Gods of the Planet - Part 2: Ascent of Life

"You should not meddle in my business, TEO. If we leave everything 'balanced', then nothing will happen! I'm rather annoyed at your petulance at figuring out what I should do! You should use your powers to preserve what already exists, not to prevent what does not exist to be created. Besides, I took a random moon to be my testing ground. Certain gods are using the only planet with life in this vast universe, and they are failing. I urge you to not meddle in my things, because it was me who packed the mistake that happened in the main planet."





OOC: TGK don't get mad please xD I'm just referring to your god with my god, nothing personal.

Nal'onor

"I am afraid I must side with Gabrielus on this issue. The creation of liing Little Ones goes above everything else. The creation, and preservation, of life is our one and only duty as Gods."


Zagra

"Can you guys just stop whining and bomb that moon already? I'm bored. I want to see explosions."

Makuuk: We must preserve the life but what use are they if not under our worship. If they cannot worship us, what may they worship. The dirt they live on? Disgusting!

Gabrielus (GabrielGG) - Divine Meteor: 15

Focusing his entire higher form into a single point of material space, Gabrieulus condenses into a ball of immense heat and light. He then charges straight for the core of the moon, piercing its exterior like a speeding bullet.

At the core, he releases his coalesced energy into his new surroundings. Miles of solid rock melt, and a magnetic field emanates from moon's poles. Enormous volcanoes roar into existence from the sudden pressure deep below, pumping gases into the atmosphere that Meph has held steady.

Gabrielus's essence, having escaped through the new volcanoes, reforms far above the moon's north pole.

Hinst (agenttine) - Transport Life to Poles: 11

By manipulating the ocean currents, Hinst relocates organism to both of the main planet's poles. A new species of algae, rather than form tiny, distinct rings like before, creates weblike networks of cells upon the ceiling of ice, allowing it to maximize surface area (therefore, exposure to light). Meanwhile, sponges that grew adapted to the cold develop in ways to make the most of their surroundings; the north's sponges are incredibly porous balls, while the south's branch frequently, making them resemble antlers.

Xelio (Skyguy98) - Inspire Predation: 13

To drive the evolution of life, Xelio encourages the development of predatory species. A malformed strain of polyp creatures grows upside down, so that its mouth faces the ground. The result is the appearance of small "pancakes" that crawl slowly, drawing food from the sand or rock underneath them. Gradually, some of these creatures develop distinct mouths, using a ring of jagged material to cut sponges into edible pieces.

As a defense, some of the symbiotic polyps incorporate silicon into their body to make themselves more difficult to eat. Upon death, their mineral skeletons form layers for more of these polyps to take root upon. Gradually, they form reefs, which are given color by the algae these polyps host. These reefs form in strict conditions, usually in the planet's tropical areas.

Meanwhile, algae at the seafloor forms larger colonies that the crawling creatures cannot eat all at once. These colonies root to one spot, but grow outward in thin, wispy strands.


Current System

• G-Class Star: This yellow dwarf is the largest and most influential body in the system, and is located at its center. It forms a trinary system with its fellow two stars.
• K-Class Star: This orange dwarf forms a tinary system with its kin.
• M-Class Star: This red dwarf is the smallest participant in the tinary star system.

[li]Dwarf Planet: This small, rocky sphere has no atmosphere due to the constant barrage of solar winds.[/li]
[li]Terrestrial Planet: The "main planet" has an oxygenated atmosphere, and its seas are home to simple multicellular life. Its continents are a down-facing semicircle slightly to the north, its former other half to the south, a north-opening "crescent" hosting a caldera with a giant crystal (created by an earth god), and a lung-like pair of continents due south of the semicircles. There is also a small landmass that formed the eastern part of a continent before it split into the semicircles, and now drifts toward the crescent-shaped one. The planet's northern icecap has enormous, yet thin stumps of ice, and the southern one has shorter, but thicker spikes.[/li]

• Biosphere: Bacteria, algae, sponges, polyps, tiny "jellyfish," seafloor "pancakes," coral

• Moon: This small moon orbits the main planet, and exerts tidal force on its oceans.

