Ayaan's alien stuff

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ASTRONAUT - HIBIKI ITO, BIOLOGIST OF CREW APOLLO 432

ARTIST - MY WONDERFUL BROTHER

Carbon Dioxide: 2.4%

Sulfur Dioxide: 0.1%

Sol Orbis are the dominant species of plant in the nothern hemisphere of the western continent. This is due to it both its massive size(40m tall) and due to it having incredibly resiliant, thick skin. This same armored skin also covers the large sun collecting disk on the top of its body. These giants mainly live in the northen grasslands and less in the jungle, this is because the rainforests down south are too congested for these giants to grow. Sol Orbis provides a food source for the Sol Comedenti(check the Fauna Page), the largest land animals of C-100.

These plants fill a similar ecological niche as mangroves, acting as shelter for land animals living in the swamp from the tides and protects the smaller animals from predators. Cyathos Paludis have also evolved very dense but flexiable wood that makes them able to survive the harsh tides of the Sea of Dragons(aka The Eastern Interior Seaway). The cup-like structures that grow all over it's body are reproductive organs of the plants, similar to flowers on earth.

While the Sol Comedenti(check the Fauna Page) are the largest land animals of C-100, the Victor Terram are the largest living organism. In the midwest of the western continent, they dominant an astonishing area of 5000km. While they all look like seperate organisms, they are all linked together via a network similar to mycelium networks in mushrooms and all share information and nutrients. This makes the millions, if not billions of indiviuals one super organism. They are the sole reason for the Poncu Savvannah due to preventing any other plants from growing there, effectively acting as a barrier from the rainforest.

These plants opted out of the intense competition that takes place between plants on the ground by instead evolving helium sacks to float in the air. Due to the planet's low gravity and thick atmosphere, they are able to remain suspended in the air for their entire lives, carried around by air currents. These plants act as resting places for flying creatures and as places for Volitare Silvas(Check the Fauna Page) to lay their eggs.

Colligator Aauae are a highly specialized plants that live in the Smokey Forest biome deep in the caverns of C-100. The Smokey Forest is a biome created by a creature called Dator Vitae(Check the Fauna Page), in this biome there is no light, so how does a plant survive without light? These plants instead collect rainwater and condensed water from the cave ceiling which they then convert into sugars, similar to photosythesis but it takes out the need for sunlight entirely.

Fructus Deorum are very typical fruit bearing plants that produce purple berries, there purple berries have a very different make up than most fruits on earth. Elira(not Miku, name change I did for a rewrite) uses these berries to make her(I accidently wrote him on the page) Purple Berry Brew which is similar to a latte or strong coffee.

Below are some of my favorite Speculative Evolution Projects and also some of my favorite speculative evolution projects that have inspired me to get into making my own creatures.

Kappa: The World of Turtles

The Dragonslayer Codex

Speculative Evolution Youtubers also played such a brig role when it came to helping me on my own journey of the creating the planet of C-100.

Vividen: Paleontology Evolved

Volitare Silva evolved very uniquely due to being one of the few "flying" aliens that has 4 limbs instead of the standard six limbs that most flying creatures have. These creatures' evolutionary history is very similar to that of whales on Earth. Instead of going starting out on land, Volitare Silva started out in the water. Since the atmosphere of C-100 is denser, it was much easier for them to slowly(very slowly) evolve to go into the air. Their swimbladders, which they used to control their bouyancy in the water then evolved to instead store and produce helium which then took them into the air. The reason for this evolution to take place was due to two reasons: increased competition in the water with more dangerous predators evolving and then increased population boosts in air plankton with little to eat it meant that it was more rewarding to feed in the air instead of in the water.

Volitare Silva unlike whales on Earth, Volitare Silva aren't intelligent creatures. In terms of behaivor, they are more comparable to an Ocean Sunfish, since all they do is float around in large groups and filter feed on the air plankton. Their main strategy is to hopefully ward off predators with their numbers and then to lay hundreds of eggs at once.

Volitare Silva's despite of how dumb they are, Volitare Silva are a keystone species due to the sheer amount of air flora and faunna that revolve around them. Similarly to Sloths, their lazy life style has made it that many species of plants and animals settle on them and rely on them for their life cycles. One of the most prominant creatures that revolve around the Volitare Silva are the Fluitantis Draconis. These small flying aliens live lives similar to eusocial insects like bees. The Queens of will make a nest on the back of the Volitare Silva, taking refuge amongnst the vegitation that forms on the back of the Volitare Silva. These small aliens in return fiercly defend the Volitare Silva from their predators, which are mainly the Spinosoa Lingua Venators.

The Spinosa Lingua Venators are incredibly specialized to feed specfically on the Volitare Silva. This came about due to the Volitare Silvas' population exploding intitally due to a lack of predators(since most sky predators at the time were adapted to hunt land prey and were relatively small) and a huge supply of air plankton. The Spinosoa Lingua Venators saw this gap in the food chain and soon specialized to specfically take on the Volitare Silva. These specfic adaptations to hunt the Volitare Silva are their hardened beaks(to both graple onto their round bodies and to protect their faces from the swarms of Fluitantis Draconis) and a harpoon-like tongue reinforced with bone(to penetrate their helium sacks).

