Content:Atruphos
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| Creator | kezzymonster – More content by kezzymonster |
| Locomotion | quadrapedal |
| Environment | any |
| Diet | anything |
| Size | 5m by 2m by 1m |
| Lifespan | infinite |
| Personality | N/A |
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[edit] Introduction
The Atruphos species was the result of a smallish size furry intelligent four-limbed creature by the name of the kezzymonsters spending lifetimes of work designing and creating what they saw as the ultimate creature able to servive in the universe for ever to serve as their legacy for when they no longer existed.
[edit] Atruphos' features
Atruphos' design started off like that of a leopard ,a long slim agile form, but this was changed.
[edit] Atruphos' tail
Its tail is nearly twice it's body length. Starting from the hip it is very wide and is as thick as the body and contains a secondary heart which pumps blood through the tail it also houses a large nerve cluster. as one move down the tail it grows thinner and more flexible, the tail is nearly 50% cartilidge rather than bone which makes it more flexible and lighter. At the end of the tail is a smaller oval bulge roughly 15cm across this is covered in long whiskery hairs creating a fluffy plume which can smell ,by detecting chemicals, hear ,by detecting vibrations in the air, and fell ,by touching its surrounding. This bulge also harbors two mantis shrimp-like eyes which are controlled by a small mouse like brain located in the tail bulge, around this brain there are two glands one which produce a super strong and soft silk and the other contains a virus-based super poison these are excreted out of a hole in the of the bulge with three finger-like pincer around it, these serve as weaving fingers, stingers and spare hands. On either sides of these are two blade like protrusion used as weapon which protect the tail. (note some Atruphos have upto three tails which are easily controlled due to their malubility and extra brains).
[edit] Atruphos' rear limbs
Atruphos' rear limbs are long, slender and powerful they are best used in quadrapedal and bipedal running and bipedal kangaroo-like hopping but are just as well suited to walking in any fashion as well. The limbs have long shins and stocky powerful thighs which contain the second most powerful muscles in the atruphos' body. The shins are lightly muscled and more for use as levers in jumping, running and hopping. The feet on the rear are extremely elongated and similar to bird feet with three forward facing toes and two backward facing ones. The elongation of the feet provide more contact with the surface they are standing on and acts as a second lower shin giving more lift and reach in jumping and running. The feet are made most from a single wishbone-shaped bone the only other bones in the feet are those of the toes and the spike-like ankle cap. The feet of the rear limbs have three forward facing toes which are long and clawed with the middle one having an extra large claw which is more firmly attached and is useful in slashing through tough hide and add more damage to the atruphos' kicks. The backward facing toes are short with ball shaped claws that are helpful for rolling and sliding over smooth surfaces and all so contain special shock absorbers to protect the feet when making contact with ground after jumping or during running. The rear limbs are under the Atruphos' body.
[edit] Atruphos' front limbs
Atruphos' front limbs differ from its rear dramatically in that they were straighter, shorter(but still long enough to allow atruphos a good horse-like kick) and more consistenly muscular. Atruphos' front limbs are used for climbing, digging and manipulating objects and are built for these jobs. Its hands are like a sloth's with three thick claws on each of its forwards facing fingers useful for burrowing and wounding prey, the hands also had two thumb on each side of it and are fleshy like a camels toe and are covered in grips on its base making it well adapted to climbing and using tools. The hands are structured differently to its back feet being shorter with the fingers and thumbs closer together as well as being more flexible due to it containg more bones which are smaller than the rear feets. The front limbs are out to the side allowing better reach and more manuvereability.
[edit] Atruphos' body
In shape Atruphos' body remains relatively similar to its original leopard-like form but internally it is very different its lung are large and bird like able to take in deep breaths and hold it for a long time, it is all so very effecient at taking in all needed gases. The atruphos heart is also very powerul and supply most of the body with all the fluids it requires. The digestive system is also very efficent producing almost no waste and digesting any thing from meat to plant matter even inorganic materials. The Atruphos' body contains a fairly normal hollow skeleton with the same feature as most mammals. The neck of the Atruphos is thick, long and horse-like, and has the 4th most powerful muscles in the body useful for many things, it also contains gills allowing it to breath in liquids and thick atmospheres.
