Round: 6Event: N/A | Free Food 1 More Turnsredwatt50Nothing: 1 | Good thing nothing happened
Description: This cell isn't changing, it seems to be quite happy with catastrophic phosphate loss. An entire bacterial ecosystem has sprung up using the free phosphate, but this species doesn't care, it just keeps feeding.
Past Adaptations:
Phosphate ejection
Small vacuoles
Chloroplasts
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
EN (-)
ImmortalHorizontal Gene Transfer: 4 + 2 | Great Success!
Description: Your cells have another meeting which ends with unanimous vote to blatantly steal the genes of others. Now that it's considered theft instead of borrowing, everyone seemed to agree it was a great idea. The method is rather simple: Using super-speed, these cells can sneak up on an unsuspecting target and conjugate with it, grabbing bits of RNA then running off.
Past Adaptations:
Two super-flagella
Chemosynthesis
Mitochondria (2x)
Conservation Status:
LC(+)
[OPEN SLOT] Description: This species seems to have accepted that it will be dead soon, it's being outcompeted on every front, and even its mitochondria are considering that maybe living free once more may be a better idea.
Past Adaptations:
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
CR(-)
joshthehawkBinding Proteins: 4 + 2 | Great Success!
Description: You develop some nice, well-manufactured binding proteins, binding your cells together on the surfaces which are free of cilia. As those surfaces are concentrated to the anterior area, your cells form small spherical colonies of about a dozen cells, with an internal cavity that slowly inflates as the colony's cells divide.
Past Adaptations:
Vacuoles
Golgi protein factory + packaging center
Cilia
Flagellum
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
LC
classyamoebaCup-shaped Cilia: 6 + 2 | SOOPAH EVALOOSHAN!
Description: The cilia of this microbe have developed a strange, flattened shape, moving more slowly but pulling the cell through the water better. These cilia would not work so well in open ocean, but they are much more useful in allowing the organism to bore straight through rock. This species now forms an essential part of the seafloor erosion process, with large numbers of them boring many tunnels through anything from grains of sand to exposed rock, breaking the rock up into a sludge of microscopic dust. The range of this species is now bounded mostly by how deep into rock they can go before the anoxic conditions catch up with them, since their habit of hiding within dust grains has led them to being spread worldwide, with small communities even existing in suitable landlocked seas, blown in on windborne dust.
Past Adaptations:
Awesome rock-etching acid
+Density
Golgi Apparatus
Cilia
Lithotrophy
Conservation Status:
LC
moopliVascular system: 3 + 2, Mineralized exoskeleta: 4 | Exactly as expected x2!
Description: This species has developed some differentiation, with some cells opening large contractile cavities within them, cavities which connect up with similar cavities in neighboring cells, and with the sea. These cavities rhythmically contract, pushing seawater around the colony, bit-by-bit, in small bursts. With this development, colonies can now grow more than one cell thick. The parallel development of mineral ejection into intercellular spaces has allowed them to build large reefs around hydrothermal vents (large being a relative term, as these are only a meter or so big), though the cells more than a few centimeters within are dead as the vascular system cannot get fresh seawater in all too deep.
Past Adaptations:
Vertical Gene Transfer
ECM binding to hydrothermal vents
Flagella
Thermoplast
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
NT (+)
Gabriel GGCilia: 6 + 2 | SUPER EVOLUTION!
Description: Cilia are great! They make a fuzzy blanket that can also move you around quite quickly, and these cilia are more awesome than most, as they have a novel internal structure allowing them to beat much faster than regular cilia, with a higher energy efficiency too. The cilia all but make the flagellum superfluous, so instead of putting ATP towards beating the flagellum, it's now used as a rudder of sorts, though it could easily be repurposed for other things...
Past Adaptations:
Signal Agents
Flagella
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
VU (+)
thedoctorSignal Agents: 2 + 2 | Mostly Good!
Description: This species has developed a simple signal agent which individuals leave behind them in trace amounts, as a sort of territorial marking -- cells always swim away from the compound, which incidentally means each cell avoids its own territory as well as others'. This system at least helps prevent too much competition for food, though.
Past Adaptations:
Lysosomes
Phagocytosis
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Caveolae
Mitochondria Minor Leech
Conservation Status:
NT
Notes:
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Immortal: Are you drunk?
- I'm tired again so they might be funny. This is probably a good thing, because it's fun to write descriptions like this.
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joshthehawk: I'm thinking Volvox but less Volvoxy -- it's an interesting shape, and leaves you with plenty of options for developing a hsape of your own choice later.
- Everyone who doesn't have a feasible food source, you're all gonna have trouble once the free food ends. Just warning y'all.