The Spinosoa Lingua Venator are incredibly bold in their hunting strategy, due to their size and specialized adaptations, they have nothing to fear when it comes to hunting the Volitare Silva, as the only thing they need to worry about is attacking one that has a big enough hoard of Fluitantis Draconis, as doing so could be potentially lethal. Other than, their strategy is to fly over and then attach position themselves properly using their 3 way beak before puncturing the helium sack using their tongue, then they would fly off, body in tow as they begin to liquify the insides and drink it up. Spinosoa Lingua Venators live their entire lives air born, their six wings act as oars on a giant ship, making flying a low intensity task for it. These aliens are also very terrtorial, esspecially during mating season, where males will fight using the spikes on the ends of their tails. This behaivor however is only seen in young males who are looking for a mate, older males don't engage in this behaivor as this species mates for life. Couples often are seen flying and hunting together.

These aliens originally lived in the rainforests of C-100 and due to this, they were much smaller as due to the sheer density of the forests, most creatures didn't have the space to get particularly large. Then, due to some kind of problem with soil(possibly a sharp increase in minerals or nitrate) caused many of the plants in the middle west of the rainforest to die. A colonial plant called "Victor Terram" had a resistance to the new toxic soil so they survived and then spread, making complex underground systems that then prevented other plants from growing in the area. This created a grasslands/savannah in the middle of the rainforest, The Cristatus Poncu Cursor took advantage of the new open space and in a few generations got much larger from their original sized(around a tapier) to large herbivores. Other than size, nothing else significantly changed fom when they were smaller. These creatures evolved to have 5 pairs of eyes early on as they were commonly predated on and it gave them near 360 degree vision. Cristatus Poncu Cursor kept this adaptation(unlike their cousins Cristatus Serpens which only kept 4 pairs of eyes instead of 5). The reason for keeping this adaptation is because of the giant predators that came out of the formation of the Savvannah(in particular Armato Rege and Terram Cete) so having the extra vision allowed them to warn their herds better. This species also displays sexual dimorphism, with the males having giant colorful frills which they use to compete for mates and heirarchy in the herd.

Cristatus Poncu Cursor herds have 1 "alpha" which is a male that ensures the safety of the rest of the herd, decides where they graze, really any big decision for the herd would be made by this indivual. Herds were made up of both males and females, the prescense of other males obviously leads to conflict, esspecially during mating season, but sometimes other males will challenge the alpha in an attempt to take control of the herd. Now, some males will also decide to leave the herd entirely and join a new herd but that is rare. Now, how are these disputes between males settled? They aren't settled with wrestling matches or by fighting, instead the males will circle one another whilst showing off their giant frills and singing(their singing sounds similar to a sharp whistling). Whoever has the bigger, more colorful frill and the better singing wins the dispute.

Armato Rege is by all definitions a super predator. It is one of the very few hexapodal vertebrates that lives on land instead of in the air and that gives it unique advantages compared to most of the 4 limbed aliens on the ground. Other features that make Armato Rege an apex predator are; keratinous armor, double jointed front limbs, and large size. Now how did something like this evolve? Originally, Armato Rege lived only in the northern regions, due to the grasslands, abundant large prey, and lack of competition. The Armato Rege also began migrating southward as the population increased, this is due to younger indivuals trying to find their own territories. As for how they evolved, they first started off being medium sized predators, with other larger and more simple predators being apexes at the time. As the herbivores evolved more defensive traits, these predators couldn't keep up and instead the armored and more specialized Armato Rege had more success. This success led them to evolve to be larger. Another evolutionary trait that allowed them to outcompete the older, more simple aliens was it's two front limbs. The two front limbs are double jointed, which allows it to use these limbs as both legs and arms. Meaning, they can be used to slam, pin, throw, and position prey. Another interesting thing to point out about Armato Rege is that there are differences in populations in the north and the middle west. In the north, the armor isn't as dense(and they are smaller), making the northern population faster but less tanky, where as the middle west population has denser armor which makes it slower but tankier. Now, it isn't a huge difference but it is significant enough to notice. The reason for this is because in the middle west there are larger predators that at one point were able to hunt the less armored and smaller Armato Reges(The main alien that could do this was Terram Cete.), so they were forced to evolve thicker armor and larger size. Armato Rege also evolved to have some intelligence, similar to how T-Rex did, the reason for this was for 3 main reasons: raising young, locating large prey, and succesfully strategizing to take down prey.

Armato Rege's hunting strategy is quite simple, they use their coloration to blend in with the tree line before ambushing prey. Adult Armato Rege are mostly solitary creatures that control vast swaths of territory, the only times that full grown adults interact with other adults is either: Disputes over territory or mates and mating. Females ussually have 1 offspring which they usually raise on their own but there are chances where 2 offspring are born from 1 mating, which in that case, 1 offspring is raised by the female and the other by the male. The young stay with their parent for 2 years before going out on their own. Juviniles at this point are still somewhat vunerable so they will from groups of 3-5 which are called "Terrors". Terrors are called that because they are just that, its like a group of teenagers except they are all already 6'3. In the middle west, Terrors will sometimes try hunting Terram Cete. They hunt these giants by first sending one out to the burrow of the Terram Cete as bait, when it pops out, the others will then pin it down while the one used as bait finishes it off by going for soft tissue around the neck. This can obviously go incredibly wrong and Terrors will only attempt this high risk, high reward hunt when they are desperate. Terrors can also be threatened by adult Armato Reges. Terrors ussually only last for about 3 years because by then, they are ready to find their own territories.