[edit] Atruphos' wings
Atruphos' wings are on it shoulder in a simlar position to that of flying horses' wings these wings contain the Atruphos' most powerful muscles and stretch to around 12m wing tip to wing tip but can be triply fold to cause them to vanish into Atruphos' downy fur. These wings can easily lift the Atruphos even in thin atmospheres.
[edit] Atruphos' head
Atruphos' head would look like a dragons head if hidden in shadows. The Jaws: The lower jaw is wolf-like but with more omnivorous teeth. it consists of a single jaw bone and 20 teeth with the dental formula of 3.2.2.3., the first two teeth are the broad & narrow incisors which cut and gnaw through flesh and plants, then comes the pointed incisor this is used for slicing through thing as tough as bark and plastics following these is a cat-like canine and a broader croctooth-like canine these good for puncturing and holding prey, after these canines are two pre-molars used to better slice up meats and tough vegetation lastly are three molars the first two of which are there to crush and pulverise materials such as bone and the last, being the broadest & longest tooth is very flat and tough and can grind most substances into a paste, the upper jaw however is scarcely wolf like with only two teeth-like feature as it is in fact a beak, this beak is specially made so that the front of the beak is a slicing tool like the incisors below it, two small sabre-tooth like feature appear about a third of the along the beak these canine-like protrusions can easily puncture flesh, bone and hide but unlike true sabre-teeth are not design to prey on a particular species and as such are a lot less fragile than true sabre-teeth. behind these the beak flattens to match the Atruphos' molar teeth finally beyond this it extends into a long backward-facing tusk which is specially adapted to detect high energy electromagnetic radiation such as x-rays and gamma rays it also detects electromagnetic feilds such as that of animal's muscle movement. The upper jaw also has a blade like ridge running down the middle of it which is used to shear and slice off flesh, the beak contains a large jellied melon which assists in echolocation. The jaw muscle are quite powerful but not so powerful they break the teeth as the teeth take along time to grow back even so the jaw muscle are the fifth most powerful in the Atruphos body. The Nose: The beak also harbors most of the nasal cavity at the back of the beak for the nostrils and its feathery antennaes, this large space contained vast amounts of acute chemical sensor which give Atruphos a hugely sensitive nose, the feathery antennaes which site next to the nostrils are able to pick up smells with out breathing making the useful for smelling in liquids and smells locked away in solids. The Face: The Atruphos' face contains a lot of sensory equipment the most prominent is its large black compound eyes which although only see in black, white and brown are massively sensitve and contains many times more rod cells then even an owl's eyes possesses allowing acute eyesight even in the darkest of places, these eyes are exspecialy prominent because they are reflective and rap round the head giving acute forward facing vision as well as a wide angle of perception. Another pair of eyes are also present directly below/next to the large eyes these are a smaller set that contians almost purely cone cells giving excellent colour vision through a wide range of colours from NearInfraRed to NearUltraViolet in the electromagnetic spectrum. Around these eyes are small pits that detect infrared radiation exspecially thermal infrared these are similar to those of the pit vipers. On top of the Atruphos' head are two sets of ears, the smaller set are similar to human ears but with a wider range of hearing and the larger set horn-shaped ears which can detect ultrahigh and ultralow frequencies as well as radio waves and micro waves thanks to a small eye-like formation on the tip of its ears, both set of ears contain many tiny muscle making the ear easy to position which helps in echolocation. The Mouth: The atruphos' mouth contains billions of tastebuds along with a very long cat-like tonge which has a sticky tip. The mouth of the Atruphos can produce a wide range of complex sounds allowing them to speak numerous languages and communicate over huge distances using very loud and very deep sounds. The Brain: All this sensory information is processed and interpreted by the atruphos' mega brain which is much bigger than the human brain and is much faster, more compact and efficient than any brain on earth. It uses organic atomic computer in each of its nuerons which are millions times more powerful than any computer chip and uses fiber optic axons to near instantly communicate messages between nuerons. This mega brain is encased in the inner skull ,a mollusc shell like feature, which itself is housed in the outer skull ,a mammal-like skull, which includes the upper jaw/beak.
