Rhipiella

## Rhipiella tropicae

Latest Mutations: High Salinity Tolerance, Reversible Muscles

Rhipiella tropicae is a small, fan-shaped soft coral that can occupy shallower areas with more debris than its predecessors because it has muscles that can retract the polyps protecting them from harm. It lives throughout the tropical ocean, down to 500m below sea level.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 4cm (colony height)

Nutritional Need: 82 x 4/100 = 3.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.3 x 0.25 = 0.8NP per round (Needs to intake 0.8/0.6 = 1.3NP per round)/ 3.3NP

Characteristics: Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Retreat Into Self. Reversible Guts. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (senses chemicals 1m from mouths).

Stats: Coordination 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat). Immunity 3 (Barrier Immunity). Filtration 2.5 (4/4 = 1x2.5 = 2.5NP). Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 1. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1.

Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = wave cirri around. Adult + Early Spring Full Moon = Release sex cells.

External Features: Red melanin pigmentation is in the skin of the fan-shaped colony, spiked with sclerites, which is coated in gorgonin. The polyps cirri around its mouth are sticky and have nematocysts and chemoreceptors. It secretes diterpenes over itself.

Internal Features: A nerve net rings the body and a incomplete digestive system leads from the mouth. It has a retreat mechanism and gonads. Photosynthetic bacteria live in the tentacles.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sticky Cirri (7NP, +1.5 Filtration). Nematocysts (5NP, +1 Sharpness). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Gorgonin (10NP, +1 Support, +0.5 Toughness). Diterpenes (3NP, +1 Immunity). Sclerites (4NP, +0.5 Toughness, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Sharpness). Holdfast (2NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Photosynthetic Bacteria (1NP, +1 Photosynthesis). Nerve Net (10NP, +1 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Retreat Mechanism (4NP, +Retreat Into Self). Incomplete Digestive System (15NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion, +Reversible Guts). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 221 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Echinosomus hutzii

Classification: Echinosomusinae (sf), Gorgonidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Rhipiella temperatus

Latest Mutations: Temperate Tolerance

Rhipiella is a small, fan-shaped soft coral, made of flexible, horny gorgonin that lives permanently attached to a hard surface. It catches passing debris with it's polyps' tentacles but also uses a photosynthetic bacteria to get food from sunlight. It lives in the temperate ocean at both ends of the planet, from the surface to 500m below sea level. It only reproduces during one full moon in early spring.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder, Photosynthesiser

Size: 4cm (colony height)

Nutritional Need: 77 x 4/100 = 3.1NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.1 x 0.25 = 0.8NP per round (Needs to intake 0.8/0.6 = 1.3NP per round)/ 3.1NP

Abilities: Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Retreat Into Self. Reversible Guts. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (senses chemicals 1m from mouths).

Stats: Coordination 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 3 (Barrier Immunity). Filtration 2.5 (4/4 = 1x2.5 = 2.5NP). Photosynthesis 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 1. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with tentacles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Polyps retreat into self. 5. Maturity + Early Spring Full Moon > Release gametes.

External Features: In the skin of the fan-shaped colony is red melanin pigmentation. The colony has multiple polyps, all supported by a gorgonin covering and sclerites. Diterpenes is secreted over the colony and at the base is a holdfast. The polyps have sticky cirri with nematocysts. They also have chemoreceptors.

Internal Features: A nerve net circles the bodies of the polyps which have an incomplete digestive system inside the mouth. It has the muscles capable of retreating the body inside itself. It has a pair of gonads. The cirri have photosynthetic bacteria inside.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sticky Cirri (7NP, +1.5 Filtration). Nematocysts (5NP, +1 Sharpness). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Gorgonin (10NP, +1 Support, +0.5 Toughness). Diterpenes (3NP, +1 Immunity). Sclerites (4NP, +0.5 Toughness, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Sharpness). Holdfast (2NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Photosynthetic Bacteria (1NP, +1 Photosynthesis). Nerve Net (10NP, +1 Coordination). Retreat Mechanism (4NP, +Retreat Into Self). Incomplete Digestive System (15NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion, +Reversible Guts). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 230 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Rhipiella tropicae

Classification: Echinosomusinae (sf), Gorgonidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Rhipiella samadarai

Latest Mutations: Bigger

Rhipiella is a small, fan-shaped soft coral, made of flexible, horny gorgonin that lives permanently attached to a hard surface. It catches passing debris with it's polyps' tentacles but also uses a photosynthetic bacteria to get food from sunlight. It lives in the temperate ocean at both ends of the planet, from the surface to 500m below sea level. It only reproduces during one full moon in early spring.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Shallows

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder, Photosynthesiser

Size: 7cm (colony height)

Nutritional Need: 77 x 7/100 = 3.1NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.1 x 0.25 = 0.8NP per round (Needs to intake 0.8/0.6 = 1.3NP per round)/ 3.1NP

Abilities: Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Retreat Into Self. Reversible Guts. Solid Excretion.

