Cryophytes
Creator: MNIDJM
Ancestor: [[Cryosagania]]<br>[[Cavern Cryosagania]]<br>[[Halosagania]]<br>[[Dixon Cryosagania]]<br>[[Sphrioo]]<br>[[Cryosqualinia]]<br>[[Cryolaborametiri Triacellula]]
Habitat: Global (Sagan 4)
Size: 10 μm - 15 μm Wide Cells; 80 μm - 100 μm Long Chains
Diet: Photosynthesis, Chemoorganoheterotroph
Respiration: Cellular Respiration
Thermoregulation: Ectothermic?
Support: Cell Membrane
Reproduction: Binary Fission
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Kyanozoa
Phylum: Kyanophyta
Class: Cryosaganopsida
Order: Cryosaganales

The cryophytes are a primitive branch of Sagan 4 life. First arising in the Ladymian period, they have since proliferated to form the base of many polar and alpine food chains. Their primary trait is their ability to live within very cold environments such as the extreme polar latitudes, mountains, or even deep underground in ice caves. While similar to their relatives the [[kyanos]] and its descendants, they can be distinguished by their less structurally complex cellular structure, including the lack of cell walls, and their flagella that allow them mobility the kyanoses lack. Each individual cell has at least two flagella, which together allow them to swim around in a random fashion. They are reliant on water to survive, but can live in both cold seawater and freshwater ice.

They derive their color from the blue-green chloroplast analogs and utilize their flagella to keep them in the light. During the long winters or times of poor nutrition the cryophytes it will go dormant. While the majority of species are reliant on sunlight to facilitate photosynthesis, some species have adapted to subterranean living. Those derived from the [[Cavern Cryosagania|cavern cryosagania]] have specialized into a symbiotic relationship with the local swarmers. While not bright enough to support photosynthesis, they utilize the light to find spots of organism waste material. These swarmers benefit by having a readily available supply of food. They eat the waste of the detritivores and scavengers within the subterranean environments, and are eaten by swarmers in return. When their predators are eaten by higher predators such as other [[Fathead Swarmer|swarmers]] or [[Cave Teuthopin|teuropins]], their waste is used as fertilizer for the cryophytes, completeing the cycle. When there are no swarmers around they will either attempt to migrate towards the surface, go dormant, or keep consuming organic particles until they exhaust them. This relationship has developed so thoroughly that it has allowed the species of the [[Yannick Ice Caves]] to spread throughout the water table.

When reproducing via binary fission, they will split on the boom of the last one, making cone like chains out of their disc shaped cells. During the course of their lives, they will continually grow, eventually dying off at the tips. They sometimes break apart, forming new cone chains. In optimal conditions the blooms can be large enough to dye the soil or water a deep, rich teal color.

=Relationship With Other Species=
The following species have spread to the Fermi Water Table:
* [[Penitoflora Aquanus]]
* [[Carpomarine Guttoplaque]]
* [[Mainland Penitoflora Coli]]
* [[Cave Swarmer]]
* [[Cave Teuthopin]]
* [[Tunneling Uksip]]
* [[Thornbutt Swarmer]]
* [[Teuthomimic Swarmer]]
* [[Fathead Swarmer]]
* [[Crawlegume]]
* [[Tongue Swarmer]]

=Integrated Species=
==Family [[Cryosaganaceae]]==
* [[Cryosagania]]
* [[Cavern Cryosagania]]
* [[Halosagania]]
* [[Dixon Cryosagania]]
* [[Cryosqualinia]]
* [[Cryolaborametiri Triacellula]]

==Family [[Geliglobulaceae]]==
* [[Sphrioo]]

KiwiPistola15, there a few more minor details but I believe you’ve demonstrated sufficient knowledge of our rules and formatting to be allowed on the team.

@KiwiPistola15 Welcome to the Sagan 4 Alpha Team! Please repost your submission in the Organism Submission subforum when Gen 167 opens up, or post it in The Hold while we wait

QUOTE (TheBigDeepCheatsy @ Feb 15 2023, 05:21 AM)

Where did you come up with that name?

It's based of the proto-Finnic words for "eggshell/insect exoskeleton" and "eagle"

QUOTE (colddigger @ Feb 13 2023, 06:24 AM)

" 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

Typos fixed

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: Y
Art clear?: Y
Gen number?: Y, though it is a little faint, it's the clouds.
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?:smaller proboscis girth, webbed feet, rounder streamlined "head", snapping style tusks like bobbit worm, extreme male neoteny due to fast selection via new repropductive habit
Internal?: air layers trapped in lower portion of shell, more short fast action muscles in neck
Behavioral/Mental?: now actively swimmings rather than stalks about the shoreline, rarely lifts its probscis/head other than for particularly interesting things, collapse of harem style breeding
Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: Y, should not be in same genus as Bobbysoxer

Habitat:
Type?: 2
Flavor?: 3
Connected?: Y
Wildcard?: N/A

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Within range?: Y
Exception?: N/A

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Transition Rule?: N/A
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?: N/A

