Fluctuator
| Fluctuator | ||
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| (Plastomelanus camptoderm) | ||
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| 19/126, Outcompeted by Assimilation Floralgae | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | Somarinoa Other | |
| Week/Generation | 15/101 | |
| Habitat | Hydro Coast, LadyM Ocean (Sunlight Zone) | |
| Size | Microscopic | |
| Primary Mobility | Sessile, Planktonic | |
| Support | Unknown | |
| Diet | Autotroph (Photosynthesis) | |
| Respiration | Passive Diffusion | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Mitosis | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Melanophyta Melanophycae (info) Melanophycopsida Algaaquilales Plastomelanaceae Plastomelanus Plastomelanus camptoderm | |
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The fluctuators got their chance to evolve when a storm brought a large number of their ancestors, the Krakow black algae, over to the Hydro Coast by way of large waves. While these waves temporarily devastated the coastline, no species were killed outright, and the black algae got the chance to start life anew.
Initially they were stuck along Hydro Coast, unable to return to the sea thanks to the tides. Eventually, however, their evolutions they would gain would allow them to return to the open ocean that their kind once called home. These evolutions revealed themselves in a very unique way: portions of their cellular membrane had become like rubber, and could now be oscillated back and forth. These oscillations were used to gently push the fluctuators in any way they chose, limited only to having only four sections capable of these movements, set up along all four ill-defined sides.
The fluctuators utilize this newfound ability to avoid warmer areas, but the oscillations are too small to cause any major action, thereby making them move slowly. Because of this, they have a great sense of temperature variations, allowing them to begin moving in the opposite direction should they come across warmer waters, in order to be able to survive by preventing the addling of their nucleus.
While sufficiently superior to their predecessor, the two species co-mingle in the open ocean thanks to the vast area each is able to cover there. The fluctuators have also failed to successfully get a foothold along the Krakow Coast, allowing their predecessors, the Krakow black algae, to continue to thrive, making the fluctuator little more than a complex offshoot.