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Topic Started: Oct 10 2013, 12:51 AM (324 Views)
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Ok, so in order to properly understand this project, it is important to understand one major aspect of it: it is for a fantasy novel.


This project is not for a science fiction novel, and it is not an expanded writing exercise like any of my alternate history timelines.


Now, that being said, one might ask, why am I attempting to explain the evolution of life on a fantasy world? Fantasy novels normally involve a tremendous suspension of belief, and the audience that these books attract are usually more interested in the character aspect of the story rather than the cultural or linguistic scene, let alone the natural scene. The list of fantasy novels that don't take evolution or the natural aspect of the world that they have created into consideration abounds, and many of them are still wildly successful! So why pay attention to this aspect?


Very simply, because I'm anal. I like detail, and at least for me, the world around the characters in any book is every bit as important as the characters themselves. You'll of course continue to see this in my Epistles, and it would be incredibly hypocritical of me to hold everyone else to a given standard and then violate that standard myself. Many fantasy books are set in a world with technology equivalent to Western Europe during the Medieval Period, and they often make references to the animals that were a part of everyday life at the time. Sheep, goats, cows, horses, birds, squirrels, etc., are all pretty much universally present in the worlds in fantasy novels, and they are presumably so in exactly the same forms as we know them on Earth.


Because I'm anal, this doesn't exactly appeal to me, and while I am capable of enjoying stories that suspend reality in this manner, I enjoy a story much more when the author takes the time to truly bring their setting to life. It's a growing trend in fantasy fiction that I hope continues on until it's as overused as the farm boy who saves the world.


So the purpose of this is to make the setting as real and as explainable as possible. The information about the evolution of Eurydice's life of course is not something that can really be included in the story itself without presenting the reader with a massive, unnecessary, and quite possibly uninteresting info-dump, and so it will either be included in the appendix, or, alternatively, in a book of its own.


So yeah, that's the first post. I just want to make that aspect of it clear to everyone before I start posting about the project.
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Oh, well thank you, ARMANI. lol
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Now, in order to properly understand the biological scenario on Eurydice, we need to first understand the creation myth behind it. Why? Well, because the creation myth actually determines what the environment on Eurydice is like, and what kind of life lives in this environment. The creation myth is of course not very scientific, because it's a fantasy novel, and will probably a require a level of suspension of reality for you to read.


BUT, it is relevant to absolutely everything about the project. If a myth about supernatural beings with supernatural capabilities manipulating the cosmos seems silly to you, please try to bear with me, because I promise that you can't really understand the project without having at least a general grasp of it. The creation myth is apt to be revised at any time, as I'm not exactly married to all aspects of it, but certain aspects, like the way life is manipulated on Eurydice, are non-negotiable, and I'll explain why in a bit.


For now, let's get started...


So there are two unknowable and eternal beings that one could term as “Gods”, but they actually play a lesser role in the world as we know and understand it than any of the gods that have been dreamed up by various cultures on Earth.


One of these creates, one of these destroys. Good is known by various names according to the language and the particular cult on Eurydice, but in the Prassian Empire (where the story of the book takes place), the creator is known as Koqen, literally meaning “spoken”, as he “speaks” things into being. The destroyer is known as Eqans, which means “silence”.


Both of them are, and always have been, and at some point long passed in the cosmos Koqen spoke his “children”, beings that are known in most languages on Eurydice as Aivir, into being. The Prassians call them Qíśilin, but most people on Eurydice don't, including the majority of the linguistic groups within the Prassian Empore, so we'll be calling them Aivir in here.


Just how many of them there are is a matter of religious debate on Eurydice amongst those cults that acknowledge their existence, but it is normally a very high multiple of 10 with a 1 and a 0. 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, 1000,000, it just depends on who you talk to. The accepted doctrine of the two mainstream churches in the Prassian Empire, the Aiviric Tradition and the Church of the Aivir, is that the Aivir number at 1,000 individuals.


