Post by Plank of Wood on Apr 24, 2010 15:19:56 GMT
The Asolue a semi-amphibious of Sentient humaniods, living on the planet "Tapcite"; which differ from most creatures in that rather than being made up of cells, they are made of hundreds of thousands a small, thin worms, which normally on their own would just be small, unintelligent roundworms, unable to surive on their own.
Basic Biology
The Asolue are made up of roundworms, which are about a tenth of a millimetre wide and about 2 millimetres long, which are known as "Asols". While helpless on their own, they latch onto eachother, passing nutrients, hormones and electric signals to eachother. While this is not common to Tapcite's fauna, it is shared with several other, less advanced creatures in the Asolue's biological family.
Much like regular animal cells, the Asols start off as unspecialised, however once certain hormones are sent through it will quickly know it's function and specialise in relation to it's part in the body. As the body becomes bigger, the Asols will start dividing and cloning themselves. Muscles, digestive systems, nerves, respiration systems - and even after many millions of years, advanced brains - all have evolved over time. Due to Tacpite's natural oxygen richness and humidity, the Asols became developed enough to form into what would normally be called a sapient creature, rather and dumb worms.
On their own of course, Asols are are intellegent as a solitary human cell would be. It is only when they are together do they properly form an intellegent being.
Allow me to get one point before moving on, they do not consider themselves to be many different beings, they do not have schizophrenic thought processes. It wasn't until classical civilisation started did they even consider that they were made of worms.
Resperatory and Circulatory Systems
Due to the high oxygen levels on Tacpite, the Asolue did not require as advanced lung systems as other creatures would. However, specialised Asols in the Asolue's skin exist to asbord oxygen from the surrounding area, as well as moisture. This highly oxygenated water is then passed deeper into the body, using a system of specialist Asols to transport it, as well as protiens from the digestive systems, to all points in their body.
Digestive System
The Asolue digestive system works similarly to how a human digestive system works. The food is ingested in the mouth, sent further down into the body and then broken down. Instead of acids, however, Digestive Asols living in the stomach break down food, before releasing enzymes to break down small particles.
That's all for now! I need to work out culture and politics next, as well as making the bloody things!
Basic Biology
The Asolue are made up of roundworms, which are about a tenth of a millimetre wide and about 2 millimetres long, which are known as "Asols". While helpless on their own, they latch onto eachother, passing nutrients, hormones and electric signals to eachother. While this is not common to Tapcite's fauna, it is shared with several other, less advanced creatures in the Asolue's biological family.
Much like regular animal cells, the Asols start off as unspecialised, however once certain hormones are sent through it will quickly know it's function and specialise in relation to it's part in the body. As the body becomes bigger, the Asols will start dividing and cloning themselves. Muscles, digestive systems, nerves, respiration systems - and even after many millions of years, advanced brains - all have evolved over time. Due to Tacpite's natural oxygen richness and humidity, the Asols became developed enough to form into what would normally be called a sapient creature, rather and dumb worms.
On their own of course, Asols are are intellegent as a solitary human cell would be. It is only when they are together do they properly form an intellegent being.
Allow me to get one point before moving on, they do not consider themselves to be many different beings, they do not have schizophrenic thought processes. It wasn't until classical civilisation started did they even consider that they were made of worms.
Resperatory and Circulatory Systems
Due to the high oxygen levels on Tacpite, the Asolue did not require as advanced lung systems as other creatures would. However, specialised Asols in the Asolue's skin exist to asbord oxygen from the surrounding area, as well as moisture. This highly oxygenated water is then passed deeper into the body, using a system of specialist Asols to transport it, as well as protiens from the digestive systems, to all points in their body.
Digestive System
The Asolue digestive system works similarly to how a human digestive system works. The food is ingested in the mouth, sent further down into the body and then broken down. Instead of acids, however, Digestive Asols living in the stomach break down food, before releasing enzymes to break down small particles.
That's all for now! I need to work out culture and politics next, as well as making the bloody things!