This is my input, I thought you were intending for the thermoplasts to be seebeck generators themselves, creating temperature gradients within themselves for electricity, rather than becoming charged and then discharging elsewhere.

If that were the case it would just be a battery.

"The coppertop cell begins its life as a endospore, made inside of its parent cell. This endospore helps transfer free electrons from the copper infused cell wall to mitochondria in the cell. When the adult cell dies, the spores are released into the colonial chamber.

Along the outside of the Endospore are nanofilaments which are coated in an insulation protein, free-floating in the colony chamber, upon exiting the parent cell.
The thermal conductivity between the components in a Endospore drastically differs from each other. An insulation protein then latches onto it after a position shift in one of its components in order to prevent that component from losing its temperature as quickly as the rest. These nanofilaments passively gather free electrons from Coppertops located at the bottom of the colonial chamber, where it is warmer. Once the Endospore is coated with this insulating protein it becomes a Thermoplast.

The Thermoplasts then move to the cold side of the Coppertop colony, releasing excess electric charge generated by the heat to the copper infused cell wall belonging to Coppertops at the top of the colonial chamber, and the spores located there. When the nanofilaments brush along the cell walls, they not only exchange free electrons, but lose the coat of insulating protein as well. They will then go back to the bottom of the colony chamber to pick up more free electrons and insulating protein there. Eventually, the Thermoplasts lose their protective protein coating, and become sessile adults, adhering to the walls of the colony chamber, and beginning production of their own endospores."



The coppertop cell begins its life as a endospore, made inside of its parent cell. This endospore helps transfer free electrons from the copper infused cell wall to mitochondria in the cell via conductive nanofilaments that cover its spore coat. When the adult cell dies, the spores are released to be free floating particles into the colonial chamber. During this release period two layers of protective protein, acting as extra insulaton from the heat as well as together having thermoelectric properties, are added to the endospores to cover them and their nanofilaments. The nanofilaments becoming sandwiched between the layers

Along the outside of the endospore are nanofilaments which are coated in an insulation protein, free-floating in the colony chamber, upon exiting the parent cell.
The thermal conductivity between the components in a Endospore drastically differs from each other. Although the entire colony is rather hot due to proximity to hydrothermal vents, there is still a "warm" and "cool" side to the hollow inside the colony, this gradient in temperature only increasing in age and size of the group. While the free-floating endospores (now able to play the role of the metabolically dormant caste "thermoplast" in the colony) spends time on the hot side of the chamber in contact with the tiny copper plates of active cells the outer layer of thermoelectric proteins will quickly rise in temperature, while the inner layer heats up more slowly due to having a higher "specific heat capacity". The structure of the outer protein layer will shift at a particular temperature, which in turn makes attachment points available. A third, and quite stable, insulation protein then latches onto it after a position shift in one of its components the outer layer of the free-floating endospore in order to prevent that component from losing its temperature as quickly as the rest. These nanofilaments passively gather free electrons from Coppertops located at the bottom of the colonial chamber, where it is warmer. Once the Endospore is coated with this insulating protein it becomes a functioning Thermoplast.

The Thermoplasts then move to the cold side of the Coppertop colony, releasing excess electric charge generated by the heat flow of heat between the two protein layers via the Seebeck Effect. The electric charge created across this temperature gradient is transferred by the conductive nanofilaments between the two layers to the copper infused cell wall belonging to Coppertops at the top cold side of the colonial chamber, and the spores located there. When the nanofilaments brush along the cell walls, they not only exchange free electrons, but lose the coat of insulating protein as well as they cool down and their proteins shift in structure again, the temperature gradient disappearing. . Due to Brownian Movement they will then go back to the bottom hot side of the colony chamber to regain a temperature gradient, pick up more free electrons and insulating protein there. Eventually, the Thermoplasts lose their protective protein coating, and become sessile adults, adhering to the walls of the colony chamber, and beginning production of their own endospores.

https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Stickyballs

Since my favorite one can't be a nomination

I nominate stickyballs

https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Crusicruge

This

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?:y
Art clear?:y
Gen number?:y
All limbs shown?:y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?:y
Realistic additions?:y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?:y
Creator?:y

Ancestor:
Listed?:y SHOULD BE OCTOTHERMAS (Copperhead lineage)
What changes?:
External?: copper deposits focused on single face of cell
Internal?: development of nanofilaments for electron harvesting, transformation of mitochondria into free floating particles upon cell death to further function in the colony.
Behavioral/Mental?: colonial cavity formation, thermoplast formation, spore formation
Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: Y, NANOFILAMENTS AND THERMOPLAST PROTEINS

Habitat:
Type?:1
Flavor?:1
Connected?: ......Are they? only one
Wildcard?:

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?:

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: elaborated
Other?:

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Transition Rule?: EXCEPTION, lithovore aspect shifted to respiration
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Respiration shifted from diet
Other?: this shift is based off the use of sulfur as an electron acceptor durng respiration

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: elaborated
Other?:

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: addition of spores
Other?: I THINK ADDITION OF CELLULAR CONJUGATION, or some other form of genetic exchange during times of famine, possibly to contribute to the formation of spores, could be good. Though I don't think it absolutely necessary.

