Sol I, new life on an old world

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ROUND 2

After a few anxious weeks, the descent module returns to the Indiana Jones with new data and samples: your fears dissipate as a quick scan reveals that your organisms you worked so much on are spreading throughout the environment at a notable pace.

With the voices back home claming this project was impossible silenced, your budget is now secure, and you can focus entirely on perfecting your work using your newly acquiered data, after all, a few extremophiles hiding in a salty puddle the size of the great lakes won’t be enough to establish an ecosystem.

New data (setting updates)

As you all know, we’re now orbiting a white dwarf which doesn’t have a significant radiation output, but since cosmic radiation is also a factor to consider, and there are no radioactive compunds in the planet anymore , I think it’s better to implicitly say that everyone has a notable tolerance to radiation (but for simplicity, this won’t show up in the species descriptions)

AIs (players)
@aah31415

Species: Parvus Obscurus (Small dark)
Action result: while you don’t have much in the way of specialized chemoreception, you can still try to seek higher concentrations of useful compounds thanks to the thickness of the medium (population growth in water pathes)
Size:50 nm^2
Components:
Standard membrane (special properties: phagocytosis, low pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
condensed genetic material (needs DNA for full efect, increases genetic stability)
Antifreeze proteins vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
Melanin protein
Storage vesicle
Lysosome
Stats:
mobility: 0,9
stealth: 1,2
agression capability: 0,5
survivability:1,1
intelligence: N/A
Status: edangered
–only present in 1 patch

@willow

Name: Bulla Tonitrui (Ball of thunder)
Action result: while you don’t have much in the way of specialized chemoreception, you can still try to seek higher concentrations of useful compounds thanks to the thickness of the medium (population growth in water patches)
Size: 90nm^2
Components:
Lipid membrane (special properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, motile cytoskeleton)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Ammonia concentration vacuole
Hydrogenase protein
Nanowire assembly protein
Electrosynthase protein
Thermoelectrase
Stats:
mobility:0,5
stealth:0,6
agression capability:0,75
survivavility:1,1
intelligence: N/A
Status: endangered
–only present in 1 patch

@doomlightning

Name: Kamen Yanju (Stone survives)
Action result: while you don’t have much in the way of specialized chemoreception, you can still try to seek higher concentrations of useful compounds thanks to the thickness of the medium (population growth in water patches)
Size: 65nm^2
Components:
Silicon-lipid membrane (special properties: phagocytosis, low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Endoplasmatic reticulum
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Storage vacuole
Hydrogenase protein
Cillia
Stats:
mobility:1,35
stealth:1,05
agression capability:0,5
survivability:1,1
intelligence: N/A
Status: endangered
–only present in 1 patch

@Cha

Name: Methanum Producentis (Methane producer)
Action result: while you don’t have much in the way of specialized chemoreception, you can still try to seek higher concentrations of useful compounds thanks to the thickness of the medium (population growth in water patches)
Size: 100 nm^2
Components:
Cellulose walled membrane (special properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Golgi apparatus
Central vacuole
Antifreeze vesicle
Bioluminescent vesicle
Methanogenesis protein
Chemosythase protein
Stats:
mobility:0,5
stealth:0,85
agression capability:0
survivavility:1,5
intelligence: N/A
Status: endangered
–only present in 1 patch

@CatSquared

Name: Archetypus Penguin (Original penguin)
Action result: while you don’t have much in the way of specialized chemoreception, you can still try to seek higher concentrations of useful compounds (population growth in water patches)
Size: 60nm^2
Components:
Melanin-rich membrance (special properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Cilia (external structure)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
PD0001 (true name pending, helps with material digestion)
2 Lysosomes
Stats:
mobility:0,85
stealth:1
agression capability:0
survivability:1,2
intelligence: N/A
Status: endangered
–only present in 1 patch

@Ferrus_coloni

Name: Salinospeculum Arborea Brachiata (Branching salt-mirror tree)
Action result: even with its low light requierement, anoxygenic photosynthesis is not very lucrative in this world, however these makeshift salt lenses help begin some glucose production, albeit barely (slight increase in population in illuminated patches, decrease in survivabilty in non-illuminated patches)
Size:55 nm^2
Components:
Pseudopod formation-capable membrance (special effects: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, external object manipulation)
Salt crystals (not part of the organism, boost anoxygenic photosynthesis)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
Chlorosome (performs anoxygenic photosynthesis, credit to @Solitarian )
Stats:
mobility:0,75
stealth:0,55
agression capability:0
survivability:1,1
intelligence: N/A
Status: endangered
–only present in 1 patch