[li]Ice Giant: This large, blue, gaseous planet sports a mantle of heavy gases like nitrogen. It is orbited by a ring system, as well as a plethora of small moons.[/li]

• Volcanic Moon: This small moon has an active core and stable atmosphere thanks to the gods' actions.

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Hinst
"Oooh, some reefs! I need some of those!"
Action: Transport some polyps to both poles

"Wow, it literally worked. First of all, I beg your pardon, TEO. You know that my goal has never been to irritate you. Secondly: Could some Earth, Life and Water gods help me?"

Action: Force the creation of a large crater filled with lava on the moon

The Eternal One sighs, reasoning that if you can't beat them, then join them.

Action: Advance time on the moon to help with terraforming

It's really dead... I think it needs a life god!

I think I let this sit while Aquos was away... And then it just sat for a while, even after he returned.

Back to business!

Hinst (agenttine) - Transport coral to poles: 19

Currents, driven by Hinst, relocate free-swimming coral planaria to the north and south. The two new populations respond to the cold and resource scarcity of their new habitats in different ways. The ones in the north become more competitive, becoming flat but rotund to seize more surface area. The other instead goes tall, with colonies forming roughly-shaped "stacks" of "plates."

The northern colonies offer plenty of surface area for a northern strain of "pancake" to graze. The south colonies, on the other hand, shelter algae off the ground, providing food for zooplankton just above the seafloor, in turn providing food for a southern strain of jellyfish.

Gabrielus (GabrielGG) - Create Lava Crater: 20

Gabrielus generates intense heat just beneath a vast impact crater. This compounds with the already intense volcanic activity going on, forcing the new reservoirs of magma to blast through the surface. The result is a yawning expanse of churning lava, as if the moon itself had developed a fiery eye.

The Eternal One (TheGraveReaper) - Advance Time on the Volcanic Moon: 10

The Eternal One hastens natural forces on the gas giant's newly-revived moon. Lava gushes out faster, but hardens into new surface rock just as quickly. The same is true for the replenishment of magma tubes, leading to even more eruptions.

However, another force emerges faster, as well; weather. The rudimentary atmosphere assembled by Meph, having descended to the moon itself, finds itself thickened by the sudden geologic outbursts releasing volcanic gases. Clouds of sulfur compound-laden water give way to acid rain, which carves runoff pathways for itself through volcanic rock via erosion.


Colonial algae around the crescent continent, and around the semicircle continent's northern regions, evolves to grow taller and wider. The formerly thin strands become more blade-like to soak in more solar energy. In response, a new form of "pancake" derived from the northern strain develops sharper "teeth" to cut off pieces of this new bounty.


Current System

• G-Class Star: This yellow dwarf is the largest and most influential body in the system, and is located at its center. It forms a trinary system with its fellow two stars.
• K-Class Star: This orange dwarf forms a trinary system with its kin.
• M-Class Star: This red dwarf is the smallest participant in the trinary star system.

[li]Dwarf Planet: This small, rocky sphere has no atmosphere due to the constant barrage of solar winds.[/li]
[li]Terrestrial Planet: The "main planet" has an oxygenated atmosphere, and its seas are home to simple multicellular life. Its continents are a down-facing semicircle slightly to the north, its former other half to the south, a north-opening "crescent" hosting a caldera with a giant crystal (created by an earth god), and a lung-like pair of continents due south of the semicircles. There is also a small landmass that formed the eastern part of a continent before it split into the semicircles, and now drifts toward the crescent-shaped one. The planet's northern icecap has enormous, yet thin stumps of ice, and the southern one has shorter, but thicker spikes.[/li]

• Biosphere: Bacteria, algae, sponges, polyps, tiny "jellyfish," seafloor "pancakes," coral

• Moon: This small moon orbits the main planet, and exerts tidal force on its oceans.

[li]Ice Giant: This large, blue, gaseous planet sports a mantle of heavy gases like nitrogen. It is orbited by a ring system, as well as a plethora of small moons.[/li]

• Volcanic Moon: This small moon has an active core and stable atmosphere thanks to the gods' actions.

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