Whether they are all pairs of males and females is something else that is debated, since only a few are actually believed to be known by name, and Siladi and Limion are the only pair that can be known for sure to be a pair. The Aiviric Tradition holds that all of the Aivir are male/female couples, while the Church of the Aivir believes that some of them are same-sex couples, citing a few of the known Aivir that worked together (although they are not explicitly mentioned as being couples) in scripture as examples.


Who is right? It's irrelevant. I figure that I'll be offending a wide enough demographic with my protagonist's homosexuality, so there is no need to further stigmatize my books by saying that there are gay and straight gods as well.


Now, beyond the Aivir, Koqen actually has never created anything. The Multiverse, where he lives, just like him and his counterpart, Eqans, has always existed as well. The Aivir are all that he really has to show for his existence. He teaches his children how to create through song, since they can't do it through words the same way he can, and they create universes upon universes and worlds upon worlds and souls upon souls to populate the worlds upon worlds in the universes upon universes.


Still following me? The problem with this is that they have been doing it in unison, and not individually, which is where Eqans comes in and messes everything up...


Eqans can't speak things into being, because she is the yang to Koqen’s yin. While she may not be able to speak the Aivir out of being for reasons I haven't yet figured out, she can do so with their works, and did very frequently in the past.


At some point in the celestial timeline though, she decides that just destroying everything they make isn’t as fulfilling, and that it would be more fun to corrupt what they make instead. So, she chooses to imprison one of the Aivir, Siladi, and sleep with her husband while disguising herself as his wife. This is the first time that any of the Aivir have actually had sex, but that doesn't mean that it's evil because it was obviously being done on all of the worlds that they created, it just means it's the first time any of them have actually done it. Sex was previously something that was only done by the life that the Aivir created through their music, but as Eqans is incapable of creating anything through her word, she can only destroy with it, sex is the only way that she can create. So Eqans is impregnated and gives birth to an evil being called the Teroksylon, but before she gives birth to this creature she convinces Siladi's husband, Limion to sing in unison with her and create in celebration of this new act of creation (her pregnancy). It's funny to her because her song can only destroy, and so while Limion creates with his singing voice, she is destroying with hers, and Limion is horrified when he realizes that the woman before him is not actually his wife, but the primordial destroyer, Eqans.


Of course Siladi is singing from her prison somewhere in the cosmos hoping that the other Aivir will hear her, inadvertently creating souls while her husband does the same in his little lie song with Eqans. Now that Eqans has what she wants, i.e. a being that is half Aivir that can both create and destroy, she releases Siladi and leaves. Siladi returns to her husband, and the situation becomes known to the other Aivir, who scold Limion for what he has done. Meanwhile the Teroksylon is born, and uses its power to create the galaxy of Aether, but as it was only a single being acting on its own without experience or instruction, it made mistakes.


As a result of its mistakes, 18 parallel realities came about, so it enlisted the help of neutral beings in the cosmos known as the Jumo (whose nature is both unexplained in the creation myth and in any of the religions that preach this doctrine) to finish the creation of a world for Eqans to rule through its influence. In an attempt to manipulate the world according to its own liking, the Teroksylon steals life from one of the worlds created by the Aivir so that it can populate the world of the original reality, Eurydice, with human beings.


Now, why human beings? When I finally write my books, you are going to notice that there are a lot of jokes about organized religion in it. I'm not an atheist, but I don't pretend to fully understand the nature of God, and so religion is something that I find to be some times funny, some times interesting, and some times a little sad. The Teroksylon's reasoning behind wanting humans specifically, is directly opposite to the doctrine of many of the world's major religions – because humans evolved in the image of the Aivir. Yes, that's right, we were not created in the image of our creators, but instead, our image is the result of chance, and in an eternal cycle of galaxies, solar systems, and worlds being created and destroyed, the probability gets to be rather high that such a thing would happen at least a couple of times.