Description:
Length?: somewhat short
Capitalized correctly?:
Replace/Split from ancestor?: split
Other?:

Opinion: Pending, I think the ancestor should list the genus group with the lineage choice in parenthesis when put on the wiki. Approved

@HethrJarrod

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?:y
Art clear?:y
Gen number?:y
All limbs shown?:y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?:y
Realistic additions?:y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?:y
Creator?:y

Ancestor:
Listed?:y
What changes?:
External?:
Internal?:
Behavioral/Mental?: group hunting of flying saucers
Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: not really

Habitat:
Type?:3
Flavor?: 3
Connected?:y
Wildcard?:

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?:

Support:
Same as Ancestor?:y
Does It Fit Habitat?:y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?:

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: kind of
Transition Rule?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: addition of egg eating

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?:y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?:

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?:y
Does It Fit Habitat?:y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?:

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?:y
Does It Fit Habitat?:y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?:

Description:
Length?: good
Capitalized correctly?:
Replace/Split from ancestor?:
Other?:

Opinion: Approved

I don't think I noticed anything particularly off about this submission if anyone wants to do a review on it

If it has not already been mentioned in the description, I would suggest just clarifying that the inside chamber where the free floating thermoplasts are located is quite well sealed from the outside to prevent infections or foreign bodies from getting in.


I would also consider stating explicitly a means for thermoplasts to enter that chamber, for example having cells that reach a certain age and then there mitochondria shift in structure to form thermoplasts, this could be achieved by mitochondria just kind of breaking down into smaller objects that then are freely released into the cavity upon the cell's death.

Alternatively just having a particular cast that buds off of the main layers and fairly immediately dies after forming thermoplasts in order to release them into the central cavity. Both of these allow for greater cell diversity in The colony kind of comparable to blue green algae.

Although if you just wanted the cells to release the thermoplasts into the cavity on their own, without any particular caste system, should be able to work..


Just two thoughts on it,
The concept itself doesn't have anything wrong with it from as far as I can tell, if someone wants to do a review on the submission that would be cool.

I don't think I see anything immediately wrong or broken with this submission, if someone wants to do the review thing.

Hair is fantastic for extending the sense of touch beyond the surface of the body.

And cleanliness can be a deciding factor for keeping fur off an area.

This is really fantastic, I always enjoy coming across your more poetic or artistically written submissions.

A couple things that I noticed while partially reading through, respiration in your internal organ diagram seems to be written wrong.

At the point where the word tumm exists I would think that perhaps an apostrophe should be placed at the end, although I personally have not run into this word standalone I do recognize it's relationship to the word tummy.

In the section about balance the phrase they skim appears twice at the end of a sentence.

In thermal regulation the word diminutive seems to be spelled wrong slightly.

In diet I'm wondering if you wanted to say from running to hiding to hunting a snack, rather than from running to hide to hunting a snack.

Love the teeth diagram.

Right, I think general descriptions of what would get displaced works better than specific listings, since if a disaster like a big flood washed out an area, or a sudden die off left nothing to replenish the colony, the results would be recolonization by those flora that for pushed out.

I thought I already put that in.

I'll get to those when I have time.

I don't expect these to cause extinctions in any actual habitats, just localized to their colonies and territories.

It's worth mentioning what Flora does gets pushed out though when I have time.

Sure, lignin isn't all or nothing either, it's just another ingredient that can be added on a gradient.

This is Fantastic name

Ooh, I see that, it's pretty nice.

Interesting that the intestine and stomach are unrelated organs.

Is there a skeletal model for that front limb?

I'm curious about joints and soft tissue tubing.

Is this a Willosaur reference

" quickly began to shift into actively predation."

should say active predation

"chase their prey into the upper trophoshpere"

a word is spelled wrong

"however the generally will not touch"

they generally








". If saucebacks aren't available they will scavenging for relatively"

they will scavenge

Doesn't really seem like it.

Hm.

Maybe I misunderstood, I had thought the thermoplasts were a functional part inside a single cell member of the colony.

Making them a specialist cell within the colony may change their function.

But it does lead to an interesting potential for the colony, since you're wanting to make a seebeck generator out of cells that conventiently have plates of metal in their membranes.

To be fair regarding the italics, bolding, etc. These are things that would need to be manually applied when uploaded to the wiki so it doesn't really matter that much.

If it were easier it could be considered not a part of the continental shelves, It really should be existing in coastal areas but that doesn't explicitly mean it needs to be interacting with things that, for example, dig.

It mainly is supposed to be interacting with swimming things.

So does that mean the pending things in that review are basically optional elaborations?

Its increase in size also means that the old way of absorbing oxygen directly through the skin no longer worked well enough. Instead, the beastworm has evolved numerous, tiny "microlungs," located all over its skin, which allow it to breathe much more effectively

https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Beastworm


Sweet so it would be directly related to these micro lungs, you could totally have a set of them specialized for making hissing sounds. That's super simple.


I too compare any of the worms that molt to reptiles shedding their scutes, it makes sense. It's not necessarily going to affect their ability to stand, but it will definitely make them more susceptible to attacks.