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The Great Universe Simulator and The Materialized Ones
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Cyrus Theedishman
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The Great Universe Simulator and The Materialized Ones

Background

Ten-thousand years after its inception, the USx3 commissioned a grand experiment. It was the Great Universe Simulator. It was a space station equipped with series of hypercomputers powered by fusion reactors with the purpose of simulating an entire artificial Universe. It was also equipped with habitation quarters, complete with appartments, recreational centers, food courts and restaurants to house, feed, and entertain the crewmembers, who were of all of the constituent species of the USx3, who monitor the development of and even tinker with this artificial universe.

In fact, not just one universe was simulated. Up to three were simulated. The first simulated universe was just to be observed, not to be tampered with at all. The second simulated universe was allowed to be tinkered with, but still followed the laws of physics of the first simulated universe and the real one. The thrid simulated universe was allowed not only to be tinkered with, but also for the laws of physics to be bent.

While ostensibly this Great Universe Simulator had a research rationale behind its construction, a significant number of individuals from all of the constituent species of the USx3 saw this project as a white elephant. There were misgivings about what kind of findings would result from the research done at this facility, and if there would be any findings resulting from any supposed "research" at all. Many even worried that this would simply be a sort of glorified massively-multiplayer game that only a privileged minority (i.e., only those who live at the facility) of the USx3 would be able to play. Was the technological genius of the Union being wasted on goofing off and toying with artificial universes?

Nevertheless, the majority of the USx3 saw this as the pinnacle of technological achievement and supported it. They were certain that it would produce research findings, even if they were relatively trivial.

The second and third simulated universes were indeed tinkered with in a lot of ways, one of them creating entire habitable planets from scratch and either watching what evolutionary paths the LUCAs they planted on their planets would take over billions of years (fast-forwarded for the convenience of the researcher-player of course), or creating hosts of bizarre lifeforms that would not evolve naturally yet could still survive, even creating entire fantasy worlds. As one could imagine, the researcher-players indeed played god. Aside from the mere 'watchers', there were those who sought to do good to virtual lifeforms that were sophontic and guide them and were overall interested in building, as well as those who were unimaginably cruel to virtual lifeforms and even liked to destroy entire celestial bodies. The 'goodness', 'evilness', and the 'neutrality' of the researcher-players ranged from individual to individual, regardless of their actual moral compasses.

In the past ten-thousand years, the USx3 was conducting uplifting missions in the nearest stars, finding sapient life in the galaxy at any level of technological development and encouraging them to reach a technological level in which they are capable of making sustained contacts with the USx3 and become member species.

At this point in time, there weren't any more sapient life in the galaxy and trying to uplift the non-sapient life of the other available worlds would take a few million years.

So, an ingenious plan was thought up. Seven random, physically-possible species from any of the three simulated universe were to be materialized into the real universe, and then be given their own planets on which to live.

A test run was done by materializing one individual from all seven species. The first of these lucky seven was an individual from a race which call themselves the Gṛnti in their most globalized language.

The Seven Materialized Species

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Materialized Being #1: Gṛnti (Extraneogrinchus quadrupedalis)

The Gṛnti were a contrived species created in the second simulated universe of the Great Universe Simulator. They walk on four legs apparently derived from boneless tentacles. They manipulate the environment using two flexible, bidigital arms tipped with claws that curve upward. Their horizontally-opening mouth contains a battery of teeth suited for an omnivorous diet. Superior to their brow is a tall, clumsy trunk tipped with another face consisting of a breathing orifice (from which they speak), an additional pair of eyes, apparently limb-derived ears, and a set of genitalia on the top. Their skin is almost scaly in texture, and hair is present only on the brow, around the genital rim, and on the tip of their short, up-turned tail.

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Materialized Being #2: Grokp (Bananamorphe rhynchophallus)

Like the preceding Gṛnti, a hirsute species that calls itself the Grokp was materialized from the second simulated universe. Being creatures whose evolutionary history was semi-directed by the creating researcher-players at the Great Universe Simulator, it takes on a body plan that one is likely to never find in the real universe occur naturally. While animals usually have their brains and their sensory organs evolve where their mouths are, the Grokp, and all other related fauna on the dense but small world that is a Jovian satellite on which they live, have their eyes on the posterior terminus of their bodies rather than the anterior, where their beard-graced beak is located, as well as a primary set of ears. On the anterior portion, there is a secondary set of ears.

However outlandish their bodily configuration is, to be a sensorily-functioning organism, the brain is located where the primary sensing organs are, which is of course at the posterior end. This part will be called their head.

Even then, however, their nervous system incorporates copper, a highly conductive substance, in its biochemistry. As a result, they have very quick processing speeds, so even if their eyes were far away from the brain, the signaling delay would be minimized. In reality, however, this helps accommodate the tasting organ (which is a tongue that doubles as a phallus) located in the beak and the secondary set of ears.

The Grokp, because of their anatomy, are able to multitask as they eat. A popular Grokp dinner table model has a bottom surface in which food or drink is placed to be processed by the horny beak coupled by the flexible tongue-phallus, along with a top surface on which one can do other activities, like read, write, draw, view content on portable digital devices, and converse.

After going through the gastrointestinal tract, the feces is then expelled from an cloacal aperture located beneath the body in between the thighs.

The respiratory opening is located at the bottom of the head, alongside four vocal pouches that expand like those of frogs whilst communicating. From there leads from a trachea to a pair of lungs.

The Grokp are hermaphrodites. As already mentioned, their tongue acts secondarily as a phallus. A flexible organ, the phalluses of both partners make contact with and hold each other at their tips. They twist, twirl, and intertwine until sperm is shot down both's vaginal tracts, where they eventually lead to the ovaries deeper in the body. Both become pregnant from this ritual.

During sexual activity, one partner's beak overlaps the other's. In the Grokp's culture's past before they were materialized, sexual power dynamics were based on whose beak overlapping whom's, though in the period in which they were materialized from, such a notion was dispensed with; after all, all that essentially happens is both phalluses of both partners uniting and give pleasure to one another, so why should it matter whose beak's biting whom's?

After sexual activity, a single, twenty-centimeter egg gestates in the uterus for fifteen days before being pushed out by the tongue into the outside world. Both partners share a nest. The eggs take about four months to incubate. The lightly-haired, helpless offspring hatch using a tooth-like hardening on the head, as that is also where they breathe. Upon hatching, they are fed by both parents a nutritious vaginal secretion from their tongue-phalluses. They are weaned at five years of age, and become sexually mature at twelve.

In the previous universe they inhabited, they lived on a small, dense world that orbited a gas giant. Because of its density, it had a gravity close to that of Earth's. Because of its relatively small size, culture spread worldwide relatively easily. There was little conflict, but inherited from their past of refined huntsmanship, a popular global pasttime was firing different guns at shooting ranges, with holidays dedicated to recreational firearms.

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Materialized Being #3: Msplavats (Peloridisapiens magicofaciens)

Coming soon!

Edited by Cyrus Theedishman, Feb 15 2014, 11:06 PM.
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