Believe it or not, Poncu Foidens is distantly related to both Cristatus Serpens and Cristatus Poncu Cursor. This is obviously surprising because they are much smaller than both and they only have two large pairs of eyes instead of the 4 or 5 pairs that their relatives have. Now they are distantly related, meaning that they had a common ancestor very very long ago, meanwhile their two relatives are closer with one another. The reason they evolved 1 pair of eyes is because they are nocternal, having two large eyes is better than have 8 or 10 small eyes since two large eyes captured more light in low light conditions. They fill a niche similar to rabbits, small herbivores(mostly) that live mostly in burrows. The antennae are used for non verbal communication, by moving the atennae to for different shapes they can communicate different things, similar to sign language. Like their relatives, this species display sexual dimorphism, with males having small frills.

This creature, similarly to Spinosoa Lingua Venator has six limbs, two legs and 4 wings. It is a medium sized predator that has specialized in dive bombing tactics to catch prey, similar to falcons on Earth. They evolved to have flat, wedge-like bodies that make them very areodynamic which lets them accelerate to incredibly high speeds. The two things that sets this alien apart from many of the other medium sized ariel predators are it's sideways jaws and complex eyes. The sideways jaws were adapted to make it able to swoop right above the ground and snap up prey with ease that normally oriented jaws wouldn't allow. The complex eyes are for spotting prey amongnst the dense vegitation of the rainforests and along the tall grasslands of the western continent.

Terram Cete is the largest land predator on C-100, it first evolved in the southern half of the western continent, an area where it dominated. It soon moved its range all the way up to the middle west, esspecially once the Poncu Savvannah was formed. The reason it first evolved in the south was because many megafauna species first evolved down south, these species went extinct, making Terram Cete a relic of a bygone era. They are ambush predators, they spend their entire lives in their burrows, which they dig out using their large claws. Originally, they had very light osteoderms but these osteoderms got thicker as they began to share territory with Armato Reges. They have an accute sense of smell and pores all over their long snouts, similar to a crocodile's or shark's, allowing them to detect nearby prey without needing eyes. Terram Cete has experianced great success in the middle west, due to the great abbundance of large prey in this area. The Terram Cete in the south have mostly gone extinct due to lack of prey and due to lack of grassland as the south has transformed into a vast, dense rainforest. Their size makes it very hard for these creatures to reproduce, so instead they evolved to reproduce via parthenogenesis, meaning they don't need a partner to reproduce. Meaning, these aliens never meet another indivual of their own species after being born.

Luminare Reptans are closely related to Mauis Reptans and they share a lot in common with one another. The main difference between the two is that one stayed small and social(due to staying in the upper layers of the cave) and the other got larger and less social(due to going deeper into the cave system). These aliens evolved perfectly for the robust ecosystem of the upper cavern levels where there were full on ecosystems with enough prey to sustain multiple packs of Luminare Reptans. This is the reason that they have no eyes and lack pigmintation. They hunt with one another by using various different sounds such as chirps, growls, and much more as they have very complex vocal cords. They evolved to be the perfect pack hunting predators for their cave enviroment.

Recently, Luminare Reptans have been taking 2 paths. One, they've been moving out of the caves and into the forests and the other is that they've been going deeper into the caverns. This exodus of their native ecosystems(upper levels of the caverns) is due to an invasive species(Odientem Carnem). The ones that went into the jungle had to adapt, many of them learning how to use tools, using their tongues to manipulate items. Many of these groups have even formed large tribes(that inhabit the tree tops) all with their own unique cultures. The ones that went deeper into the caverns often got their packs taken over by a Mauis Reptan. This has led to the formation of a large tribe led by a large Mauis Reptan named Håßü. This group have even teamed up with the Perversi Viri to help kill the Odientem Carnem using fire. The group that went down deeper even created their own city/settlment(possibly taking inspiration from the house that the human crew had set up on the planet).

