Recently weather conditions were such that a parasite known as the Blech infested the FRaCons to such an extent that their numbers temporarily plummeted, allowing some the Squelch to travel south and find safe feeding grounds in warm shallow bays where the FRaCons do not go. It looks that the lines of this message were broken off after 77 characters. Once per rule, a species may evolve into another species by having exactly one of its attributes changed to take another value. Fitness itself is not an attribute, but it can be computed given the attributes of all the species and the enviornment. No change to a species may take place unless it was described and the results specified in a previous valid rule.
Fitness is calculated by either using the value or the mean of the values rounding down.
The Squag increases it's storage to 4. It clarifies the attributes. Something went wrong with the calculation. When I do it, I get 4, not 8. A species may only evolve directly into Regions that are neighbors of its previous Region in this list.