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?: N/A

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y
Other?: N/A

Description:
Length?: Good
Capitalized correctly?: Y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Replaced
Other?: N/A

Opinion: Pending, change the genus and it's approved

Approval Checklist:
Art: Y
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?: larger lips, females lose tusks to form a basic non-tidal filtering system with their mouth. toe covers for catching underwater prey
Internal?:
Behavioral/Mental?: dietary distinctions between females, young, and males
Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: Done

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)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Transition Rule?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?:Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?:Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?:Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Description:
Length?: Good
Capitalized correctly?: Y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Replaced
Other?:
Opinion: Approved

Yeah it's good to go

QUOTE (colddigger @ Feb 12 2023, 01:44 AM)

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

I believe so

Typos are fixed so I'm approving this

QUOTE (Hydromancerx @ Sep 16 2022, 11:09 PM)

Maturing in the first year, individuals live for 5 years, .

I fixed the typo but something seems like it got cut off here. Is anything missing?

As of today we have updated the wiki URLs to make it easier for newer people to navigate. As you know the Beta timeline previously used sagan4.miraheze.org as their wiki while we use sagan4alpha.miraheze.org, but this has now changed:

• sagan4.miraheze.org- is now our meta hub wiki! it will be where we will be relocating all of our meta and cross project entries including our timeline of the project, origins of the projects, relevant IRL information, contests, and membership tracking.
• sagan4beta.miraheze.org is the new home of the Sagan 4 Beta timeline.
• sagan4alpha.miraheze.org and sagan4mason.miraheze.org are remaining as they are.

Hopefully this should clearup or prevent any confusion that may have resulted from the wikis. The #links channel will be updated to reflect the new URLs

Yes the Crystalplaque, but that’s more that it grows on it and prevents the spread of cellulase past the bane, but the crystal itself is still deadly to eat.

A protease could work but I’m not sure how it’d evolve

To post an image on the forum you upload it to a hosting site or discord and copy the url, then go to the forum and when you are making or Full Editing a comment you should see this:

Click the button and paste the url in the popup

Don't forget to post the photo

@Jarlaxle Heads up, I've gotten requests to not have active threads in the Graveyard, so I have repurposed the Hold as a location for posts that aren't accepted for the current gen to continue to be worked on. I am relocating this thread to that subforum now.

This does look much better, yeah

@Jarlaxle I wanna be clear your submission is NOT being rejected. I don't reject concepts unless they are done in bad faith, are badly misinterpreted from the ancestor, or utterly broken to the point of no amount of tweaking could fix. For this post, it seems to just be down to the joint issue and right before it was bumped here you and Colddigger seemed like you might be hitting on a solution. There were no personal reasons or anything for why it was bumped, simply just that the policy is after we hit less than 30 pending submission and post still being actively worked on has one week to finish or be bumped to the next gen. We hit that point last Tuesday so this post should have been warned but wasn't because the announcement went up on the discord and I apologies for that.

To me putting something in the graveyard is at most just putting it on hold until its ready for next/a later generation or abandoned, but I'm noticing the connotations are pretty skewed towards it being interpreted as a outright permanent rejection. I'm going to change the name of this subforum to a less charged term

@Jarlaxle Do you mind if I shop this around some MechE and Vert Zoo colleagues of mine, to see if they’ll give me a better understanding on what’s going on and if there’s a way to make this work for everyone?

Dorite I did ask him to keep this discussion here

The generation should have the last of the species on the compendium for by this weekend if I can manage it, and hopefully the next gen open in about 2 weeks (grad school has been a priority for me so I’ve been doing reviews in bursts). Apologies for the bump but I wanna get gen 167 open before midterm season kicks in for me in mid February and I’ll be limited in how fast I can update. Our policy is we let every new submission have one week minimum of review, so I needed to give whoever took the slot enough time to get properly vetted. This wasn’t the only one that ran outta time, and even my only submission this gen almost got bumped (I finished only an hour before the deadline).

Alright, I’m gonna cut this off here. We’ve hit the end of the generation countdown and haven’t reached a viable version the team can agree on. To prevent this from holding back the conclusion of the generation.

feel free to resubmit in Gen 167, however please don’t do so until this discussion thread has reached a consensus of some kind. Another long thread like this would be unproductive if it’s unchanged, and it’ll involve too much rehashing to get another thread caught up.

To be fair, if these are being created by a species wouldn’t the be constantly forming and breaking down?

The wording might be a bit too meta in places.

Berd done

KXDino8, there a few more minor details but I believe you’ve demonstrated sufficient knowledge of our rules and formatting to be allowed on the team.

@KXDino8 Welcome to the Sagan 4 Alpha Team! Please repost your submission in the Organism Submission subforum when Gen 167 opens up

Mayith, please do add the corrections that Coolsteph, but I believe you’ve demonstrated sufficient knowledge of our rules and formatting to be allowed on the team.

@mayith Welcome to the Sagan 4 Alpha Team! Please repost your submission in the Organism Submission subforum when Gen 167 opens up