Rocktopia

WELCOME TO ROCKTOPIA!

we hope you enjoy your stay

planet information

planet name: proxima centauri B
planet age: 1GYR(PCB years)
tidally locked
power received from sun: 877W/M²

starting 'organism'

scientific name: geofacsimilus photoreplicatus
description: “a pitch black grain of sand”
traits: total light absorption, mass triggered self-splitting, light → mass conversion, simple quartz rock
reproduction time: 32,090.9 earth years, 993,322.263 PCB years
split mass: 26mg
post-split mass: 13 mg
split amount: 1
‘save’ time: 1 PCB yr post-split
‘save’ states: 1
size: SuA:13.85mm^2, Vol:4.9mm^3, R:1.05mm,
M/r: 1
A/r: 0
occupied patch(es): permanently hot, eternally dry desert

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I’ll join. Geofacsilimus perrisoreplicatus, splitting at a slightly lower mass.
Edit: Splitting mass is 24g and post-splitting mass is 12g.

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So we are literally just rocks?

I will also join.

Scientific Name: Geofacsimilus photohackmanite
Description: A tenebresence (color change when exposed to light) Hackmanite piece of black sand. Hackmanite is a variety of sodalite exhibiting tenebrescence, as sodalite normally fluoresces when exposed to UV light. Unlike the most inhabitants of Rocktopia, it splits at 28 mg, with 14 mg mass post-split.

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joining!

Sci. Name: Geofacsimilus Tresvias

while it a higher-than-average splitting mass at 27mg it has a lower-than average post-splitting mass of 9mg.
but how? dont they split in half? well not for this one, because it splits twice, into three peices.

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rocks that are, by some definitions, alive!
and split by using up all their mass to split into as many copies of their most recent ‘save’ state as possible, as well!
oh and the desert is hot enough that most rocks in it are mouldable like very stiff play-doh

boxes that they check for being alive:
they reproduce
they perform processes with energy
they grow and develop
they evolve

boxes they do not check:
homeostasis
response to stimuli
being made of one or more cells

actually wait do they have homeostasis?
well they definitely don’t regulate their temperature or any fluid levels, but they do regulate their chemicals (by resetting them)

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Am I the only one who feels like playing the Mii Song when imaginging our rock organims in the desert?

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that is now the official theme song for this fg until i say otherwise

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I more think of Sonic 3’s Sandopolis theme.

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Y’know what? I’ll join

Name: Geofacsimilus lapismagnus

A giant of Proxima Centauri B, this creature of stone’s splitting mass is 1kg

Edit: American here. I was fully confident a kilogram was 100 grams when writing this. It is not. Gonna leave it as is, but thought I’d note that fun fact lol

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What is the maximum degree of mutation we can make our m-vote have?
What sort of nonlawk do we have access to?

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Name: Geofacsimilus limum

Description: Geofacsimilus limum gets it’s name from it’s silt-like properties, as it has a much smaller size. It’s weight is also lesser, with a split mass of 13mg, and a post-split weight of 6.5mg.

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Do our rocks absorb the sunlight via their surface area or the whole volume?

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I assume surface area, but then there would have to be another reason to be larger, to make it more balanced. It also might be by weight, so it would be even.

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I will join too if have any space to crumble in that small palneto

Name: Concarka Biotitechad

Its shape is more concave than the others, creating a trap of light that is concentrated to a more concentrated point in the center, creating a mirror-like material similar to Biotite.
split mass: 24 mg
post-split: 12 mg

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By the way, I assume the planet’s winds aren’t strong enough to pick our critters up and shatter them for instance?

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surface area

you can half or double any of the stats, though some can only be affected by other stats, and do anything that can happen via natural processes to rocks that are as malleable as cold wax, as long as you explain the process, and move atoms into specific arrangements

anything that isn’t scientifically impossible, and can be done with rocks, so if you can think of a scientific explanation for it that sounds like it would work irl, or does work irl, you can do it

magic does exist in this world though, but it has rules, and requires language

it is strong enough to throw them, but they’re more likely to get fused to another piece of sand on impact and immediately split than to get shattered

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So does the half or doubling stats make my critter invalid? Considering it increased in size by approximately 40 times before splitting

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depends, can you think of a natural process through which it would suddenly become part of a normal, 1 kg rock?
normal as in doesn’t split btw

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I mean, fused via sediment layers? Or splattering against an unusually sized ball of the clay-sand we find ourselves amongst and fusing

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