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>>4580370
Creature time!

Vernicle are microorganisms which float around the currents of the star in great big swarms, looking for organisms to latch onto like a coat of rust and slowly digest. If they cannot find any - which, considering the vastness of their biosphere is likely - they can make due with inorganic matter, asteroids or clumps of minerals, where they perform a slowed down version of their digestion, often taking centuries to reproduce in proper numbers, rather than months when on, say a Borgwold.

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>>4580374
Borgwolds are solitary giants, floating through solarsphere and filtering Vernicles as well as other organic or semiorganic particles from its nebulae.
Borgwolds are not particularely intelligent, having little in the way of sensory organs, but they nonetheless do have a decentralized brain running down their spine. This brain they mostly use for idle contemplation, as it is not meant to help them deal with any problems by means of computation, but through producing ectoplasm (see Eldritch Evo for details). It is capable of storing its own ectoplasm and expelling it in a big cloud when attacked by Sothix, confusing and frightening off its predator.

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>>4580377
Sothix are dedicated predators to Borgwolds and track them through the vastness of the solarsphere using thier photo- as well as null-sensitive eyes. When they find a Borgwold (or sometimes a fellow Sorthix) they latch onto it with their upper mouth and begin feeding with their lower one. They reproduce by parting in the middle.
They also are able to produce pocket dimensions (See Eldritch Evo for details) which they use both for cover in attacks as well as for flight.

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>>4580374

Some vernicles develop mouth-like organs. They use these to smootch, but its not ordinary smootching. Instead it's used for sexual reproduction and passing genes and stuff.

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>>4580374
The Predatory Vernicle prefers the taste of other Vernicles to the taste of Borgwolds.
It's clamps elongate and curve to let it more easily latch onto Vernicles.

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>>4580374
>>4580380
>>4580380
Vernicles dont have thoughts, not really, but some of them have adapted to stealing ectoplasm from others, collecting those flickers of experience only to expel them out in a vaporized puff to propel them forward, empty once more. What new instinct they do have is simply that of "want." And they will move to what they want.
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Borgwolds decentralized brain continues to serve little practical use, but over time, the best of the thinkers were able to reproduce, and perhaps grow. To that end there are hemispherical lobes growing on either side of the spine, for the preservation and recall of experience, memory.
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Sothix adapt almost imperceptibly; small furrows in their primary mouth enable capillary flow of vital fluids from their prey into their own open loop digestive system. The lower mouth becomes used less often.

This by the same anon that did eldritch evo? The art for the clouds and organisms look like it.

>>4580753
Course, I could actually use my brain cells and read the OP, and that'd tell me the answer.
Still, at least the art did immediately chime me in on it.

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>>4580403
The mouths gain tongues for more efficient kissing tactics.

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>>4580374
Facing the threat of predatory vernicles, some original ones grow a carapace to protect themselves.

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>>4580541
The Borgwold's lobes become wrinklier - not to increase processing power, but to have more surface area to take in surrounding chemicals with, the two organs now serving an olfactory function and helping the creature determine the best feeding spots.

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Weirdly, enough has been posted for a phylo chart.

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>>4580374
having a bigger mouth and hooked teeth to latch onto asteroids helps there passive feeding making them more effective at catching drifting dust and gobbling down rocks that bump into there feeding hole

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>>4581339
developing a flatter more wide shape does help clinging onto borgworlds and does also help a bit against predation

>>4583348
GEN 2

>>4583348
OH AND THEY SOMETIMES HAVE OR DO NOT HAVE A FULLY DEVELOPED 3RD SEGMENT it just happens sometimes

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The abundance of Vernicles in the Solarsphere, in combination with the modest number of larger creatures has lead to Vernicle-covered asteroids being a common occurance.

Far slower to be consumed than Borgwolds or Sothix, it takes millennia, sometimes millions of years, to cover an asteroid with hardening vernicles, while its inner minerals are being eroded slowly and turned into biomass.

By now however, there are numerous such obejcts: large balls of biological matter floating around space, slowly spreading and offering fertile soil for potential organisms to settle on them.

>New ecosystem: Vernicle Asteroids

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>>4580380
Several sothix develop venom glands and begin using neurotoxins to hunt the parent subspecies more efficiently. Borgwolds, however, are too big for a single predator to paralyse, as a result, some sothix begin forming flocks to take down the giants.

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>>4580541
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Other wrinkly Borgworlds don't develop their new brain mass into a hearing organ but into one to generate pocket dimensions. Though they don't usually use it for themselves, but to invade those of predatory Sothix, reaching into their dimensions and yanking them out to crush them and thus prevent them from latching on to the Borgwold

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>>4580921
The Frenchnicle develops crude limbs that allow it to hold on to their sexual mate

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>>4583215
The Carapace Vernicle develops a non-organic exoskeleton to help it not get squished by the ocasional buffeting it recieves from pebble rain.

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>>4583348
The Drooling Vernicle has developed holes in it's shell. These lead into blowhole-like structures which they use to suck in some of the gases of the solarsphere. Some of these chemicals are processed and turned into a secretion that corrodes their food, which helps speed up their digestion.

