule: dSNA
common name: Living Solar Cells
scientific name: magna industria solaris
existing traits: photoelectric SNA, SNA polymerase, SNA flagella bound to its back end, plasmid that likes accepting random bits of RNA (+1 MP), silicophospholipid double proto-membrane, electric silicophospholipid production, chemoreceptors that can detect lipids and RNA of any kind as well as the pheromones they produce(+1 to SNA absorption rolls), pheremones that are released in light, membrane bound silicon nanowires to transfer energy*2, porous capsid-like structures that each hold one copy of the genome, extracellular solar panel structures with conductive intramembranous roots and air bubbles at the ends, peaceful resource transfer pili, outer membrane filters out any and all oxygen by constantly recycling its silica reserves, energy transfer caste, stabby cells, RNA filtering membranes(removes possibility of death by virus and removes disadvantage from unstable dSNA), dermal cells, morse code wires in wire cells, wire cells produce and transmit pheremones used as neurotransmitters and are not used as regular pheremones, double stranded SNA, SNA protein to break open and read the dSNA to read it and transcript the dSNA to SNA for use in the cell, strand shape and disable unbinding, glass scales, muscle cells, brain that can process location of parts of the body, kleptogenetic pilus(the usefulness of this will be greatly expanded with a few other traits), eyespots that secrete a tar black fluid from the photoreceptor cells due to not knowing when to stop producing the photoreactive compound they use and see in black and white, locomotion so anguiliform you get 3x the speed from it.
respiration methods: photovoltaic respiration
description: a glass scaled, brain having worm-like organisms that has cells so small it seems like it shouldn’t be able to exist that has a brain that acts like the computer on a missile(it knows where it is by knowing where it was and where it should be and how far it has moved) because the only senses it has is proprioception(knowing where your limbs are) and extremely simple photoreception as being in light releases a pheremone that makes the brain stop moving the body if there is enough of it and start moving the body if there is too little, it also moves towards light because its neurotransmitters are currently mainly used as a way to tell the brain where light is by the body cells, its neurons are also way too small do be anything but a tube filled with nanowires, a few “nuclei”, and chemicals so it would likely be beneficial for them to not be like that. the scales are 3 cells thick and can concentrate light due to the required shape to fit around the organism, if its eyespots are left out of a nonpolar solution for too long they stop functioning as more than one photoreceptor due to buildup of a conductive chemical that turns light directly into electricity with a cooldown period, if properly regulated this chemical is used for having a visual resolution but if not it simply builds up and reduces visual resolution to 0 dimensions
[color=]CELL STATS: size: 51nm, speed: 36.8nm\s, oxygen resistance: -10 energy gen: 17, average energy usage: 5, attack: 5.
ORGANISM STATS: population: 7200, fecundity: ~12/pop, growth rate: 2x cell count, light concentration: 1.3x external light concentration, defense: 4, speed: 9cm/s, length: 10μm, width: 510nm , stealth: 0, brain level: 1/10, bodies range from around 20 to a few thousand cells
@Cha
attempted mutations: increase size, mucilage jet
Results
6,4.
species details
base element: carbon
information storage molecule: RNA
common name: common vent protobacteria
scientific name: Primium virium
existing traits: RNA duplicase, monolayer bilipid membrane, extremely effective sulfide metabolism that produces a lot of Cl+, hgt, 6 independently replicated plasmids, iron chlorinating rusticyanin that protect the RNA from chlorination and work fast enough to only have their energy production limited by the Cl+/Cl2 concentration, lipogenic RNA, very fast and more efficient flagellum that only activates in the presence of Ca+ or anything with the same valence shell, hydrogen peroxide synthesizing proteins, plasmid that can produce energy, sunlight, carbon, water, and phosphorus, usage of CaCS3 to turn HCl into H2S, CS2, and CaCl, proteins to break CaCl2 into Ca- and Cl+ around the rusticyanin, protein membraned cytoplasm filled hairs that increase surface area, pheremones, chemoreceptors for said pheremones, mucilage jet(*1), mucilage production
respiration methods: H+, sodium sulfide production, iron chlorination, iron chloride decomposition capsid, photosynthesis
description: an abundant species of sulfur respirating and iron chlorinating prokaryote that can reproduce by transferring its plasmids to protocells and micelles as well as by performing mitosis meaning that it is able to come back from extinction as long as a single plasmid remains but the plasmids do not replicate in the absence of usable energy, it photosynthesizes and, like another fairly abundant species, uses pheremones to signal the presence of light but it also uses them to signal the presence of danger, due to producing oxygen the specimens above the water accumulate glass on their surfaces, though their oxygen production and lack of defenses against it means that they will reproduce slower but get advantage on mutations that add oxygen resistance
Stats: size: 160nm, speed: 70nm/s, stealth: 0, oxygen resistance: 0, light resistance: 10, population: 47,128,204, fecundity: ~5.2/pop, energy gen: 76, energy usage: 32
@willow
attempted mutations: HGT, double stranded nucleic acids and everything needed to read them, melanin
results
5,6,4.
