Turn 2Try to get a chemical sense of some description.
use two amino acids to make some perceptive proteins attached outside the membrane, so we can perceive chemicals around us.
The cell shifts some of the Amino Acids around, but they can't do a whole lot in their raw form and you have no way to process them yet. The cell's RNA, however, has begun to link four of the Amino Acids together. A new organelle has been formed! The
Basic Ribosome! This organelle manufactures the proteins necessary to construct almost everything the cell uses, provided you have the right materials. The cell uses two of the Amino Acids to make a perceptive protein. Using a total of eight of the Amino Acids, it makes a four such proteins and distributes them over its membrane.
You are now sensitive to major chemical changes in the liquid and know that you are inhabiting mineral-rich icy water. It occurs to you that you might want offspring, but you lack the size to split effectively ((offspring would
not be controllable until later: right now they would just swim around doing what you do, essentially)). You detect a little bit of sugar in the water and hasten towards it. You bump against a hard substance and can tell that this is part of a sugar crystal. Tiny bits of the sugar float around as well. As you reach to envelope one, you feel something jostle you.
In other news, the cell is now
Vitascinti or "Lifespark".
Edit: Adding
basus to the end of
Vitascinti because it should be binomial.
Cell Basics:Common Name: Lifespark
Scientific Name:
Vitascinti basusRNA: 5
Amino Acids: 3
Energy: 6
Sentience: 1/10
Cell StatsDefense: 1
Efficiency: 1
Structure: 1
Movement: 1
Detection: 1
Production: 1
Cell Organelles:Basic Membrane (Defense +1)
Basic Cytoplasm (Efficiency +1)
Basic Cytoskeleton (Structure +1, Movement +1)
Basic Chemical Detection Proteins (Detection +1)
Basic Ribosomes (Production +1)
Location:Mineral-rich ice water.