So, what difference does it make? Well, if Eqans' chief goal in her existence at this point in time is to make a mockery of not only the creations of the Aivir, but their very existence, and the Teroksylon, as its mother's child and servant, then is going to want to see the goals of its mother fulfilled.


The Aivir do not touch the worlds that they create, they just allow life to evolve in splendid freedom, and they also do not attempt to rule over the sapient races that evolve on their worlds. If this is the case, then it stands to reason that both manipulating the process of evolution to get a desired outcome and ruling over whatever sapient species that evolves would be a direct contradiction to the goals of the Aivir. What's more, because humans are evolved in the image of the Aivir, their servitude to the Teroksylon, and ultimately to Eqans, would serve as a metaphor to how Eqans views the nature of the Aivir – as slaves to their father, Koqen.


Now, the various Jumo are awarded different physical forms for their aid in the creation of the world, and they are told that they and their posterity will not be ruled by Eqans for doing so. That of course is a lie. Furthermore the evolution of life continues to not go as planned, so in a final attempt to create beings for Eqans to rule, the Teroksylon attempts to create humankind. His version is what is known as fays. Fays are similar to humans, but not quite human, and it creates them in a sort of Garden of Eden-like setting where they will live in utter ignorance of the fact that they have been created to be manipulated in a world created by an evil being.


In the meantime in the heavens, a lot is changing. The Aivir have now discovered sex, and many of them have started to have it and are having their own children. There's a profound difference between the children of procreation, and the children of their creation though. Every time the Aivir 'sing', they create souls for the physical bodies that will or are being created on the worlds that are also created through these 'songs'. These souls wait for their turns on the world in a dimension between life and death, and their ultimate goal is either to attain the divine status of the Aivir through living and learning through mortal life (which they may have to do several times) or living in their presence. The reason being is that these souls are born from the actions of the Aivir, but not of the Aivir themselves, and therefore must undergo the test of life to achieve divinity.


The Aivir did not have to go through this test because they were born of the word of Koqen, and similarly, their children are born of them, and so born divine. However, just like the Aivir, their children, collectively called the Pautra (I got it from a Sanskrit word, the meaning of which escapes right now), are also corruptible. Initially these children were given the task of guarding over the worlds with sapient life, each acting as guardians of the freedom of life on each world (its freedom to evolve untouched by Eqans or the Teroksylon).


Because Eurydice has 18 parallel dimensions, 18 different children were awarded guardianship over its various dimensions. However before the Pautra could even potentially inherit, something still had to be done with the souls created through the individual actions of Siladi and Limion. The Teroksylon had imprisoned the souls of the fays and those already born under its thumb of ignorance, so Siladi herself descended to Eurydice in the form of a sferaon (a Eurydicean predator that we'll get to later) and tempted one of the fay men, Meassë, to kill her and eat her, telling her that he would attain divine knowledge if he did. Up until this point, the fays had been told not to harm any creature of the flesh, so this is the Eurydicean 'original sin', but this sin liberates the fays from the stranglehold of the Teroksylon (and ultimately, Eqans) when he feeds the meat to his family, and the two share their knowledge of the usurper god with their fellow faykind.


After faykind had been liberated, mankind was born into the world with the knowledge the fays had lacked now that everyone had been properly exposed to it, and the Pautra now born (there's a bit of a time difference between heaven and earth here) were assigned to Eurydice's various dimensions. They were all corrupted however to varying degrees by the Teroksylon and the remaining Jumo who had not taken on physical form. The Jumo corrupted them because they wanted physical form, and the Teroksylon corrupted them at the direction of its mother, Eqans. The way in which the Pautra used to rule over humanity and faykind resulted in a heavenly war that saw the Pautra originally tasked with guarding the 18 dimensions of Eurydice expelled from their positions of “guardianship” and into the cosmos, but not before they had manipulated things on the world of Eurydice in a number of ways.


