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Post by allie on Dec 5, 2021 16:57:59 GMT
Invasive anchovies. Girlfish began as a brainstorm about weird reproductive strategies that could allow an evolutionary advantage (and I'll probably revisit the idea again), but at the end of the day they're invasive anchovies. What can you possibly do with invasive anchovies? - Study them. It's no wonder HIST loves girlfish: they're one of the few species that's both foreign to the Pacifica Archipelago and easily observable, and a chance to witness cladistic evolution in real time. Their reproductive strategy should make them ubiquitous throughout the northern hemisphere, and they're commercially significant enough to merit further study – but long-term research in the St. Lucia Cluster isn't cheap, and there isn't enough grant money for everyone...
- Adapt to them. Girlfish are like newcomers: Your parents remember a time before them, but now they're here, and your best practices for dealing with them aren't working. What should you do? Start harvesting them yourselves for Authentic Native Fish Sauce? Leave them for the colonizers, the way echo/fish are for cetes? Invite the students from HIST to stay with you while the villages in your cluster reach a consensus?
- Investigate them. A few Wardens suspect that the girlfish boom is due to at least one school being introduced to subtropical waters. This would have taken a lot of work from a lot of people, all of whom would be prosecutable under GEO environmental code. This could end in the Justice Commission's biggest payout since Recontact — but the Wardens can't prove anything yet, and CommCore discussions are already drowning in a suspicious amount of conspiracy theory...
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Post by Pawel on Dec 5, 2021 17:23:15 GMT
Invasive anchovies. Girlfish began as a brainstorm about weird reproductive strategies that could allow an evolutionary advantage (and I'll probably revisit the idea again), but at the end of the day they're invasive anchovies. What can you possibly do with invasive anchovies? - Study them. It's no wonder HIST loves girlfish: they're one of the few species that's both foreign to the Pacifica Archipelago and easily observable, and a chance to witness cladistic evolution in real time. Their reproductive strategy should make them ubiquitous throughout the northern hemisphere, and they're commercially significant enough to merit further study – but long-term research in the St. Lucia Cluster isn't cheap, and there isn't enough grant money for everyone...
- Adapt to them. Girlfish are like newcomers: Your parents remember a time before them, but now they're here, and your best practices for dealing with them aren't working. What should you do? Start harvesting them yourselves for Authentic Native Fish Sauce? Leave them for the colonizers, the way echo/fish are for cetes? Invite the students from HIST to stay with you while the villages in your cluster reach a consensus?
- Investigate them. A few Wardens suspect that the girlfish boom is due to at least one school being introduced to subtropical waters. This would have taken a lot of work from a lot of people, all of whom would be prosecutable under GEO environmental code. This could end in the Justice Commission's biggest payout since Recontact — but the Wardens can't prove anything yet, and CommCore discussions are already drowning in a suspicious amount of conspiracy theory...
It's an awesome habit to follow up your Undercurrents entries with a list of additional facts and story hooks. Love it!  Will try to do the same from now on. In fact, these bullet point add-ons will be very precious for players and GMs visiting the forums, so perhaps it would be a good idea to include them in 'replies' to your Undercurrents entries? Just to keep everything in one place and easily findable. Also, many thanks for the link to the gynogenesis article. Always great to learn something new on a Sunday. Your girlfish is such a cool design. Hope it tastes well on a kelp pizza! A bit of a thought regarding the word invasive in this context. Though I'm not an expert at all, I do believe human presence/activity (either deliberate or not) needs to be involved for a species to be considered invasive. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-are-invasive-species.html |
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Will try to do the same from now on. In fact, these bullet point add-ons will be very precious for players and GMs visiting the forums, so perhaps it would be a good idea to include them in 'replies' to your Undercurrents entries? Just to keep everything in one place and easily findable.