Survival in Jupiter's Atmoshpere

[JustaDumbThriver (May or may not have quoted Oliver Lugg)]

Lore

It was a normal day in the Jovian system. However, something was brewing. Organic compounds, nitrogen bases, lipids, forming together to make semi-living organisms. One day, a single blob went out of the line between living and non-living, and became a full-fledged cell.

JLUCA

The Jovian LUCA, or JLUCA, is just like our beloved cytoplasm. Only 2.5 micrometers, the size of the smallest eukaryote, Microheliella, it is very simple. Just some DNA in a shell. No organelles.

How it works

It works the same as DSL. If you don’t know how that works, go to here: Deep Space Life

Species

JLUCA: Just JLUCA.
Cytoplasm at 0,0.

This was inspired by Carl Sagan’s paper on jovian life and Phrenotopia’s video on his jovian life project.

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

Will we be able to go spacefaring since this is a gas giant and not a regular planet?
(I might also be seeing some SitF inspiration…)

[JustaDumbThriver (May or may not have quoted Oliver Lugg)]

Here, a beefy gas jet is needed since there is no surface to launch rockets. That or you could just yeet yourself outside of Jupiter with some good winds.

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

So instead of technology you’d have to create special castes for new things?

[JustaDumbThriver (May or may not have quoted Oliver Lugg)]

Yeah. But a third option is just to create floating launchpads for rockets. So tech is available.

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

And how would you get the metal for those rockets?

[JustaDumbThriver (May or may not have quoted Oliver Lugg)]

Actually, you’re right. No tech.

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

What is the time limit for us? Sine sun won’t forever stay in a stable state…

[JustaDumbThriver (May or may not have quoted Oliver Lugg)]

7 billion years, because that’s when the sun becomes a white dwarf.

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

You sure the life won’t be wiped out by the red giant stage purely due to the intense luminosity?

[JustaDumbThriver (May or may not have quoted Oliver Lugg)]

For fun-must-last’s sake, I’m doing until white dwarf. Also, I came up with something. Why not… make you go to the moons to make tech work? The requirements will be a stasoid species that is lucky enough to latch onto a piece of debris, has said debris collide with one of the moons, and live on the moons? It will be real lucky, but not impossible.

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

That’d require a species to be “prepared” to live on one of the moons, which in real evolution wouldn’t happen (evolution tinkers only around what’s relevant right now and directly around the species).

[JustaDumbThriver (May or may not have quoted Oliver Lugg)]

Ah. Geuss no tech.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Since this will work like Deep Space Live, could we expect a cross-over to occur between the two forum games?

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

DSL takes place in some remote asteroid field through, and it’s creatures are rather tiny…

[CatSquared]

Two things:

1. Are the patches the same as DSL?
2. I’ll submit my creature soon (hopefully today or tomorrow)

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

@JustaDumbThriver, will lightning be a constant danger, or only when gas thunderstorms form?

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

What sort of organelles can we evolve?

[CatSquared]

@JustaDumbThriver

Organelles
There are many organelles to choose from.
“Cytoplasm”
Converts quarks into photons. +1 Energy Production, 20 EP.
Materiosynthesizers
Like Cytoplasm, but better at converting. +5 energy production, -1 Q/s, 50 EP.
Gluonosynthesizers
Converts gluons into yummy quarks! +2 Osmoregulation, +1 Q/s, 50 EP.
Neutrino jets
Allows your species to better escape predators. +3 Osmoregulation, 50 EP.
Z-Type Bosonosynthesizers
Converts Z bosons into photons. +5 Energy Production, 40 EP.
W-Type Bosonosynthesizers
Converts W bosons into yummy quarks! +1 Osmoregulation, 0.5 Q/s, 50 EP.
???
Unlocked at round 3.

I assume these Organelles, as they are designed for these rules, but I’m not sure. Unless JustaDumbThriver says otherwise, it would probably be best to use these

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

Except then this FG is no different from DSL…