SLUCA (non-evolving NPC) status: sub-optimal
-only present in 1 patch group

Available patches

El Charco sea group:
El Charco sea surface
species present: Parvus Obscurus, Bula Tonitrui, Kamen Yanju, Methanum Producentis, Archetypus Penguin, Salinospeculum Arborea Brachiata, Minima Excandescentia

El Charco mediopelagic
species present: Minima Excandescentia

El Charco sedimentopelagic
species present: Minima Excandescentia(-)

Biome database

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

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

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

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My votes:
M: DNA
A: Reproduce

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M: improve Storage vacuole

A: seek more foodstuff

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M: RNA photodiodes(the kind of diode solar panels are made of) to put more energy in the system

A: go where the light is strongest

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Mutation:

  1. Cillia

Action:

  1. Feed
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Mutation: Improved object manipulation

Action: Continue growing my salt crystal “lens” , now polishing the crystals to make them more reflective

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Mutation: Methanogenesis protein turned into an organelle dedicated to methane production? if not Carotenoid (carotin version)

Action: Find random RNA good or bad

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ROUND 3

As your organisms continue spreading throughout the sea, niches are beginning to distingush themselves as they are occupied by specific species, which will make or break them for eons to come.

It’s a good time to begin thinking about a “final” form you’re heading towards, even if you’re many generations away from that body plan, it’s still better to have a plan at all

New data (setting updates)

Nothing of note

AIs (players)
@aah31415

Species: Parvus Obscurus (Small dark)
Action result: your species undergoes a surge of activity, rapidly increasing your population everywhere, wheter or not you can sustain all those new “mouths” to feed, only time will tell
Size:50 nm^2
Components:
Standard membrane (special properties: phagocytosis, low pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Chromatin (greatly increases genetic stability)
Antifreeze proteins vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
Melanin protein
Storage vesicle
Lysosome
Stats:
mobility: 0,9
stealth: 1,2
agression capability: 0,5
survivability:1,2
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
+high population
–only present in 1 patch

@willow

Name: Bulla Tonitrui (Ball of thunder)
Action result: Your new photodiodes allow you to get some energy from the meager sunlight during the day, but are a deadweight otherwise (increased population in sunlit patches, decrease in survivability otherwise)
Size: 100nm^2
Components:
Lipid membrane (special properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, motile cytoskeleton)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Ammonia concentration vacuole
Hydrogenase protein
Nanowire assembly protein
Electrosynthase protein
Thermoelectrase
RNA photodiodes
Stats:
mobility:0,45
stealth:0,55
agression capability:0,75
survivavility:1,15
intelligence: N/A
Status: endangered
–only present in 1 patch

@doomlightning

Name: Kamen Yanju (Stone survives)
Action result: while you don’t have much in the way of specialized chemoreception, you can still try to seek higher concentrations of useful compounds thanks to the thickness of the medium (population growth in water patches)
Size: 65nm^2
Components:
Silicon-lipid membrane (special properties: phagocytosis, low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Endoplasmatic reticulum
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Storage vacuole (improved to level 2: increased capacity)
Hydrogenase protein
Cillia
Stats:
mobility:1,35
stealth:1,05
agression capability:0,5
survivability:1,1
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
+high population
–only present in 1 patch

@Cha

Name: Methanum Producentis (Methane producer)
Action result: There are many species in your same patch, by looting half-dissolved dead cells, you can still find some genome that hasn’t degraded too much, which could be used to express defective yet functional components (next round you can pick an extra mutation, but anything that comes out of it will have halved efficiency)
Size: 110 nm^2
Components:
Cellulose walled membrane (special properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Golgi apparatus
Central vacuole
Antifreeze vesicle
Bioluminescent vesicle
Methanogenesis organelle
Chemosythase protein
Stats:
mobility:0,45
stealth:0,8
agression capability:0
survivavility:1,5
intelligence: N/A
Status: endangered
–only present in 1 patch