Luminare Reptans have always had advanced social dynamics, even back when they were in the caves. Most normal packs(excluding packs taken over by a Mauis Reptan), do not have an "Alpha" instead the members of the pack collaborate when making decisions and play to their strengths. All members are treated as equal in the pack and they even had a rudemenetary justice system, where the members can exile a pack member they deem dangerous with a vote. Now what do they deem as an exilable offense? Well, things like attacking another member, neglecting duties constantly, murdering another member, and any other behaivor the pack deems as threatening. Ever since the Luminare Reptans were forced out of their habitat, their social dynamics slowly evolved into the beginnings of different cultures. The reason for this change is because of 2 reasons; being forced to adapting to a new and completely different enviroment and now having larger packs. In the caves, packs averaged at 6 members and maxed at 12 members but now, packs are much larger, the largest being the pack that follows Håßü which is made up of over 230 members, thats only including Luminare Reptans, as Håßü even has other Mauis Reptans as part of his pack. One thing all the different cultures have in common is art, all of them have created art in one form or another. Most of the tribes would make music, creating instruments like drums and primitive flutes but the culture of Luminare Reptans deeper in the caverns(aka the Håßü population) make things like carvings/engravings, sculptures, and even paintings. The reason for them learning how to make art that ussually requires being able to see is likely due to them living alongside the Perversi Viri, which could have taught them how to do these kinds of arts. Another type of art that many Luminare Reptans have discovered is dancing(which makes sense considering they discovered music). Clothing or ornaments isn't something ingrained into Luminare Reptan culture, status(as an elder for example) is instead signified through how their voice sounds like. Deeper tones are associated with higher rank. This is slowly evolving in of itself as now some cultures will carry around a instrument of some kind to show status. Other cultures will instead engrave symbols into their bony armor, similar to tatoos except these engravings leave grooves and crevices that can be felt by hand. These engravings can be used to display indiviuality and indentity, along with telling others in the packs what their role is. For example, a healer will have different engravings than a hunter.

Invisibilia Interfectorem is a predator that is highly specialized for the biome it lives in; The Bamboo Forest. The Bamboo forest is a section of forest that is made up of plants that are very similar to bamboo on Earth. It adapted a purple coloration all over its body to camouflage perfectly with the bamboo around it. It's eyes are situated on the bottom of it's head so that way it can constantly scan the ground for prey. It's strategy is to use it's limbs(reinforced by bone) to impale prey. It is one of the few predators in the bamboo forest as it is a very small biome but in this biome, it is the Apex Predator. The only threat it has had is the occasional visit of larger predators passing through the bamboo forest. This alien is also the largest alien that lives in the bamboo forest and is likely the maxium size any alien in this biome could get due to lower amounts of resources.

This scissor faced alien is one of the most common herbivores in the bamboo forest, only really contested by the Rostra Pascentis. It has evolved to avoid predation from Invisibilia Interfectorem. The spikes on it's back help prevent it from getting stabbed from above and it's scissor-like jaws can potentially cripple a Invisibilia Interfectorem, which would be death sentence. The scissor jaws main purpose isn't self defense, it's more so for eating the bamboo. First it will cut a stalk into pieces, then will eat each piece. The bamboo is incredibly tough, which makes it hard to get to the nutrious inside, so lower in it's throat it has molar-like teeth to crush and grind up the pieces of bamboo. When their jaws grind against one another, they do so at an angle that allows them to automatically sharpen, similar to Dunkleosteus. Behaivorly, they are similar to capybaras, spending a lot of time in wallowing in the water of the river that the borders right on the bamboo forest. This makes them vunerable to aqautic predators in the river such as Electrica Interfectorem and Maculosus Insidiator.

Electrica Interfectorem's ancestors first evolved in large, clear lakes on the western continent of C-100. Their ancestors were larger and lacked their electical abilities but not entirely. The reason these abilties evolved was because some of these ancestors moved into rivers(due to many larger predators evolving and overcrowding in the lake ecosystems) to find food. These murkey rivers forced them to evolve a way to sense their surrondings. Their ancestors had some form of electroreception, this was used as the foundation for their current electric abilities. The small barbells on the front of their face evolved due to this same reason. Electrica Interfectorem are a lot smaller than their ancestors, which is due to there being less food in the river ecosystems compared to the lake ecosystems their ancestors evolved in.

Electrica Interfectorem don't hunt like sharks or even electric eels, instead their hunting strategy is more comparable to a spider's web. The holes all over their bodies are due to fleshy orbs that are ejected from those holes, each of these fleshy orbs carries an unique electric signal when something brushes against it. This acts like a notification, alerting it to potential prey. It will then use a ramming tatic, swimming beneath the detected prey and then ramming into it from below, targeting fins to immobolize prey. They really only use their electricity defensively against larger predators. This species is are also very territorial, often leading to conflicts between members.

Armato Occisor evolved from the same ancestor as Armato Rege but took an different approach, instead of evolving a lot of the spealizations that allowed Armato Rege to out compete the large predators in its era, the ancestors of Armato Occisor instead decided to move out of the plains and into the dense jungles of C-100's western continent. Here, the ancestors evolved to be smaller and faster, which is the opposite of what the ancestors of Armato Rege did. The ancestors of Armato Occisor, through survivial of the fittest evolved saber teeth(which are biologically more similar to tusks) and a tiger-like pattern to blend in with the shadows better. The saber teeth allowed them to puncture the leathery skin of the larger herbivores in the jungle such as Cristatus Serpens which gave them an advantage against the ones without saber teeth.

Rostra Pascentis has gone unchanged for millions of years. Their evolution is incredibly uncomplicated and took place over a short period of time compared to every other alien you've read about so far. Their ancestors were incredibly similar, only lacking the beak, which evolved as a response to plants evolved hard shells around their seeds. These hard shells helped prevent herbivores from eating and digesting the fragile seeds of early plants.

