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[Spectrel]

Would it be possible for a species to start on a asteroid and evolve to the low atmospheric conditions. They could get stuck on this asteroid due to abandonment of a mineing colony of simply a crashed ship. So therefore the race would be forced to live on small planetoids , asteroids and O'Neil colony's. They could send unmaned ships to the planets to collect valueble ore. It's an interesting concept right? Or simply intergrating one of these species into your empire to make mineing colony's on asteroids and planetoids more cost efficient due to them not needing high gravity environments or high pressure atmospheres.

 

[Spectrel]

I assume this species would either be like mole men or simply weird jellyfish like creatures swimming around in the depths of a watery asteroid. For example the Amoeba from Endless space.

 

[beckermt]

I strongly suspect that there will not be asteroid starts. They tend to be rather inhospitable.

 

[Skukkuk]

What I could see happening would be a minor empire which has left planet to live on asteroids and maybe have become a 'fallen empire' as described on Stellaris Dev Diary #15 - Fallen Empires .

 

[Zakath]

One does not simply evolve to live in the non-existent atmosphere of an asteroid. The low G is plausible given a long enough period on an asteroid, but the atmosphere not so much.

I could imagine a decaying massive space station housing the remnants of some species, but it would be implausible for such a society to survive more than a couple of centuries at most. Still, if you can accidentally open gates to the warp and let Khorne through late game I'm willing to accept a civilization stuck on a space station after their planet dies

 

[Spectrel]

Blood for the blood God! But I didn't mean asteroids specifically I meant objects that are not planets like a moon.

 

[Spectrel]

Or a species that can only live in extremely irradiated environments or usually toxic atmospheres so they prefer ships due to the convienience.

 

[Teleros]

Or a species that can only live in extremely irradiated environments or usually toxic atmospheres so they prefer ships due to the convienience.

The thing is, evolution requires a species to live long enough to breed. If the atmosphere is so toxic (or non-existent) that if I have a lungful I die, then... well I'm not going to be having kids any time .

 

[CptWilly]

I'd love to see intelligent extremophiles in game, but I suspect the initial options at release will be a tad more conventional. I hope I'm wrong of course, and even if I'm not, I suppose I could always pin my hopes on DLC.

 

[Spectrel]

Actually it could be a gradual thing due to a star dieing or the result of some severe atmosphere degradation.

 

[Zakath]

Actually it could be a gradual thing due to a star dieing or the result of some severe atmosphere degradation.

Not in the game's time frame. With multiple ticks a day you'd have to be rather patient for the hundreds of thousands of year required for any sort of evolution, unless you take evolution into your own hands and start tinkering with the DNA of a slave race naturally. Then banish them to the airless void to suffer the fate of all mutants.

 

[Spectrel]

Well the adaptation could take place before the game starts for example Humanity dosnt start at the Stone Age it starts at the space age it could be pretty much the same thing.t

 

[beckermt]

Depending on how you view the different types of planets that are available, an ocean world or a desert world would both be "toxic" environments for humans. i.e. Humans in their current form would not have evolved there. However, those places are still compatible with life as we know it in general.

A toxic atmosphere (e.g. there's no oxygen) could possibly support another kind of life...

But it's a matter of perspective, I guess. Oxygen is extremely reactive, maybe a species would have poor reactions to it and Earth would be considered toxic.

Food for thought.

 

[Spectrel]

By toxic I mean atmosphere that is straight up trying to kill you for example a ridicously high amount of carbon in the atmosphere so if species X needs to colonise a planet the habitable zone is slightly further out and cannot inhabit planets in the traditional habitable zone without the aid of suits. Or just high amounts of gaseous lead in the Lead in the atmosphere.

 

[SharpFish]

There are some very theoretical alternative biochemistries which might potentially exist; the only one of any note, though, is one where silicon takes the place of carbon, and liquid methane takes the place of water. This would produce a form of life that would be completely different to ours, and would live in very different conditions. However, the chemical reactions of the silicon-methane system would be much much slower than ours are, so we would probably see them acting in a sort of slow motion.

The Horta from the original Star Trek episode The Devil In The Dark was an attempt at looking at silicon-based life.

 

[Spectrel]

There are some very theoretical alternative biochemistries which might potentially exist; the only one of any note, though, is one where silicon takes the place of carbon, and liquid methane takes the place of water. This would produce a form of life that would be completely different to ours, and would live in very different conditions. However, the chemical reactions of the silicon-methane system would be much much slower than ours are, so we would probably see them acting in a sort of slow motion.

The Horta from the original Star Trek episode The Devil In The Dark was an attempt at looking at silicon-based life.

This is exactly what I want I assume there is also a reaction faster then carbon and oxygen though.