Living in the Underground

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Except who dares to go there won’t be able to adapt for the surface for quite the amount of turns…

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Hmmm… I geuss you are right. While the surface is required for civilization (else we would have underwater civs), that might not be the goal of everyone. It’s all up to what you want to do.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Not becoming civ-capable like that might be pretty boring if all other people flee for the surface…

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yeah, but it’s all the player’s decision. If they want to move there, they can move there.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Is there anything further than the “far” cracks?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

No, the far cracks are the deepest you can go.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

What biomes are there within the open waters?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Epipelagic, estuaries, tidepools, coastals, and mesopelagics. When you leave the crust, you will be put in the epipelagic.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I mean when we still are under the ice.

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

do our cells have a mitochondrion analogue?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Hydrogenoplast is the mitochondria analogue for these jellyfish… things.

[Nonametoseehere (Plant Hiveminds!)]

S. confortatus has adapted a “cage” around its cells to hold it together in lower pressures. The cage is made out of what once were it’s flagella, which are now fused together at the ends, wrapping around its cells.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Btw will we need sufficient other organ systems to evolve better brains?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yes, anaerobic respiration can only support you for so long…

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

If one was to evolve castes, how would evolving them work after they split off?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

You mutate the castes like you do a species, just less quickly. Also, 1 caste created per round is the max.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So if one has two castes for their species, how fast can they evolve them?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Around half the speed of a species.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So mutation speed of a caste is 1/x (where x is the amount of castes), right?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yeah, basically. This is a tradeoff to having so many castes that there is always one for every purpose.