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Bud Brewster
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Okay, so that's the Science. Now let's add the Fiction!
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The article begins like this:
| Quote: | | Scientists have used computer modeling to show that so-called "super-Earth" planets — worlds that are up to five times more massive than Earth — can play host to long-lived oceans. The modeling shows that the oceans can potentially remain on the planet for billions of years, possibly allowing life to develop on the alien planet. |
This one ease peasy! I have quite a few notes for a series of novels I'd like to write about a plant called Aguatica. Here's part of what I have (with a few borrowed works of art to help you visualize the concepts).
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The first novel would be about the discovery of the planet and the first manned mission to explore it, encountering a buzzilion aquatic life forms — some of which are so large they would be mistaken at first for floating islands because the backs of the sedately floating sea giants are covered with vegetation. The explorers would eventually discover that the gigantic creatures are growing their own food on their backs.
Picture a scene in which the explorers wander through the forest on a floating island and are suddenly attacked by tentacles which spring from the ground and try to eat them, along with the vegetation around them.
They eventually discover that these miles-long animals only dive beneath the surface every few centuries to mate, and when they do, the complex ecosystems which has formed on their backs are washed away.
The second novel would be about the first attempts to colonize the ocean planet by establishing man-made floating communities. But their efforts are hampered by strange encounters with a dolphin-like animal that seems to be attacking the hi-tech machinery beneath the floating communities. These encounters turn out to be deliberate sabotage by intelligent creatures who want to drive mankind from their world.
The third novel would detail the unfortunate underwater war which takes place between mankind and the intelligent species who oppose the colonization. The dolphin-like creatures possess mental abilities which allow them to control the lower life forms of their planet, using them as weapons against the invading humans.
Imagine aquatic leviathans attacking hi-tech submarines, and dolphin-warriors battling scuba-diving soldiers.
Mankind discovers that the mental abilities of the dolphin-creatures is effective to some extent on humans, driving some men mad while turning others into mind-control saboteurs.
But a few of the dolphin-creatures attempt to secretly communicate with the humans and resolve the conflict.
The fourth novel would present the final battle, in which a noble coalition of humans and dolphin-creatures would team up to prevent the human forces from eradicating the water world's intelligent species in order to colonize it.
Feel free to add whatever comes to mind, guys, or even pitch youR own ideas for a story about a planet-sized ocean. :
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