species details
base element: carbon
information storage molecule: dsRNA
common name: sulfur eating archaea
scientific name: sulfurus amoebus
existing traits
RNA polymerase, monolayer bilipid membrane, RNA enhanced metabolosomes, plasmid, ribozyme, hydrogen sulfide reducing proteins, telomerase, proteins that go through the membrane to allow gasses to easily exit the cell as internal pressure decreases, total membrane stabilization proteins, cytoskeleton that can move around the filaments to facilitate movement and cell division, proper chemical reactionary system, three plasmids from the endosymbiotic primium virium that only replicate when the rest of the cell’s dsRNA does moved around by the cytoskeleton that act as a way to turn parasites and liposomes into endosymbionts, binding proteins that allow resource transfer and act as a binding point for parts of the cytoskeleton that can twist to contract, sandbox plasmid(+1 MP with advantage), hydroreceptors, ammonia receptors, active water retention when there is too little water around the cell, HGT, melanin
endosymbiotic primium virium
traits: RNA duplicase, monolayer bilipid membrane that actively takes in CaCO3 to prevent death by HCl buildup in both itself and the host, extremely effective sulfide metabolism that produces a lot of Cl+, hgt, 3 independently replicated plasmids, iron chlorinating rusticyanin that protect the RNA from chlorination and work fast enough to only have their energy production limited by the Cl+/Cl2 concentration, lipogenic RNA, hydrogen peroxide synthesizing proteins
energy usage: 6 energy production: 12, size: 45nm, count: 2,
endosymbiotic primium flagellus
existing traits: RNA duplicase, monolayer bilipid membrane, RNA enhanced metabolosomes, plasmid, ribozyme, chirality reversing RNA replicase, proteins that chop up any and all foreign RNA, improved flagellum that uses very little energy, proteins that use kinetic energy(heat, sound, being pushed, etc.) to make glucose and release it into the cell, thermoreceptors, perforator pilus, capsid nucleoid that breaks down lipids when in direct contact with them, proteins to stop the capsid from touching the membrane,
energy usage: 8 energy production: 24, size: 45nm, count: 2,
respiration methods: H2S reduction, facultative sulfuric/aerobic respiration, iron chlorination —> energy + iron dechlorination —> hydrogen chloride pipeline—>CaCl2+CO2+H2O, kinetoautotrophy.
description: a telomere bearing ameboid prokaryote that uses proteins that make energy from H2S and RNA proteins that make energy from anything with the same valence shell as oxygen to create a contained sulfur cycle which it uses to power itself with the only input needed when not growing being glucose, it has incorperated a primium virium which has since been simplified into itself as a lipid factory, giving it the most necessary prerequisite to moving out of the vents where lipids are most abundant
current habitat(s):
Stats: size: 352.0-704.0nm, speed: 20 nm/s, stealth: 10, oxygen resistance: 15, pressure change resistance: 6, population: 19,631, fecundity: ~3.75/pop, energy generation: 92, energy usage: 34.2,
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AI species:
kryto namenaldi
[currently being selected by magna industria solaris to be less harmful and thus getting a mutation speed bonus and unable to become parasitic to the selector at the cost of lower population gain]
base element: silicon
common name: Living Solar Cells
scientific name: Kryto Namenaldi
existing traits: photoelectric RNA, RNA replicase with an RNA flagella bound to its back end, plasmid that likes accepting random bits of RNA (+1 MP but it has disadvantage), silicophospholipid proto-membrane, electric silicophospholipid production, chemoreceptors that can detect lipids and RNA of any kind as well as the pheromones they produce(+1 to finding and absorbing specific types of RNA), pheremones that are released when the cell has high levels of energy, membrane bound silicon nanowires to keep the wheel from stopping in energy deficient organisms that it can give energy to, electroreceptors, photoreceptor, small double hooked weakened spike to sap energy from solaris examina and magna industria solaris by grabbing onto their membrane wires, ammonia based intramembrane metal reduction, antioxidant production, membrane binding proteins with nanowires attached to form a circuit when bound, longer lipids to store more ammonia and thus electricity, glass membrane with a hole in it around the lipid one to keep the pressure of the ammonia high and allow higher ammonia concentration in the membrane, good chemical reactionary system, sexual reproduction by fusing with other cells and ripping their plasmids in half along two very specific points and combine them with the plasmids of the cell they fused with to increase the speed of diffusion of traits through the population, integration of radioactive materials and lead into frustule to produce electricity, semiconductive frustule plate where the spike and hooks are, spike that dissolves after hooks activate, hooks mimic part of a bilayer lipid membrane to not let anything unwanted into host cell, if latched to a stabbing cell it signals it to grow into a multicellular organism
respiration methods: photovoltaics
description: a silicon based photoelectric prokaryote that can give energy to other members of its species via extremely thin silicon nanowires inside its membrane as well as attract other kryto namenaldi to increase energy generation and make microscopic mats of unbound living solar cells that all share energy and move with the light to a certain extent, it can use ammonia within its membrane to take the electrons from metals to survive low light conditions in the absence of solaris examina and magna industria solaris, as an adaptation to getting energy from solaris examina and magna industria solaris it has 3 sharp hydrophilic(since there is no water in the area they are attracted to ammonia, H2S, and other polar molecules) hooks to latch onto the wires of solaris examina to connect to their circuits, it is specialized for energy transfer between its members and its host, it has a thicker layer of ammonia within its membrane and has more electricity storage, in one of its fairly common habitats it is completely protected from water and acts as a battery for magna industria solaris making the individuals of that species live longer in lower light conditions than they would without them, they replicate as many times as possible before they get engulfed by the growing magna industria solaris they created and once it gets engulfed it starts growing in a chain with the length dependent on how much metal it gets and how much energy gets taken from it
current habitat(s): pentane shallows