Rostra Pascentis have very simple behaivor, they travel in large flocks, using their beaks to find food in the ground. When one dectects a predator, they will alert the others, which they aren't the best at. They have many predators, such as: Maculosus Insidiator, Armato Occisor, Luminare Reptans, and Perversi Viri,

Maculosus Insidiator is a living fossil, where it's body has gone under close to zero changes over millions of years. It's closest relative isn't any of the other two limbed terrestrial aliens but instead, it's closest relatives are the two finned fishes that swim in the freashwaters of the western continent. It is one of the last remaining aliens on C-100 that show the direct link from water to land. They do not breath through their skin(despite what their amphibian like suggests), instead they have external gills and a modified swim bladder(which act like lungs).

These aliens fill the same niche that crocodiles do as ambush predators. They lie in wait in murkey waters before lunging out and using a powerful bite and conical teeth to clamp onto their prey. Their two limbs are specialized to grip themselves in place, hence why they have that toe at the back of their foot, which helps to grapple them to the ground. This is vital because of it's strategy, which is using it's powerful shoulder and neck muscles, to repeatedly thrash and slam prey against the ground until the prey is a bloody pulp.

Cristatus Serpens is closely related to Cristatus Poncu Cursor, one way you can see this is how they both evolved to have sexual dimorphism. However, as you can tell, they are very different when it comes to both and behaivor. The reason they evolved to lose their limbs was to easier navigate the dense rainforests of C-100, which at the time, was practically a dense wall that only medium or small aliens thrived in. When Cristatus Serpens was able to get into the rainforest, it got much larger due to the greater amount of food which it didn't have to compete for. It's presence over hundreds of years caused the rainforest to become less dense. Due to the large trees now having something that could eat, there were less. They also helped flatten paths in the rainforests, making it more accessible to other aliens.

Cristatus Serpens are the definition of a gentle giant, they are solitary and generally leave other aliens alone. In fact, some indivuals have been seen helping other, smaller aliens. Cristatus Serpens' mating ritual is similar to their relatives, it involves both singing and their frills but it is far more intimate. The male will start by singing the first half of the mating song, once the female responds, the two will make their way to one another. Once they reach eachother, they will engage in a dance and eventually complete the mating. Cristatus Serpens mate for life.

This species is closely related to Electrica Interfectorem and it took a very different approach to the same problem. They both evolved electical abilities, which they both use to detect their surrondings. For Electrica Interfectorem that is practically the sole purpose of these electrical abilities. Electrica Corniger Piscis on the other hand, also uses these abilities to stun prey. The horn on the top of it's head is made of iron and acts like a conduit to focus the electrical pulse, making it slightly more precise.

Unlike their relative, Electrica Corniger Piscis is an active predator, hunting all sorts of fish. They will use electroreception to detect their prey before chasing down the fish, use an eletric pulse to stun it, and then enjoy some sashimi. These creatures are also surprisingly playful and intelligent, they are mostly solitary but they will often meet up with other indivuals and "hang out". These hangouts could mean simply swimming around and communicating, passing around pieces of Brochofungus(a plant that Perversi Viri use to make beer), and sometimes more vile activites. At least they look kinda cute.

This species of fish is very similar to carp, they are a hardy fish that can survive some of the worst aqautic environments. They can survive for multiple hours out of water and some sub species in savvannahs down south(which is much drier than the middle of the continent) have evolved a thin membrane and stronger fins, allowing them to stay out of water for longer. They eat aqautic plants, which they do using a rough, sandpaper like tongue to scrape the material off rocks or stems. Their closest living relative is Antrum Potator.

These small fish fill a similar ecological niche as minnows and other small freshwater fish do. They travel in huge schools, all fish in one school are from the same batch of eggs, making them all siblings. The atennae on their head are used to help commincate with one another, how this is done differs from school to school and the "language" is created during the adolescence of the school. When mating season comes around, the school of fish will try to seek out another school(this is an instinct to ensure genetic diversity) and then the mating rituals begin. The males, who during the mating season grow thin iron plating on their heads, will ram into one another until one of them backs off, with the victor getting the female.

These behemoths are very simple creatures, their hunting strategy consists of eating whatever fits in their mouth. Both males and females have the spines, these spines came about from a random mutation and since they were a relatively neatrual mutation, it drifted through the generations, being ignored by natural selection.

These basic and prehistoric fish fill the same niche as lamprays, they latch onto larger aquatic animals and then suck out blood from the animals.

The Odientem Carnem aka the flesh are a biological weapon, meaning they did not evolve naturally. They got to C-100 due to a ship from their creator species crashing on their planet. This weapon is designed to act like a planetary cancer, it starts out small and unnoticable but then it begins to subtly gather mass and spread.

At first, these weapons start out as tiny fish-like creatures. Soon, it will lay 1000+ eggs and right after, it will plant itself into the ground. Once planted into the ground, it will undergo a complete transformation, both internally and physically. It will gain hundreds of pores all over its bodies which are made to shoot out stingers. These stingers are filled with a venom that acts similar to the Cordyceps fungus, hyjacking the brain of whatever got stung. The inflicted creature will begin to bring more biomass(in the form of other creatures) to the flesh, the biomass is assimilated into the flesh using specialized platelets. Once the inflicted creature ineviability dies, it's corpse will also become its own flesh mound. The biology of Odientem Carnem is more similar to cancer than anything else. It's cells are erratic and divide constantly, which makes it mutate and evolve much faster.

