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Forgotten Biosphere 1 - Giant one-celled organisms

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Some years ago I was working on a project including diverse extraterrestrial biospheres. I uploaded over ten pages, but then I ran out of ideas and started some other projects. Unfortunately I forgot two biospheres!!! I found the two pages some days ago and realizised that already three years had past since I drew them. Three years!!!
So it's finally time to show them to the world!

This biosphere is really special, cause it's based on MACROBES. Macrobes? Yeah, MAcro miCROBES! This means, that every creature you see is made of one big cell. Seems to be impossible, but I think its just another way  to gain bigger creatures from smaller ones. The idea is, that these cells have stronger and more flexible membranes and (the most important thing) they have more than one nucleus (like slime moles on earth). The number of nuclei is not fix, it's bound to the age and the growth of the creatures. The bigger the cell is, the more nuclei it includes. The cytoplasm is thick and has the consistency of aspic. Yummy! Inside the plasm there are a lot of thin, but strong and lucent layers of septum, which gives the cells the best possible firmness.

The planet these creatures live one is covered nearly completely by a thin layer of water, so life there happens in tropical reefs, puddles of mud and some deeper sea regions. The cells have overtaken nearly every centimeter of ocean bed, and they have developed different ways to survive:

Miller-Urey-Knospe (Miller-Urey-bud) - one of the smaller ones, these creature is something like a waste disposal, consuming dead cells

Brueckenranke (bridge tendril) - a bigger "plant", these cells are able to gain enery through photosynthesis, they can grow nearly endless

Gallespeier (bile spitter) - a photosynthetic scavanger, able to live like plant and animal at the same time

Thetis' Tyrann (Thetis' tyrant) - a big one-celled predator, mostly hunts the Gallespeier

Eva's Kelch (Eve's cup) - a carnivorous plant, decoys its prey through pheromones

Goliath's Geysir (Goliath gusher) - a gigantic devourer, its a mountain of cytoplasm! The gusher crawls along the shore lines of the planet and waits until low tide. When the ocean bed is free from water it squirts digestive enzymes onto the smaller critter and then it consumes the whole slurry with its stomach.

Hope you like. Keep on watching and please comment!!!
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Canon
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MG5100 series
Date Taken
Jan 1, 4501, 12:00:00 AM
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Tnynfox's avatar
Can I post this with link and credit?

I just opened the subreddit r/BigCells that is what it sounds like. Though mainly for actual big cells like Acetabularia, it's open to make-believe big cells as well. Can I have it there?