Now, the dimensions of Eurydice are all connected to one another, albeit it randomly and unpredictably (usually), but furthermore all of the worlds created by the Aivir are connected to one another. These connections exist for two different reasons, these are:


• All worlds created by the Aivir share a common origin, and thus can be traveled to through fluctuating and irregular connections.
• Eurydice is connected to all 18 of its parallel dimensions as they were all created at once and share a common origin, but it is also connected to earth via three separate connections created by the Teroksylon when he visited earth and stole from her fauna to evolve mankind.


The connections between Eurydice's dimensions were and continue to be less consistent than the connections to Earth, but the only connection that it has to another world besides one of its own parallel dimensions is the predictable connections left over by the Teroksylon with Earth. The Aivir also did not attempt to shut off these connections because that interferes with the agency of man and fay to choose their own fate, an essential process in the test of life. Therefore, since the relocation of humans and fays to Eurydice's primary dimension, resettlement has occurred to varying degrees depending on the dimension and what the specific Pautraic “guardian” has done with the place.


There are varying disagreeing theologies on Eurydice about the creation and its implications, but what sapient life on Eurydice is supposed to understand as their purpose is to bring happiness to the lives of others and themselves, and to achieve their full potentials, either to dwell with the divine or be divine themselves.


So that's it, in a nutshell...
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Ok, I will be explaining why this matters today, hopefully...
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Ok, so the creation myth is posted...


So why is any of that magical mythological banter relevant? I'm sure you were able to pick up on at least a couple points in it why it would be. But for those who didn't, let me list the most important factors:


1. The Teróksylon sought to manipulate the evolution of life on Eurydice.
2. The Teróksylon stole life from Earth in order to manipulate it to its mother's purposes.
3. The connections between Earth and Eurydice are entirely consistent and predictable.
4. The Pautra once ruled Eurydice.

The first factor here means that the natural process of evolution would have been interrupted a number of times by the Teróksylon, and the world and the solar system that it is in were created for this very purpose. The second process means that in this project, we will be dealing primarily with kingdoms and phyla introduced from Earth. The third means that we will be pulling different kingdoms, phyla, class, orders, and families from Earth at different time periods, and introducing them to Eurydice. And finally, the fourth factor means that the Pautra also had a hand in manipulating Eurydice during their separate rains, one of the effects being that they sometimes engineered animals for fun and placed them into Eurydicean ecosystems.


So, that being said, I haven't figured out all of the logistics about how Eurydice and the solar system that it is in work. If you check out the original discussion on the Old Forum, entitled 'Eurydice and Deianira', you will see quite a number of outdated concepts that I have dropped because they did not produce the desired outcome. The entire reason that I wrote the creation myth to include life from Earth being stolen and placed on Eurydice to evolve is because I wanted the animals that will be mentioned here and there in the story to be easy for my readers to imagine without a picture. I'm not even sure if the books will have pictures in them or not, and if they will, I'm not artist enough to go around drawing every single relevant animal because they are so divergent from anything on Earth that the reader will have trouble imagining them. A number of the ideas that I had in the original topic conflicted with this goal, and others that I have for the setting of the book.


For example, I had originally planned for the star that Eurydice orbits, Radegast, to be an F8 Star so that I could justify having plants yellow, orange, and red plants, so as to give the world of Eurydice a generally autumnal feel. I had also planned for many forms of endemic life to have been extant, and for there only to have been one introduction from Earth in the Silurian Period, and for Terran life to be represented almost exclusively by terrestrial biota.


Not only was it grossly unrealistic of me to think that I could take a few Terran biota and place them in a mature ecosystem and expect them to become the dominant terrestrial life forms in the time allotted, but I was also trying to evolve the terrestrial biota into largely analogous forms to something we would see on Earth. Not to mention that I wanted this on a planet with an 80 degree axial tilt, in a duel planetary system (two planets orbiting one another)... My hopes at making a “different yet familiar” setting out of the material I had given myself were hopelessly delusional, to say the least. I was so busy trying to work the project from the top down, trying to force certain concepts together, that the plausibility of many aspects of the project was suffering.


