Although I love the life that is in the game I feel that a step has been missed. The life we can find is quite complex, as life goes. I'd quite like to see simpler life crop up too, slime or mold. Maybe on their own or close by to the life we have now. Filling out the evolutionary tree so to speak.
Slime and mold
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Bark mounds, crystalline shards just two of the micro-organics already found - have a look at the Canonn site about stuff - https://canonn.science/codex/geology-organics/ - I won't spoil more.
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That's kinda my point. They are 'complex' structures, formed by a colony working in unity, similar to an earth sponge or coral. It's like we've got bugs but skipped worms (gross over simplification I know).
Just like to see the stuff that the stuff we have once was.
I suspect a majority of these would comprise much of the "water-based" or "ammonia-based" life detected on Gas Giants. Clumps of algae-like life, or lichens drifting through the upper parts of the atmospheres. Perhaps Frontier will deliver in 4.0 by letting us start delving into Jovian atmospheres as they ramp up work on other types of atmospheric planets for later releases. I know I wouldn't mind "gas mining for fun and profit", or just cruising through, seeing some odd blob of life bounce off my canopy. I'd even welcome having to be ready to boost like mad to avoid that great big thing that lives deeper in the atmosphere that normally eats these drifting globs.
That's kinda my point. They are 'complex' structures, formed by a colony working in unity, similar to an earth sponge or coral. It's like we've got bugs but skipped worms (gross over simplification I know).
Just like to see the stuff that the stuff we have once was.
If you think slime molds aren't sometimes complex structure formed by a colony working in unity then you really need to study more biology!
While not a definitive source, wikipedia will do for a start.
I know what you mean but to go to the level you are thinking of you really are after slime bacteria or even ponds of RNA enzyme soup, they all unfortunately require atmospheres of some sort because they are dependent on the environment bringing nutrition to them, and an airless world can't do that.
Need more bio hazards matter of fact we need more hazards in general the galaxy is to clean and safe.
We need radiation dangers which we need equipment to warn and protect against.
We need bio hazards like disease and parasites that we need equipment to warn and protect against.
We need radiation dangers which we need equipment to warn and protect against.
We need bio hazards like disease and parasites that we need equipment to warn and protect against.
You want slime and mould?
Check out the bottom of the coffee machine in my Krait after hauling economy passengers!
Check out the bottom of the coffee machine in my Krait after hauling economy passengers!
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Yeah my biology sucks, but glad you got my point. I did mean slime and/or mold.
Ha! XD
Which does raise quite a few questions about where the bigger things we find are coming from, of course...
slime and mold would probably prefer a medium of liquid water (not freezing or evaporating). I don't think we will find much on atmosphere-free planets or in space. The genesis of the space-lifeforms is an interesting topic, they may be adapted for the environment they are in now, but it had to start in a more favourable environment to get to this point.