Living in the Underground

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Dandori is love. Dandori is life.

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

And dandori… is dying as it seems.

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Eaten by Bulborb, even.

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

is there any sort of light that reaches the surface deep biome through the ice?

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

I can’t imagine that happening…

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

if there is even the slightest amount of light there, i’ll be splitting off of geomedusa flos and moving up and evolving external chlorophyll vacuoles bound to the outer membrane by a baseplate protein, that get there by being wrapped in an endosome, which the baseplate protein binds to one side of, and then exocytosed, pushing it out of the cell, but not forcing it to unbind from the cell.
any energy gathering proteins can only bind to the vacuole through the baseplate protein
i’m going for a primitive version of this btw

Chlorosome

if there isn’t any light that reaches through the ice though, i’ll be moving downwards and evolving a sticky ‘spore’ cell, that’s produced from the ‘top’ of the polyp, and as soon as it’s mature, it removes as much water as it can from itself, and produces a protein shell around itself that sticks to anything it touches, and once it sticks to something, the shell breaks, letting water in again, and then the spore grows into a new polyp

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

Maybe there are some cracks in the shell near volcanoes and such?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

There isn’t any light going through the ice, or at least not enough for photosynthesis. Also, species common and scientific name?
Edit: Well, there is enough light for chlorosomes to function, at least at the high levels, so go with the first. Should have read past the first 3 sentences!

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

Are there any volcanoes that’d make breakthrough through the ice sheet?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yes, that’s actually how the ice will melt.

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

And it’s already started I presume?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

It will start at Turn 5, and cause the complete and utter ice age collapse.

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

What temperatures will the planet settle on after the glaciers have retreated?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Still pretty cold, the equator will be the only temperate biome.

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

What will be the average temperature of the planet then? 5 Celcius?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, around that for the equator.

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

The glaciers will exist at the poles I presume?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Really, everywhere outside the tropics. Basically a greenhouse period for this planet is like an earth ice age.

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

Do we have any moons around the planet?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

There’s a moon around half the mass of our own moon, as well as some captured asteroids here and then.