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Hey Albert, I just began reading Life Seed yesterday, and I love it! :D

 

And OMG! All this information you provided is so interesting. :) Now, you mentioned the second continent, will Elias be making a visit there? ;)

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Too tipsy to read all this information right now, but I've been regretting the lack of a forum for Life Seed, so thanks for starting one.

 

Btw, I LOVE this story. :)

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Very interesting :) Coming up with a solid background for an alien world is a big challenge, but I like how even in that world you've got exceptions (the Wurls not fitting into the radial symmetry scenario).

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Thank you all for the comments! I have SO much more to add to the world's background. I'm not an expert on exoplanets by any means, but I like to flesh out the worlds I create as much as possible, even if many of these details will never make it into the main storyline, or be mentioned only in passing. :)

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There is so much new about Elias and his mountain sanctuary (prison? ordeal?) experience that it's hard to say what makes

the most impact on me. This chapter is full of new information. Elias is making friends with the two wurls and discovers

how adept they are at survival. They're seeming to be more clever all the time, they don't have the same manner of thinking

as humans, but neither do dogs, and certainly not cats! But we love them anyway. Elias is getting attached to his wurls and

they seem to feel the same thing happening themselves in their own way. New Sky's birds sound totally bizarre, -one leg

and all...I worry about what's going on back at the settlement as well as with Sizzra and her boyfriend in their love nest.

No doubt wurl sex is odd.

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Ah, I didn't see this linked in one of the previous chapters but I'm glad I saw it this time. Good stuff! This is a wonderful concise explanation of some of the basic geological and biological phenomena of New Skye, and also a bit about the colonists. If you are going to write more of this stuff, I look forward to it - especially if we learn more about the other breeds of wurl.  :D 

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Ok, this ever living quality of the queens left me a little bit confusing. They basically only die if another queen kills them, is that right? I can't see any other thing killing those creatures... 

And I'm so curious about the singer queen :o

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I'm still a tad confused about wurl age cohorts. If the queen only lays one batch of eggs sometime near her death, where do the juveniles come from?  :huh:

 

Also, why hasn't the colony figured out yet that they can use wurl spines as weapons or tools? They've certainly had enough of them on hand with all the previous attacks. Or are only Sizzra's strong enough? Hopefully they'll think to collect them. 

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I'm still a tad confused about wurl age cohorts. If the queen only lays one batch of eggs sometime near her death, where do the juveniles come from?  :huh:

 

Also, why hasn't the colony figured out yet that they can use wurl spines as weapons or tools? They've certainly had enough of them on hand with all the previous attacks. Or are only Sizzra's strong enough? Hopefully they'll think to collect them. 

It was explained in one of the chapters (I can't recall which), the male wurl mature at different rates relative to each other. Some become adults within years, while others remain juveniles for decades. And it's all based on a hierarchy; with the alphas being the most mature, and the weaker ones being less so.

 

But I'm sure Albert can explain that in a lot more detail. :)

 

Edit: I really should learn that It pays to look at previous posts :lol: Albert already explained it in this thread. Oh, and to clarify, I was was confusing his explanation in a post for a chapter.

 

 

As for the spines, I think the colony thought they were 'above' using the spines since they already had their shock spears. Maybe they felt that their own weapons were advanced enough without having to resort to 'primitive' weapons such as the spines as spears.

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Nvm, Albert already explained it here:

 

 The lifespan of a wurl queen has no limit, or at least none have ever died of age-related causes. They and their brood can live for centuries on end. The males of a generation will develop at different speeds to ensure that there will always be fit males in their prime at the moment that the queen is ready to mate. This means that, although all males are born at the same time, there can still be juvenile specimens after centuries have passed, along with adult wurl. 

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Also, why hasn't the colony figured out yet that they can use wurl spines as weapons or tools? They've certainly had enough of them on hand with all the previous attacks. Or are only Sizzra's strong enough? Hopefully they'll think to collect them. 

 

Hi! To answer this bit: Male wurl spines aren't as durable, sharp, or as big as Sizzra's. People in Portree hadn't had the chance to consider using one of Sizzra's spines as a tool or weapon since none but Elias and Tristan had ever seen her before, let alone taking a spine home without dying a painful death in the process. Now that her body lies near the colony after the battle, though, Portree scientists may indeed discover uses for materials derived from her unique scales and/or spines.

 

Thanks for asking! 

-Albert

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