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Poll of the ABOUT FUCKING TIME: Revival?

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Postby Cylarn » Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:54 am

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PL's layout is what led me to make the Return (roster), What Lies in the Dark, the Rising reboot, Hidden Origins, on and on and on. PostPoc by far is my fav currently


:hug:


When's your RP going to be up?
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Postby Jessjohnesik » Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:21 am

Cylarn wrote:
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When's your RP going to be up?


I'm still working on it.

I did say that it will be worked on for a long time. I plan on finishing the OOC tomorrow though.
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Postby Jessjohnesik » Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:06 pm

Cy, I don't know what shit I told you in my above post, I doubt I'll even finish in two weeks. ;)

Also, talk about much double standards, Russ' son.
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Postby Ayreonia » Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:03 pm

Just checking in to say I'm not dead, I just bought Dark Souls 2. If you don't hear from me, assume I'm busy beating my roommate to death with a PS3 controller.
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Postby Jessjohnesik » Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:16 pm

Ayreonia wrote:Just checking in to say I'm not dead, I just bought Dark Souls 2. If you don't hear from me, assume I'm busy beating my roommate to death with a PS3 controller.


What is that?
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Postby Pan Asian Amercian Coalition » Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:34 pm

Ayreonia wrote:Just checking in to say I'm not dead, I just bought Dark Souls 2. If you don't hear from me, assume I'm busy beating my roommate to death with a PS3 controller.

Console peasant.

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Postby Ayreonia » Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:40 pm

Pan Asian Amercian Coalition wrote:
Ayreonia wrote:Just checking in to say I'm not dead, I just bought Dark Souls 2. If you don't hear from me, assume I'm busy beating my roommate to death with a PS3 controller.

Console peasant.

JK all gamers are equal. Except those filthy casuals.

I gag whenever Darks Souls and casuals are mentioned in the same context.

I've been playing for two hours and I'm already frustrated.
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Postby Ayreonia » Sat Mar 15, 2014 1:48 am

RIght, I'm going to initiate a timeskip right into the next episode. If there's something you want to do in this one, do it today.
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Postby Cylarn » Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:28 am

Ayreonia wrote:RIght, I'm going to initiate a timeskip right into the next episode. If there's something you want to do in this one, do it today.


Alright. Russ will search for Hiram as well as any evidence that his former love is still alive. Can we timeslot to Russ' s villa?
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Postby Ayreonia » Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:57 am

Cylarn wrote:
Ayreonia wrote:RIght, I'm going to initiate a timeskip right into the next episode. If there's something you want to do in this one, do it today.


Alright. Russ will search for Hiram as well as any evidence that his former love is still alive. Can we timeslot to Russ' s villa?

The what now?
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Postby Feroxi » Sat Mar 15, 2014 10:46 am

Cylarn wrote:
Ayreonia wrote:RIght, I'm going to initiate a timeskip right into the next episode. If there's something you want to do in this one, do it today.


Alright. Russ will search for Hiram as well as any evidence that his former love is still alive. Can we timeslot to Russ' s villa?

…What?

EDIT: So did we find Hiram? I'm gonna check the last page of Pseudo right quick, but I've been working so I didn't have time to watch the thread.
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Postby Cylarn » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:04 am

Ayreonia wrote:
Cylarn wrote:
Alright. Russ will search for Hiram as well as any evidence that his former love is still alive. Can we timeslot to Russ' s villa?

The what now?


Despite being a pothead, Russ commonly works as a high-priced mercenary. He's not a poor sap.

It's his pad. And it could function as our safe house in Monte.
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Postby Ayreonia » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:06 am

Cylarn wrote:
Ayreonia wrote:The what now?


Despite being a pothead, Russ commonly works as a high-priced mercenary. He's not a poor sap.

It's his pad. And it could function as our safe house in Monte.

I don't like it.
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Postby Cylarn » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:11 am

Ayreonia wrote:
Cylarn wrote:
Despite being a pothead, Russ commonly works as a high-priced mercenary. He's not a poor sap.

It's his pad. And it could function as our safe house in Monte.

I don't like it.


Alright, alright.
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Postby Streetgrind » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:40 am

Why not port to a random dirt poor settlement with high views of vagabonds? It could serve to deconstruct the Indiana Jones myth they may believe. Also, it'd let me post. :D
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Postby Ayreonia » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:44 am

Streetgrind wrote:Why not port to a random dirt poor settlement with high views of vagabonds? It could serve to deconstruct the Indiana Jones myth they may believe. Also, it'd let me post. :D

It's funny how so many people think highly of vagos, when they're essentially hobos armed to the teeth.
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Postby Streetgrind » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:45 am

Ayreonia wrote:
Streetgrind wrote:Why not port to a random dirt poor settlement with high views of vagabonds? It could serve to deconstruct the Indiana Jones myth they may believe. Also, it'd let me post. :D

It's funny how so many people think highly of vagos, when they're essentially hobos armed to the teeth.

Exactly! Plus they probably think that adventure is painless and that at the end of the day, everything's fine.
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Postby Ayreonia » Sat Mar 15, 2014 12:05 pm

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Ayreonia wrote:It's funny how so many people think highly of vagos, when they're essentially hobos armed to the teeth.

Exactly! Plus they probably think that adventure is painless and that at the end of the day, everything's fine.

That's something I see people thinking in real life all the time.
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Postby Feroxi » Sat Mar 15, 2014 12:10 pm

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Streetgrind wrote:Exactly! Plus they probably think that adventure is painless and that at the end of the day, everything's fine.

That's something I see people thinking in real life all the time.

I like Street's idea. Or we just camp out somewhere that has trading posts. Aeron needs to make some modifications to his armor- like not being covered head to toe in raider clan markings. New paint-job and some lighter gear will help in the long run.
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Postby Jessjohnesik » Sat Mar 15, 2014 12:11 pm

Ayre, did you accept my update?
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Postby Ayreonia » Sat Mar 15, 2014 12:14 pm

Jessjohnesik wrote:Ayre, did you accept my update?

I seem to have missed it.
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Postby Jessjohnesik » Sat Mar 15, 2014 12:16 pm

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Jessjohnesik wrote:Ayre, did you accept my update?

I seem to have missed it.


Hold on.

My cat must have a future session of temporary and positive diarrhoea and then I will repost it.
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Postby Jessjohnesik » Sat Mar 15, 2014 12:51 pm

Updato. Put in OP when you get the chance please.