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>>4583348
A type of vernicle has evolved a shell that reacts with light, creating energy and powering the organism.
It usually hangs out near the >>4584723, as it's digestive secretion complements the photosynthesis quite well.

>>4584789
I messed up the generation number quite badly

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>>4580541
The vernicles naturally evolve to move quicker. They also gain two "vents" in order to move better towards what they "want" and from what they dont.

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>>4580380
Some Sothix radically simplify

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>>4580541
>>4583703
Several sothix begin using their furrows to suck in large masses of vernicles covering the asteroids. The upper spikes atrophy due to lack of use; the folds of their upper mouth elongate for better reach and flexibility; the lower one mostly serves a defensive function at this point. The new subspecies is known as the sonoth.

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New Phylo chart!

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>>4585555
for protection against the vernicles, the eye is coated in thick adhesive slime. This also helps collect more vernicles for consumption.

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>>4585550
The simplified Sothix becomes the Simpx. Able to join their grappler appendages together, they form a common stomach with their flock.

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>>4593290
The Simpx gains a third bodily extremity, useful for strengthening it's grip on it's fellows.

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>>4585555
The eye has gained a saucer-like shape, acting as a "door" to the mouth cavity. It also serves a secondary purpose - the cellular machinery previously used for eyesight has been converted into runes that generate energy when null light(such as that harvested from dead plankton's ectoplasm) passes through them.

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>>4584712
fierce sexual combat is afoot them using a hard tooth growth along with there limbs allows them to grapple with each other and lead around the genitals with the loser being impregnated and having the male organ eaten while the winner saves up energy that would have been spent on gestating too growing bigger and stronger

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>>4580470
vrabs with there grinding teeth slowly grind up there food grinding there shells and rocks gripping using there tail with a concave pit giving it grip

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>>4583814
eventually all that brain mass extended out, and became sensitive, crudely so, to various wavelengths of light. Unusually, it allowed the Borgworlds to see the many tunnels of other organisms, as burrowed into their pocket dimensions and overlaid across reality.

The Borgworlds became patient hunters, simply waiting out their enemies when needed, or able to keenly evade predators.

kind of a bump the qm is planning a event but is kinda having there hands full or something

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>>4585483
Ventricles develop another pair of vents, allowing much speedier movement, enough to escape from predators.

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>>4594742
While useful for sexual selection rituals, the Miner Frenchnicle discovers it can use its pincers to break down its rocky food sources. They develop light-sensitive spots on their backs, which help them detect brittle crystaline formations to crush.

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>>4584723
the drooling creatures have a corrosive sticky goo surrounding them and moving with them somehow? they seem quite prolific with quite a bit of genetic diversity(seems like having no real predators allows for quite a bit of diversity with there spread with each asteroids population looking a bit different)

there young not quite being copies of there parents much smaller and softer even consuming what the adults leave behind this "heterochrony"? seems to allow the young to develop quite well with all needed nutrients and material.
there goo seems to glue other rocks to each other

>>4604283
>>4604274
i posted these for someone else who got range banned

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>>4584712
The Vernicle has gained a second set of genitalia on the opposite end of it's body; and with it, a crude means of locomotion, keeping one genital suckered onto the host while rotating it's body to reposition the other, then switching and repeating the process.

https://youtu.be/8a_G8xaGCsk

Does anyone have any questions?

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>>4580377
Borgland are a smaller less migratory variant of the Borgworld who mostly hang around feeding grounds of Drooling covered asteroids and space dust scrapping the surface with there "trunk" and moving around mainly with there tentacles to grapple around. There decentralized brains clustered on there back allows them to send out pulses of ecto for zeromass lost propulsion to slow down there momentum allowing for rendezvous with bigger asteroids for easier feeding

So we have one sun so this evo is based on the Aeather sea with space just being the sea/ocean we do have kinda have a atmosphere of gasses but one could compare most of the life her to being anarobic or anoxic or how ever its spelled they simply have a metabolism that does not need oxygen and in this case the atmosphere

Please inform me what can be improved or changed?

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>>4604274
As the Ventricle's lifestyle becomes more active, it starts requiring a faster metabolism; and a faster metabolism usually requires higher temperatures. Thus, a development is made: one of the vent pairs is folded in on itself and turned into a sort of "heater" which traps the expunged ectoplasm and converts it's kinetic energy to warmth. While slower than their four-engined cousins, these Ventricles can keep going for longer periods of time, and are less dependent on external temperature.

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>>4584789
with a dramatic morphological hormone shift its not longer having bilateral symmetry instead having DOUBLE bilateral symmetry completely encased it in photosynthetic shell protecting it from crushing and impacts while also feeding it energy

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>>4585636
with its much more muscular limbs and channels they collect the slime doing such impressive things as flinging spinning slime bolas to tangle up and immobilize prey or flinging tendrils of slime to reel in food

>>4593813
is this not like a proto beholder?

Anyone know how too archive

>>4617605
Unfortunately not. I think there's instructions on sup/tg. And you can always find the thread archived on yuki.la later.

>>4618080
>>4617605
i got help in discord archiving it so we have it stored and fun news last time i looked it now updates automatically making it so nothing is lost in the thread.
>>4618080
so how do you feel about the thread its content and such, do you have any complaints or ideas?