ROUND 9.5: mutation results
(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
@Cha @Nonametoseehere
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