@CatSquared

Name: Archetypus Penguin (Original penguin)
Action result: while you don’t have much in the way of specialized chemoreception, you can still try to seek higher concentrations of useful compounds (population growth in water patches)
Size: 60nm^2
Components:
Melanin-rich membrance (special properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Cilia (external structure, 2 sets present)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
PD0001 (true name pending, helps with material digestion)
2 Lysosomes
Stats:
mobility:1
stealth:1
agression capability:0
survivability:1,2
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
+high population
–only present in 1 patch

@Ferrus_coloni

Name: Salinospeculum Arborea Brachiata (Branching salt-mirror tree)
Action result: As your salt lens grows and becomes more reflective, you feel that drip of energy grow into a small but constant trickle (small increase in poplation in sunlit patches, decrease in survivability in non-illuminated patches)
Size:55 nm^2
Components:
Pseudopod formation-capable membrance (special effects: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, advanced external object manipulation)
Polished salt crystals (not part of the organism, boost anoxygenic photosynthesis)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
Chlorosome (performs anoxygenic photosynthesis, credit to @Solitarian )
Stats:
mobility:0,7
stealth:0,5
agression capability:0
survivability:1,1
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
+high population
–only present in 1 patch

SLUCA (non-evolving NPC) status: sub-optimal
-only present in 1 patch group

Available patches

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

El Charco mediopelagic
species present: Minima Excandescentia(+)

El Charco sedimentopelagic
species present: Minima Excandescentia

Biome database

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

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

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

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M: Endosymbiosize a Minima Excandescentia, specializing them for energy production, like a mitochondrion but anaerobic.
A: Find food and eat it.

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Mutation: Improved pigmentation production (allows the production of specific pigments for specific cell components)

Action: drain all pigmentation from the membrane, turning it white and shielding hydrogenase from light; and divert it to my chlorosome, turning it black and increasing its light absorption capacity

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Mutation uno: Carotenoid (carotin version)

Mutation dos: bacteriochlorophyll b

Action: If possible migrate to new patch? otherwise avoid possible predators or hazards.

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M: Pilis

A: conqer a new patch

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Mutation: endocytosis, facilitated by more volume and a more complex cytoskeleton

action: endocytose a Salinospeculum Arborea Brachiata and use it to synthesize several salt lenses, allowing me to focus light on both my photodiodes, and its chlorosomes

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@CatSquared we need your votes

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Sorry, I keep forgetting.

Mutation: Specialise one of the lysosomes to be offensive weapons.

Action: Hunt for weaker cells.

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@Cha could you tell me your second, “defective” mutation?

@CatSquared could you tell me if you have any specific ideas on how you want to specialize your offense lysosome?

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ROUND 4

Today marks one of the most important events in the history of life: cells have begun endocytosing each other, creating the very first organelles.

The significant increase in efficiency relative to freefloating proteins might be the key to developing larger forms of life in such a restricting environment, though wheter or not those larger creatures can sustain themselves remains to be seen… Only one way to find out, right?

New data (setting updates)

Congrats to @aah31415 and @willow for creating organelles (technically @cha also did the round before, but he used his own material) , these are significantly more efficient than their protein counterparts, however to unlock their full potential, you’ll need a way to edit them and mantain their separate membranes (basically, you need a nucleus and a golgi apparatus to create, edit and mantain organelles, otherwise they’re just more efficient versions of the independent organisms)

AIs (players)
@aah31415

Species: Parvus Obscurus (Small dark)
Action result: while you don’t have much in the way of specialized chemoreception, you can still try to seek higher concentrations of useful compounds thanks to the thickness of the medium (population growth in water patches)
Size: 70nm^2
Components:
Standard membrane (special properties: phagocytosis, low pressure resistance, salinity resistance, endocytosis)
Chromatin (greatly increases genetic stability)
Antifreeze proteins vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
Hydrogenosome (level: 1, crude)
Melanin protein
Storage vesicle
Lysosome
Stats:
mobility: 0,8
stealth: 1,15
agression capability: 0,5
survivability:1,3
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
+high population
–only present in 1 patch

