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Your species is the Flounder Feeder. Of the current food chain, it is the least effective of the major predators, small, clumsy, and fragile by the standards of an already small, clumsy, and fragile ecosystem but that is precisely why it has true evolutionary potential. If the Flounder Feeder doesn’t evolve and reach efficiency in its niche, its population will decline and eventually go extinct. The Flounder Feeders must take great strides to improve because the Flounder Feeders have no choice. Of course, the Flounder Feeder can’t choose to start with, it doesn’t even have a brain. That’s where (You) come in, to guide the Flounder Feeder’s evolution to excel, dominate its ecosystem, and eventually… reach for the stars. But first, you have to look at the waves beneath the ice.
The Flounder Feeder is a pale, boneless blob the size of a Terran tennis ball with three major body parts. It has a mouth, a tail, and a stomach. The mouth is toothless, the tail is feeble, and the stomach is inefficient. The Flounder Feeder spends its days flapping its tail against the waves to propel itself aimlessly. The front of the Flounder Feeder, that is, the opposite of the tail, has several sensitive nerve endings that can detect vibrations up to a yardstick away. On sensing vibrations, a Flounder Feeder will attempt to flop in its direction, its mouth will latch on to the first solid it bumps into, and will then force it into its stomach, where it can be dissolved into nutrients to sustain the Flounder Feeder.
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