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[Criptfeind]

I'm ready to smile down on a such a delicious species.

[kaian-a-coel]

I pray to GM to change emperors' ratio to 1/10 instead of 1/1000. I wanted to make them kerrigan-powerful but I lacked the EPs and my vision of them changed.
It would make 5000 emperors total instead of 50, and so a political organisation much more accceptable.

[mcclay]

Niklas showed special intrest in the Calx,often going among them in a form more subitabule for them. He wished there was some way that he could show them the feras and have them defeat it, but there was none. So he was stuck appreaing to the mas waht they feared and hoping them would defeat it. He rembred other universe and the relm he had built there in. BUt here he was weak, and ther terrorathemum* would have to wait.
(*name in progress.)

[Poltifar]

One of Poltifar's blobs clearly doesn't weigh one million kilograms. Well, probably.

That depends on its density. If, as its traits would indicate, a 100-year-old blob has a volume of 100*25m^3, then it would need a density of 400kg/m^3 to weight a million kilos, which is quite low. Water is 1000kg/m^3.

[kaian-a-coel]

1000 tons is the mass of a frigate. Or a really big tank (never build).

[Azthor]

One of Poltifar's blobs clearly doesn't weigh one million kilograms. Well, probably.

That depends on its density. If, as its traits would indicate, a 100-year-old blob has a volume of 100*25m^3, then it would need a density of 400kg/m^3 to weight a million kilos, which is quite low. Water is 1000kg/m^3.

If food becomes scarce, I dare say it'd be the very first thing around to starve.

[Criptfeind]

I dunno if that follows, since it would be eating everything else. I mean, I guess you could say it would be the first thing to starve seeing as everything else would be dead long before they could starve.

[Azthor]

I dunno if that follows, since it would be eating everything else. I mean, I guess you could say it would be the first thing to starve seeing as everything else would be dead long before they could starve.

Not quite, ironic as it may be, large animals, superpredators or not, tend to be among the first to go when scarcity strikes. Biomass needs to be constantly sustained... Good luck pulling it off for 1000 tons. In fact, realistically, it'd suffocate, its lungs crushed by its weight, well before hitting such a weight, it is the good and old square-cube law. And yes, it needs lungs, it is far too large for the skin to handle it as the internal tissue would be dead before external gases could reach them... And, should it lack an articulation, there wouldn't be enough pressure.

[Poltifar]

My blobs eat minerals (again, part of the traits and all). That's the only reason they can get so large, obviously they'd never survive in a traditional ecosystem otherwise.

As for the lungs thing... I'm not sure, are we really aiming for something that realistic? I mean, its a giant blob with a gem eye that hypnotizes people...

[Azthor]

My blobs eat minerals (again, part of the traits and all). That's the only reason they can get so large, obviously they'd never survive in a traditional ecosystem otherwise.

As for the lungs thing... I'm not sure, are we really aiming for something that realistic? I mean, its a giant blob with a gem eye that hypnotizes people...

I never said we were. In fact, just about everything so far screams no. It was just a comparison with a realistic setting.

[Grek]

Well, I don't know. My corals are fairly realistic, barring the magical curse on them. And that could easily be replaced with "they're venomous" without changing anything.

[Azthor]

Well, I don't know. My corals are fairly realistic, barring the magical curse on them. And that could easily be replaced with "they're venomous" without changing anything.

Not quite, it is a complex cnidarian organism capable of autonomous photosynthesis. That is realistically impossible, given how  animal cells altogether lack chloroplasts by definition. There is, after all, a reason for which the phylum contains several examples of symbiosis with algae.

[Grek]

That's not strictly the case. There's been cases of animals-like creatures with chloroplasts historically; they're just all extinct.

[Azthor]

That's not strictly the case. There's been cases of animals-like creatures with chloroplasts historically; they're just all extinct.

I do not mean to be rude, but I'd like an example all the same. At the very least, I will learn something new.

[Grek]

Arpylorus is a good example. They've got chloroplasts and all that, but they supliment their food by eating phytoplankton.