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[Inithis]

The dusts of an untamed planet swirl and divide, rocks cutting through the gritty mist like ships cutting through ocean waves. This is a planet untouched by life-or, at least, so it first appears. Beneath the sun-scoured surface a dramatic network of caverns leads to the planet's inner core. Life exists in two belts-near the surface, where solar radiation fuels organic life, and deep within the planet, where temperature does the same. All else is uninhabited; the surface is sterilized by gamma rays, the inner core creates insufferable heat, and the stretch between the habitable belts is simply empty, with no fuel for life.

And so the legend of the universe's mightiest empire begins.
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Welcome to Dawn of Evolution! This is a multiplayer game inspired by my time on the spore forums. It employs the concept of a personal race to represent the player, allowing for the creation of whole new cultural and societal ideas. Be unbound from convention, and experience a true freedom of writing and creation.

To join, please fill out the following application:
Name of Race:
Physical Description:
Unusual Traits:
Location:(radiation belt or thermal belt)

All races will be starting without tool-making or higher levels of intelligence; still, feel free to interact with other players as a unified race.

I encourage you to be creative! Imagine what sort of strange creatures could exist on a planet of caves; slug-like creatures built to withstand pressure? Tunneling predators digging elaborate mazes as traps? It is all up to you.

[Ozarck]

Name of Race:Ixid
Physical Description: a central hairy orb connected by thick cylindrical flesh to four secondary orbs arranced in a tetrahedral form around the central. Three long, spindly, hair covered limbs extend from each secondary orb.
Unusual Traits: The species is a mobile filter feeder, absorbing nutrients room dust clouds, organic oozes, and the surfaces of objects they traverse. Highly dextrous, they climb with equal ease with which they walk. Lacking significant combat strength, they survive by numbers, and by being rather inedible, and generally a non-threat to other species.
Location:radiation belt

[Pencil_Art]

Reserved.

[Inithis]

Sorry to say this, but I don't think this'll work if more people don't show up...

[Ozarck]

probably not. Give it another day?

[Salsacookies]

I'll have a reserve right here.

[Urist Arrhenius]

Reserve!

[ShadowHammer]

I'd like to join as well.
edit:
Name of Race: Dirigids
Physical Description: A lumpy conglomeration of air sacs filled with bouyant gas.
Unusual Traits: Each sac has a valve that allows it to expel air, propelling it. It is covered in a gel that acts both captures and digests small food particles as it floats about.
Location:(radiation belt or thermal belt) Radiation belt

[Urist Arrhenius]

Spoiler: Salandrians (click to show/hide)

Name of Race: Salandrian
Physical Description: Long bodies with five sets of paired limbs. When standing on the back three sets, the front four limbs serve as grasping arms. An incredibly flexible spine allows for a wide range of rotation and contortion. The male salandrians can grow to a little upwards of 7 feet in length, but this amounts only to 3 to 4 feet in height, while the females can be much larger, reaching 9 or 10 feet in length. This sexual dimorphism is actually a result of the fact that males become females after they have completed most of their growth. They additionally gain brilliant coloration, changing from dark browns and greens to brilliant oranges and blues.  Females keep harems of men, breeding with them only if they best each other or others in combat. This complex sexual behavior has evolved to allow for sexual selection to occur late in the individual development, ensuring that they must have good survival traits. The females are highly territorial and defend their large clutches while the males are the primary hunters. They prey on the largest prey available, often working in groups if the size of the prey demands it, though this can lead to competition between males to claim the prize.
Unusual Traits: Matriarchal society, strong sexual dimorphism, sex develops from male to female; incredible flexibility
Location: Thermal Belt

Does this look good? What were you looking for with unusual traits? Also, should I mention intelligence at all, or no? I have ideas, but I don't want to step on any toes in terms of where development should be.

[Demonic Spoon]

Mmm. Could I make something involving dimensional shenanigans? Like storing extra mass in a pocket dimension or somesuch.

[Andres]

Name of Race: Humanity
Physical Description: A bipedal ape mostly devoid of hair.
Unusual Traits: While not possessing any unique strengths compared to other species, humans also have no apparent weaknesses. The deficiency in strengths is usually rectified as a human increases in age and gains new skills, usually specialising in one area but occasionally multiple.
Location: Radiation belt

((Human master race, ho!))

[Pencil_Art]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Race: Graxid (Race name subject to change
Physical Description: A small, scaly creature covered in bristling spines, with larger spines on it's head, fanning out around it like a crown. Interestingly, it is an omnivore. It has a snake-like tongue and a large head. It usually grows to about one and a half meters, though the larger ones can reach almost two. It has two leg-like appendages and two arms.

