Triaformica evolution concepting

In which I realised that doing evolution charts is pretty impossible without doodling environments for context.

The evolutionary history of the “star born” triaformica, a.k.a. their alien ancestors. (Or the current version of it.)

The first bits are mostly for myself. The tria line started out as radially symmetric tubes (to explain stuff like facial structure and stuff. Also their nervous system goes around in loops instead of branching out like Earth thingies’) but changed to lateral to enable better locomotion and stuff. The concepts of “front” and “back” are pretty big evolutionary things, you know. A head was a revolutionary feature back in the old old days.

They used to be free swimming thingies in their planet’s early history, but changed to shallow sea crawlers to escape predators. Two pairs of appendages for foraging food from bottom sediments and stuff.

Vegetation evolved and thus emerged thick growths of thingies that resembled mangrove tree roots. Half under water, half above it. The foraging appendages grow to help move among the plant thingies easier.

Things change and the mangrovetreerootthingies start getting sparser while there’s other kind of vegetation covering the thin water surfaces. Kinda sorta like swamp like environment, where the base is half water, half plant/ground where you could sink easily. foraging appendages evolve to carry the weight of the body, while their digits spread out wide to form kinda sorta webbed triangles to help keep the triathingie afloat. Lower pair is used for walking more than the upper pair, which keeps foraging as its main function since sometimes you just need some extra arm length to reach your food.

Alien bogs dry out making way to vastness of hard land. Getting from a place to place is important now, so the lower pair of walking limbs take their job as the sole pair of walking limbs, their digits shortening and their scale like multiple claws clutter together to form hooves to protect the toes from sharp stones or whatever. Their upper body grows in proportion to balance out the heavy abdomen/tail to allow for more effective walking and running. Arms are free, social groups evolve and intelligence happens.

Then they merrily take over their planet. All untill the planet goes boom (or whatever happens to it, it’s rendered uninhabitable nevertheless) forcing the trias to seek out a new home, and utterly failing in the task by finding the only already inhabited planet in the whole accessible part of the galaxy.

So they make the triaformica as their avatars by creating a hybrid between themselves and humans to not perish completely while they quietly settle for A: eternal life on the orbit B: making a station on the neighboring planet C: go extinct. I’m not quite sure about that last bit yet, but it doesn’t really bear any meaning for the “modern day trias”.

There. Some evolutionary context for the triaformica.

And suddenly it's 2 AM. Must really go to bed now. Sleep, what is that...

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