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This was a drawing worked on for an exchange between myself and ~space-commander for the group project One Planet at a Time. He'd asked for a background regarding his organisms on Kanangar Prime (here [link] ), and so I examined the major species depicted thus far.

Image captions suggest that both starglazers and spaghetti monsters hail from the Sargasso Ocean, and similarities in body shape (namely radial symmetry) lead me to consider a common ancestry. In this case, I created the primordial radial organism, currently designated the radiomorph, and while it is almost certainly extinct at current the researchers could postulate its existence based on fossil and embryonic evidence (even distantly-related organisms display similarities at this stage – human embryos have fish tails and gills, owing to our icthytosian origins). It’s the creature on the far left, a primitive floater held buoyant by a hydrogen sac. The fins are rarely used for swimming; for the most part it’s a passive organism that only raises these to sail along water currents. These would give rise to the shield-like flaps lining the spaghetti monster, which serve the similar function of steering it through air currents, and eventually became the distinctive limbs of starglazers and their ilk. Essentially the radiomorphs that would become spaghetti monsters ballooned, gaining hydrogen till they could lift themselves out of the water, while those that became starglazersg gained in sensory equipment in order to seek out larger prey, actively swimming and eventually learning to walk on their "fins".

Hopefully the anatomical similarities are obvious, and unless otherwise noted systems can be considered the same in all three organisms. The skeleton consists of a series of triangular trusses that form geodesic and columnar structures, giving rise to a lightweight structure with enormous compression resistance (this is particularly important to radiomorphs and spaghetti monsters, as it allows them to contain lower-pressure hydrogen within them without it being crushed by high pressure surroundings) while providing gaps for such things as blood vessels and nerves. The ring of sacks along the bottom (and at the top of the starglazer) is a chain of ganglia, each acting as a nervous and endocrine center for the relevant section of the body (in the case of the spaghetti monster the chemical brain has mostly overwhelmed the neural brain, while the exact opposite has happened in the starglazer). The lower cavity forms the mouth, which can be everted to swallow prey and force it into the stomach, aided by vacuum sacs that can suck in water and pull the prey in. The stomach serves as a compacted digestive system – it reduces food to semi-liquid mush and proceeds to absorb its nutritional contents through string-like intestines within, thereafter releasing the remaining waste back through the mouth. The stomach itself can also be everted, but doing so would release whatever was contained therein so this is typically left inside. Nevertheless, this is exactly what happened in the spaghetti monster, freeing room for the internal hydrogen sac and giving rise to its namesake spaghetti-like tendrils (which are actually the former intestines and digest food externally, as the spaghetti monster’s food is small enough that it doesn’t require much reduction). The vacuum sacs now serve as ballast tanks, allowing the spaghetti monster to pressurize air for use as weight to control height (this is not as ridiculous an idea as it may seem – deepwater organisms can survive pressures over 400 atm, and at only 100 atm a cubic meter of air weighs 120 kilograms). In starglazers these have transformed into basic lungs, and are augmented by a star-like heart for pumping blood (displayed in more detail beside the image); spaghetti monsters are passive enough organisms that they can suffice with sloshing blood through their body and breathing through their skin. The torus-like blobs are gonads; as such, intercourse or gamete/egg release must occur through the mouth in the radiomorph and starglazer, and through the sides of the spaghetti monster.

Description
This was a drawing worked on for an exchange between myself and ~space-commander for the group project One Planet at a Time. He'd asked for a background regarding his organisms on Kanangar Prime (here [link] ), and so I examined the major species depicted thus far.

Image captions suggest that both starglazers and spaghetti monsters hail from the Sargasso Ocean, and similarities in body shape (namely radial symmetry) lead me to consider a common ancestry. In this case, I created the primordial radial organism, currently designated the radiomorph, and while it is almost certainly extinct at current the researchers could postulate its existence based on fossil and embryonic evidence (even distantly-related organisms display similarities at this stage – human embryos have fish tails and gills, owing to our icthytosian origins). It’s the creature on the far left, a primitive floater held buoyant by a hydrogen sac. The fins are rarely used for swimming; for the most part it’s a passive organism that only raises these to sail along water currents. These would give rise to the shield-like flaps lining the spaghetti monster, which serve the similar function of steering it through air currents, and eventually became the distinctive limbs of starglazers and their ilk. Essentially the radiomorphs that would become spaghetti monsters ballooned, gaining hydrogen till they could lift themselves out of the water, while those that became starglazersg gained in sensory equipment in order to seek out larger prey, actively swimming and eventually learning to walk on their "fins".

Hopefully the anatomical similarities are obvious, and unless otherwise noted systems can be considered the same in all three organisms. The skeleton consists of a series of triangular trusses that form geodesic and columnar structures, giving rise to a lightweight structure with enormous compression resistance (this is particularly important to radiomorphs and spaghetti monsters, as it allows them to contain lower-pressure hydrogen within them without it being crushed by high pressure surroundings) while providing gaps for such things as blood vessels and nerves. The ring of sacks along the bottom (and at the top of the starglazer) is a chain of ganglia, each acting as a nervous and endocrine center for the relevant section of the body (in the case of the spaghetti monster the chemical brain has mostly overwhelmed the neural brain, while the exact opposite has happened in the starglazer). The lower cavity forms the mouth, which can be everted to swallow prey and force it into the stomach, aided by vacuum sacs that can suck in water and pull the prey in. The stomach serves as a compacted digestive system – it reduces food to semi-liquid mush and proceeds to absorb its nutritional contents through string-like intestines within, thereafter releasing the remaining waste back through the mouth. The stomach itself can also be everted, but doing so would release whatever was contained therein so this is typically left inside. Nevertheless, this is exactly what happened in the spaghetti monster, freeing room for the internal hydrogen sac and giving rise to its namesake spaghetti-like tendrils (which are actually the former intestines and digest food externally, as the spaghetti monster’s food is small enough that it doesn’t require much reduction). The vacuum sacs now serve as ballast tanks, allowing the spaghetti monster to pressurize air for use as weight to control height (this is not as ridiculous an idea as it may seem – deepwater organisms can survive pressures over 400 atm, and at only 100 atm a cubic meter of air weighs 120 kilograms). In starglazers these have transformed into basic lungs, and are augmented by a star-like heart for pumping blood (displayed in more detail beside the image); spaghetti monsters are passive enough organisms that they can suffice with sloshing blood through their body and breathing through their skin. The torus-like blobs are gonads; as such, intercourse or gamete/egg release must occur through the mouth in the radiomorph and starglazer, and through the sides of the spaghetti monster.