The Graxid are fairly competitive, welcoming the challenge of battle, as well as being quite intelligent. Their scales can withstand a lot of pressure, and as such can take quite a blow. They are almost blind, though, from living in caves, and track mostly on smell and sound. The mating ritual requires the male to be able to best the female in combat. The Graxid give birth to live young, which live on regurgitated food from their parents, and milk suckled from the mother. Graxid are capable of being very quiet as most of their prey have adapted to listening as a means of survival, and also hunt in packs. They both hunt other cave animals and uncover moss on the cave floor to eat. Graxid females can also have many young in quite a short time.

Unusual Traits
The Graxid's spines can be broken off easily and carry a mild sedative. Additionally, the Graxid can use incredibly small and powerfulmuscles located underneath each spine to shoot the spines out, sticking nearby opponents fill of them. The spines regrow regularly. The Graxid's teeth also are mildly poisonous. Both of these poisonous features allow the Graxid to work their prey into a sluggish state, allowing them to finish it off easily.

The Graxid also have both the milk production of a mammal and traits of a reptile in them, being scaly, giving birth to live young, feeding their young milk, etc.

Location: Radiation Belt

[Pencil_Art]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Race: Graxid (Race name subject to change
Physical Description: A small, scaly creature covered in bristling spines, with larger spines on it's head, fanning out around it like a crown. Interestingly, it is an omnivore. It has a snake-like tongue and a large head. It usually grows to about one and a half meters, though the larger ones can reach almost two. It has two leg-like appendages and two arms.

The Graxid are fairly competitive, welcoming the challenge of battle, as well as being quite intelligent. Their scales can withstand a lot of pressure, and as such can take quite a blow. They are almost blind, though, from living in caves, and track mostly on smell and sound. The mating ritual requires the male to be able to best the female in combat. The Graxid give birth to live young, which live on regurgitated food from their parents, and milk suckled from the mother. Graxid are capable of being very quiet as most of their prey have adapted to listening as a means of survival, and also hunt in packs. They both hunt other cave animals and uncover moss on the cave floor to eat. Graxid females can also have many young in quite a short time.

Unusual Traits
The Graxid's spines can be broken off easily and carry a mild sedative. Additionally, the Graxid can use incredibly small and powerfulmuscles located underneath each spine to shoot the spines out, sticking nearby opponents fill of them. The spines regrow regularly. The Graxid's teeth also are mildly poisonous. Both of these poisonous features allow the Graxid to work their prey into a sluggish state, allowing them to finish it off easily.

The Graxid also have both the milk production of a mammal and traits of a reptile in them, being scaly, giving birth to live young, feeding their young milk, etc.

Location: Radiation Belt

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Garzakins
Physical description-They stand any height ranging from 4 to 10 feet tall, but usually slouch slightly. Their bodies are covered in thick scales that grow thinner the farther they get from the core. In the gaps of these scales grows a coarse hair. They have several pairs of arms. Scales on the back of thier arms tend to elongate, forming a sort of natural knife, and their fingers are tipped with retractable claws. They have small, largely useless wings, but can jump very high.  They are fairly intelligent and fast, and hunt in packs to take down larger prey. They have several sets of eyes which can be tuned to different wavelengths.

Unusual traits
When they reach a certain age, they begin producing a mild poison that grows stronger as they age. They also begin to grow tails, larger teeth, and larger wings. They can also use their multiple limbs with excellent coordination. They have a weak form of swarm intelligence with those they were around while at least one of them was young, resulting in them forming packs. They can also lay several hundred eggs at once but not give any care to their offspirng(who tend to be smaller if eggborn) or give live birth to a mximum of five but care for their offspring well( these tend to be larger)

Location: Thermal Belt 

[Iituem]

Name of Race: The Yrb
Physical Description: Mats of brownish-white fungus composed of several symbiotic sub-species.  These organisms possess a distributed biology, with specialist cells forming structures and simple organs where energy and nutrients are sufficient to permit them.
Unusual Traits: Yrb cells are capable of forming impromptu synaptic linkages.  Over a large enough area, especially where nutrients are in excess, this allows the formation of pseudo-cerebral structures, mimicking the function of higher order brains and allowing limited psychic manipulation.  While the Yrb are a long, long way from being self-aware or even truly psychic, they have enough structure to be able to communicate a basic "do not eat" impulse to would-be predators, activating when parts of the fungal mats are being eaten.  For now, it is enough to give them an edge in competition.
Location: Thermal Belt