I mean, it's enough that we have the Teróksylon playing with the world and its flora and fauna, I think anyways…


Now, I am actually going to keep the original concept for Radegast being an F8 star, but unfortunately I can’t give you ALL the info on this star and its habitable zone, because my documents didn’t save yesterday when my computer quite unexpectedly crashed (it NEVER crashes), and so my friend and I will have to be doing some math all over again , but here is what there is for now:


Star Info:
Name: Radegast
Spectral Class: F8
Mass: 1.190
Radius: 1.260
Surface Temperature: 6200 K
Luminosity: 1.93
Habitable Zone: 0.9797 AU-2.438 AU


The specific information for Deianira was also lost in this crash, so the only real info I can give on it at present is that its roughly the same size as Eurydice, but denser, and covered in ice, and that it and Eurydice are orbiting a barycenter that itself is orbiting the star of Radegast at a farther distance than Earth orbits the Sun. I CAN however provide you with some good information about Eurydice:


Name of Planets: Eurydice
Distance from Star: 1.6776 AU
Length of Year: 2.001 Earth Years
Number of 24 hr days:
Number of 62 hr days: 282.75 (every four years is a leap year by 3 days)
Radius in km: 6,318
Axial Tilt: 25
Mass: 6.60385e24 kg (1.1055 E mass)
Volume: 1.1006e12 km (1.01609 Earths)
Density in Grams: 6 g/cm3
Diameter: 12810
Surface Area: 515.9
Roche Limit: 1700
Gravity: 1.09487 Gs
Orbit Velocity: 8.29 km per second
Thrust to Orbit Time at 3G: 7.3
Escape Velocity: 11.7 km per second
Geosynchronous Orbital Distance: 75780 (from surface of planet)
Geosynchronous Orbital Velocity: 2.31 km per second


It is important to note however that Eurydice and Deianira were at one point one planet, called Eurynira, which was a large, fast spinning super-earth on which life never got to colonize land, as it was only around for about 2.2 billion years before the rogue planet Proioxis crashed into it, tearing it into pieces. Now, the collision of Proioxis and Eurynira was actually not caused directly by the Teróksylon, but instead indirectly as the planet Proioxis was ejected from the pulsar system that was formed from the supernova of the star Lysander that the Teróksylon used to Radegast.


Eurydice and Deianira were formed from the debris of the two planets, but the debris ALSO formed two very small moons that orbited Eurydice called Deucalion and Pyrrha. Both worlds as well as the two moons were covered in ice on all or nearly all of their surfaces, until the asteroid Persephone collided with Eurydice at the direction of the Teróksylon to reintroduce microbes that will form the building blogs for Eurydicean life. . The 1 billion year ice age is known as the Chimonian or Siopian Epoch, depending on who you talk to, coming from the Greek words for “winter” and “silence”, respectively. However there is controversy over the name, because it encompasses both a period intense volcanic and geologic activity as well as a lasting ice age. After that, there is about billion year period within which life stays microscopic. This period has no scientific name, but is commonly referred to as the Dusty Seas Epoch because of the wealth of microscopic, almost unanimously unicellular life. At the close of the Dusty Seas Epoch, there is a little-understood period called the Takroónian in which life begins to develop into multicellular forms.

It lasts about 200 million years, and organisms that appear during this time are mostly divisible into two kingdoms: Pneuma and Bryoa . Pneuma includes all animals and their unicellular and multicellular relatives, while Bryoa includes various forms of Eurydicean algae. During the proceeding period, the Drewittian, animals split into two forms: Aphrizozoa and Struixa.


