Fear is the Mind Killer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To Build Better Worlds.
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- Domain: Cyanobacteria
- Phylum: Cyanophyceae
- Class: Pseudomonadales
- Order: Caeliphydaceae
- Family: Chlorocumuladeae
- Genus: C. Caeli C
- Name: Chlorocumulus Caeli - Type C
- Origins: House Aquila Laboratory, Iskalon
- Other Locations: Introduced to Worlds as Required.
- Classification: Microbacterium
- Average Growth Cycle:
- The typical Doubling time of C.Caeli Type C is twenty minutes while in a neutral environment, however, thanks to the addition of Kaminoan Growth acceleration the Cyanobacteriums reproduction and growth time is halved. Additionally, in nutrient rich environments where they have abundant UV light and high Nutrient Atmosphere which the Bacterium can feed on, even that Double time can be reduced significantly allowing it to reproduce at alarming rates. A specimen begins to crumble typically after its experienced somewhere between 15-24 divisions. After C. Caeli C has finished its job on a planet a viral agent to stop its development is introduced, killing it off rapidly.
- Viability:
- When this substance is engineered for a specific planet, its able to be customized to primarily feed on a specific gas, be it nitrogen, helium, ammonia, carbon dioxide or many other substances and poisons that are common among the atmospheres of inhospitable worlds. Requiring precious little in the way of water and being able to be carried airborne and sustained by water vapor, this light organism lives most of its 1-2 day life airborne, only dropping to the earth when it begins to die and its feathered wreath crumbles. C.Caeli Type C thrives in high sunlit environments, gaining energy from photosynthesis which is used to process what it consumes and to divide more frequently.
- Description:
- Chlorocumulus Caeli is a single celled organism which is little more than a factory for division and the consumption of other materials which it processes into oxygen. Its green coloration within water-vapor gives the air it floats in a soft green hue when in high numbers which can look alien. The Microbe is invisible to the naked eye, though clusters can be seen should they land on a solid substance and accumulate, typically when rotting, looking sludge like and darkening to black as it dies. Under a microscope the bacteria has a central circular body with small feather thin hairs extending from its surface, giving it a broader surface area and helping it to remain buoyant.
- Average Height: .90μm
- Average Length: .90μm
- Color: Lime-Green
- Nutritional Value:
- Nitrogen
- Carbon
- Ammonia
- Fiber
- Toxicity:
- Moderately Dangerous: While the Chlorocumulus Caeli isn't poisonous, its natural toxins make it potentially harmful over extended periods of exposure. The chemical make-up is harmful to some humanoids in high doses thanks to its Nitrogen and Ammonia content. Long term prolonged exposure can cause itchiness, light internal bleeding, respiratory distress, blood intoxication and liver disease, though nothing serious or fatal and easily treatable, though potentially causing harm to people with co-morbidities.
- Other Effects:
- Gas Filter: C. Caeli Type C, when engineered to do so is capable of consuming gasses and creating others as a bi-product depending on its fixation. Nitrogen into Ammonia or Nitrates, or Carbon into organic compounds that it uses to spread. Additionally, C. Caeli uses Water and fluids as an electron donor in order to create Oxygen as a Biproduct of the chemical reaction.
- Ozone Creating: Due to being a airborne chemical, consolidating in cumulus structures, when exposed to sunlight C.Caeli creates O2 through photosynthetic processes which, when coming into contact with natural light at high altitudes becomes O3 in massive amounts.
- Soil Enrichment: When Adult Chlorocumulus dies, its feathered edges wither first, causing them to fall to the earth like snow where they begin to decompose. The Nitrates and Ammonias and plant fiber they are made of are the perfect ingredients to enrich soil, which, due to their short lived lives occurs frequently
- Distinctions:
- Feathered Wreath: Fibrous feather-like external organelles cover the outer rim of the bacteria made from chloroplasts which increase the surface area of the bacteria allowing it to absorb more light when sunlight makes contact with its photosynthetic pigmented surface giving it energy in order to function. The wreath also allows it to float amid humidity and water vapor or in water.
- Thylakoid Membrane: An internal process which enables the creation of ATP
- Muccoid Coat: A protective outer layer that composes a shell consisting of natural fibers and Cyanogens which are able to easily pass electrons through their surface.
- Verified Terraformer: When employed in high enough quantity in a controlled environment, this Bacteria is capable of altering the ecosystems of entire worlds by radically altering the chemical compounds in its atmosphere akin to many Cyanobacteria. However, unlike those found in the natural world, this laboratory bred bacterium is genetically engineered to do so at increased rates, speeds and in far less restrictive environments as its capable of operating in almost any liquid from vapor to deep sea.
