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A map of Snaiad.[link]
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I'm a map lover, this is like candy for my eyes! Especially since I have no prior knowledge of your fictional world, this is my first introduction (hopefully there's reading material?), so all the little zoological shapes are extra-extra-tantalizing. I am very thoroughly intrigued.
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Thank you 
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That would be awesome!
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So, is Snaiad a future earth or a completely different planet?
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A different planet - in the future.
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Quick question, because I'm interested-
how big is a titaniforme generally? Especially, I mean, are they larger or smaller than allotaurs? And uh, what're Thalssia's main predators and what does the Kanhydron lebanisiensis eat?
Just a little curious. I can't access your official webpage.
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Titaniformes: About the same mass as allotaurs, but a bit longer.
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Thanks for the info, and I suppose Magnodirus is the largest of them too?
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I like how you stck a human in there for size comparison.
Some of the names sugest this planet was settled by Earth humans from such places as the USA and what was once the Ottoman Empire (New Smyrna, Lebanon, Savannah) as well as England or Australia etc (Wuthering Heights.)
Are the asterixes meant to represent cities?
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Yup, asterixes are cities.
I'm really interested in Mediterranean and Levantine history, hence the Ottoman / Greek names.
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That's a great and informative map! Are the asterixes meat to represent cities? If so, some of the names of that as well as other lands suggest that it was colonized by Earth humans from the USA and what was once the Ottoman Empire (Lebanon, New Smyrna, Savannah) as well as England or Australia etc (Wuthering Heights) among other Earth places.
I like how you stuck a humanoid west of Poli, it contrasts well with all the other creatures and gives some idea of size perspective.
I'd like to think that areas newly settled by humans on other planets would take some of their names from imaginary lands out of books and other fiction, which is to say these planets do not already have intelligent life.
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Is it just me or is the forest hadron very large on this map?
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You know this makes me wonder, what were the other planets inhabited by other nations (like America, China etc) like , and are you even considering building those planets up, like you've done for this project ?
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I remember jotting down something about the Gulf countries using their last oil money to set up a colony on a world with rampant silicon-crystal lifeforms, but that was years ago...
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Hm, silicon-lifeforms... I wonder how that would work on a planet that humans could inhabit.
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Transplants? Nanotech gone rampant?
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Ooh, the nanotechnology idea sounds cool. I can just imagine robots so complex that it gets hard to tell them apart from animals. I wonder if viruses would effect them, and in what way. A microscopic robot that attaches itself to other robots and uses it's processing power to make more of itself, maybe?
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At the most basic level, there's no difference between nano and biotechnology.
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Right, but say we made each nanobot (or "cell") really intelligent, along with eusocial. That mind bring up some interesting things.
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Interesting ! Since I have already conceptualized a planet with such organisms (noted in my previous journal, the planet Silex), it could probably even be the parallel to Snaiad...though that may be months from now. Though my question is what Gulf countries...I'm thinking America and Mexico, with some of the coolest Neo-Western battles !
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Aha, I meant the Persian Gulf countries. Arabia, the Emirates, etc. Think Lawrence of Arabia, not Wild West!
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Ohh ... I can already imagine Dubai-like meccas, latex clothing, and pyramid-like beasts used as xeno-camels ...
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Heheh... Latex clothing? I think the forests on that planet could resemble an infinite Dubai of weird crystal-column plants.
I also think the people who inhabit those planets would be wildly different from today's Arabs - the colonization takes place a few hundred years after today, plus there's the added trauma of colonization and machine-grown generations on a new planet.
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Yes, I too believe that these new Arabs would be completely different from their ancestors, space travel, re-colonization, possibly xenophobia, and an added loss if their religion would result in a people with a very different demeanor, and different customs than today's Arabs. Oh and I saw some designer who made crazy cool looking latex clothes, so that's where the idea came XD as for these crystal creatures, I can easily imagine theses glass trees (as well as some optic fiber like 'grasses'), but I always have a hard time picturing crystalized 'animals' and how they themselves work... I envisioned geometric shaped, organic looking beasts, but glass animals always stump me.
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hey, good project, i'm a fan of the world building projects. i need help i cannot enter to the official page. my explorer says URL not found what i can do??
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thanx, hmmm. a question. when is the next update??
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I wonder how the toxic lophophids came about?
It seems odd that they would be able to extract the toxins from animals for their defense rather then plants (as is often the case with herbivores on earth with chemical defenses).
Could there have been ancestral proto-lophophids that lived in fungi/plant-growing Acridasterian nests feeding off their host's crops & perhaps the occasional larvae or adult?
I doubt it, but it would be interesting to speculate. Such specialization like that often leads to dead-ends in the long term.
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I think I just answered my own question... sort of...
lol
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Heheh, that was certainly a workable solution...
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so any word of when this map is going to be at the other site ?
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Never. This map is old and outdated compared to the new ones I have at snaiad.com
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you said you filled your canvas with a random smoke texture to create this map? Cool! the result is excellent! I once dropped water on the table and drew the shape that the drops made to make an island!
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where'd the turtle tank go? I don't see him. He was my favourite.
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yeah! I thought he was gone.....
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He's living on the Western mainland now...
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Wuthering heights. Emily BrontΓ« must be proud of that
anyways, can't wait to see more of your Snaiadi creations.....
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Arrrgghh! The excitement! Can't wait to see all these things in detail.
That pointy-nosed jetocete in the Sea of Oroland has a striking silhouette.
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Thanks! I'm working on a polished-up website as we speak...
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so any word of when the site will be up dated ?
me is curious and such
and me likes snaiad -- its totally neat , cool, nice and many other words to describe awesome
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i started looking for a geographic name associated to yours, and there it was : memograd!
mare frigidum, link, endland, faraway!
creative!
looking forward to see an atlas for this world sometime.
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I'm working on a polished-up website as we speak... the places and their names will be clarified then!
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so when are you going to update the map at your main page? I'm gonna write a story on Snaiad, I just need the map as a reference sheet. I'm gonna write it in my blog on my Myspace
please check it out.
ps: I'm not sure I understand the bology of snaiad animals, I'm not sure which head does what, and I don't understand the 'hydraulic muscles' do they have a skelton? I'm not sure. Anyway, keep up the good work, and don't be too much of a pervert shrew
pps: I just read All Tommarows the other day, both the art and story was really good, the story seemed unnaturally...realistic.
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When you write your story, please give me a link and I'll feature a journal on it!
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I'd really appreciate that, right now I have some other unrelated stories that I write, but not many people read them, here's a link Marty Party's blog-stories
It would be cool to get some criticism or input from anybody (it would be cool if they had a myspace as well.)
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Oops, I forgot to look at my old comment, I accidentally posted another link to my myspace blog. whatever. Anyway
"ps: I'm not sure I understand the biology of snaiad animals, I'm not sure which head does what, and I don't understand the 'hydraulic muscles' do they have a skelton?"
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Just wondering, are you still unclear?
I'm guessing not...
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