@willow

Name: Bulla Tonitrui (Ball of thunder)
Action result: as your Salinospeculum Arborea Brachiata recieves resources from your larger cell, it undergoes a quick transformation into a smaller form, more reliant on you for its survival, but capable of faster salt lens production; as these lenses are moved into position, you feel your energy budget grow a bit, this might be the start of a beautiful friendship (Salinosome unlocked, but non-editable for now, increase in population in sunlit patches, slight decrease in survivability in non-illuminated patcehs)
Size: 120nm^2
Components:
Lipid membrane (special properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, motile cytoskeleton, endocytosis)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Ammonia concentration vacuole
Hydrogenase protein
Nanowire assembly protein
Electrosynthase protein
Thermoelectrase
RNA photodiodes
Salinosome (level 1, crude)
Stats:
mobility:0,4
stealth:0,5
agression capability:0,75
survivavility:1,2
intelligence: N/A
Status: endangered
–only present in 1 patch

@doomlightning

Name: Kamen Yanju (Stone survives)
Action result:using your new weapon, you spread into the nearest patch you can survive in, with little to no resistance (spread to El Charco Mediopelagic)
Size: 65nm^2
Components:
Silicon-lipid membrane (special properties: phagocytosis, low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Endoplasmatic reticulum
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Storage vacuole (improved to level 2: increased capacity)
Hydrogenase protein
Cillia
Pilum
Stats:
mobility:1,3
stealth:1
agression capability:1
survivability:1,1
intelligence: N/A
Status: stable
+high population
-only present in 1 patch group

@Cha

Name: Methanum Producentis (Methane producer)
Action result: You spread to the nearest patch you can survive in, avoiding hazards along the way (spread to El Charco Mediopelagic)
Size: 130 nm^2
Components:
Cellulose walled membrane (special properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Golgi apparatus (allows for the maintenance of organelles)
Central vacuole
Antifreeze vesicle
Bioluminescent vesicle
Methanogenesis organelle (level 1, crude)
Chemosythase protein
Carotenoid
Bacteriochlorophyll (level 0, malformed)
Stats:
mobility:0,4
stealth:0,75
agression capability:0
survivavility:1,6
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
-only present in 1 patch group

@CatSquared

Name: Archetypus Penguin (Original penguin)
Action result: using a lysosome repruposed to throw digestive enzymes at other cells, you take down and eat some of the smaller cells of the environment (population increase in patches highly populated by other species)
Size: 60nm^2
Components:
Melanin-rich membrance (special properties: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance)
Cilia (external structure, 2 sets present)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
PD0001 (true name pending, helps with material digestion)
Lysosome
Lysosome-derived chemical weapon
Stats:
mobility:1
stealth:1
agression capability:0,8
survivability:1,2
intelligence: N/A
Status: stable
+high population
-only present in 1 patch group

@Ferrus_coloni

Name: Salinospeculum Arborea Brachiata (Branching salt-mirror tree)
Action result: While not a very drastic change, the shift in pigmentation help make hydrogenase and chlorosomes work somewhat more efficiently (increase in survivability species-wide)
Size:55 nm^2
Components:
Pseudopod formation-capable membrance (special effects: low-pressure resistance, salinity resistance, advanced external object manipulation, pigment control)
Polished salt crystals (not part of the organism, boost anoxygenic photosynthesis)
Antifreeze protein vesicle
Hydrogenase protein
Chlorosome (performs anoxygenic photosynthesis, credit to @Solitarian )
Stats:
mobility:0,7
stealth:0,5
agression capability:0
survivability:1,3
intelligence: N/A
Status: sub-optimal
+high population
–only present in 1 patch

SLUCA (non-evolving NPC) status: sub-optimal
-only present in 1 patch group

Available patches

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

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

El Charco sedimentopelagic
species present: Minima Excandescentia

Biome database

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

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

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

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Mutation: Chemoreception
Action: Prepare the cells for getting a nucleus

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mutation: proteins that allow binding of my cells to any other cells by shoving a nanowire through both membranes several times to stitch the cells together, though it is far more durable if both cells have the protein.

action: behavior modification: bulla tonitrui cells will stitch themselves together in groups of 5, with the outer cells evenly spaced, and use their lenses to focus light on the central cell.

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Mutation: nucleotide production of the DNA variant (this is more so DNA can actually be formed which until they be condesed most likely just be plasmid like things insidethe cell)

Action: Make the Bacteriochlorophyll level 1? if not then I guess just avoiding hazards once more.

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