[edit] Atruphos' skin and fur
Atruphos' skin is thick and blubbery and prevents any heat escaping it also block out radiation and is also very tough and durable and is in someplaces covered in super hard tiny triangular scales. The skin is also covered in thick matts of fur which more closely resemble hollow down feathers at the base of these are tiny muscle and sacs of pigments, these pigments fill the hollow hairs to create a chameleon effect, the hairs can also fill with thermophyll, chlorophyll and sulphurophyll all of which allow photosynthesis to occur across a wide range of light frequencies. The muscle at the base of the fur allows it to be munipulated to produce a sleek coat or a fluffy coat or an air filled coat. Special whiskers occur regularly across the body these act like normal hairs but also detect vibrations in the air and surroundings. The skin is covered in pores that absorb supplements such as oxygen or water directly to the cells that need it.
[edit] Atruphos' biochemistry
Atruphos' biochemistry works so that it can process any kind of chemical and non-chemical energy it is able to do this because its body and cells contain enzymes for all exotic biochemistry such as phosphorous -nitrogen biochemistry as well as the standard carbon biochemistry its cells also contain many solvents such as hydrogen cyanide, hydrazine and water, this expands the range of chemical process Atruphos can preform to create energy. it also is able to breath chlorine, sulfur as well as oxygen which further expand the amount of biochemicals it can produce. Atruphos' genetic code is not stored on DNA but a more durable semi-organic iron-based molecule this stops it from mutating and preserves it in harsh enviroments.
[edit] Atruphos' special abilities
The Atruphos is able to create optical illussions using its fur so that it can make itself look like any species from a tree to a human one or even many could be on earth right now and noone would know it. Even as amazing as the Atruphos species is there are things even they cannot survive such as exposure to deep space and direct hits from a nuclear warhead and so to deal with this it consumes what is left of itself and takes on a low energy plasmic form that looks similar to a jellyfish's ghost and drifts away with a small nucleius containing its memories and the genetics to rebuild itself which it does so on locating a suitable energy source.
[edit] Atruphos' life
Each Atruphos have enormously different lifestyles but most share common factors.
[edit] Atruphos' personality
all Atruphos' have differing personalities the same as most species do but basicly they are kind creature whom ambitions are to explore and experience the universe while learning new thing and having fun doing it. most Atruphos find fun in assisting other species or being a tourist, they like being involved in others life but try not to interfer while making others happy. they have learned to cherish life as even though they are immortal the things they love are not and so they have learned to have as much fun while they can.
[edit] Atruphos' home
Atruphos' highly capable engineers and architects and generally have similar homes which are bowl shaped with flat circular roofs which contain air circulator that look like mole holes. These homes are generally dug into the ground but sometimes can be found floating in the air of thick atmospheres or on the surface of liquid oceans, seas and lakes. When Atruphos was first seperated from its creator and their tecnology it built its home from earth, wood, silk and a cement made from saliva and ground up materials these are still the most prodominant materials used in building their homes although having regained and surpassed its creator's technology the home are sometimes far more high tech.
[edit] Atruphos' interests
Due to their personalities Atruphos are generally interested in entertainment but usually their works aren't attributed to them but the person or thing they are in the guise of. Generally they take up jobs as storytellers, such as author, narrator or teacher or they become studiers such as martial art stundent, nature photographers or scientists. These all tie in with their ideal "experience is the funnest way to teach and be taught".