The Daggerwrist

A human sized, arboreal, liquevorous predator, the Daggerwrist is a very elusive creature that feeds in the same way as arachnids. The creature is capable of gliding, but is also a quadruped. While mainly feeding on Trunksuckers, who are mainly airborne creatures, it can also attack earth bound creatures, occasionally stalking burrowing creatures while also capable of running after prey, though it's dagger-like front appendages make it extremely difficult to run at fast speeds. They also use powerful muscles in their legs to allow them to make great leaps to maximize the distance they can cross on each glide. Like many other species on the planet, they utilize bioluminescent lights. This creature's natural habitat would be the pocket forests of Rigel, mainly Plaque Bark Tree Forests.
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Plaque Bark Trees

These Earth-equivalents of trees are tall plant like organisms which rely on minerals, water and the sun's energy for a living. The trees are made up of a very large trunk with a thick crust permeated by photosynthetic covering. The trunk gets less wide on the way to the top. Attached to the trunk are sharp 'branches' with a similar anatomy to the trunk. The branches however have an extra layer of photosynthetic layers. The trees provide food for Skeelies and hunting spots for daggerwrists as well as harbouring other species.
The trees in pocket forests are quite far apart due to complex and extremely deep root networks. The pocket forest are also very rare due to the hostile nature of the planet. And are not very large. Occasionally, a leaf like organ will be grown on a branch.

The Gyrosprinter

These 'gazelles' compromise of a horse-size creature with a naked skull and strong, merged legs. The legs have merged during the course of evolution for the creature to be able to get away from predators with much greater speed. They have a special organ for maintaining balance. It feeds using a long tongue , which spreads apart to form a net similar to a fungi's, using which it captures every organism that is floating in the air at the moment, swaying the tongue as it moves about.
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Arrow tongue

A bipedalien with black coloration and red spotted biolights. Averaging about eight meters tall, an Arrowtongue impales its prey with a 3 meter-long, serrated, arrow-tipped proboscis. Like many spiders on Earth (and like most predators on Rigel), Arrowtongues are liquivores, injecting digestive juices into their prey and then sucking up the liquefied organs. They are fierce, solitary hunters found on the grasslands of Rigel. Like most of Rigel's animals, their pointed, spade-like heads contain no true jaws. They use sonar in order to find other species and food

Micro flyers

Micro flyers are small creatures of various species that inhabit Rigel's lower airways, being the base of most ecosystems along with the Pollen.

The Pollen and Aerophytes

The Pollen are microscopic organisms that float in Rigel's airways, often reaching incredibly high altitudes due to their lightweightness and anatomy. They are the base of virtually all ecosystems(along with aerophytes) and feed through photosynthesis among other things. Aerophytes are Microscopic vegetative organisms that float on Rigel's air currents and constitute a major source of food for several species on the planet.

Beachquills

Beach Quills are short-range attack hunters and are some of the smallest creatures on Rigel. They attack in colonies and kill their prey with a neurotoxin. They can propel themselves by means of a folded muscular "foot". The beach quills look exactly like their name, they are 76 mm in length.

Bladderhorn

This creature is a bright blue, rather comical-looking bipedal animal, with two "antlers" extending out of the sides of its head and have red biolight markings on them. The antlers are actually sacs designed to inflate and make it look much larger than it truly is. Bladderhorns make bellowing sounds by deflating the air sacs. The Bladderhorn uses its "antlers" for communication.

Prismalope

A tripedalien of Rigel's plains and deserts, Prismalopes often travel in herds. The first thing one notices about this creature is its massive prism-shaped head. Though it appears ungainly, it houses the Prismalope's grasping tentacles, which it uses to capture small prey. This fast-breeding creature is preyed upon by a multitude of predators, both terrestrial and airborne. It is also very numerous.

Prongheads

Prongheads are bipedal plains predators that feed on Gyrosprinters, Symets and Littoralopes. They are named for the three hollow prongs protruding from their faces that act as tubes to siphon liquids from their prey, since they use their feet to inject their digestive fluids into prey. They hunt in pack in a similar manner to wolves on Earth.

Littoralopes

Littoralopes are placid, slow-moving quadrupeds with little evidence of intelligence. They also have tails resembling their heads, similar to Symets. This feature probably evolved to confuse predators.

Symets

Symets are bipedal herbivores named for their protective symmetry. The symmetry most likely evolved to confuse predators. A Symet

Unth

The Unth is a tundra creature with asymmetrical tusks. Unths are named for the sound they make when they take a step. Unths live in herds. Unths had only one gender but still fight for mating rights.

Stripewing

The Stripewing is an odd two-meter-tall flying creature with stripes on its wings that breaks into a hopping frenzy each night. Stripewings will fold themselves into compact shapes.

Skewer

The largest aerial predator of Rigel. It is a humungous flying animal, with a wingspan of 50 feet (over 15 m). Not even the largest pterosaurs (like Quetzalcoatlus, with its 40-foot (12 m) wingspan) from Earth have a wingspan even approaching that size. Its wings do not flap but squeeze, shifting shape to shift flight. It is actually propelled by combusting methane gas in four jet-pods on its wings. This allows the Skewer to travel at speeds of 200 miles per hour. Its killing tool is a hollow lance that impales its prey, injects digestive enzymes, and sucks the corpse dry. The Skewer also hunts in groups, each Skewer dropping the spoils and another swoops in to feast. No large animal on Rigel is safe from the skewer.
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Sac-back

The Sac-back gets its name from the sac on the male's back. The sac is used to store pre-digested food from the "sea", which is later fed to the females. Male and female Sac-backs live completely different lives. Males live on the surface, walking around on their three legs. Female Sac-backs dig "tombs" in which they bury themselves. Once buried, the only part of the female that sees the light of day is her mouth and tentacle.

Rigel Tomato

Darwin Tomatoes are giant molds that grow in the pocket forests. They can grow to be at a maximum of half a metre.

Electrophytes

These red, mushroom-like plants electrocute animals that stray into their fields, and then consume them alive.

Polardots

A plant with small blue flower like organs that live in the polar and colder regions of Rigel.

Stickball Plant

The Stickball Plant is part sponge and part virus. The only creatures that eat them are the Gyrosprinters.

Fodderball Weed

The Fodderball Weed produces football-like fruits called zimns. These weeds have a lightweight construction that puts them at the mercy of every wind.

Stalkers

Stalkers are colony-living predators that have several different tasks. Scouts find large, slow moving prey and mark them with a special scent, then return to the nest to spread the word. Workers then swarm out in huge numbers, detecting the prey and work together to bring them down and kill them. Finally, there is a queen, who stays in the nest and constantly lays eggs that become new stalkers. This lifestyle is based on earth's hornets.

Groveback

The Groveback is one of the largest creatures native to Rigel. When fully mature, they are large enough to have entire stands of trees grow on their backs during the long periods of dormancy spent buried in the ground. Once mobile, they travel on two large front legs and a rear appendage shaped much like a boat rudder. The Groveback feeds by absorbing nutrients from the soil through the skin of its underbody as well as feeding on the microscopic plants and animals that number in the millions in Rigel's air currents. The Groveback is one of the few creatures on Rigel with true jaws. The Groveback is a truly enormous animal, however can be easily killed by a colony of Beachquills. Other creatures, even the Skewer, do not risk getting close to mature forms.
A grove back approaching a colony of Beach quills, something that will lead to its death:
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Tubegrass

Long grass which is hollow like a tube giving the plant its name. It is striped.

