03-11-2020, 08:35 PM
I have added this group of animals to the fauna of the regional map, following a poll in which a clear majority of the voters supported this (even if we don’t count the four voting nations that aren’t [yet] actually on the map, or the one puppet that voted after its player’s main nation had already also done so, that’s still 12-to-1 in favour …) See: https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=153911
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Do we still have Trilobites in the IDU's world?
The Free Bears of Bears Armed wrote: In RL the Trilobites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite) became extinct shortly before the rise of the Dinosaurs, but the Horseshoe Crab [of comparable antiquity] still survives. Might we still have living Trilobites in our world, somewhere in the almost-unexplored deeps or even in the shallows alongside -- or replacing -- the Horseshoe Crab?
No: Legionas.
Yes, only in the deeps: Laeral, Ruskayn, Res Publica Melitensis, Gladysynthia, North Cross, Lauchenoiria, and Comhar.
Yes, deeps and shallows (alongside Horseshoe Crab): Zamastan, Libertas Omnium Maximus, Christos, Gardavasque, Agury, Sunemia, Rio Palito, Birnir, and Ponoxien.
Yes, deeps and shallows (replaces Horsehoe Crab): ---
Yes, shallows only (alongside Horseshoe Crab): ---
Yes, shallows only (replaces Horseshoe Crab): Arcadia Dazeber.
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Obviously it’s still up to each nation’s own player to decide whether Trilobites are present in that nation’s own territorial waters, but it seems reasonable to presume that (at the least) those who voted in favour of there being trilobites in the “shallows” will have them present.
Looking at the pattern of votes cast, this suggests so far that our surviving Trilobites’ collective range centres on the Olympic Ocean (although not along the western coasts of Hesperia?), with outlying populations around both Libertas Omnium Maximus and Arcadia-Dazeber, but that they might be absent from most of the Tenebric Ocean’s shores. Decisions by additional players might change this, of course. I am working on IC explanations for this distribution.
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Do we still have Trilobites in the IDU's world?
The Free Bears of Bears Armed wrote: In RL the Trilobites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite) became extinct shortly before the rise of the Dinosaurs, but the Horseshoe Crab [of comparable antiquity] still survives. Might we still have living Trilobites in our world, somewhere in the almost-unexplored deeps or even in the shallows alongside -- or replacing -- the Horseshoe Crab?
No: Legionas.
Yes, only in the deeps: Laeral, Ruskayn, Res Publica Melitensis, Gladysynthia, North Cross, Lauchenoiria, and Comhar.
Yes, deeps and shallows (alongside Horseshoe Crab): Zamastan, Libertas Omnium Maximus, Christos, Gardavasque, Agury, Sunemia, Rio Palito, Birnir, and Ponoxien.
Yes, deeps and shallows (replaces Horsehoe Crab): ---
Yes, shallows only (alongside Horseshoe Crab): ---
Yes, shallows only (replaces Horseshoe Crab): Arcadia Dazeber.
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Obviously it’s still up to each nation’s own player to decide whether Trilobites are present in that nation’s own territorial waters, but it seems reasonable to presume that (at the least) those who voted in favour of there being trilobites in the “shallows” will have them present.
Looking at the pattern of votes cast, this suggests so far that our surviving Trilobites’ collective range centres on the Olympic Ocean (although not along the western coasts of Hesperia?), with outlying populations around both Libertas Omnium Maximus and Arcadia-Dazeber, but that they might be absent from most of the Tenebric Ocean’s shores. Decisions by additional players might change this, of course. I am working on IC explanations for this distribution.