- Purifying Force: C.Caeli Type-C when introduced to harmful, polluted or alien atmospheres as long as it has been engineered to devour the singular substance that it comes into contact with, it will consume the substance and render it inert. Through this process, the bacterium produces other substances as a bi-product of this reaction, such as creating Nitrates when it devours Nitrogen or fibrous organic compounds from Carbon.
- Ozone Engineer: The restorative power of the Chlorocumulus type C cannot be underestimated. Operating within moisture in middle and lower atmosphere position it perfectly to create Oxygen in direct line of sight of a planets sun to create Tri-Oxygen (Ozone). In high enough quantities, this can kick-start the Ozone growth and warming of a cold planet, especially if it has a wealth of dry ice.
- Fertilizer: It's not just the life-cycle of the Cyanobacterium that's beneficial to a world, they are voracious reproducers with a low lifespan, dying quickly and falling to the ground as their feathers wither and dry. The high ammonia and nitrate content of the green matter makes it perfect for enriching soil, and even creating oil.
- Accelerated Growth: Where a typical fast reproducing bacteria have a fission rate of between twenty minutes to an day, based in Kaminoan / Arkanian technology, with accelerated growth the Chlorocumulus C reproduces every ten minutes, which can increase significantly in a nutrient rich environment making the bacteria a veritable plague.
- Temperature Resilient: Whether it be on a desert world or an ice one, Chlorocumulus C is still capable of reproducing so long as it has moisture to do so.
- Atmosphere Reliant: Without an atmosphere, moisture can't sit on a planet and is blown away into the vast void of space. Regardless of how little that is required, Chlorocumulus C is incapable of transforming an asteroid barren of atmosphere into a planet on its own and would require containment of some kind.
- Moisture Dependent: Cyanobacteria require a moist environment in order to thrive, it protects them from the elements and allows them to spread and move. Without moisture or vapor to travel through, its exceedingly difficult for the organism to spread properly in a way that's efficient for an ecosystem. Although it may still survive in some climates, reproducing slowly on the surface, dormant.
- Virus Prone: The greatest weakness of C. Caeli C, is the fact it has limited to no method in which to protect itself against harmful pathogens, the simple cell structure makes it incredibly vulnerable to Geminiviridae, to an extent the existence of the bacteria could cause a pandemic, or kill off the vast majority of its spawning population at any given time.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
With the plague that was the Bryn'adul coming slowly to an end, and worlds laying in ruin caused by wars both ancient, new, foreign and domestic. House Aquila have devised an answer, engineering a bacterium capable of not only rebuilding a planets atmosphere and oxygen levels, but kick-starting an entire worlds environmental growth in an act of microbiological terraformation that is frankly staggering depending on its method of introduction.
The product is engineered to devour certain cases based on the strain of C. Caeli employed in any given area. The Nitrate or Carbon variants creating Ammonia and nitrates or organic compounds respectively while the process creates oxygen. Additionally, thanks to the bacterium's light and feathered structure, its able to maintain itself in moisture vapor, allowing it to generate this oxygen in exposure to the sun, creating O3 in the very same environment it needs to be in to help form or strengthen existing Ozone Layers to form or repair habitable worlds.
But as the problem of replication arrives, a single Chlorocumulus C Cell would barely create a micro-liter of oxygen over its entire two day lifespan, rate of reproduction became a hurdle to solve. The process for terraforming a planet from a single cell would take millennia were the cell to replicate once an hour like many other organisms. So, with the aid of Age Acceleration technology similar to the likes of Kaminoan cloning, C. Caeli C is able to replicate through cellular fission once every ten minutes, potentially more in nutrient rich environments with sun, moisture and food.
Like all things, nothing is wasted with this organism, as when the cell divides enough and becomes exposed to the elements and loses its feathered wreath which helps it to fly, it falls and rots as a nutrient green cell filled with ammonia's and nitrates which help enrich the soil of worlds allowing for new plants to grow to better sustain reinvigorating natural or the seeding of new Flora.
The Cyanobacterium is not without its faults however, it requires an atmosphere, no matter how subtle in order to sustain itself on any given culture of C.Caeli C. Additionally other than needing moisture to spread, the bacterium has almost no natural resistance to viruses, seeking to simply out-spread any given viral infection through sheer quantity, potentially causing airborne pandemics especially on populated worlds or killing off the bacterium with fast spreading airborne Viruses. Which, unironically, is how Chlorocumulus is removed from any given world.
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