STATS: size: 68nm, speed: 37.2nm\s, stealth: 0, oxygen resistance: -46, population: 27,684, fecundity: ~9/pop, energy exchange rate: 40/s, average energy usage: 4, energy production: 20, energy storage: 160, spike durability: 6
primium flagellus
base element: carbon
common name:
scientific name: primium flagellus
existing traits: RNA duplicase, monolayer bilipid membrane, RNA enhanced metabolosomes, plasmid, ribozyme, chirality reversing RNA replicase, proteins that chop up any and all foreign RNA, improved flagellum that uses very little energy, proteins that use kinetic energy(heat, sound, being pushed, etc.) to make glucose and release it into the cell, thermoreceptors, perforator pilus, capsid nucleoid that breaks down lipids when in direct contact with them, proteins to stop the capsid from touching the membrane, chemical reactionary system to regulate movement, energy production, and energy usage, hydroreceptors, cryptobiosis,
respiration methods: facultative sulfuric/aerobic respiration, kinetorespiration
description: a capsid-bearing nanoeukaryote that has a primitive CRS allowing it to respond to stimuli instead of just swimming around randomly and aimlessly and allowing it to regulate internal processes and scale energy production to match energy usage instead of using up too much of the chemicals it produces energy with
current habitat(s): abyssopelagic vents
Stats: size: 88nm, speed: 30.4nm/s, stealth: 0, oxygen resistance: 15, population: 5,600, fecundity: ~2.3/pop, energy generation: 28, energy usage: 10
solaris examina
base element: silicon
common name: floating light eater
scientific name: Solaris examina
existing traits: photoelectric RNA, RNA replicase with an RNA flagella bound to its back end, plasmid that likes accepting random bits of RNA (+1 MP), silicophospholipid double proto-membrane, electric silicophospholipid production, chemoreceptors that can detect lipids and RNA of any kind as well as the pheromones they produce(+1 to RNA absorption rolls), pheremones that are released in light, membrane bound silicon nanowires to transfer energy*2, porous capsid-like structures that each hold one copy of the genome, extracellular solar panel structures with conductive intramembranous roots and air bubbles at the ends, peaceful resource transfer pili, outer membrane filters out any and all oxygen by constantly recycling its silica reserves, energy transfer caste, stabby cells, RNA filtering membranes(removes possibility of death by virus and removes disadvantage from unstable RNA), dermal cells, morse code wires in wire cells, extension of wire cells downwards to collect minerals, glass dermis with holes at the bottom for cells to escape through and for wires to pass through, hydrogen pouch directly under the top of the dermis to prevent sinking and increase usable area for energy collection, proteins to constrict wire cells to move around materials, specialization of some perforator cells into gametes that have the ability to fuse, perform genetic recombination by having SNA incorperator “nuclei” trade half their plasmids and signal the cell to split once they do to allow sexual reproduction and drastically speeding up the rate of diffusion of traits through its population, chromosomes to make that process far easier
respiration methods: photovoltaic respiration
description: a silicon based photoelectric proto-eukaryote that can give energy to other members of its species via extremely thin silicon nanowires inside its membranes(one of which acts as an oxygen barrier) as well as attract other Solaris examina to increase energy generation and make microscopic mats of unbound living solar cells that all share energy and move with the light to a certain extent, the most recent types of cell to be found in the clusters of solaris examina are long and thin cells that connect their wires into all the cells they touch, a free moving cell with a perforator pilus to pop kryto namenaldi cells when they aren’t giving back what they take, though recently that has been extremely rare
STATS: cell size: 66nm, speed: 36.8nm\s, stealth: 0, oxygen resistance: -20, population: 30,250, fecundity: ~4/pop, energy gen:20, average energy usage: 5, colonies range from just five cells to a few thousand, there are quite a few documented cases of that this century due to exponential growth
capsilaris draculus
base element: carbon
base fluid: water
common name: anomalous glass lizard cell
scientific name: capsilaris draculus
existing traits: shell made out of microscopic glass scales, heart, bacterial brain, sulfur mitochondrial vacuoles, muscles, retractable HGT pilus, eight legs, cytoplasmic separation to allow having different “tissues” at different compound levels, eyes using photoreceptor vacuoles the same shape as your photoreceptor cells that are technically part of the brain but with a far less stupid way of connecting the camera to the brain, neuron organelles are two bacteria connected by bundles of nanowires, one acts as the axon and the other as the dendrite, vacuoles to carry respiration compounds, tiny protrusions from the backs of their heads as a vestigial trait from their home planet to avoid getting cooked, bio hydraulics via movement of the cytoplasm, the membrane just beneath its scales connects to a cube with a volume of 5m³ making it very able to replace most of its body very easily, the pocket dimension in its “skin” cannot hold anything that requires its information storage molecules to survive for more than 30 minutes without killing it due to a corruption in the genes for opening the pocket dimension so most of what is stored in it is just food and mana, active breakdown of sulfuric acid into H2S + 2O2, the O2 is used to produce SiO2 to produce energy and get more glass for the shell, polynucleate eggs containing all the endosymbionts as a form of asexual reproduction, silicon & oxygen based lipid heads, radiosynthesis via melanin, thermosynthesis similar to that of primium flagellus, and other things, Ta4HfC5 incorperated into shell to increase heat tolerance of the shell producing radiation as a side effect, when nearing the top of the comfortable range it circulates blood between its skin and core faster and puts more thermoplasts in the core to cool down faster, if the temp rises to 30 C it speeds up time for its thermoplasts, if the temp of whatever is surrounding it rises to or above 50 C it creates a vacuum between itself and the fluid and, if not touching the ground, starts using MP to move, scales are smoother than the earth scaled down to the size of a bouncy ball and thus are excellent mirrors if you ignore them containing less than 1% metal, this is to prevent adiabatic compression on the sides when de-orbiting or going really fast, they have an endosymbiont called “hibcorver rediculos” and several full copies of its genome to exchange energy for MP or vice versa.
