Multicellular and Macroscopic and Trophic Lineages

Future Game Multicellular Stage
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What did the b-word censor here?

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A typo (now fixed) from β€œsingle” that I was not aware of being a Belgium word.

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Kaijus need to be animal-like I think so no.

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Biollante (starts as a giant walking rose with human DNA, turns into a plant/Godzilla hybrid (most well known form, and admittedly animal like), then turns into a giant rose satellite orbiting the planet)

Hedora the Smog Monster (could be called a frog-like walking pile of toxic sludge that eats smoke and secretes acid rain when it takes its flying saucer form)

Kiryu (Someone uses the skeleton of a dead Godzilla (yes, there were at least 4 of them in Japaneses series (not including the American 2, though I like the new one)) as the frame for the 3rd Mechagodzilla, but the skeleton does not like being disturbed from its rest, takes control of the robot, and reburies itself) (is an Undead Cyborg animal like?)

I mean, they are sort of animal like. Loosely.

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All of them have a large amount of animalian elements I suppose.

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I do think auto-evo will still carry over similarities from the prior stage in using energy as a basis of performance, so we aren’t going to really hardcode certain playstyles to be inherently more prominent. Though I do think for the macroscopic stage, we’re going to focus on more established forms of evolution first - such as heterotrophy and photoautotrophy as we are familiar with it - before going towards more exotic forms of macroscopic metabolisms which we have less of an understanding about.

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How will we make stuff like macroscopic thermosynths? I think that’d require quite the bit of theory to create believable and complex enough organisms.

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Not really.

  1. It would evolve from a functioning therosythesizing multicellular creature that met whatever conditions anything else needs to make that leap
  2. It would have similar needs to other macroscopic creatures (energy/nutrition/likely a vascular system to distribute resources internally)
  3. It would probably evolve in a way to obtain/retain the most heat for more efficiency, I assume via skin adaptation (which would not solve the nutrients problem)
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Perhaps thermosynths would be more mixotrophic than pure to solve the nutrient problem?

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That does seam the most likely solution to me. Though, it’s my understanding that Avascular Plants and Fern and Fern Allies can actually absorb nutrition and water from the air through their skin. Those are the most simple plants though, mixotrophy might be more efficient.

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Now, here’s a question: Would intelligent thermosynths face the same fate as sapient plants did, that being that they are impossible?

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Hmm, that might depend on the planets temperature. I am not sure how their potential compares to photosynthesis. Of course, a mixotroph would depend on what it was mixed with.

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So would a thermosynth genera be more aligned to getting intelligent if it’s habitats where it uses thermosynthesis are located far between eachother and are not permanent?

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Keep in mind that for thermosynthis you actually don’t just want high temperature, you want to move between a sharp difference in hot and cold temperature. That’s just a lot easier to do if you’re around something that produces a lot of heat.

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So for instance could thermosynths evolve to keep fire around?

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Could Thermosynths evolve to breath out fire as form of heat regulation?

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I think β€œfire breath” is more chemical combustion than heat. But β€œheat breath” might be an interesting evolution.

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Would that be some sort of bio heat pump thing?

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