Gourd Tree

15-story tall plants that are supported by root-like stilts. Gourd Trees are either hollow or spongy inside. They have to be for the stilts to support them.

The Spitter

A relatively small(25-40 cm), omnivorous and mostly nocturnal creature, the Spitter spends two thirds of its time under ground, coming out only in the deep of the night. The spitter is a burrowing quadruped and over the course of evolution, it's front appendages became modelled like effective shovels while its hairs help it stay warm during the night. Like most Rigelian wildlife, the spitter doesn't have jaws, but rather a proboscis, which it effectively tugs away into its 'neck' when digging to prevent damage. Once again, like most Rigelian wildlife, the spitter doesn't have eyesight but relies on Sonar and to a lesser extent on hearing, vibrations and tactile senses. When cornered(this happens rarely), the creature spits an acidic bile, that isn't deadly, but quite corrosive. Naturally, it uses the bile to dissolve earth and sand when digging through stronger materials. To dig better, the creature also has keratin encrusted over its front digging appendages.

Butchertree

Many species prey on the numerous, fast breeding Prismalope, but the Butchertree is the only species that actually lures the Prismalope instead of chasing it. Dotting the plains of the northern hemisphere, the Butchertree kills anything that comes within range of its four branch-daggers. They have a bizarre relationship with an unnamed flying organism, which is the primary food source of Prismalopes. The Butchertree grows underground roots that resemble these fliers, allowing the "tree" to lure Prismalopes close enough to try to kill and eat them. It is unknown just how this species reproduces. One possibility is that the small flier it associates with transfers eggs and sperm between individuals. Another possibility is that the flier itself is the second gender of the species, an extreme form of sexual dimorphism. Either way, young Butchertrees are found close to their "parent", and are connected to them through an umbilical cord similar to that of the "growths" that mimic the fliers. The cord disappears once the young are capable of nourishing themselves. The Butchertree is one of the only species known to prey on Skewers. Most information about The Butchertree is unknown as it is too dangerous to get close to, meaning an almost impossibility of surveying it properly for scientists. Which is why scientists could only guess what the unnamed flyer is(whether its a different species, the second gender of the Butchertree etc) and how the Butchertree actually works.

Carver Wing

An incredibly aggressive ectoparasitoid flyer that lays its eggs on the dorsal survases of large animals. Once the eggs hatch, the Carver wings will devour their host.

Brain Balls

Brain-like creatures that resemble brain corals. Described as huge, colonial earthbound floaters, not much is known about them as they are quite rare.

Diskflyers

Diskflyers live around Rigel's remaining Seas and water bodies and operate within very distinct four square kilometer territories. It is not known whether young Diskflyers stay within the territories in which they were born or if they leave to establish new territories of their own. Diskflyers are hermaphroditic, like most of Rigel's fauna, and mating impregnates both partners. It is not known whether diskflyers give birth to live young or eggs. Possibly related to skewers. They are relatively rare due to the scarcity of water on Rigel.

Amphibians

Medium(0.5-1.5 metres in length), amphibious quadrupeds that live on the shores of large bodies of water. They look like a cross between an axolotl and a lancelet. They are pretty much the only species that even closely resemble Earthican species and one of the few species on Rigel to have true jaws. They are very rare, omnivorous, but do not pose a danger to humans.

Fin Leg

Small, silver, barrel-shaped herbivores with two fin-like limbs, hence the name. Even though it only has two fins, it walks on four points, two on each fin. They feed on the semi-liquid membrane of the jelly-bladder plants. They are also amphibious but they are rarer than the Amphibians as they need slightly deeper water to breed.

Jelly Bladder Plants

These are plants with relatively large jelly-like forms on their stems. Many creatures eat these plants. While very abundant(relatively) everywhere, the number of these organisms triple or quadruple near bodies of water and double in Pocket Forests.

Rigel Moss

These are the plants that are usually seen in the rare grasslands, pocket forests and bodies of water. They are however very numerous and are also present in deserts. They resemble green moss on Earth.

Hoppers

Small(30-70 cm height), biped, naked creatures that migrate from place to place in medium groups. They have powerful hind legs and are very fast(20 km per hour). They are easily targeted during the cool nights as they are cold blooded(an evolutionary path that helps them be so active yet waste very little energy) and can barely run away from predators. They have a special, sharp proboscis with which the suck gelly bladder plants and scrape Rigel moss. They are one of the few animals on Rigel to have eyesight, a reminiscent to a time when eyes were spread through Rigel's species. While their eyesight is very good, like all creatures, sonar is also present.

The Luna Flyer


An aerial relative of the Spitter, the Luna Flyer is a nocturnal creature with an anatomy very close to that of a Spitter. It's front appendages, however, were changed over the course of evolution into powerful wings that allow it to take into the air. It hunts in a similar way to the Skewer, with its back legs extremely atrophied(they are not visible any more). The creature does however have hard living conditions and a relatively short life. The problem is that the creature is obligately nocturnal, sunlight and heat can damage its skin. Since it has nothing to dig tunnels with to hide in, it is forced to constantly circle the planet to always be in the night zone, meaning that it needs copies amounts of energy and even the slightly weak quickly die off. To compensate for their short lifespan and high mortality, the Luna Flyers are very fast breeders, able to give birth in the air five times for each female. Yes, these creatures have two sexes like the Spitters, a rarity among Rigelian creatures. A female has a very short gestational period- three days and as much as ten wombs, each with a different conception date. The flyers are constantly on the search for food as well, wiping out other night creatures by swooping down on them or using their acid to take them down from the air. This complex lifestyle allows them to survive in sufficient numbers.

Trunk Sucker

The Trunksucker is a small animal that glides through Rigel's forests and clings to Plaque Bark Trees, sucking their sap. The Trunk Sucker is hunted by the Daggerwrist. It is a very widespread creature in the Pocket Forests.
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Ol

The Ol are the dominant aquatic life form in most bodies of water of Rigel. They have a streamlined body and tactile sensors all over its body. They coordinate with sonar and smell in large groups. They feed on the water equivalents of Aerophytes. While spread in most water bodies, the Ol generally need a depth of at least 5 metres, but are able to live in less deep water as well as hibernating in mud in sufficiently large groups to reproduce properly when the water deepens and/or rain falls. They propel themselves with the use of their lower body. They feed by filtering mud, sand and water.