respiration methods: carbon fixation using H2S instead of H2O, thermosynthesis via direct conversion of heat into mechanical energy and using that to make glucose, S2 respiration producing CO2 and H2S which are used in the carbon fixation
description: a scientific anomaly given that the last of this species died off millennia ago according to the current state of their original planet and its fossil record, though stone tablets made by early capsilaris polyphorus suggest that the threat of chemically propelled weapons drove them away from the parts of the planet polyphorus inhabits but those were suspected to just be legends, though now it seems like they might not have been
Stats: size: 1mm - 8cm, speed: 5mm/s - 15 m/s, stealth: 5, oxygen resistance: 50, population: 250, fecundity: 2.5, energy gen: 400, energy usage: 100-500 average is 250 which is what i will use for the calculations, energy storage: 1,000,000, brain level: 3/10, MP: 500
patches:
STARTING ROCK
type: moon
orbiting: gas giant that is almost a star
current atmosphere: 89% nitrogen, 0% CO2 0% O2 4% argon 4% SiH2 3.5% H2S 1.3% CS2, .8% H2, .2% other atmospheric gasses
starting patches:
the core:
void(you must be able to break bedrock to get here),
near mantle:
superheated magma:
brimstone caves:
flooded brimstone caves: sulfurus amoebus
abyssopelagic:
abyssal ocean
abyssal seafloor
abyssal hydrothermal vents: sulfurus amoebus, primium flagellus, primium virium
abyssopelagic caverns
bathypelagic:
bathypelagic ocean
bathypelagic seafloor
bathypelagic vents: primium virium, sulfurus amoebus
bathypelagic caverns
mesopelagic:
mesopelagic ocean
mesopelagic seafloor
mesopelagic vents: primium virium, sulfurus amoebus
mesopelagic caverns
epipelagic:
epipelagic oceans: pentane oceanic layer: solaris examina
pentane ocean: solaris examina
epipelagic seafloor: sulfurus amoebus
epipelagic vents: primium virium, sulfurus amoebus
sulfuric springs: primium virium
air above epipelagic vents: primium virium
epipelagic caverns
great lakes:
unnamed great pentane lake: Kryto Namenaldi, solaris examina, magna solaris industria
ponds
estuaries
coastal: pentane coast: solaris examina
surface:
pentane river: solaris examina
desert: capsilaris draculuscapsilaris draculus
beach:
beach of a random great lake: capsilaris draculus
cave on that beach: capsilaris draculus
cave
mountain
glacier
north pole
south pole
floating sea rock
island
plateau
ravine
etc.
skies: low atmosphere, high atmosphere
space: low lunar orbit, medium lunar orbit, high lunar orbit,
NEIGBORING ROCK
type: moon
orbiting: gas giant that is almost a star
characteristics: always near your starting rock but not orbiting it as it is orbiting at the same speed in the same orbital shell but at a different angle, large white clouds that become slightly red when they hit a mountain, dark purple oceans made of ammonia, high pressure atmosphere with no oxygen, lots of volcanic activity, the oceans have started becoming more black and the land is a deep shade of blue, the color of light your star produces the most. the tectonic plates gave started giving rise to land, which has been inhabited by lapis blue fully sessile organisms that turn black as soon as the fertile season is over, lightning has started occurring far more often, more will be revealed with optical advancements through technological or biological evolution.
round after this post is a mutation round
if anyone wants to join just reply with the species you want to split from and what you’ll do with your action or MP
assuming you have the machinery to steal genes, as long as you have the machinery to read its genome, you can steal the genes from anything that has them, as long as your cell composition won’t immediately turn them to junk.
an extinction event will occur on round 12.5 and every 12th round after that so make sure you have ways to avoid starvation if your food source is or relies on the sun incase i roll a 12, 14, 18, or 20 as those are all extinction events that block out the sun for extended periods of time
can someone make a few maps for the rock this game mostly takes place on?
the max brain level is not 10 but that is the threshold where sapience starts so you can have a brain that has a level of 11/10, brain level is calculated with neuron speed, ability to compute, and neuroplasticity. brain level cannot be directly increased
i feel i might have to make a wiki or something to hold the traits for each species that isn’t in the posts
I will steal Caspilaris’s ability to make pocket dimensions (however that works), and adapt it to silicon biochemistry.
you need to evolve the machinery first as, though i literally do make the rules, i am trying to make this as realistic as a fantasy world with magic can get. and it is from a completely different planet than you and uses a different base element so there is a near zero chance that it shares any part of its genetic language with you, also it doesn’t live in the same area as you and you’d need to infect or ingest it and you are silicon in oil based while it is carbon in water based so you’d be harming yourself doing both of those and you don’t have a mouth, its cell is also far bigger than any of your cells as it is fully unicellular at its size, if you grow your cells you could take a nucleus from it but you wouldn’t be able to fit the genes into your capsids and you’d need to: A, adapt your biology to include oxygen as a base element along with silicon to make it so that simply getting water under your skin doesn’t smite you, or B, replace all of the lipids with your own and hope the water in the nucleus doesn’t diffuse out too fast and make the cell you ate it with turn to glass, and on the slim chance it doesn’t or if you took the far easier route you’d still need to make a check every round at disadvantage that requires rolling a 5 or higher to pass to gain anything useful
TLDR: this game is supposed to be magical realism, so no. once you get the proper adaptations to survive attempting that however you can. that will take a few rounds though so it’s better to try to adapt to a possible upcoming apocalypse, however a few of them will become a species worth the risk you would have to take to kill them due to what they will drop.
btw kryto having spikes now benefits you by drastically increasing population gain so you might want to change what you’re selecting for in them, if you didn’t notice that’s what the extra 10 in fecundity is from.
Action: Absorb some random RNA
action: engulf some primium virium to add new genes to my endosymbiotic ones
Ok, I was thinking that how it makes pocket dimensions would be so weird for carbon-water based life that it would be using different materials, like metals, to do so, which would make it easy to adapt to silicon biochemistry. But I guess the genetic storage methods would be too extreme. Since I can’t do that I will steal Krytos reproduction method, and select for them to have better energy storage.
mitosis? you want to steal that?
It says they have sexual reproduction
oh that one, i forgot they had that.