Aphrizozoans are a group of spherically symmetrical animals that will give rise to Dipleura (animals with bilateral symmetry), while Struixa is a group of primordial asymmetrical creatures that give rise to Bicorypheria (animals with radial symmetry). The Drewittian period is warm, and still rather volcanic, with a toxic atmosphere that supports sessile chemotrophic life forms on land, mostly forming around areas of high geothermic activity. Many of these life forms, both extant and extinct are poorly understood even in the modern day, and so are placed in the “kingdom” Chalinoria, despite a lack of knowledge as to their affinities to one another. As the Drewittian comes to a close, and tectonic/volcanic activity is decreased, we come into the Llewellynian Period, in which bicoryphers and dipleurans both split off from Aphrizozoa and Struixa and diversify over the course of the next 100 million years while the world gradually cools.


Dipleurans are mostly worm-like in nature, with the two most diverse groups being classes Plexoudina and Anthagnatha. Aphrizozoans continue to diversify as well, and it is in this era that aphrizochaetes and spinospheres first appear. A subclass of Plexoudina appears during this period, known as Sarcopterychaeta. True to their name, sarcopterychaetes are a diverse group of segmented worm-like organisms with fleshy, bristled “limbs”. Simultaneously during this period, freshwater habitats are colonized by asymmetrical organisms in the kingdom Struixa, which will, by Eurydice's next geologic period, have begun colonization of her landmasses in the form of sponge-like pads with symbiotic relationships with endemic retina-based alga, shorelines. The following period is called the Çubiryan, in which endemic Eurydicean life formally colonizes the planet's single supercontinent, Qemestaruk. This is what is called the Çubiryan Explosion, and last for about 130 million years out of the 300 million year epoch. Obviously, as the epoch is so long, the position of the continents has varied quite a bit, and so has the climate, but by the end of it, there are 5 continents: Júent, Jirsa, Nanor, Gujénsorow, and and Sarkeizi.


None of the five continents at this point in time are particularly close to the poles, hovering almost entirely in Eurydice's temperate and tropical zones. Four of the five continents, Júent, Jirsa, Nanor, and Sarkeizi are formed around the mostly tropical Dangus Ocean, where life on the planet, both terrestrial and aquatic, is quite possibly at its richest. This ocean is composted of huge patches of shallow seas that support fast-moving warm water currents that support lush environments for the spongy struixans, who themselves create habitat for endemic terrestrial sarcopterychaetes.


Now, by this time, the current Eurydice-Deianira system is approximately 2.6 billion years old. If I was to add the preceding period in which they were one world, Eurynira, then that jumps to about 4.8 billion years. It has had a very, very, very, very long history of evolving its own unique endemic life forms, but the problem with this for the Teróksylon is that NONE of this life is similar (at least from what he can see) to human beings, and it fears that, as it did during the Eurynira stage, humans can never be evolved from the present biota. So in order to try and force evolution in the direction that it wanted it to go, it gave Eurydice's icy little moons, Deucalion and Pyrrha, a little push, right into the planet's Roche Limit, triggering a 1.3 million year long extinction event. In the geologic timescale, this will mark the transition from the Protozoic Eon, which encompasses all eras from the Dusty Seas to the Çubiryan, into the current Reumazoic Eon, which encompasses everything afterward. While the story of Eurydice's evolution will still be one of constant interference by divine forces, there will never again be a deliberately triggered astronomical event by such a force that will change the face of the world of Eurydice. No more planets slamming into the surface, no more divine asteroids, no more pulling moons into Roche Limits. And because of this, this eon is called the “Reumazoic”, meaning “streaming life” in Greek, because divine beings will not be causing mass extinctions to manipulate the evolution of life on the world using astronomical forces from this point on.


Now, after this 1.3 million year extinction event, which we will refer to as the Çubiryan-Viridian Extinction event, life on Eurydice has been decimated.