Akatziri

Massive, stalking beasts that roam the desert in packs, a sort of tribal organization. No Akatziri ever breeds within their pack, but instead intermates with other packs, and the children stay with the mother. They're extremely territorial, and are generally considered scavengers on a large scale. However, due to their large amount of energy requirement for being so large, they are forced to turn either to cannibalism or predatory natures to ensure their survival. The Akatziri posses a beak-looking proboscis that they use to feed on creatures. The creatures are slightly taller than a giraffe. Their young are capable of moderate flight.

Stoveil's beast

Known actually by another, extremely long, latin name, these predators are unique, and have adapted to their surroundings very well. Completely solitary, Stoveil's Beast has the ability to stand on its hind legs, and propel itself forwards in a leaping motion. They're infamous for digging pits in the sand, and waiting hours, maybe days, for the right prey to come along, and then they pounce, their infamous high-pitched scream being the last thing many a vagabond has ever heard. This creature uses sonar and vibration to locate prey. It is not capable of long running which is why it lurks to pounce on its prey. It is a crepuscular species like Earth's tigers. It is the only Rigelian carnivore to have jaws, even though it uses them only to rip flesh so the prey bleeds to death, after which it uses its proboscis like other animals.
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Rigelian Papaya

Somewhat related to the stickball plant, this 'plant' grows edible succulent round grey fruits. Eating too much(more than 4) will cause severe hypervitaminosis. Eating one or two, will give you a supply of vitamins. It is consumed by Prismalopes, Symets and other creatures who pierce the fragile membrane of the fruit.

Agora

A small, herbivorous diurnal quadruped creature. The Agora dwells in Pocket forest and burrows. Occasionally it might dwell on the surface but this happens rarely as it risks getting killed by carnivores. The creature is covered in hairs completely with only its proboscis sticking out. It's fur is soft and matches the colour of the desert. The creature has three sexes and is very populous, it's main sense is sonar and vibration. The creature is quite clumsy and might pretend a rock when cornered.

Poleria

The Poleria is a small, flying creature whose maximum size never reaches more than half a metre in length. It is legless and relies on sonar to navigate. It is a filter feeder that feeds on mainly aerophytes. The Poleria is bluish-purple in colour, is very lightweight and and has short , but stretched over the body, wings that have an anatomy like that of a Skewer. While usually exchanging genetic material and traveling in large groups, Polaria is a hermaphrodite and is diurnal, forced to constantly travel in a way like the Luna Flyer, but vice-versa.

Lorr

Yet another member of the so-called by scientists 'Spitter Genus', the Lorr is a relative of the Spitter and Luna Flyer. This creature, unlike its two nocturnal relatives, is diurnal and dwells in mainly Pocket Forests but travels through the vastness of the desert to different Pocket Forests, water bodies and fields. The Lorr resembles a rather small, bipedal creature with sensitive hairs on the tip of its proboscis. While having atrophied the glands thanks to which its relatives 'spit', this creature uses the leftover of the glands for communication as the species has a very sensitive sense of smell in the form of small pore-like openings running along its body, the liquid expelled through the glands being very scented and easily picked up the scent organs. Lorr are also able to change their colour to suit their surrounding and are bipedal, standing at half a metre and being about the same length as well. They travel in groups as large as six members, have a streamlined body with bony ridges on its back, are ectothermic and are omnivorous. It's main senses are those of sonar and scent, yet they also have a light sensitive spot on top of it's head. Like all of its relatives in the family, they have have two sexes.

Stinger Fan

A 'hybrid' between an animal and plant, this creature somewhat resembles a large flower with an average height of 1.5-3.5 metres. It folds up during the night and is present in swamp-like and generally at least somewhat rich in water areas in large groups that are sometimes referred to as 'Stinger Fan Forests'.
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Trot

The Trot is a generally slow-moving(but actually capable of faster-than-horse long term travel), large(5m in length and about three and a half in height), sextuped animal with armoured skin that moves in medium herds. It is often compared to Earth's equines. This animal has two ways of feeding itself: filtering the air for aerophytes using flaps on its neck and using its prolonged mouth as a proboscis to pierce jelly bladder plants and other flora, using its long anteater tongue lined with keratin ridges and hooks to consume other food. The Trot is considered a domesticated species and is used as a substitute for the horse. Like most creatures on Rigel, it uses sonar to get by, however vibration, hearing and smell are important senses as well. The second species, dubbed the 'Eyed Trot', has rather primitive eyes, one of the very few animals which had actually evolved eyes at this stage of the planet's biological evolution rather than 'loosing' them. The regular Trot has light sensitive spots that can also 'see' silhouettes. There are approximately five species of Trot, as thought out by biologist that have arrived on the planet, there may be much more. It is thought, and true, that the domesticated Trot are much faster than their wild relatives due to the domestication process which selected those fast enough while also encouraging and forcing them to take to speed much more often.

Ferns

Ferns are extremely hardy plant organisms that can be even occasionally found in sole group in the desert, despite being mostly found in fields of which they are a pretty important component. Although not as nutritious and frequently eaten as the Jellybladder plant, this species makes a very important component in the food pyramid for many creatures. They have a tetramerous radial symmetry and can be somewhat confused with Medusa's poisonous appendages. They are brown-green in colour, as well as looking slightly like a fern if looked at in general.

Medusa Magna

A large(3.5-5 metres in height), placid carnivorous creature whose 'tentacle' like appendages are extended over the ground to stand still as if they are a harmless plant organism, when they snatch unsuspecting prey and brutally bruise it with poisonous spikes and ridges until it dies of its injuries, then making its mouth go upwards to protrude from the earth to swallow the victim. The Medusa can then go on without food for years. Medusa's young are airborne and feed on mainly aerophytes until they become too large for flight and burrow themselves into the ground. Medusa Magna is a hermaphroditic organism, however the young frequently exchange genetic material. It relies on mostly vibration. It's aerial is the desert.

Orange Fruit

A hardy, heat resistant plant that has a bright saffron coloration with fading khaki spots. It is made up of a very hard stem and powerful roots, that are rather for keeping the plant in place rather than sucking water from the ground, but are jot exempt the either the functions. It's main source of water would be a flower-like bed on the top of its stem, which can reach up to nine times more wide than the stem and can fold and unfold depending on the weather, slightly resembling a closed umbrella when its closed. Like the jellybladder plant it has, although smaller, nutritious fruit like sacks. It is spread across low lying plains, pocket forests, near and on the shores of water bodies and can be occasionally met in the deserts.

Johanna-Annabjørg Plant or Sígurðadóttir Plant

Discovered by Scandinavian sister scientists Annabjørg and Johanna Sígurðadóttir on their trek around the planet, this organism is a rather small(5 cm in height and usually 2-10 in width) grass like plant that grows in sheafs. It is shamrock in colour.