This alien fills a niche similar to hippos, as they like to live nearby the various streams that run through the western continent grasslands. Their powerful jaws and flat teeth are used to grind up aqautic vegitation to eat. Their small arms are likely due to genetic drift, similar to why Gojira Piscis have their spines. This species is also very near sighted, which combined with living in a place with a ton of predators, makes it incredibly aggresive, often even attacking smaller herbivores.

Perversi Viri convergently evolved a body form similar to humans and primates, these predators were never herbivores(as the human-like anatomy may suggest) but they started off as scavengers, hence why they have no hair on their bodies. Their speciality was using their flat teeth to crack bone and get to the bone marrow of the carcasses, really they were glorified vultures. However, they evolved higher intelligence as the dumber indivuals died out due to the sheer amount of large predators that could easily take them out. This led to them eventually figuring out how to use simple tools, such as rocks to smash bone easier and shrapened stones to cut meat into sizable peices. Eventually, they figured that they could use these same tools to acctually hunt prey, meaning they would be able to get better nutrients. The didn't use persistance hunting since they do not have sweat glands like humans do, meaning they lack the stamina that human persistance hunting demands. Instead, they are ambush predators. They will mark prey and slowly stalk the prey for days before finding the perfect oppertunity for an ambush. This also led to them evolving a greenish yellow color. Another unique evolution, which is from their times as scavengers, is their loose, leathery skin. This allows them to move and twist around in their own skin, this adaptation allows them to fight back against a predator while being in the jaws of said predator.

30 years ago, Elira, a human astronaut got stranded on C-100. During her time here, she had built a cabin in the mountains of the western continent. In the surronding area, there happened to be different tribes of Perversi Viri. Seeing an intelligence greater than their own led to them being influenced by her when it came to their technology. Recently, due to the apperance of the Odientem Carnem one tribe led by Æøxç§ aligned themselves with the Luminare Reptans and the Mauis Reptans to help eradicate the Odientem Carnem. They saw Elira using fire to get rid of the Odientem Carnem spires near her cabin, so the Perversi Viri and Reptans began going on hunt and destroy missions.

Early Perversi Viri tribes valued intelligence over all else, which led to how early Perversi Viri tribes would pick their leaders. The way the leader would be picked would be done through an intense, rigorous test to prove intelligence. The current leader, who would be the most intelligent at the time, would grade the test and whoever scored highest would replace the current leader and allow them to retire in peace. This however has changed among different cultures and it ussually depends of the resources availiable in those areas and what the new values would become so that they could survive.

These are the single largest land animals on C-100, they first evolved in the lush northern grasslands. They evolved side-by-side with Sol Orbis and Ferrum Folium, two of the largest plants on C-100. As the plants got larger to get out of the reach of the Sol Comedenti and to capture more sun than any other plant, Sol Comedentis evolved larger as the larger ones wouldn't end up starving. This wasn't the only influence on the sheer size of Sol Comedentis, the rise of Armato Rege was also a big factor, as it was one of the few predators that could kill the ancestors of Sol Comedentis. This further incentivized the Sol Comedentis to grow huge. The 12 eyes are a risdual trait from when they were smaller, back when having such a field of vision meant life or death. The biggest issue that comes with being so insanely large is the body heat the Sol Comedentis generate by doing basic tasks is so insanely high that special adaptations need to be made to conteract this. The sail increases their surface area which gives them more space to spread out the heat, they have 4 large, stripe-like vents on their face which they can use to intake more oxygen. By these vents are a complex web of veins, which take this directly to the brain, acting as a cooling system. They also have air sacks in their necks, to help take in even more air then their facial vents allow, and regulate their body temperature even better.

They are very social creatures, travelling in large herds and raising young communally. While sleeping, they young sleep in the center while all the adults sleep around them, blocking out any other predators with their sheer mass. These giants mate for life, surprisingly, they don't have an exact mating ritual thats common across the entire species. It varries heavily based on the indivuals that are mating. Sol Comedenti also have a huge rivalry against Armato Rege, as they constantly go out of their way to ruin the hunts of Armato Reges. This could be done because of these predators infamously being able to hunt and kill young Sol Comedenti, another reason is because they may are extremely compassionate and feel the need to protect other, less fortunate aliens from being hunted.

These aliens evolved biolumence due to the dark cave and mountain enviroments that they live in. They also evolved an extreme sexual dimorphism, with males being small flying creatures, while females are larger and stay only on the ground. The biolumence is also used for mating purposes, with females starting the pattern, and waiting for a male to respond to their pattern. Females will also often eat males after mating, to make sure they have enough energy to raise the young.

This alien's face tentacles are both electroreceptive organs and as apendages that can be used to grab prey. They have terrible eyesight which is why they rely entirely on electroreception. They have a flexiable body, which they use to constrict and restrain prey. The pincers at the end of their bodies is meant to act as intimidation, using it to scare off predators. To fully subdue prey, they deliver an electric shock.