[edit] Atruphos' females
originally Atruphos was unable to breed as the kezzymonster saw no need for an immortal creature to. but they soon relized such a fun loving creature should not be deprived of such a thing and that it may need to duplicate itself to better explore the universe so they created a mortal female version of the Atruphos which at the time was composed of purely males. These females were very caring mothers with a life span of around 500yrs they were mortal but had a very long life they could breed every 5yrs and reached sexual maturity at the age of 25yrs, the females had very different personalities to that of the the males they are more loving taking in orphans and caring for the old and weak, they love and live to serve their master and are smaller and less free-spirited than males. The female is usually pregnant for 1yr and cares for the child for 20yrs upon which the child leaves and seek out a master(females) or explore the world they are inhabiting(males).
[edit] Atruphos' legacy
Because of Atruphos' preferrence to inhabit a world disguised as a native few races even know of the species let alone there legacy. But most often they shape civilisation and worlds into more peaceful and happier worlds but with some races the Atruphos left a more obvious legacy such as their introduction of the phantom amber honey wasp ,a common pet of the Atruphos, these wasps were able to access deep underground springs where luminous flower grew providing farmers with nutrients-rich amber honey for the starving farmers who crops failed because of the beginning of an ice age. These farmers found out who the Atruphos when they ask where the wasps had come from ,as invertabrates had been extinct for billions of years on their planet.
[edit] Atruphos' history
Atruphos' history is long and has been going on for most of the universe's history.
[edit] Atruphos' star system
Atruphos' star system formed from the nebula clouds of three dead giant, two of these these left behind a class DZ8VII white dwarf and a magnetar while the other died in such a violent way nothing remains of it. As the main star ,a class K2V orange dwarf, formed 6 planets (if you include the red dwarf) were born from the accretion disc. the red dwarf formed originally from a dense terresstrial planet which began to attract gas around it, it then went on to absorb the other gas giants and ice giants into it causing it to spiral away from the star passing and consuming the kuiper belt and oort cloud on its way. by now it was the size of a brown dwarf as it got further awy it meet with some whisps of nebulas cloud and used it gravity to vaccum it up eventually growing to it current size. Because of its distance its gravity has little effect on the other planets but does produce quite a bit of light for them. The most inner planet is quite similar to earth with silicon-rich crust, oxygen-rich air and water-rich oceans it is also a similar size and is larger than venus, this planet has n o life on it probably due to its lack of a moon. The next three planets are a trinary planetary system of three venus sized planets these have a pluto-sized moon that has a p-type orbit as well a a tiny moon which is stuck in the planets barycentre. The next planet is called hom nearly twice as large as venus with a triton-sized moon, this planet is the home to the kezzymonster.
[edit] Atruphos' homeplanet
The Atruphos species originally inhabited a large venus-like planet called hom, which was the fifth away from its class K2V orange dwarf star. The planet was a carbonate planet with an sulphur and phosphorus rich soil as well as an atmosphere filled with 20% methane, 50% ammonia, 10% oxygen, 11% chlorine, 4% sulfuric acid, 3% halide acids and 2% ohters such as water vapor. The oceans are filled with liquid water, hydrazine, formamide, hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen flouride. The planet has much tectonic activity with geysers and hydrothermal vent being a very common feature.
[edit] Atruphos' creator
Atruphos' creator the kezzymonsters are smallish furry creatures similar to humans they are fairly intelligent and assitained fairly high level technology but eventually died out after a bigheaded nation called the united sons of A. M. Ericachild picked a nuclear fight with the russtan oil republic. During the time they did exist they aimed to be remember but became easily anger and were often at war with themselves and others. Although the kezzymonsters never went into space cause they could never keep their breakfast down they still manage to communicate with a few spacefarers and began terraforming planets but got no further. Before they died they did manage to do one good thing though invent the famous anti-bbf wadget as well as create the Atruphos race.
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