Corey Hoppers

An endothermic and more widespread distant relative of the Hoppers. These creatures are quadrupeds and quite small(only twenty cm in height max). They have a small head and rely on sonar, smell and infrared vision to coordinate in their surroundings. Their legs are bent in an almost grasshopper like manner and are quite very powerful for their small size, allowing them to take on to great speeds of up to twenty kph. They are omnivorous(however plant material makes up the largest part of their ration and is their main source of food), diurnal and are seen in large groups, often accompanying larger friendly animals for safety.

Draconis

A large(2-3.5 metres in height), omnivorous and mainly diurnal creature, this species may resemble a dinosaur to some, but it's alien head structure is quite different. Having very powerful digestive juices, the creature swallows its food, usually plant and plant-like matter(but occasionally small and medium animals as well), whole. Unable to chew at all, it's mouth is shaped like that of five-petal flower, opening in the same manner. A small set of tooth lie on the tip of its 'mouth petals' to get a hold of plant material and other food. Although a sextuped, this animal's front four legs are held in a T-Rex-like manner, although much longer and much more useful. It's back legs are very powerful and the creature can take on to speeds of up to 80-110 kph. It's tail is used for balance and is moderately large. It relies on sonar, vibration, scent and hearing as its main senses while also being sensitive to electromagnetic waves.

Tungliðvalur

A very large(up to fifteen metres in length and six metres in width), aquatic creature which is found only in the Hvalur Stöðuvatn. This creature, blue-green in colour, has a round mouth suited for swallowing aquaphytes and Rigelian plankton equivalents. It is descended from land animals which also has the indicator of the creature having six appendages: long, fin-like appendages which are used by the creature to coordinate itself in water and be a very good swimmer. The creature's head is proportionally larger than other parts of the body, which gets thinner as it runs down. The first pair of find are used for steering, propelling and motor, the second for coordination and reproduction and the third, long and rather thin pair, for mainly balance and places of special sensory organs. The Tungliðvalur's senses are mainly sensor. Although hearing, scent and vibration are very used as well. The young have strangely well-developed eyes that disappear as the young enter adulthood and their more widely-used senses develop. Reason for this is unknown as it serves not much evolutionary advantage. However many sightings of adult, eyed Tungliðvalur have made suspicions that this creature may eventually once again become a vision-creature, perhaps the first in line to start a new vision era, an era once existed before a speculated mass extinction event led to the supremacy of sonar and other non-vision senses.

Carracut:

A small(5-20 cm) and extremely dangerous animal that roams the deserts in search of a richer habitat(mainly forest ecosystems). The animal is a sextuped and is covered in sensitive hairs that also shield it from detection by a large array of sonars that a lot of predators use. The creatures' legs are arranged in a similar way like a gecko's, minus the phalanges. It's body is linear and streamlined while the head contains a small, sharp proboscis which is used for feeding like a spider. This animal is extremely venomous and it's bite is lethal to a human, many Earth animals and many Rigelian animals. The animal also has a split tail, with a thin and very bright membrane between the two halves, the membrane used for mating, warning and territorial purposes(although the species can reproduce through parthenogenesis is there is a lack of males, which there usually is die to their high mortality). The Carracut's venom is extremely rich in certain substances that make it the only source of food for at least one animal, this leads to a high death rate for much more noticeable large males, who get eaten much more often than females.

Numerous other life forms also dwell the surface, air currents, water and under the surface of Rigel.
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The Daggerwrist

A human sized, arboreal, liquevorous predator, the Daggerwrist is a very elusive creature that feeds in the same way as arachnids. The creature is capable of gliding, but is also a quadruped. While mainly feeding on Trunksuckers, who are mainly airborne creatures, it can also attack earth bound creatures, occasionally stalking burrowing creatures while also capable of running after prey, though it's dagger-like front appendages make it extremely difficult to run at fast speeds. They also use powerful muscles in their legs to allow them to make great leaps to maximize the distance they can cross on each glide. Like many other species on the planet, they utilize bioluminescent lights. This creature's natural habitat would be the pocket forests of Rigel, mainly Plaque Bark Tree Forests.
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Plaque Bark Trees

These Earth-equivalents of trees are tall plant like organisms which rely on minerals, water and the sun's energy for a living. The trees are made up of a very large trunk with a thick crust permeated by photosynthetic covering. The trunk gets less wide on the way to the top. Attached to the trunk are sharp 'branches' with a similar anatomy to the trunk. The branches however have an extra layer of photosynthetic layers. The trees provide food for Skeelies and hunting spots for daggerwrists as well as harbouring other species.
The trees in pocket forests are quite far apart due to complex and extremely deep root networks. The pocket forest are also very rare due to the hostile nature of the planet. And are not very large. Occasionally, a leaf like organ will be grown on a branch.

The Gyrosprinter

These 'gazelles' compromise of a horse-size creature with a naked skull and strong, merged legs. The legs have merged during the course of evolution for the creature to be able to get away from predators with much greater speed. They have a special organ for maintaining balance. It feeds using a long tongue , which spreads apart to form a net similar to a fungi's, using which it captures every organism that is floating in the air at the moment, swaying the tongue as it moves about.
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Arrow tongue

A bipedalien with black coloration and red spotted biolights. Averaging about eight meters tall, an Arrowtongue impales its prey with a 3 meter-long, serrated, arrow-tipped proboscis. Like many spiders on Earth (and like most predators on Rigel), Arrowtongues are liquivores, injecting digestive juices into their prey and then sucking up the liquefied organs. They are fierce, solitary hunters found on the grasslands of Rigel. Like most of Rigel's animals, their pointed, spade-like heads contain no true jaws. They use sonar in order to find other species and food

Micro flyers

Micro flyers are small creatures of various species that inhabit Rigel's lower airways, being the base of most ecosystems along with the Pollen.

The Pollen and Aerophytes

The Pollen are microscopic organisms that float in Rigel's airways, often reaching incredibly high altitudes due to their lightweightness and anatomy. They are the base of virtually all ecosystems(along with aerophytes) and feed through photosynthesis among other things. Aerophytes are Microscopic vegetative organisms that float on Rigel's air currents and constitute a major source of food for several species on the planet.

Beachquills

Beach Quills are short-range attack hunters and are some of the smallest creatures on Rigel. They attack in colonies and kill their prey with a neurotoxin. They can propel themselves by means of a folded muscular "foot". The beach quills look exactly like their name, they are 76 mm in length.

Bladderhorn

This creature is a bright blue, rather comical-looking bipedal animal, with two "antlers" extending out of the sides of its head and have red biolight markings on them. The antlers are actually sacs designed to inflate and make it look much larger than it truly is. Bladderhorns make bellowing sounds by deflating the air sacs. The Bladderhorn uses its "antlers" for communication.

Prismalope

A tripedalien of Rigel's plains and deserts, Prismalopes often travel in herds. The first thing one notices about this creature is its massive prism-shaped head. Though it appears ungainly, it houses the Prismalope's grasping tentacles, which it uses to capture small prey. This fast-breeding creature is preyed upon by a multitude of predators, both terrestrial and airborne. It is also very numerous.