Living in the grasslands meant living with some of the most highly evolved and deadly predators to ever exist, while Sol Comedentis and Catafractarius Pecuarius evolved to get larger in response to this problem, Coronatus Pascentem evolved to get a giant machete on it's face. This is one of the few creatures that can acctually kill an Armato Rege on a regular basis in one on one confrontations.

This alien fills a similar role as bears do on Earth. They are large omnivores that rely mostly on their sheer bulk to intimidate rivals. The most extrodinary evolution is that this creature has bones with high iron content. It is likely that this is a leftover trait from it's ancestors but even if it is, it still comes in handy. This trait made them not even evolve claws, instead their fingers already act as blades due to their iron bones. They are mostly herbivorous or scavengers, often using their bulk to scare off smaller predators from their hunts, but they still rarely hunt.

The Mauis Reptan split from the Luminare Reptans millions of years ago, the reason they split is because of the Mauis Reptans moving deeper into the caves. Deeper in the caves, there aren't any predators which allowed them to get as big as they have. It is similar to island or deep sea gigantism but in a cave environment. The evolution of the mane is to help protect themselves from other Mauis Reptans as they fight often. They mostly seem to fight just for the hell of it but sometimes it could be disputes over prey and territory.

Mauis Reptans aren't entirely solitary creatures, while they spend a lot of their youth by themselves, as they get older they seek out others of their age. This isn't just for mating but it is also to find friends to spend the rest of their days with. Younger Mauis Reptans tend to be more aggressive which is why they are more solitary. Mauis Reptans also often end up taking over packs of Luminare Reptans. When hunting, they use their complex vocal chords to mimic the sounds of their prey and lure them towards them.

Mauis Reptans have been particularly harmed by the apperance of the Odientem Carnem due to their natural curiosity, so they got infected at a much higher rate then most other aliens. This led to a group of Mauis Reptans and Luminare Reptans represented by a Mauis Reptan named Håßü to team up with a tribe of Perversi Viri led by an indivual named Æøxç§.

This alien is one of the few large herbivores in the smoke forest biome(more explaination about this cavern biome in Dator Vitae) and it is also one of the most successful herbivores in the environment. The reason for this is because it is highly specialized to avoid predation from Mauis Reptans. Mauis Reptans hunt using 2 things; sound and light. On their faces are receptive organs that can detect light. This is where the shaggy coat and the biolumencent orbs on the back of Candentis Pascentis comes in. The biolumencent orbs throw off the the light detecting organs of the Mauis Reptan and the shaggy coat of the Candentis Pascentis has muscles under it, allowing it to move the coat in a way that simulates the sound of stringy plants blowing in the wind. The reason for the sideways mouth is to scrap moss-like plants off surfaces in the cavern with greater ease.

Dator Vitae are a keystone species of the Smoky Forest as biome, in fact, it's the Dator Vitae that are the cause for the apperance of this biome. Likly what happened is that Dator Vitae evolved from slow moving animals, almost completely stationary animals that filter out food from the air in the form of air plankton, fell into the cavern(possibly due to a sinkhole). These aliens then used their filter like organs to instead filter out nutrients from the air and instead filtering out nutrients from the rich and nutrient dense soil of the caverns they found themselves in. This only lead them to an even more sedimentary lifestyle, becoming larger and more like giant plants. They kept some features from before such as their eyes but they aren't functional, just residual that haven't been de-evolved yet.

Dator Vitae abosorb tons of nutrients but need very little, so all their waste(which is expelled as gas) is extremly nutrient dense. This brought along other sedimentary animals that hung around the Dator Vitae and filtered out nutrients from the smoke the Dator Vitae produced. This influx of life into the caverns also led to plant species being introduced to these parts, which thrived due to the rich soil. The plant then attracted herbivores, all of them being smaller herbivores trying to escape the hyper competitive ecosystem above. Some stayed small while others went through gigantism and got much larger(ex. Candentis Pascentis). These herbivores also inevitibly attracted carnivores, both big and small. This process took place over hundreds if not thousands of years and led to formation of the one of the unique biomes on C-100.CandentisPascentis

Occultatum Saxum evolved in the northern mountains, an area littered with large rocks bolders from natural events like rockslides. Occultum Saxum took advantage of this, evolving over time to resemble the boulders around them. Their round body shape, grey colleration(with patches of reddish purple that resemble many of the moss-like plants), and the ability to hide their limbs under their bodies all aid in this. Their fangs are used to inject a paralyzing venom ino their prey's bodies.

These creatures live similar lives to slugs on earth. Their bodies are soft and squishy with a sing strong "foot" that helps them to suction onto stalactites and feed on the plants there. They are one of the first aliens to move into the Smokey Forest biome and by a result are very common. They lay clutches of hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time and females can lay 2-3 clutches of eggs every year. They are also mildely toxic, they display this with bright spots but this feature has slowly begun to dissappear due to the fact that nothing can see them in the darkness of the caverns.

Legione Sumus is similar to siphonophores on earth, where it is a giant colony of millions multicellar units all of them specialized for different uses. Based on this simularity, we can theorize about it's evolution. Likely, they first started as incredibly simple organisms that lived in giant colonies, likely attached to one another for safety but also perfectly identical. Meaning that in theory, they could survive on their own if they get seperated. At some point, different indivuals in these colonies began to simplify themselves and then split up different jobs amongst one another. Some indivuals became specalized to act as muscles, others to speclize for digestion, others for reproduction, etc. It's form of reproduction we can speculate is similar as well, with a single multicelluar unit being born which then clones itself over and over again, using specialized tissue to keep these modified clones attached to it.

