Sagan 4

This week’s creature was made by one of our newer team members, Dass. The concept is simple but unique in the Sagan world. It’s like a giant smiley that swallows up everything. I have to say that three of the creatures I clicked on as possible feature’s were Dass’s so I think he was a good choice this week.

Sceletus gurgito replaced it`s ancestor. It is very similar to its ancestor in appearance however, the cell is far from it. Its ancestor lacks a cytoskeleton making it unstable, the Sceletus gurgito however has muscles all over its body, it uses its muscles to engulf swarms of smaller cells. Sceletus gurgito uses its muscles to “flap” its body for locomotion and picks up vibrations in the water via the cell membrane and whenever it senses a swarm of smaller cells it traps them. As it now has muscles of its own, it can fragment at will.

My pick this week is another creation by Hydromancerx. This worm like creature lives in the Polar regions. Killing it’s prey like a snake yet mating in a 3 gender orgy.

Polar seadragolden split from its ancestor the seadragolden. It has migrated to the cold polar waters of the north. Its white fuzzy body helps keep it warm as well as sensing changes in the water. Like its ancestor, the hairs in its mouth play an important function by assisting in “smelling”. They filter the water and pick up any scents in them. It will lurk near openings in the ice and wait for onyroslee or dawn scrapers to enter the waters. It will grab on to their head and the squeeze them with their body, constricting them. Some of the hairs on their backs are spiny and it will impale the prey.

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.. and the winner is… Rhodix!! Congratulations on an awesome drawing.

This looked really unique to me and kind of creepy, not something I’d want to run into but good thing its an herbivore. The Vegehopper was created by Neoskel.

The vegehopper evolved from Russian swarmers which stayed near the surface and banks of the river. With the evolution of the bank balgae and then the mavrophyte and bunopad these swarmers took advantage of this new food source and the new lack of predators.
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Sorry I’m a little late this week but here is my pick of the week. A unique mutated creature by Huckbuck.

Crescoquin scindestus replaced Crescofons orgapertraho in Jujubee Ocean. Due to mutation it has evolved into a new shape. It is now built of five photosyntetic shell parts, and a four jointed white part which works as before. Crescoquin scindestus has the same method of survival as Crescofons orgapertraho had, though it has been polished to be even better. It can now sink even lower by gaining more density, but still float at the water surface when it wants to, and the bigger photosynthetic parts get more sunlight, providing Crescoquin scindestus with more energy, enough to support the new size.

The new map is finished showing the effects of the Gamma Ray burst.

A contest was recently run on the Sagan 4 forum to allow one Sentient/Sapient creature to evolve but with a catch. The winning creature would not survive the Gamma Ray Burst. It would be put in the Gen 100 Species 24 spot. The species can only be stone age technology, cannot domesticate other creatures.

We have a winner!

Congratulations to Somarinoa and his creature the Nomad.

The Nomads came into existence when an offshoot of the Savanna Roamers resulted in a significantly larger brain, which enabled them to communicate much more complex thoughts to their peers, and this quickly led to sapience. They were also naturally shorter than their ancestors, which helped them survive easier.

They now communicate through two different means: at close range, they will signal one another with their chameleonic skin, while for longer range communication or areas where visual communications are not feasible, they use a “vocal membrane” that is attached to their backs. This produces very deep, low-frequency infrasounds, which most species cannot hear, and which the Nomads themselves pick up due to the sensitive skin of the vocal membrane, itself.
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After the gamma ray burst, life must start anew on Sagan 4. Gen. 101 consists of single cell organisms. I found this one to be an interesting concept using water diffusion. This was created by Yannick.

Radiodurans maximae is unique in it’s kind. It diffuses water through it’s cell membrane, which makes it’s way to the white water stockpiles, which look similar to vacuole. In these white spheres, all the water gets stored. While passing through the white tubes that attach the water stockpiles with the red fusion chamber, the H²O gets broken into hydrogen, hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen gets diffused into the cytoplasm, and CO is released. After passing through the white tubular organelles, the two hydrogen atoms go into the red ‘fusion chamber’, called the isotoconvertor. They go deeper into the isotoconverter, where pressure builds. Once they hit the bottom, pressure is immense, and mitochondria produce heat. The yellow mitochondria get their energy from decomposing material that this bacterium eats, while it is energy, it is worthless energy for the bacterium. This worthless energy gets stored into the mitochondria that use it for hydrogen fusion. After the fusion, the helium atoms pass through a green tube, which diffuses the helium, and sends the energy toward the nucleus, which sends the energy to all the organelles.

Due to it’s feeding habits, this bacterium can stand 10.000 Gy and temperatures of over 300°C and reproduces slowly for a microbe.