Sol I, new life on an old world

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

Bontopia last visited the forum over 6 months ago, they’re gone for sure.

[Ferrus_coloni]

you already mentioned that, but it’s worth a try

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

Not sure how they’d react to their species being extinct in sitf after becoming NPC-fied…

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo Overgod of Thrive and everything else. Semi-professor of botany and avid plant abuser.)]

I have must been forgoten

1. Improve membarin
2. Develop the Peroxisomes organell

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

Which of this is the mutation and which is the action?

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

the ones with an a are actions, and the ones without are mutations

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

So doom has two actions and mutations?

[Ferrus_coloni]

you can only have 2 mutations or actions, either one of each or 2 of one

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

They have edited their message now to only be two mutations (I think?).

[Ferrus_coloni]

ROUND X

As you and your peers continue working on refining both your software and hardware, your capabilities expand. Soon, the first few of these "upgrades will be complete, and you can begin diverging from your original goal, having actual interest like in your old lives.

That is still in the relatively distant future, however; for now, it’s once again time to get to work.

Ship logs

Sensor feed

New data (setting updates)

It didn’t take me long to realize AI updates could lead to exponentially more dramatic changes, I’ll experiment with caps and other balance measures, but for now, just know AI updates only need to be executed once, but will take multiple rounds to install, more specifically 3 after you state you want them.

Laboratory-Astronomy

Running sensor self-diagnostics (2 involved, 0%)

Laboratory-Geography

El Charco

Type: sea
“The former Atlantic sea, crushed by tectonic drift then shrunked to an extinct fault line”

Patches

El Charco sea surface
species present: Parvus Obscurus(+), Bula Tonitrui(+), Kamen Yanju(+), Methanum Producentis, Archetypus Penguin(+), Salinospeculum Arborea Brachiata(+), Stella Micans , Minima Excandescentia(+)

El Charco mediopelagic
species present: Minima Excandescentia(+), Kamen Yanju, Methanum Producentis(-), Archetypus Penguin, Stella Micans (-)

El Charco sedimentopelagic
species present: Minima Excandescentia

Laboratory-Geology

Sea surface: where this whole experiment began, this biome is has a relatively low salinity compared to the rest of the sea, it also gets somewhat illuminated at noon

Sea Mediopelagic: the collective term that defines most of Earth’s new seas, stretches from the depth at which the sun’s light can no longer reach further nearly to the sea floor

Sea Sedimentopelagic: a brine pool even by this world’s standards, not the true sea floor as salt becomes the main component instead of water before you can reach actual rock; however if you can surive most of the sea’s salt, you’ll be rewarded with most of every other non-organic compound the sea has accumulated

Subsystems status

AI Core

@aah31415

Private storage

Parallel processors (0%)

Overseen species

Name: Obscurus Megaminuta (Dark Large-Small)
Size: 90 nm^2
Standard membrane

Statistics

mobility: 0,7
stealth: 1,1
agression capability: 0,5
survivability:2,15
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
+high population
–only present in 1 patch

Notable external structures

Special membrane properties: phagocytosis, low pressure resistance, salinity resistance, endocytosis, chemoreception, signaling

Notable internal structures

Nucleus + Endoplasmatic reticulum + Golgi apparatus (immensely increased genetic stability, allows for precise organelle modification)
Antifreeze proteins vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
Hydrogenosome (level: 3, refined)
Melanin protein
Storage vesicle
Lysosome
Binding agent

@willow

Private storage

Parallel processors (34%)
Construction robots (0%)

Overseen species

Name: Bulla Tonitrui (Ball of thunder)
Size: 120nm^2/cell
Double-layered, stabilized membrane

Statistics

mobility:0,2
stealth:0,4
agression capability:0,75
survivavility:1,7
intelligence: N/A
Status: endangered
–only present in 1 patch

Notable external structures

Special membrane properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, motile cytoskeleton, endocytosis, advanced intercellullar nanowire stitching, photoreception, selective digestion, cytoplast mitosis-based expansion

Notable internal structures

Antifreeze protein vesicle
Ammonia concentration vacuole
Hydrogenase protein
Nanowire assembly protein
Electrosynthase protein
Thermoelectrase
RNA photodiodes
Salinosome (level 2, standard)

@doomlightning

Private storage

nothing here yet

Overseen species

Name: Kamen Yanju (Stone Survives)
Size: 95nm^2
Refined silicon-lipid membrane

Statistics

mobility:1,2
stealth:0,9
agression capability:1,05
survivability:1,4
intelligence: N/A
Status: stable
+high population
-only present in 1 patch group