These creatures are very rare, living in the deeper parts of the caverns. This is because it has an easier time using it's slow tentacles to grab prey and catch it off gaurd. Their rarity is caused mostly because of their low reproduction rate, only creating another version of itself only every 2-3 years. We do believe they likely had a range that extended higher up in the caverns but were driven deeper into the caverns when the first of the Candentis Pascentis

These aliens live in the deepest sections of the caverns under the western continent of C-100, in a biome called The Bright(an environment formed due to incredibly bright plant-like aliens called Columnae Lucis). The existance of the bright attracted many more prey aliens down to the depths to feed on the newly found flora. Where's theres prey, there are predators and in this case, those predators are the Invisibilia Venefica. Their bodies are a near venta black, allowing them to be near invisible in the dark patches where the light from the Columnae Lucis. While they are the largest predators in these depths, they aren't very large in comparision to creatures above them, so to help take their prey down, they use those sickle-like claws to inject a powerful venom into their prey. It is theorized that these sickle claws and venom was first evolved to defened themselves(as their ancestors were likely very small and went under gigantism with the lack of competetion in The Bright).

Vivos Milvi is an alien that lives in both the sea and the air. Their mouths have been evolved to be able to abosorb and digest air plankton and water plankton. They can glide above the water for hours on end by using two vents in their backs to push out air, giving them more lift.

Alas Sapientiae evolved alongside the Perversi Viri, this led to a symbiotic relationship being formed very early on in the history of both species. This then led to the Perversi Viri eventually domesticating the Alas Spientiae. These aliens are INCREDIBLY intelligent, being able to learn language and understand basic concepts and commands. This has led some tribes to use Alas Sapientiae for various roles such as: Fishing, Recon, War(For one very specfic tribe), and to explore and go places that Perversi Viri cannot.

These creatures originally were ocean dwelling but as the swamp grew along the coastline of the Easter Interior Seaway. These creatures play a similar role to monkeys, eating the seeds and spores of the various plants in the swamp and then spreading them around the swamp through their waste. They are incredibly social and even have a complex social heiarchy which is denoted by which color they adorn. They also can use the large flaps on their head to fly short distances between trees.

These aliens are perfectly adapted to hunt flying targets. They camafloge into their environment, hiding like a sniper. This is done by their apperance which varries based on their habitat. Occulta Hasta who live on the coastline swamps are a blueish-grey with lighter stripes on their smooth bodies while indivuals who live more inland have rougher dark greenish brown skin, to blend in with the flora there. Their eyes have multiple lenses, which they can use facial muscles to shift between these lenses to focus on targets at different distances. Then they use a harpoon like tongue to snipe their prey from afar.

These are by far the largest aliens on C-100, well atleast the males are, females are still an impressive size but nothing compared to the males. Females grow up in pods and are very social, which is the opposite to the males who live out their younger(and smaller) years out in open ocean by themselves. The males then eventually come back to shallow waters, where they will eventually find a pod of females. This pod of females will help feed the male while the male protects the females. The males are slow moving if at all and since their in shallow waters, their backs are exposed to the outside. This often leads to whole ecosystems of creatures specfically evolved for these giants, to form on their backs.

These arthropod-like aliens have extreme sexual dimorphism, females act as giant living hives, storing the males in holes in its back. The males aid the female in hunting, using their greater speed to surrond prey and then use sonic bubbles to disorient prey. The large drill like limbs on the female aren't primarily used for hunting, instead their main purpose is to help haul the female onto land to lay their eggs. These aliens evolved from land dwelling aliens and hence still need to lay their eggs on land. To prevent their large clutches of eggs being eaten by island predators, they lay them in the nest of one of their relatives, Concha Rapax(Currently there is no file on this species). Since their eggs look alike, the Concha Rapax will often protect the eggs of the female Viventem Alvearium.

Mors Maxilla is one of the many super predators of the Sea of Dragons. Due to the densisty of large megafauna such as Movere Insula it led to predators to get larger and larger, its similar to what happened in the Western Interior Seaway during the Cretacious. Mors Maxilla have boney plates on their head, which turns their head into a extremely effective battle ram, allowing them to possibly kill their prey in a single good hit. Their bodies are covered in bone-like rings which interlink with one another, in other words, natural chainmail made with bone. This was evolved to help protect them against the other large predators in their habitat while also still giving them the ability to move around without the weight bone plating weighing them down.

Terrori Oblator takes a very different approach to hunting prey, instead of relying on speed, brute force, or ambust tatics, it instead deploys a full on psychological assult on it's prey. It releases a power hallucinogen into the water around it, similar to compouds that magic mushrooms contain. Then using the hallucinogen in conjuction with a series of bright flashing lights, it completely dazes it's prey which it will then eat while still alive. These bright colors come from the varius bulbs at the end of it's body and its two large fins. The biolumenence is also used to make it appear invisible, similar to what Dragonfish on Earth do.