Prongheads

Prongheads are bipedal plains predators that feed on Gyrosprinters, Symets and Littoralopes. They are named for the three hollow prongs protruding from their faces that act as tubes to siphon liquids from their prey, since they use their feet to inject their digestive fluids into prey. They hunt in pack in a similar manner to wolves on Earth.

Littoralopes

Littoralopes are placid, slow-moving quadrupeds with little evidence of intelligence. They also have tails resembling their heads, similar to Symets. This feature probably evolved to confuse predators.

Symets

Symets are bipedal herbivores named for their protective symmetry. The symmetry most likely evolved to confuse predators. A Symet

Unth

The Unth is a tundra creature with asymmetrical tusks. Unths are named for the sound they make when they take a step. Unths live in herds. Unths had only one gender but still fight for mating rights.

Stripewing

The Stripewing is an odd two-meter-tall flying creature with stripes on its wings that breaks into a hopping frenzy each night. Stripewings will fold themselves into compact shapes.

Skewer

The largest aerial predator of Rigel. It is a humungous flying animal, with a wingspan of 50 feet (over 15 m). Not even the largest pterosaurs (like Quetzalcoatlus, with its 40-foot (12 m) wingspan) from Earth have a wingspan even approaching that size. Its wings do not flap but squeeze, shifting shape to shift flight. It is actually propelled by combusting methane gas in four jet-pods on its wings. This allows the Skewer to travel at speeds of 200 miles per hour. Its killing tool is a hollow lance that impales its prey, injects digestive enzymes, and sucks the corpse dry. The Skewer also hunts in groups, each Skewer dropping the spoils and another swoops in to feast. No large animal on Rigel is safe from the skewer.
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Sac-back

The Sac-back gets its name from the sac on the male's back. The sac is used to store pre-digested food from the "sea", which is later fed to the females. Male and female Sac-backs live completely different lives. Males live on the surface, walking around on their three legs. Female Sac-backs dig "tombs" in which they bury themselves. Once buried, the only part of the female that sees the light of day is her mouth and tentacle.

Rigel Tomato

Darwin Tomatoes are giant molds that grow in the pocket forests. They can grow to be at a maximum of half a metre.

Electrophytes

These red, mushroom-like plants electrocute animals that stray into their fields, and then consume them alive.

Polardots

A plant with small blue flower like organs that live in the polar and colder regions of Rigel.

Stickball Plant

The Stickball Plant is part sponge and part virus. The only creatures that eat them are the Gyrosprinters.

Fodderball Weed

The Fodderball Weed produces football-like fruits called zimns. These weeds have a lightweight construction that puts them at the mercy of every wind.

Stalkers

Stalkers are colony-living predators that have several different tasks. Scouts find large, slow moving prey and mark them with a special scent, then return to the nest to spread the word. Workers then swarm out in huge numbers, detecting the prey and work together to bring them down and kill them. Finally, there is a queen, who stays in the nest and constantly lays eggs that become new stalkers. This lifestyle is based on earth's hornets.

Groveback

The Groveback is one of the largest creatures native to Rigel. When fully mature, they are large enough to have entire stands of trees grow on their backs during the long periods of dormancy spent buried in the ground. Once mobile, they travel on two large front legs and a rear appendage shaped much like a boat rudder. The Groveback feeds by absorbing nutrients from the soil through the skin of its underbody as well as feeding on the microscopic plants and animals that number in the millions in Rigel's air currents. The Groveback is one of the few creatures on Rigel with true jaws. The Groveback is a truly enormous animal, however can be easily killed by a colony of Beachquills. Other creatures, even the Skewer, do not risk getting close to mature forms.
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Tubegrass

Long grass which is hollow like a tube giving the plant its name. It is striped.

Gourd Tree

15-story tall plants that are supported by root-like stilts. Gourd Trees are either hollow or spongy inside. They have to be for the stilts to support them.

The Spitter

A relatively small(25-40 cm), omnivorous and mostly nocturnal creature, the Spitter spends two thirds of its time under ground, coming out only in the deep of the night. The spitter is a burrowing quadruped and over the course of evolution, it's front appendages became modelled like effective shovels while its hairs help it stay warm during the night. Like most Rigelian wildlife, the spitter doesn't have jaws, but rather a proboscis, which it effectively tugs away into its 'neck' when digging to prevent damage. Once again, like most Rigelian wildlife, the spitter doesn't have eyesight but relies on Sonar and to a lesser extent on hearing, vibrations and tactile senses. When cornered(this happens rarely), the creature spits an acidic bile, that isn't deadly, but quite corrosive. Naturally, it uses the bile to dissolve earth and sand when digging through stronger materials. To dig better, the creature also has keratin encrusted over its front digging appendages.

Butchertree

Many species prey on the numerous, fast breeding Prismalope, but the Butchertree is the only species that actually lures the Prismalope instead of chasing it. Dotting the plains of the northern hemisphere, the Butchertree kills anything that comes within range of its four branch-daggers. They have a bizarre relationship with an unnamed flying organism, which is the primary food source of Prismalopes. The Butchertree grows underground roots that resemble these fliers, allowing the "tree" to lure Prismalopes close enough to try to kill and eat them. It is unknown just how this species reproduces. One possibility is that the small flier it associates with transfers eggs and sperm between individuals. Another possibility is that the flier itself is the second gender of the species, an extreme form of sexual dimorphism. Either way, young Butchertrees are found close to their "parent", and are connected to them through an umbilical cord similar to that of the "growths" that mimic the fliers. The cord disappears once the young are capable of nourishing themselves. The Butchertree is one of the only species known to prey on Skewers. Most information about The Butchertree is unknown as it is too dangerous to get close to, meaning an almost impossibility of surveying it properly for scientists. Which is why scientists could only guess what the unnamed flyer is(whether its a different species, the second gender of the Butchertree etc) and how the Butchertree actually works.

Carver Wing

An incredibly aggressive ectoparasitoid flyer that lays its eggs on the dorsal survases of large animals. Once the eggs hatch, the Carver wings will devour their host.

Brain Balls

Brain-like creatures that resemble brain corals. Described as huge, colonial earthbound floaters, not much is known about them as they are quite rare.

Diskflyers

Diskflyers live around Rigel's remaining Seas and water bodies and operate within very distinct four square kilometer territories. It is not known whether young Diskflyers stay within the territories in which they were born or if they leave to establish new territories of their own. Diskflyers are hermaphroditic, like most of Rigel's fauna, and mating impregnates both partners. It is not known whether diskflyers give birth to live young or eggs. Possibly related to skewers. They are relatively rare due to the scarcity of water on Rigel.