ROUND 10: action results
(2000 years since game start)
(2000 years since game start)
@Nonametoseehere
attempted action: take kryto’s sexual reproduction
trait to select for in kryto namenaldi: increased energy storage
Results
5, 4
you now have kryto’s sexual reproduction and can control whether the cells split after recombination or double in all cell stats, this automatically succeeds and does not require an action or mutation, doubling all stats does half population gain temporarily(for the round it effects) though
species details
base element: silicon
information storage molecule: dSNA
common name: Living Solar Cells
scientific name: magna industria solaris
existing traits: photoelectric SNA, SNA polymerase, SNA flagella bound to its back end, plasmid that likes accepting random bits of RNA (+1 MP), silicophospholipid double proto-membrane, electric silicophospholipid production, chemoreceptors that can detect lipids and RNA of any kind as well as the pheromones they produce(+1 to SNA absorption rolls), pheremones that are released in light, membrane bound silicon nanowires to transfer energy*2, porous capsid-like structures that each hold one copy of the genome, extracellular solar panel structures with conductive intramembranous roots and air bubbles at the ends, peaceful resource transfer pili, outer membrane filters out any and all oxygen by constantly recycling its silica reserves, energy transfer caste, stabby cells, RNA filtering membranes(removes possibility of death by virus and removes disadvantage from unstable dSNA), dermal cells, morse code wires in wire cells, wire cells produce and transmit pheremones used as neurotransmitters and are not used as regular pheremones, double stranded SNA, SNA protein to break open and read the dSNA to read it and transcript the dSNA to SNA for use in the cell, strand shape and disable unbinding, glass scales, muscle cells, brain that can process location of parts of the body, kleptogenetic pilus(the usefulness of this will be greatly expanded with a few other traits), eyespots that secrete a tar black fluid from the photoreceptor cells due to not knowing when to stop producing the photoreactive compound they use and see in black and white, locomotion so anguiliform you get 3x the speed from it, sexual reproduction(+1mp)
respiration methods: photovoltaic respiration
description: a glass scaled, brain having worm-like organisms that has cells so small it seems like it shouldn’t be able to exist and has a brain that tells where it is by using its eyespots but if the eyespots get, its neurons are also way too small do be anything but a tube filled with nanowires, a few “nuclei”, and chemicals so it would likely be beneficial for them to not be like that. the scales are 3 cells thick and can concentrate light due to the required shape to fit around the organism, if its eyespots are left out of a nonpolar solution for too long they stop functioning as more than one photoreceptor due to buildup of a conductive chemical that turns light directly into electricity with a cooldown period, if properly regulated this chemical is used for having a visual resolution but if not it simply builds up and reduces visual resolution to 0 dimensions, if a proper intracellular reactionary system is evolved it will regulate itself, larger cells will increase the time it takes to decrease stats
[color=]CELL STATS: size: 51nm, speed: 36.8nm\s, oxygen resistance: -10 energy gen: 17, average energy usage: 5, attack: 5, lipid production rate: 48/s.
ORGANISM STATS: population: 86,400, fecundity: ~12/pop, growth rate: 2x cell count, light concentration: 1.3x external light concentration, defense: 4, speed: 9cm/s, length: 10μm, width: 510nm , stealth: 0, brain level: 1/10, bodies range from around 20 to a few thousand cells
@Cha
attempted action: absorb random RNA
Results
5, you have a more stable membrane and thus can get bigger
species details
base element: carbon
information storage molecule: RNA
common name: common vent protobacteria
scientific name: Primium virium
existing traits: RNA duplicase, monolayer bilipid membrane, extremely effective sulfide metabolism that produces a lot of Cl+, hgt, 6 independently replicated plasmids, iron chlorinating rusticyanin that protect the RNA from chlorination and work fast enough to only have their energy production limited by the Cl+/Cl2 concentration, lipogenic RNA, very fast and more efficient flagellum that only activates in the presence of Ca+ or anything with the same valence shell, hydrogen peroxide synthesizing proteins, plasmid that can produce energy and O2 from sunlight, carbon, and water, usage of CaCS3 to turn HCl into H2S, CS2, and CaCl, proteins to break CaCl2 into Ca- and Cl+ around the rusticyanin, protein membraned cytoplasm filled hairs that increase surface area, pheremones, chemoreceptors for said pheremones, mucilage jet(*1), mucilage production
respiration methods: H+, sodium sulfide production, iron chlorination, iron chloride decomposition capsid, photosynthesis
description: an abundant species of sulfur respirating and iron chlorinating prokaryote that can reproduce by transferring its plasmids to protocells and micelles as well as by performing mitosis meaning that it is able to come back from extinction as long as a single plasmid remains but the plasmids do not replicate in the absence of usable energy, it photosynthesizes and, like another fairly abundant species, uses pheremones to signal the presence of light but it also uses them to signal the presence of danger, due to producing oxygen the specimens above the water accumulate glass on their surfaces, though their oxygen production and lack of defenses against it means that they will reproduce slower but get advantage on mutations that add oxygen resistance
Stats: size: 220nm, speed: 70nm/s, stealth: 0, oxygen resistance: 0, light resistance: 10, population: 245,066,660, fecundity: ~5.2/pop, energy gen: 76, energy usage: 32, photosynthesis rate: 12, lipid production rate: 24/s
@willow
attempted mutations: engulf primium virium to update endosymbionts
results
4, you successfully update your endosymbiotic primium virium
species details
base element: carbon
information storage molecule: dsRNA
common name: sulfur eating archaea
scientific name: sulfurus amoebus
existing traits