Perception: Chemoreception 1 (senses chemicals 1m from mouths).

Stats: Coordination 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 3 (Barrier Immunity). Filtration 2.5 (4/4 = 1x2.5 = 2.5NP). Photosynthesis 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 1. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with tentacles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Polyps retreat into self. 5. Maturity + Early Spring Full Moon > Release gametes.

External Features: In the skin of the fan-shaped colony is red melanin pigmentation. The colony has multiple polyps, all supported by a gorgonin covering and sclerites. Diterpenes is secreted over the colony and at the base is a holdfast. The polyps have sticky cirri with nematocysts. They also have chemoreceptors.

Internal Features: A nerve net circles the bodies of the polyps which have an incomplete digestive system inside the mouth. It has the muscles capable of retreating the body inside itself. It has a pair of gonads. The cirri have photosynthetic bacteria inside.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.

Castes/Phases: None.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP).

External Features: Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Sticky Cirri (7NP, +1.5 Filtration). Nematocysts (5NP, +1 Sharpness). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +1 Chemoreception). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Gorgonin (10NP, +1 Support, +0.5 Toughness). Diterpenes (3NP, +1 Immunity). Sclerites (4NP, +0.5 Toughness, +0.5 Support, +0.5 Sharpness). Holdfast (2NP, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Photosynthetic Bacteria (1NP, +1 Photosynthesis). Nerve Net (10NP, +1 Coordination). Retreat Mechanism (4NP, +Retreat Into Self). Incomplete Digestive System (15NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Liquid Excretion, +Solid Excretion, +Reversible Guts). Gonads (14NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Hermaphroditism, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 244 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Rhipiella tropicae

Classification: Echinosomusinae (sf), Gorgonidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## **Rhipiella sheperdi**

Latest Mutations: Bigger

Rhipiella is a small, fan-shaped soft coral, made of flexible, horny gorgonin that lives permanently attached to a hard surface. It catches passing debris with it's polyps' tentacles but also uses a photosynthetic bacteria to get food from sunlight. It lives in the temperate ocean at both ends of the planet, from the surface to 500m below sea level. It only reproduces during one full moon in early spring.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Deep Ocean

Niche: Sessile Filter-Feeder

Size: 50cm (Colony Height)

Nutritional Need: 75 x 50/100 = 37.5NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 37.5 x 0.25 = 9.4NP per round (Needs to intake 9.4/0.65 = 14.5NP per round) / 37.5NP

Abilities: Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Exothermic. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Very High. Retreat Into Self. UV Resistance, Medium.

Perception: Chemoreception 0.5.

Stats: Coordination 2. Dexterity 0.5. Digestion 0.5 (100% Meat, 65%). Filtration 1.5. Immunity 1.5. Photosynthesis 0.5. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 0.5. Support 1.5. Toughness 1.5. Viscosity 1.

Intelligence / Behaviour: None.

External Features: In the skin of the fan-shaped colony is red melanin pigmentation. The colony has multiple polyps, all supported by a gorgonin covering and sclerites. Diterpenes is secreted over the colony and at the base is a holdfast. The polyps have sticky cirri with nematocysts. They also have chemoreceptors.

Internal Features: A nerve net circles the bodies of the polyps which have an incomplete digestive system inside the mouth. It has the muscles capable of retreating the body inside itself. It has a pair of gonads. The cirri have photosynthetic bacteria inside.

Reproduction: Sexual. 1,000 eggs per spawning. External Fertilisation.

Castes/Phases: Hermaphrodites.

Locomotion: Sessile (0NP). None.

External Features: Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Medium Pigments (2.5NP, +Medium UV Resistance). Sticky Cirri (5NP, +0.5 Filtration, +0.5 Dexterity). Diterpenes (2.5NP, +0.5 Immunity). Gorgonin (10NP, +1 Support, +1 Toughness). Nematocysts (5NP, +1 Sharpness). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +0.5 Chemoreception). Sclerites (5NP, +0.5 Toughness, +0.5  Support). Holdfast (5NP, +1 Viscosity). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Very High Pressure Tolerance). Gonads (5NP, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Incomplete Digestive System (10NP, +0.5 Meat Digestion, +0.5 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion, +Liquid Excretion). Bacteria Symbiotic Relationship (0NP, +0.5 Photosynthesis). Nerve Net (10NP, +2 Coordination). Retreat Mechanism (5NP, +Retreat into Self).

Temporal Range: R.274 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Rhipiella temperatus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle