New Organelle Idea

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

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

basically one organelle pulses with a specific beat, and the other counts the beats up to a certain number, then tells the cell to start or stop a behaviour or process, and the pulsing organelle can tell behaviours, precesses, and specific organelles to toggle or be modified as well for funsies

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

Besides tidally locked planet microbes, I think long-day-cycle planet microbes would also not find this organelle useful…

[Dragonking]

@Willow, I get it now, thank you!
@aah31415 , I really should have put more thought into this organelle.

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

Eh, not every organelle can be for all planets…

[Dragonking]

True, a planet could, theoretically, not have iron on it.

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

And h2s could certainly not be a part of atmosphere in all life-inhabited planets…

[Dragonking]

Yes, life could live almost anywhere, as long as that place has the right compounds.

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

Even if deep under the soil, reproducing every few thousand years…

[Dragonking]

I wonder how large an organism like that could get, considering it has such a long lifespan.

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

Well it’s metabolism is close to zero. There probably isn’t much of a reason for these critters to get large.

[Dragonking]

Yeah, I suppose so, a creature that large wouldn’t be very practical.

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

Anyhow, we’ve drifted significantly now.
Perhaps the idea of this organelle could JUST tie to when you let your organism sleep and when it’s the most active?

[Dragonking]

Yes, it should probably serve that purpose.

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

I wonder if some organisms could perhaps not need to sleep… I presume then the modifier value from this organelle would stay flat, correct?

[Dragonking]

Yes, I didn’t really think of these scenarios when I was making the organelle. Glad you pointed them out!

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

I wonder if sleeping and this organelle too perhaps could be tied to getting to awakening…

[Dragonking]

Hmmm, that could be possible. Every being on this planet that we don’t need a microscope to see (as far as I know of) needs to sleep and have some sort of biological clock.

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

iirc sharks for instance take rather short naps when carried by waves or currents at times. Would that count as a sleep?

[Dragonking]

They are still sleeping, just not for a very long time. So yes, I think that would count.