Amphibians

Medium(0.5-1.5 metres in length), amphibious quadrupeds that live on the shores of large bodies of water. They look like a cross between an axolotl and a lancelet. They are pretty much the only species that even closely resemble Earthican species and one of the few species on Rigel to have true jaws. They are very rare, omnivorous, but do not pose a danger to humans.

Fin Leg

Small, silver, barrel-shaped herbivores with two fin-like limbs, hence the name. Even though it only has two fins, it walks on four points, two on each fin. They feed on the semi-liquid membrane of the jelly-bladder plants. They are also amphibious but they are rarer than the Amphibians as they need slightly deeper water to breed.

Jelly Bladder Plants

These are plants with relatively large jelly-like forms on their stems. Many creatures eat these plants. While very abundant(relatively) everywhere, the number of these organisms triple or quadruple near bodies of water and double in Pocket Forests.

Rigel Moss

These are the plants that are usually seen in the rare grasslands, pocket forests and bodies of water. They are however very numerous and are also present in deserts. They resemble green moss on Earth.

Hoppers

Small(30-70 cm height), biped, naked creatures that migrate from place to place in medium groups. They have powerful hind legs and are very fast(20 km per hour). They are easily targeted during the cool nights as they are cold blooded(an evolutionary path that helps them be so active yet waste very little energy) and can barely run away from predators. They have a special, sharp proboscis with which the suck gelly bladder plants and scrape Rigel moss. They are one of the few animals on Rigel to have eyesight, a reminiscent to a time when eyes were spread through Rigel's species. While their eyesight is very good, like all creatures, sonar is also present.

The Luna Flyer


An aerial relative of the Spitter, the Luna Flyer is a nocturnal creature with an anatomy very close to that of a Spitter. It's front appendages, however, were changed over the course of evolution into powerful wings that allow it to take into the air. It hunts in a similar way to the Skewer, with its back legs extremely atrophied(they are not visible any more). The creature does however have hard living conditions and a relatively short life. The problem is that the creature is obligately nocturnal, sunlight and heat can damage its skin. Since it has nothing to dig tunnels with to hide in, it is forced to constantly circle the planet to always be in the night zone, meaning that it needs copies amounts of energy and even the slightly weak quickly die off. To compensate for their short lifespan and high mortality, the Luna Flyers are very fast breeders, able to give birth in the air five times for each female. Yes, these creatures have two sexes like the Spitters, a rarity among Rigelian creatures. A female has a very short gestational period- three days and as much as ten wombs, each with a different conception date. The flyers are constantly on the search for food as well, wiping out other night creatures by swooping down on them or using their acid to take them down from the air. This complex lifestyle allows them to survive in sufficient numbers.

Trunk Sucker

The Trunksucker is a small animal that glides through Rigel's forests and clings to Plaque Bark Trees, sucking their sap. The Trunk Sucker is hunted by the Daggerwrist. It is a very widespread creature in the Pocket Forests.
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Ol

The Ol are the dominant aquatic life form in most bodies of water of Rigel. They have a streamlined body and tactile sensors all over its body. They coordinate with sonar and smell in large groups. They feed on the water equivalents of Aerophytes. While spread in most water bodies, the Ol generally need a depth of at least 5 metres, but are able to live in less deep water as well as hibernating in mud in sufficiently large groups to reproduce properly when the water deepens and/or rain falls. They propel themselves with the use of their lower body. They feed by filtering mud, sand and water.

Akatziri

Massive, stalking beasts that roam the desert in packs, a sort of tribal organization. No Akatziri ever breeds within their pack, but instead intermates with other packs, and the children stay with the mother. They're extremely territorial, and are generally considered scavengers on a large scale. However, due to their large amount of energy requirement for being so large, they are forced to turn either to cannibalism or predatory natures to ensure their survival. The Akatziri posses a beak-looking proboscis that they use to feed on creatures. The creatures are slightly taller than a giraffe. Their young are capable of moderate flight.

Stoveil's beast

Known actually by another, extremely long, latin name, these predators are unique, and have adapted to their surroundings very well. Completely solitary, Stoveil's Beast has the ability to stand on its hind legs, and propel itself forwards in a leaping motion. They're infamous for digging pits in the sand, and waiting hours, maybe days, for the right prey to come along, and then they pounce, their infamous high-pitched scream being the last thing many a vagabond has ever heard. This creature uses sonar and vibration to locate prey. It is not capable of long running which is why it lurks to pounce on its prey. It is a crepuscular species like Earth's tigers. It is the only Rigelian carnivore to have jaws, even though it uses them only to rip flesh so the prey bleeds to death, after which it uses its proboscis like other animals.
Sketch of the creature(-eyes):
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Rigelian Papaya

Somewhat related to the stickball plant, this 'plant' grows edible succulent round grey fruits. Eating too much(more than 4) will cause severe hypervitaminosis. Eating one or two, will give you a supply of vitamins. It is consumed by Prismalopes, Symets and other creatures who pierce the fragile membrane of the fruit.

Agora

A small, herbivorous diurnal quadruped creature. The Agora dwells in Pocket forest and burrows. Occasionally it might dwell on the surface but this happens rarely as it risks getting killed by carnivores. The creature is covered in hairs completely with only its proboscis sticking out. It's fur is soft and matches the colour of the desert. The creature has three sexes and is very populous, it's main sense is sonar and vibration. The creature is quite clumsy and might pretend a rock when cornered.

Poleria

The Poleria is a small, flying creature whose maximum size never reaches more than half a metre in length. It is legless and relies on sonar to navigate. It is a filter feeder that feeds on mainly aerophytes. The Poleria is bluish-purple in colour, is very lightweight and and has short , but stretched over the body, wings that have an anatomy like that of a Skewer. While usually exchanging genetic material and traveling in large groups, Polaria is a hermaphrodite and is diurnal, forced to constantly travel in a way like the Luna Flyer, but vice-versa.

Lorr

Yet another member of the so-called by scientists 'Spitter Genus', the Lorr is a relative of the Spitter and Luna Flyer. This creature, unlike its two nocturnal relatives, is diurnal and dwells in mainly Pocket Forests but travels through the vastness of the desert to different Pocket Forests, water bodies and fields. The Lorr resembles a rather small, bipedal creature with sensitive hairs on the tip of its proboscis. While having atrophied the glands thanks to which its relatives 'spit', this creature uses the leftover of the glands for communication as the species has a very sensitive sense of smell in the form of small pore-like openings running along its body, the liquid expelled through the glands being very scented and easily picked up the scent organs. Lorr are also able to change their colour to suit their surrounding and are bipedal, standing at half a metre and being about the same length as well. They travel in groups as large as six members, have a streamlined body with bony ridges on its back, are ectothermic and are omnivorous. It's main senses are those of sonar and scent, yet they also have a light sensitive spot on top of it's head. Like all of its relatives in the family, they have have two sexes.