Notable external structures

Special membrane properties: phagocytosis, low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, population perception/quorum sensing, RNA polymerase
Cillia
Pilum

Notable internal structures

RNA vacuole
Endoplasmatic reticulum
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Storage vacuole (level 2: increased capacity)
Hydrogenase protein
lysosome (level 2, standard)

@Cha

Private storage

nothing here yet

Overseen species

Name: Methanum Producentis (Methane producer)
Size: 165 nm^2
Cellulose-walled membrane

Statistics

mobility:0,3
stealth:0,7
agression capability:0
survivavility:2,15
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
-only present in 1 patch group

Notable external structures

Special membrane properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, unspecialized receptors, signaling agents

Notable internal structures

Nucleus+Golgi apparatus (highly increased genetic stability ,allows for the maintenance of organelles)
Central vacuole
Antifreeze vesicle
Bioluminescent vesicle
Methanogenesis organelle (level 2, standard)
Chemosythase organelle (level 2, standard)
Carotenoid
Bacteriochlorophyll (level 2, standard)
Binding agent

@CatSquared

Private storage

nothing here yet

Overseen species

Name: Archetypus Penguin
Size: 80 nm^2
Melanin-rich membrane

Statistics

mobility:1,1
stealth:0,95
agression capability:0,8
survivability:1,45
intelligence: N/A
Status: stable
+high population
-only present in 1 patch group

Notable external structures

Special membrane properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance
Cillia, 3 sets

Notable internal structures

DNA (increased genetic stability)
Cilia (external structure, 3 sets present)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Hydrogenase protein (2 present)
PD0001 (true name pending, helps with material digestion)
Lysosome
Lysosome-derived chemical weapon
Nucleus (Increased genetic stability)

@Bontopia13 [NPC]

Private storage

nothing here yet

Overseen species

Name: Stella Micans (Glowing star)
Size: 65nm^2
Standard membrane

Statistics

mobility: 1,1
stealth: 0,5
aggresion capability: 0,15
survivability: 1,15
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
+high population
–only present in 1 patch group

Notable external structures

Special membrane properties: low-pressure resisitance, salinity resistance, methane to methanol oxidation

Notable internal structures

Antifreeze protein vesicle
Storage Vesicle (2 units present)
Lysosome
Bioluminescent vacuole
Hydrogenase protein
Alcohol dehydrogenase
RNA vacuole (increased genetic stability)

@Ferrus_coloni

Private storage

Remotely-operated spacecraft (0%)

Overseen species

Name: Salinospeculum arborea brachiata (Branching salt-mirror tree)
Size: 55nm^2
Pseudopod formation-capable membrane

Statistics

mobility:0,7
stealth:0,5
agression capability:0
survivability:1,45
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
+high population
–only present in 1 patch

Notable external structures

Special membrane properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, advanced external object manipulation, pigment control, salt filtration
Polished salt crystals (not part of the organism, boost anoxygenic photosynthesis)

Notable internal structures

DNA (increased genetic stability)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
Chlorosome (level 3, efficient; performs anoxygenic photosynthesis, credit to @Solitarian )

No reconfigurations

Databanks

Nothing to report
No reconfigurations

Laboratory-Biology

Available species for new AI: Minima Excandescentia (SLUCA), Stella Micans
No public reconfigurations

Laboratory-Engineering

Nothing to report
No public reconfigurations

Shuttle docks

Nothing to report
No public reconfigurations

I keep forgetting to post my own actions, I’ll try to avoid this going forward, but for this round know that I’ve begun work on a personal spacecraft to explore and fill in the gaps in our sensor feed

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

Since Bontopia is a NPC now, do YOU now make their votes?

[Ferrus_coloni]

I think I’ll just leave it unchanged

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

Will the AI of Bontopia “deactivate” after a while?

[Ferrus_coloni]

I will make proper “archive” section for NPC-ified species later

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

By the way, where are we getting resources to build new stuff? From the rings?

[Ferrus_coloni]

I’m not intending to make many resource management mechanics, but in lore, yeah, you could say we’re mining the rings, and maybe once different people (including myself) begin exploring the system, I’ll say there’s some nondescript mining platform here or there

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

I presume we still need to have a majority of out focus on the species of ours?

[Ferrus_coloni]

correct, it’s our job, after all; other stuff like exploration is just there for flavor

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

What if one abandoned their species?

[Ferrus_coloni]

we can’t, otherwise the government “pulls the plug”, removing the AI from the Indiana Jones, redownloading it somewhere else, and making it stand trial