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Thread: How big are Walking Mountains?
Post: RE: How big are Walking Mountains?
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Drashner1 Wrote: (11-15-2025, 06:37 AM)
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I would refer back to the current description which says that Walking Mountains are a 'community organism' and that part sounds as though all the component ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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11-15-2025, 11:51 AM |
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Thread: Hyvixym summary
Post: RE: Hyvixym summary
| What respiratory pathway are these large anaerobes using? Personally I’m thinking either nitrate respiration or fermentation.
Inspirations for both options:
The rogue planet aliens in Greg Egan’s ... |
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EschatonDreadwyrm |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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Thread: How big are Walking Mountains?
Post: How big are Walking Mountains?
| I don’t think it’s ever been stated anywhere just how big Walking Mountains are. I find this a little weird, considering that they’re supposed to be charismatic megafauna.
Given the name, I’d expec... |
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EschatonDreadwyrm |
General Setting Discussion
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11-02-2025, 12:30 PM |
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Thread: Godwin's Law in 10601 AT
Post: RE: Godwin's Law in 10601 AT
| As of the “present,” probably the Sibyl. She checks all the boxes - a genocidal, tyrannical conqueror defeated within relatively recent history and associated with an ideology deemed inimical to civil... |
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EschatonDreadwyrm |
General Setting Discussion
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10-25-2025, 11:24 AM |
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Thread: Hyvixym summary
Post: RE: Hyvixym summary
| The subsurface oceans would be almost totally anoxic, since there’s no process in this environment that could produce free oxygen.
Native life will have to be anaerobic. Nitrate reduction, maybe? |
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EschatonDreadwyrm |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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10-09-2025, 03:21 AM |
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Thread: Hello!
Post: Hello!
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I’ve been following Orion’s Arm for years now. My primary interest is exotic xenobiology and how it works, but I’m also fascinated with the setting, its history, and high technology. My back... |
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EschatonDreadwyrm |
The Arrivals Lounge
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Thread: Rogue planet life (?)
Post: RE: Rogue planet life (?)
| The Muuh Cellular Biology page mentions that similar biology has been found in liquid neon. The EWoCS article mentions that liquid neon is most common on rogue planets, kept from freezing to the surfa... |
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EschatonDreadwyrm |
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