Round 2
Location: Belgium
Original Time Period: Ediacaran ~ 589 Million years ago
About 13 million years later, Global Sea Levels continue their steady stabilization from their estimated sudden 500m drop and increase due to Snowball Earth. This has given an opportunity for the current macroscopic life to thrive in the warming conditions. Underwater supers now slowly expand their reach beyond their ocean cradle to new regions, but a small anoxic event reduces each speciesโ population by 0.2. The previous fungi on land have started to become replaced by some land offshoots of the firebending ones. As for the underwater plants, we will find out soon enough.
Lantianelle laevis
Using its power of The Sensory Possession, this early conical vase metazoan has increased its food intake of zooplankton via specialized pores. Its powers have also increased the organisms range by using spores to move to new deep locations, especially by attaching to the invisible Sprigginia floundersi. Curiously, the spores also tend to follow the Mycelium network of Xinuiningella rara. Although, this new spore method also provides a potential new food source for other Ediacarans. Other sessile feeders now have steep competition.
| Power Level | Pop | Food Gathering | Health | Speed | Movement | Intel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.8 | 3 | ? | 1 | 0 | ? |
Xinuiningella rara
This Pyrokinesis (Firebending) powered sessile organism has now become a Fungus. This strange Fungus has been able to expand slightly into more northern regions and deeper regions of the ancient oceans due to its Firebending ability warming the water around it. Underground, underwater Mycelium networks from colonies of this organism have begun to penetrate into the microbial mats, creating new antagonistic and mutualistic relationships in the oceans not seen at this point in the previous timeline. However, this Fungus is facing competition from other sessile feeders and the burrowing invisible Spriggina floundersi, with the Mycelium avoiding the sonications from Vendoconularia triradiata.
| Power Level | Pop | Food Gathering | Health | Speed | Movement | Intel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.3 | 2.5 | ? | 1 | 0 | ? |
Spriggina floundersi
Having the power of Hyper-camo (Invisibility), it has slightly expanded its range beyond most of the sessile feeders. The small gain in speed from more efficient movement, due to having bilateral symmetry, is offset by the organismโs new chitin proto-armor. The proto-armor creates slightly deeper depressions in the microbial mats, which can now have Mycelium close to Xinuiningella rara colonies. For now, this is the only organism that truly moves horizontally across the ocean floor, occasionally running into the light flash from Arborea elegans.
| Power Level | Pop | Food Gathering | Health | Speed | Movement | Intel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.3 | 2.2 | ? | 1 | 1 | ? |
Flabellophyton Mystificus
This vase-like metazoan with Attraction Force has become slight larger. Due to this, it takes slightly more time to mature, and thus reproduce, forming less dense colonies than before. Thus, the habitat range of this range has expanded less than of other sessile organism, and is facing increasing competition from other sessile feeders. The organism has made up for it by have appendages to increase the gathering area of potential microscopic food, and does not seem bothered by the Mycelium from Xinuiningella rara like Arborea elegans.
| Power Level | Pop | Food Gathering | Health | Speed | Movement | Intel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.9 | 3 | ? | 1 | 0 | ? |
Vendoconularia triradiata
The trisymmetrical, phosphate mineral shell organism with Echolocation (Sonic Scream) has become more precise in stunning microscopic prey by using โsonic armโ appendages. This has led to an increase in its colony density due to shortening the minimum distance to avoid its own vibrations, but the underground underwater Mycelium from Xinuiningella rara still tends to avoid areas of higher density of this organism. When combined with its improved chemoreceptor ability, the organism had vastly improved its ability to gather food. Despite not expanding its habitat range on the ocean floor, the increase in colony density makes up for it.
| Power Level | Pop | Food Gathering | Health | Speed | Movement | Intel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.0 | 4 | ? | 1 | 0 | ? |
Arborea elegans
This Light Control powered fern-like animal organism has evolved the ability to somehow trap and store excess light that filters through the oceanic Twilight Zone. This light is then used in a light flashing defense mechanism, but no current organism is able to detect this light. However, this does slightly end up concentrating UV rays, which can cause small damage to other organisms. Also, this ability does end up briefly disrupting Spriggina floudersiโs Hyper-camo (Invisibility), which more often than not bears the brunt of this sessile light-manipulatorโs powers. This has caused a slight decrease in density of the colonies of this organism in order to better gather light, as its habitat range has barely increased. Like Flabellophyton Mystificus, it does not mind the underground Mycelium from Xinuiningella rara.
| Power Level | Pop | Food Gathering | Health | Speed | Movement | Intel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.3 | 1 | ? | 1 | 0 | ? |
Planet Conditions:
Mean atmospheric O2 content: ~8.08 vol % (~40.4% of modern)
Mean atmospheric CO2 content: ~4545 ppm (~16.2 times pre-industrial)
Mean surface temperature: ~18ยฐC (4.5ยฐC above pre-industrial)
Mean Sea level: +20m above present
Everyone has 2 Mutations.
What Super Powers would you give to Plants and microorganisms?
What should we name the Period instead of the Ediacaran?
- Mara
- Atla
- Yuntu