RNA polymerase, monolayer bilipid membrane, RNA enhanced metabolosomes, plasmid, ribozyme, hydrogen sulfide reducing proteins, telomerase, proteins that go through the membrane to allow gasses to easily exit the cell as internal pressure decreases, total membrane stabilization proteins, cytoskeleton that can move around the filaments to facilitate movement and cell division, proper chemical reactionary system, three plasmids from the endosymbiotic primium virium that only replicate when the rest of the cell’s dsRNA does moved around by the cytoskeleton that act as a way to turn parasites and liposomes into endosymbionts, binding proteins that allow resource transfer and act as a binding point for parts of the cytoskeleton that can twist to contract, sandbox plasmid(+1 MP with advantage), hydroreceptors, ammonia receptors, active water retention when there is too little water around the cell, HGT, melanin
lipogenic ferroplast
traits: RNA duplicase, monolayer bilipid membrane that actively takes in CaCO3 to prevent death by HCl buildup in both itself and the host, extremely effective sulfide metabolism that produces a lot of Cl+, hgt, 3 independently replicated plasmids, iron chlorinating rusticyanin that protect the RNA from chlorination and work fast enough to only have their energy production limited by the Cl+/Cl2 concentration, lipogenic RNA, hydrogen peroxide synthesizing proteins, photosynthesis, mucilage production, proteins to break CaCl2 into Ca- and Cl+ around the rusticyanin, pheremones, pheremone receptors, mucilage jet(*1), very fast and efficient flagellum that only activates in the presence of Ca+,
energy usage: 8 energy production: 16, size: 45nm, count: 3, lipid production rate: 24/s, photosynthesis rate: 12
lipolytic kinetoplast
existing traits: RNA duplicase, monolayer bilipid membrane, RNA enhanced metabolosomes, plasmid, ribozyme, chirality reversing RNA replicase, proteins that chop up any and all foreign RNA, improved flagellum that uses very little energy, proteins that use kinetic energy(heat, sound, being pushed, etc.) to make glucose and release it into the cell, thermoreceptors, perforator pilus, capsid nucleoid that breaks down lipids when in direct contact with them, proteins to stop the capsid from touching the membrane,
energy usage: 8 energy production: 24, size: 45nm, count: 2, lipid digestion rate: 0\s(if capsid unconfined or intentionally used to digest lipids 12/s)
respiration methods: H2S reduction, facultative sulfuric/aerobic respiration, iron chlorination —> energy + iron dechlorination —> hydrogen chloride—>CaCl2+CO2+H2O, kinetoautotrophy.
description: a telomerase using prokaryotic amoeboid that has several endosymbionts, one of which acts as a lipid factory and a chloroplast, and the other acts as both a mitochondrion and
Stats: size: 352.0-704.0nm, speed: 20 nm/s, stealth: 10, oxygen resistance: 15, pressure change resistance: 6, population: 73,616, fecundity: ~3.75/pop, energy generation: 124, energy usage: 40.2, lipid production rate: 72/s, photosynthesis rate: 36
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AI species:
kryto namenaldi
[currently being selected by magna industria solaris to be less harmful and thus getting a mutation speed bonus and unable to become parasitic to the selector at the cost of lower population gain]
base element: silicon
common name: Living Solar Cells
scientific name: Kryto Namenaldi
existing traits: photoelectric RNA, RNA replicase with an RNA flagella bound to its back end, plasmid that likes accepting random bits of RNA (+1 MP but it has disadvantage), silicophospholipid proto-membrane, electric silicophospholipid production, chemoreceptors that can detect lipids and RNA of any kind as well as the pheromones they produce(+1 to finding and absorbing specific types of RNA), pheremones that are released when the cell has high levels of energy, membrane bound silicon nanowires to keep the wheel from stopping in energy deficient organisms that it can give energy to, electroreceptors, photoreceptor, small double hooked weakened spike to sap energy from solaris examina and magna industria solaris by grabbing onto their membrane wires, ammonia based intramembrane metal reduction, antioxidant production, membrane binding proteins with nanowires attached to form a circuit when bound, longer lipids to store more ammonia and thus electricity, glass membrane with a hole in it around the lipid one to keep the pressure of the ammonia high and allow higher ammonia concentration in the membrane, good chemical reactionary system, sexual reproduction by fusing with other cells and ripping their plasmids in half along two very specific points and combine them with the plasmids of the cell they fused with to increase the speed of diffusion of traits through the population, integration of radioactive materials and lead into frustule to produce electricity, semiconductive frustule plate where the spike and hooks are, spike that dissolves after hooks activate, hooks mimic part of a bilayer lipid membrane to not let anything unwanted into host cell, if latched to a stabbing cell it signals it to grow into a multicellular organism
respiration methods: photovoltaics
description: a silicon based photoelectric prokaryote that can give energy to other members of its species via extremely thin silicon nanowires inside its membrane as well as attract other kryto namenaldi to increase energy generation and make microscopic mats of unbound living solar cells that all share energy and move with the light to a certain extent, it can use ammonia within its membrane to take the electrons from metals to survive low light conditions in the absence of solaris examina and magna industria solaris, as an adaptation to getting energy from solaris examina and magna industria solaris it has 3 sharp hydrophilic(since there is no water in the area they are attracted to ammonia, H2S, and other polar molecules) hooks to latch onto the wires of solaris examina to connect to their circuits, it is specialized for energy transfer between its members and its host, it has a thicker layer of ammonia within its membrane and has more electricity storage, in one of its fairly common habitats it is completely protected from water and acts as a battery for magna industria solaris making the individuals of that species live longer in lower light conditions than they would without them, they replicate as many times as possible before they get engulfed by the growing magna industria solaris they created and once it gets engulfed it starts growing in a chain with the length dependent on how much metal it gets and how much energy gets taken from it
current habitat(s): pentane shallows
STATS: size: 68nm, speed: 37.2nm\s, stealth: 0, oxygen resistance: -46, population: 27,684, fecundity: ~9/pop, energy exchange rate: 40/s, average energy usage: 4, energy production: 20, energy storage: 160, spike durability: 6
