An Ocean World

[Ali Dogan Sayiner]

I had a great time working on the “units” for an ocean planet setting. This planet is larger than Earth and lacks a landmass like ours. Its vast oceans are teeming with resources and wildlife, making it a true paradise world. Currently, the two factions are actively engaged in exploiting the planet’s abundant resources.

In addition to these two factions, there exist the indigenous people of the planet who have uniquely adapted to the oceanic environment. These individuals possess the extraordinary ability to communicate through telepathy with certain creatures residing in the oceans.

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[Jim Webster]

It does get the imagination racing 🙂

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[Mr. Average]

If you want to see some great inspiration for bizarre alien life forms, look at the Burgess Shale Biota, which actually occurred on Earth in the Cambrian era and produced such fabulous creatures as Anomolocaris, Opabinia, Hallucigenia, Marrella, and my personal favorite, Pikaia Gracilens, the first known chordate and therefore possibly the earliest known Human ancestor! Bonus for matboard and MDF modeling, they’re all relatively flat critters so they’d stand up very well to kits from flat materials.

Even without an intelligent native species, just trying to manage a mining operation in the midst of a lot of native wildlife, some of which could be submarine-sized megafauna with territorial instincts, could be a challenge in itself!

[Jim Webster]

Looking through Trilobites might have potential as well 🙂

 

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[Mr. Average]

They were the Earth’s dominant species for longer than we have even BEEN a species.

[Tony S]

The marine ecosystem in Neal Asher’s Spatterjay series (especially in the first novel, “The Skinner” is well described, well thought out, and extremely nasty and terrifying.

Although there’s no telepathy involved; that’s far too peaceful.  As Shakespeare put it,

“‘Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.’ ‘Why, as men do a-land—the great ones eat up the little ones.'”

 

[Jim Webster]

Tony S wrote:

The marine ecosystem in Neal Asher’s Spatterjay series (especially in the first novel, “The Skinner” is well described, well thought out, and extremely nasty and terrifying. Although there’s no telepathy involved; that’s far too peaceful. As Shakespeare put it,

“‘Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.’ ‘Why, as men do a-land—the great ones eat up the little ones.’”

 

ordered 🙂

 

 

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[Bowman Stringer]

Ya, thanks Tony. Now I went and ordered the book too. Damn peer pressure.

[Tony S]

The power of social media!

I find Neal Asher to be a little like a poor man’s Iain M Banks – well written space opera, with lots of fascinating details and ideas just casually tossed around.

[Jim Webster]

Tony S wrote:

The power of social media! I find Neal Asher to be a little like a poor man’s Iain M Banks – well written space opera, with lots of fascinating details and ideas just casually tossed around.

I always feel that the ability to toss in that sort of thing without making a big deal of it is actually the sign of a really great writer. Jack Vance did it so well 🙂

 

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