A
large specimen of a Noovleann Tree, suspended from a dynamic Orbital
Beam
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A Noovleann Tree is a biological
artwork/construct
supported
by a dynamic
compression member ring, a ring
suspended above the surface of a planet at an arbitrary height. The
ring is held at an altitude of a few tens of meters to several
kilometers, depending on the world and desire of what the artwork looks
like. The ring encircles the entire planet, going around at
the equator. Growing on this pipe in the sky is a modification of the
Mother
Wood tree. This plant grows on the pipe like a strangler fig. It
gathers rain water in the same manner as Mother Woods, using round
funnel-like leaves. Width and height of the tree body itself varies
depending on what the artist engineers it to be. Different sizes or
speeds of dynamic compression members are used depending on the mass of
the tree.
Noovleann Trees have many variants with specialised
features; among these are the ability to grow firework rockets and
launch them on command, special structures that grow and drop spheres
made of celluloid (that are set on fire by small jets of burning
methane as they leave these growths) and fruits of any type you give
them the genes for. Bioluminescent fruits and growths are also common
features. The larger ones can have biological beings, sophont
and otherwise, living on and inside them.
Some Noovleann
Trees are engineered to support secondary features on the world
below them. They can send down pseudoroots to the surface of
their world and into bodies of water that they happen to pass
over. The pseudoroots create a structure for algaecoral, coral,
barnacles and other marine life to grow on, allowing a reef community
to grow even where the ocean floor is many kilometers down. These
pseudoroots don't collect water or nutrients, this is the function
of the funnel-like leaves. The pseudoroots do however give a way
for gengineered arthropods or synsects who carry mud from the ocean
floor to climb up to the tree to deposit their load.
For the sections of the tree above land(which
sometimes are engineered to have pseudoroots growing down to the
ground) where non-flying arthropods can't climb up to the tree on the
pseudoroots, the tree gets its nutrients from flying arthropods, flying
synsects,
roosting animals' feces, vomit, dead bodies, shed skin, lost and wasted
food and depending on the environment a very small amount comes from
airborne dust.
The first Noovleann Tree was built/grown in 2,022 a.t. by the Shepbra
artist Sivanya *click* *click*
Noovleann, soon after the construction of the earliest dynamic orbital
rings.
Other Noovleann artworks are Noovleann Seas/lakes (depending
on being fresh or salty water) orbital eclipses and land ribbons. More
recently, more than one Tree has been built above certain planets,
forming a grid like pattern; a dense grid of Noovleann trees may be
joined together to make a living supramundane world.