primium flagellus
base element: carbon
common name:
scientific name: primium flagellus
existing traits: RNA duplicase, monolayer bilipid membrane, RNA enhanced metabolosomes, plasmid, ribozyme, chirality reversing RNA replicase, proteins that chop up any and all foreign RNA, improved flagellum that uses very little energy, proteins that use kinetic energy(heat, sound, being pushed, etc.) to make glucose and release it into the cell, thermoreceptors, perforator pilus, capsid nucleoid that breaks down lipids when in direct contact with them, proteins to stop the capsid from touching the membrane, chemical reactionary system to regulate movement, energy production, and energy usage, hydroreceptors, cryptobiosis,
respiration methods: facultative sulfuric/aerobic respiration, kinetorespiration
description: a capsid-bearing nanoeukaryote that has a primitive CRS allowing it to respond to stimuli instead of just swimming around randomly and aimlessly and allowing it to regulate internal processes and scale energy production to match energy usage instead of using up too much of the chemicals it produces energy with
current habitat(s): abyssopelagic vents
Stats: size: 88nm, speed: 30.4nm/s, stealth: 0, oxygen resistance: 15, population: 12,880, fecundity: ~2.3/pop, energy generation: 28, energy usage: 10
solaris examina
base element: silicon
common name: floating light eater
scientific name: Solaris examina
existing traits: photoelectric RNA, RNA replicase with an RNA flagella bound to its back end, plasmid that likes accepting random bits of RNA (+1 MP), silicophospholipid double proto-membrane, electric silicophospholipid production, chemoreceptors that can detect lipids and RNA of any kind as well as the pheromones they produce(+1 to RNA absorption rolls), pheremones that are released in light, membrane bound silicon nanowires to transfer energy*2, porous capsid-like structures that each hold one copy of the genome, extracellular solar panel structures with conductive intramembranous roots and air bubbles at the ends, peaceful resource transfer pili, outer membrane filters out any and all oxygen by constantly recycling its silica reserves, energy transfer caste, stabby cells, RNA filtering membranes(removes possibility of death by virus and removes disadvantage from unstable RNA), dermal cells, morse code wires in wire cells, extension of wire cells downwards to collect minerals, glass dermis with holes at the bottom for cells to escape through and for wires to pass through, hydrogen pouch directly under the top of the dermis to prevent sinking and increase usable area for energy collection, proteins to constrict wire cells to move around materials, specialization of some perforator cells into gametes that have the ability to fuse, perform genetic recombination by having SNA incorperator “nuclei” trade half their plasmids and signal the cell to split once they do to allow sexual reproduction and drastically speeding up the rate of diffusion of traits through its population, chromosomes to make that process far easier
respiration methods: photovoltaic respiration
description: a silicon based photoelectric proto-eukaryote that can give energy to other members of its species via extremely thin silicon nanowires inside its membranes(one of which acts as an oxygen barrier) as well as attract other Solaris examina to increase energy generation and make microscopic mats of unbound living solar cells that all share energy and move with the light to a certain extent, the most recent types of cell to be found in the clusters of solaris examina are long and thin cells that connect their wires into all the cells they touch, a free moving cell with a perforator pilus to pop kryto namenaldi cells when they aren’t giving back what they take, though recently that has been extremely rare
STATS: cell size: 66nm, speed: 36.8nm\s, stealth: 0, oxygen resistance: -20, population: 121,000, fecundity: ~4/pop, energy gen:20, average energy usage: 5, colonies range from just five cells to a few thousand, there are quite a few documented cases of that this century due to exponential growth
capsilaris draculus
base element: carbon
base fluid: water
common name: anomalous glass lizard cell
scientific name: capsilaris draculus
existing traits: shell made out of microscopic glass scales, heart, bacterial brain, sulfur mitochondrial vacuoles, muscles, retractable HGT pilus, eight legs, cytoplasmic separation to allow having different “tissues” at different compound levels, eyes using photoreceptor vacuoles the same shape as your photoreceptor cells that are technically part of the brain but with a far less stupid way of connecting the camera to the brain, neuron organelles are two bacteria connected by bundles of nanowires, one acts as the axon and the other as the dendrite, vacuoles to carry respiration compounds, tiny protrusions from the backs of their heads as a vestigial trait from their home planet to avoid getting cooked, bio hydraulics via movement of the cytoplasm, the membrane just beneath its scales connects to a cube with a volume of 5m³ making it very able to replace most of its body very easily, the pocket dimension in its “skin” cannot hold anything that requires its information storage molecules to survive for more than 30 minutes without killing it due to a corruption in the genes for opening the pocket dimension so most of what is stored in it is just food and mana, active breakdown of sulfuric acid into H2S + 2O2, the O2 is used to produce SiO2 to produce energy and get more glass for the shell, polynucleate eggs containing all the endosymbionts as a form of asexual reproduction, silicon & oxygen based lipid heads, radiosynthesis via melanin, thermosynthesis similar to that of primium flagellus, and other things, Ta4HfC5 incorperated into shell to increase heat tolerance of the shell producing radiation as a side effect, when nearing the top of the comfortable range it circulates blood between its skin and core faster and puts more thermoplasts in the core to cool down faster, if the temp rises to 30 C it speeds up time for its thermoplasts, if the temp of whatever is surrounding it rises to or above 50 C it creates a vacuum between itself and the fluid and, if not touching the ground, starts using MP to move, scales are smoother than the earth scaled down to the size of a bouncy ball and thus are excellent mirrors if you ignore them containing less than 1% metal, this is to prevent adiabatic compression on the sides when de-orbiting or going really fast, they have an endosymbiont called “hibcorver rediculos” and several full copies of its genome to exchange energy for MP or vice versa, ability to enter a pocket dimension to move faster after reaching maturity, herd instincts