Literally 99.99% of all life has gone extinct, including the sponge-like struixans that once blanketed the lowlands and the coastlines, and all of the sarcopterychaetes, both terrestrial and aquatic. The two kingdoms, Pneuma and Bryoa are still extant, but about all that is left are a few genera of some of all of the aforementioned groups with the exception of sarcopterychaetes and spinospheres. The only extant group of aphrizozoans are aphrizochaetes, and plexoudines and anthagnathes have also both been severely reduced, and all life on Eurydice is presently limited to the deep oceans with the exception of chalinorians, which only live in and around geothermic springs.


At this point in time, Eurydice is not exactly very hospitable to complex Terran life forms. Prior to the Çubiryan-Viridian Extinction Event, Eurydice's atmosphere was a carbon copy of Earth's, but because the planet is actually farther away from its sun, it was receiving less light, meaning that the average temperature on the planet was about 41 degrees Fahrenheit. The pelting of multiple asteroids over a 1.3 million years period coupled with the increased tectonic and volcanic activity caused by the gravitational pull of Deianira helped to raise the CO2 content of the atmosphere rather significantly though, which facilitated the increase of the average temperature of the planet up to between 50-55 degrees Fahrenheit. But the real impediment to Earthly life was the deficiency of oxygen. This was a time of extremely low oxygen levels, as the planet had been depleted of much of its photosynthesizing life.


This is when the Teróksylon got the idea to begin introducing Terran life, some 385 million years ago in Earth's history, during the Middle Devonian. But before we continue with all of that, I think that it's important give you guys a map of Eurydice at the start of the Viridian, before the introduction of life, but after the mass extinction, so here it is.


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Ha, excuse me... when I wrote this post earlier I literally woke up thinking: "Oh shit!" And then wrote it before I left, so let me revise to sound like less of a poopsnake.


I do want it to be clear that many of the aforementioned groups are not particularly important to the evolution of Eurydice at the moment.


Bryoa and bicoryphers are what will be important, and I'll elaborate on that in the next post. Anthagnathes and plexoudines may still be extant, but their niches are so few and far between that they are largely irrelevant until we dive into their physiology later.
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I'll definitely be reading this one in the morning !
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Ok guys, my good friend actually saved all the measurements and was able to get them to me this morning... such a good friend indeed.


Anyways, here is what we have for Deianira:


Name of Planet: Deianira
Distance from Star: 1.6776 AU
Length of Year: same as Eurydice
Number of 24 hr days: same as Eurydice
Number of 62 hr days: same as Eurydice
Radius in km: 6760.26
Axial Tilt: same as Eurydice
Mass: 8.412e24 kg (1.4085 Earth masses)
Volume: 1.294e12 km3 (1.195 Earth volumes)
Density: 6.5
Gravity: 12.282 N/kg (1.252 Gs)
Escape Velocity in km per Second: 12.886 km/s
Geosynchronal Orbital Distance: 89,238 km
Geosynchronal Orbital Velocity: 2.508 km/s
Mean Kelvin Temperature:
Atmosphere Composition:
Orbital Eccentricity: 0.01


And apparently there was something wrong with the radius of Eurydice, so here is the updated info on that:


Name of Planets: Eurydice
Distance from Star: 1.6776 AU
Length of Year: 2.001 Earth Years
Number of 24 hr days:
Number of 62 hr days: 282.75 (every four years is a leap year by 3 days)
Radius in km: 6405 km
Axial Tilt: 25
Mass: 6.60385e24 kg (1.1055 E mass)
Volume: 1.1006e12 km (1.01609 Earths)
Density in Grams: 6 g/cm3
Diameter: 12810
Surface Area: 515.9
Roche Limit: 1700
Gravity: 1.09487 Gs
Orbit Velocity: 8.29 km per second
Thrust to Orbit Time at 3G: 7.3
Escape Velocity: 11.7 km per second
Geosynchronous Orbital Distance: 75780 (from surface of planet)
Geosynchronous Orbital Velocity: 2.31 km per second


I also should elaborate a little bit on the map...