Stinger Fan

A 'hybrid' between an animal and plant, this creature somewhat resembles a large flower with an average height of 1.5-3.5 metres. It folds up during the night and is present in swamp-like and generally at least somewhat rich in water areas in large groups that are sometimes referred to as 'Stinger Fan Forests'.
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Trot

The Trot is a generally slow-moving(but actually capable of faster-than-horse long term travel), large(5m in length and about three and a half in height), sextuped animal with armoured skin that moves in medium herds. It is often compared to Earth's equines. This animal has two ways of feeding itself: filtering the air for aerophytes using flaps on its neck and using its prolonged mouth as a proboscis to pierce jelly bladder plants and other flora, using its long anteater tongue lined with keratin ridges and hooks to consume other food. The Trot is considered a domesticated species and is used as a substitute for the horse. Like most creatures on Rigel, it uses sonar to get by, however vibration, hearing and smell are important senses as well. The second species, dubbed the 'Eyed Trot', has rather primitive eyes, one of the very few animals which had actually evolved eyes at this stage of the planet's biological evolution rather than 'loosing' them. The regular Trot has light sensitive spots that can also 'see' silhouettes. There are approximately five species of Trot, as thought out by biologist that have arrived on the planet, there may be much more. It is thought, and true, that the domesticated Trot are much faster than their wild relatives due to the domestication process which selected those fast enough while also encouraging and forcing them to take to speed much more often.

Ferns

Ferns are extremely hardy plant organisms that can be even occasionally found in sole group in the desert, despite being mostly found in fields of which they are a pretty important component. Although not as nutritious and frequently eaten as the Jellybladder plant, this species makes a very important component in the food pyramid for many creatures. They have a tetramerous radial symmetry and can be somewhat confused with Medusa's poisonous appendages. They are brown-green in colour, as well as looking slightly like a fern if looked at in general.

Medusa Magna

A large(3.5-5 metres in height), placid carnivorous creature whose 'tentacle' like appendages are extended over the ground to stand still as if they are a harmless plant organism, when they snatch unsuspecting prey and brutally bruise it with poisonous spikes and ridges until it dies of its injuries, then making its mouth go upwards to protrude from the earth to swallow the victim. The Medusa can then go on without food for years. Medusa's young are airborne and feed on mainly aerophytes until they become too large for flight and burrow themselves into the ground. Medusa Magna is a hermaphroditic organism, however the young frequently exchange genetic material. It relies on mostly vibration. It's aerial is the desert.

Orange Fruit

A hardy, heat resistant plant that has a bright saffron coloration with fading khaki spots. It is made up of a very hard stem and powerful roots, that are rather for keeping the plant in place rather than sucking water from the ground, but are jot exempt the either the functions. It's main source of water would be a flower-like bed on the top of its stem, which can reach up to nine times more wide than the stem and can fold and unfold depending on the weather, slightly resembling a closed umbrella when its closed. Like the jellybladder plant it has, although smaller, nutritious fruit like sacks. It is spread across low lying plains, pocket forests, near and on the shores of water bodies and can be occasionally met in the deserts.

Johanna-Annabjørg Plant or Sígurðadóttir Plant

Discovered by Scandinavian sister scientists Annabjørg and Johanna Sígurðadóttir on their trek around the planet, this organism is a rather small(5 cm in height and usually 2-10 in width) grass like plant that grows in sheafs. It is shamrock in colour.

Corey Hoppers

An endothermic and more widespread distant relative of the Hoppers. These creatures are quadrupeds and quite small(only twenty cm in height max). They have a small head and rely on sonar, smell and infrared vision to coordinate in their surroundings. Their legs are bent in an almost grasshopper like manner and are quite very powerful for their small size, allowing them to take on to great speeds of up to twenty kph. They are omnivorous(however plant material makes up the largest part of their ration and is their main source of food), diurnal and are seen in large groups, often accompanying larger friendly animals for safety.

Draconis

A large(2-3.5 metres in height), omnivorous and mainly diurnal creature, this species may resemble a dinosaur to some, but it's alien head structure is quite different. Having very powerful digestive juices, the creature swallows its food, usually plant and plant-like matter(but occasionally small and medium animals as well), whole. Unable to chew at all, it's mouth is shaped like that of five-petal flower, opening in the same manner. A small set of tooth lie on the tip of its 'mouth petals' to get a hold of plant material and other food. Although a sextuped, this animal's front four legs are held in a T-Rex-like manner, although much longer and much more useful. It's back legs are very powerful and the creature can take on to speeds of up to 80-110 kph. It's tail is used for balance and is moderately large. It relies on sonar, vibration, scent and hearing as its main senses while also being sensitive to electromagnetic waves.

Tungliðvalur

A very large(up to fifteen metres in length and six metres in width), aquatic creature which is found only in the Hvalur Stöðuvatn. This creature, blue-green in colour, has a round mouth suited for swallowing aquaphytes and Rigelian plankton equivalents. It is descended from land animals which also has the indicator of the creature having six appendages: long, fin-like appendages which are used by the creature to coordinate itself in water and be a very good swimmer. The creature's head is proportionally larger than other parts of the body, which gets thinner as it runs down. The first pair of find are used for steering, propelling and motor, the second for coordination and reproduction and the third, long and rather thin pair, for mainly balance and places of special sensory organs. The Tungliðvalur's senses are mainly sensor. Although hearing, scent and vibration are very used as well. The young have strangely well-developed eyes that disappear as the young enter adulthood and their more widely-used senses develop. Reason for this is unknown as it serves not much evolutionary advantage. However many sightings of adult, eyed Tungliðvalur have made suspicions that this creature may eventually once again become a vision-creature, perhaps the first in line to start a new vision era, an era once existed before a speculated mass extinction event led to the supremacy of sonar and other non-vision senses.

Carracut:

A small(5-20 cm) and extremely dangerous animal that roams the deserts in search of a richer habitat(mainly forest ecosystems). The animal is a sextuped and is covered in sensitive hairs that also shield it from detection by a large array of sonars that a lot of predators use. The creatures' legs are arranged in a similar way like a gecko's, minus the phalanges. It's body is linear and streamlined while the head contains a small, sharp proboscis which is used for feeding like a spider. This animal is extremely venomous and it's bite is lethal to a human, many Earth animals and many Rigelian animals. The animal also has a split tail, with a thin and very bright membrane between the two halves, the membrane used for mating, warning and territorial purposes(although the species can reproduce through parthenogenesis is there is a lack of males, which there usually is die to their high mortality). The Carracut's venom is extremely rich in certain substances that make it the only source of food for at least one animal, this leads to a high death rate for much more noticeable large males, who get eaten much more often than females.

Numerous other life forms also dwell the surface, air currents, water and under the surface of Rigel.


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