respiration methods: carbon fixation using H2S instead of H2O, thermosynthesis via direct conversion of heat into mechanical energy and using that to make glucose, S2 respiration producing CO2 and H2S which are used in the carbon fixation
description: a very odd glass shelled unicellular lizard that can seemingly teleport extremely long distances, it is near impossible to keep in one spot while it is trying to move due to its ability to perform extraplanar travel in a near timeless dimension, it generally stays in mostly stationary groups of 10 to 50 near water due to being an autotroph, though due to low population the 50 is Extremely rare, the groups exist to lower rates of death or injury by the environment
Stats: size: 1mm - 8cm, speed: 5mm/s - 15 m/s, stealth: 5, oxygen resistance: 50, population: 625, fecundity: 2.5, energy gen: 400, energy usage: 100-500 average is 250 which is what i will use for the calculations, energy storage: 1,000,000, brain level: 3/10, MP: 500
patches:
STARTING ROCK
type: moon
orbiting: gas giant that is almost a star
current atmosphere: 89% nitrogen, 0% CO2 0% O2 4% argon 4% SiH2 3.5% H2S 1.3% CS2, .8% H2, .2% other atmospheric gasses
starting patches:
the core:
void(you must be able to break bedrock to get here),
near mantle:
superheated magma:
brimstone caves:
flooded brimstone caves: sulfurus amoebus
abyssopelagic:
abyssal ocean
abyssal seafloor
abyssal hydrothermal vents: sulfurus amoebus, primium flagellus, primium virium
abyssopelagic caverns
bathypelagic:
bathypelagic ocean
bathypelagic seafloor
bathypelagic vents: primium virium, sulfurus amoebus
bathypelagic caverns
mesopelagic:
mesopelagic ocean
mesopelagic seafloor
mesopelagic vents: primium virium, sulfurus amoebus
mesopelagic caverns
epipelagic:
epipelagic oceans: pentane oceanic layer: solaris examina
pentane ocean: solaris examina
epipelagic seafloor: sulfurus amoebus
epipelagic vents: primium virium, sulfurus amoebus
sulfuric springs: primium virium
air above epipelagic vents: primium virium
epipelagic caverns
great lakes:
unnamed great pentane lake: Kryto Namenaldi, solaris examina, magna solaris industria
ponds
estuaries
coastal: pentane coast: solaris examina
surface:
pentane river: solaris examina
desert: capsilaris draculuscapsilaris draculus
beach:
beach of a random great lake: capsilaris draculus
cave on that beach: capsilaris draculus
cave
mountain
glacier
north pole
south pole
floating sea rock
island
plateau
ravine
etc.
skies: low atmosphere, high atmosphere
space: low lunar orbit, medium lunar orbit, high lunar orbit,
NEIGBORING ROCK
type: moon
orbiting: gas giant that is almost a star
characteristics: always near your starting rock but not orbiting it as it is orbiting at the same speed in the same orbital shell but at a different angle, large white clouds that become slightly red when they hit a mountain, dark purple oceans made of ammonia, high pressure atmosphere with no oxygen, lots of volcanic activity, the oceans have started becoming more black and the land is a deep shade of blue, the color of light your star produces the most. the tectonic plates gave started giving rise to land, which has been inhabited by lapis blue fully sessile organisms that turn black as soon as the fertile season is over, lightning has started occurring far more often, more will be revealed with optical advancements through technological or biological evolution.
round after this post is a mutation round
if anyone wants to join just reply with the species you want to split from and what you’ll do with your action or MP
assuming you have the machinery to steal genes, as long as you have the machinery to read its genome, you can steal the genes from anything that has them, as long as your cell composition won’t immediately turn them to junk.
an extinction event will occur on round 12.5 and every 12th round after that so make sure you have ways to avoid starvation if your food source is or relies on the sun incase i roll a 12, 14, 18, or 20 as those are all extinction events that block out the sun for extended periods of time
the max brain level is not 10 but that is the threshold where sapience starts so you can have a brain that has a level of 11/10, brain level is calculated with neuron speed, ability to compute, and neuroplasticity. brain level cannot be directly increased
i forgot to mention this earlier but in this game HGT gives you lower population loss from sudden changes instead of a higher amount of mutations
M1: incorperate melanin into thermoplasts, simplify thermoplast
M2: take useful genes from ferroplast and simplify it
M2: turn 1 ferroplast into a chloroplast and remove all photosynthesis genes from other ferroplasts
Mutations:
Glass bubble to store water.
Routing of heat through the bubble.
Endosymbiotic Capsilaris draculis (it lives off of thermosynthesis).
Sharing of pocket dimensions, letting them transfer resources between each other, no matter how far away.
you have to be bigger than the target species or able to stretch to bigger than it to perform endosymbiosis, it’s also necessary to be able to reach it and catch it, capsilaris draculus is hundreds of times bigger than you, on the other hand though, that means you are small enough to take control of a portion of its species by becoming its endosymbiont, you still have to reach it first though and it’s like, hundreds of miles away from you, and lives around a landlocked water great lake, so you’d need both a watertight shell and movement, though you definitely could use wires and ectosymbiosis to get the movement
Oops, I didn’t mean to say endosymbiotic, I meant inside the glass bubble, not individul cells, but it being in a lake is a pretty big problem, so I’ll change my mutations to:
Pinhole eyes.
Rubber-like material under the scales to hold pentane.
4 tentacles.
Bone structures on the ends of the tentacles, for better grip on surfaces.
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Mutation uno: use the O2 against Mg forming MgO which is expelled.
Mutation dos: Better signaling agent.
I was saying your organism has to be able to fit the organism you are attempting to make endosymbiotic in an area in itself. Your entire organism is comparable to Draculus like a heartworm is to a human
edit: autocorrect is worse at putting the right words next to eachother than me on this site on mobile at 3AM on a monday when i’ve stayed up all night for the previous 3 nights. and when that happens i type like a drunken GPT2