As we move forward in time, I will be posting a map of the tectonic plates and also a map of their movements, cuz this project will be covering the movements of the continents over a period of 390 million years. I'm currently working on a map of the planet's winds and then another one after that of oceanic currents, and then I'll probably post a map of the distribution of vegetation 5 million years from the time of this map, only to break it up and do it all over again. lol


In this map though, there is no vegetative cover, as it's immediately after the Çubiryan-Viridian Extincton Event. The white dots signify mountains, most of which probably host glaciers at this point in time when the average temperature of the planet is at least 10 degrees Fahrenheit lower than it is on Earth today, and the brown splotches are actually rift valleys where the continents are moving apart from one another. The distribution of rivers may not be entirely accurate, as I haven't quite figured out the precipitation rates yet. But yeah, that's what you're looking at.


If you can't tell, I used Chris Wayan's Seapole as a base for this map. You should be able to see Canada in northeastern Sarkeizi, and Júent is actually a conglomeration of Africa and Arabia. Of course, as we break up the continents and move them every 15 million years or so, it will lose all semblance to its original base.
Edited by Zirojtan, Oct 13 2013, 06:54 PM.
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I'm very sorry I haven't posted in a few days guys. I've been collaborating with a couple of friends on the details of the Çubiryan-Viridian Extinction as well as the nature of some of the taxa that would be flourishing because of it.


In the mean time, enjoy the first map of Eurydice modified to 5 million years past the last map. I figure the last map would have been at the very start of the Viridian, and this map would be at the end of a stage of the Viridian called the Bloody Seas Stage, which will be explained in the next update. Here it is:


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Notice that Júent and the western portion of Jirsa are now linked, closing the connection of the Dangus Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, meaning that those cold arctic waters won't be finding their way in there and messing with the water temperature anymore.


Also, Jirsa's rift has flooded as its eastern half is moving closer to Gujénsorow, and the land bridge that connected Jirsa to Nanor, formed by its own continental plate, is on the move westward into the Dangus Ocean, and no longer connects the two continents.


Nanor is also in the process of tearing itself in half, but only part of the rift has flooded as of yet. The movement of the eastern portion of the continent has currently been stalled by the continental plate that is still crashing into it, driving those mountains up (can you see Scandinavia in there?).


Sarkeizi is also pulling itself apart, but its unflooded rift there is actually part divergent boundary, part transformation zone, as much of the area on the continent is pulling apart, while those parts in the ocean and some part on the continent are sliding past each other. What used to be visibly cut from Northern Canada is now joining with Júent and closing off an important connection to the Auroric Ocean that once hosted swift and violent currents, and now form an open plain of soil. The rift valley to the south has at least flooded, but it is actually only barely connected to either ocean, and is subject to dry out into a giant salt plain during periods of lower water levels.


Finally, our drifting subcontinent in the middle of the Dangus Ocean is beginning to collide with the Júent Plate, forming an island arch along the boundary, for now...


But the close off of the connection with the Auroric Ocean has resulted in some severe climatic changes for the Dangus Ocean, as the Coriolis Effect brought cold waters in from the former, which helped to calm the monsoons of this small, and considerably shallow body of water. Now, the northern monsoons are pretty much unchecked, and violent tropical storms rage free of disturbance from cold waters from the Auroric and Arctic oceans. The water here is generally very warm, at least by Eurydicean standards, as the planet's El Niño effects are considerably lessened most of the time due to its distance from its sun. The waters of the Dangus Ocean are currently warm, and generally nutrient poor in comparison to say, the deep waters of the Prepontic Ocean. It's the ideal conditions for a certain kind of life on Earth, but will that life make the cut when it is introduced?


Haha, we'll see in the next update...
Edited by Zirojtan, Oct 23 2013, 06:57 AM.
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