How to Join the Sagan 4 Team

[nicksb]

Way lucky!  I've been trying to join for almost a year and you've almost done it in one post!!!  Seriously though, nice job.

Meh people who have good art from the get go get in faster. Don't worry nick it took me well over a year to get in. For people like us it just takes persistance and a willingness to listen to and attempt to apply critisism. So you'll get there eventually as long as ya keep trying

Yeah, but at least I'm going get a species in, and I'm going to see if it can apply for the month challenge, and I think it should make major changes to the ecosystem and environment of Mason.  I've got a feeling this is going to be the one.

[TheBigL]

The Longisketter replaced the Emerald Ketter in the Darwin Area, I think it still lives on Drake though.

[nuevolución]

Manisketter (Kitrae manis)

Creator: Nuevolución
Ancestor: Emerald Ketter
Habitat: Drake Temperate Rainforest
Size: 50 cm Long
Diet: Herbivore (Pioneroots, Marbleflora), Photosynthesis
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Live Birth

The manisketter has split from its ancestor the emerald ketter. Unlike their ancestor, the manisketter spend less time in tree, but still are arboreal creatures. They have left their frugivores diet and an important change has been the development of a shield that afford it protection from predators, but also used for photosynthesis. In sexual reproduction, the female only gives birth to a baby.

[BomberBoy]

Cool! I am just redoing my Polyfoi genus...

[nicksb]

Superskeletal Scylla


       The superskeletal scylla split frrom it's ancestor, the reef scylla, and spread across Mason.  It's success came from the adapted protein liquid, originally fed to young, but now used to "remember" the designs for organs from the organisms that it eats.  It then can grow those parts from it's body, gradually forming a second body around it's first, while the original body becomes more and more nervous tissue, eventually completely becoming the brain of the organism.

They are very social, and live in large groups.  They will often dig small rivers to places for them to have water, and some even "farm" the towering stiltbulb.  They can live up to 12 years, and, nearing death, will instictively go to a place to die, many choosing the same place, forming large graveyards.

      They reproduce by laying an "egg" that explodes and produces spores.  Many of the spores die in the explosion, releasing many different gasses into the air.  When a living spore makes contact with another superskeletal scylla of the opposite sex, the two immediatly seek each other out, mate, then both produce an egg that hatches into a larva.

Creator: nicksb
Ancestor: Reef Scylla
Habitat: Global (Mason)
Size: 15 cm. Long
Diet:Omnivore (Farside gildring, parasitic gildring, symbiotic gildring, symbiocrust, crustling, guildring, airbulb, northern gildring, southern gildring, crusticillus, toxic airbulb, hexdigger, eastern foldbulb, hexdriller, spineback scylla, helmethead scylla, towering stiltbulb, grasping teci, hexborer, mollisnite, network stiltbulb, modular gelatus, burrowing provuci, raskovnik, terranite, reef scylla), photosynthesis.
Reproduction: Sexual, one gender, explosive spore eggs, then lay egg.

Yeah yeah, I'll get the gen. # on there in a couple of days.

[Hydromancerx]

@nicksb

Please do a Sagan 4 species, not a Mason one. You can post Mason ones after you join.

[Hydromancerx]

@nuevolución

Welcome to the Team! Please re-post your species in the organism submission section. Once there I will merge it in the generation thread. Feel free to post as often as you want.

[Elerd]

Congratulations nuevolución!
Welcome to the team

[nicksb]

I'm getting started on a October challenge creature based off Slenderman.

Post Merge: October 18, 2012, 05:31:54 PMSlendersquid

Creator: nicksb
Ancestor: Phantom Filtersquid, Colonial Filtersquid
Size: Without tentacles: 1 meter With tentacles: 3 meters  Weight: 400 lbs.
Habitat: Jujubee Ocean (Trench Floor), Jujubee Ocean (Trench Zone), Jujubee Ocean (Trench Slope), Blarg Cold Seep, Jujubee Ocean (Midnight Floor), Jujubee Ocean (Midnight Zone), Jujubee Ocean (Midnight Slope), Jujubee Ocean (Twilight Floor), Jujubee Ocean (Twilight Zone), Jujubee Ocean (Twilight Slope), Otter Vents, South Jujubee Polar Ocean (Sunlight Zone), North Jujubee Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), South Jujubee Temperate Ocean (Sunlight Zone), North Jujubee Polar Ocean (Sunlight Zone),
Diet: Carnivore (Datirs, Field Swarmer, Heavycoat, Sapworms, Krillpedes, Cloudswarmers, Miniswarmers, Padlers, Bloister, Phantom Filtersquid, Cerulean Gillfin, Hithhiker Scuttler, Scuttleball Gillfin, Royal Scylarian, Diamond Pumpgill, Sucker Swarmer, Gillrom, Droopgea Trapinout, Fused-Shell Roj, Strainerbeak, Snatcherswarmer, Bejeweled Emperor Scylarian, Hullback, Tetracrusicruge, Spiny Roj, Sucker Swarmer, Marine Tamow, Tamjack, Rippletail, )
Reproduction: Asexual infestation

   The Slendersquid split off from it's ancestosr the Phantom Filtersquid and Colonial Filtersquid. It is an apex predator, hunted by nothing, nothing fearing it, for their prey never escapes long enough to inform others of it.  Unlike their ancestors, the Slendersquid cannot change color,and do not live in social groups, (they will hunt together occasionally though) but they  have a far more dangerous hunting ability that makes ambushing pathetic.  Their brain has become so developed that it gives off a biological electromagnetic field that it uses to sense it's surroundings.  It injects other animals with an electric neurotoxin through barbs on their "hands".  When the creature is near the Slendersquid, the Slendersquid controls the creatures using it's electric field, forcing it to bring it food or to become food.  This does not mean that they  are useless in a fight however.  Their tentacles can stretch five times their original length and are strong enough to bend metal, their skin is as strong as iron, and they can deliver a mild shock from their electric field.

   They reproduce by injecting a larger creature with their electric neurotoxin and DNA, which forms an embryo that feeds off the creature it is in, eventually bursting from and eating the creature.

   Their strange mouths are on their "hands", merely dozens of small holes with barbs inside.  These are the babs which inject other creatures with their DNA and electric neurotoxin, and can also function as tongues.

I'm going to get the picture and the prey items later.

[Hydromancerx]

@nicksb

Only Genus Groups can be "Global" since by their nature they are more than one species.

[nicksb]

   Well, not going to qualify for the October challenge since the computer screwed me up on one of my postings and it got deleted.

[Chillypaz the Second]

Guys, I'm sorry for my abysmal behavior for the past 3 years. Would you please forgive me?

[nuevolución]

Guys, I'm sorry for my abysmal behavior for the past 3 years. Would you please forgive me?

Who are you?

[Chillypaz the Second]

You weren't there when I caused all that ruckus when I was known as "chillypaz". Does anyone remember me?

[Hydromancerx]

@Chillypaz

Well its been awhile, if you act respectfully to everyone and don't bring drama to the forum, I don't see why not. Note that you still have to pass the joining stuff like everyone else has. Hopefully in the last 3 years you have practiced your art and can try again. Please do not get upset if its not accepted on the first try. Unless your a really good artist they are not normally accepted on the first try.

In short be respectful to others and we will be respectful to you. Welcome back.