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Your species is the <span class="mu-s">Skipper Skittler</span>. 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 Skipper Skittler doesn’t evolve and reach efficiency in its niche, its population will decline and eventually go extinct. The Skipper Skittlers must take great strides to improve because the Skipper Skittlers have no choice. Of course, the Skipper Skittler can’t choose to start with, it doesn’t even have a brain. That’s where (You) come in, to guide the Skipper Skittler’s evolution to excel, dominate its ecosystem, and eventually… reach for the stars. But first, you have to look carefully between the shifting dunes.
The Skipper Skittler is a pale, boneless blob the size of a Terran tennis ball with three major body parts. It has a <span class="mu-s">mouth</span>, a <span class="mu-s">pair of stubby limbs</span>], and a <span class="mu-s">stomach. The mouth is toothless, the limbs are feeble, and the stomach is inefficient. The Skipper Skittler spends its days crawling its belly against the rough sand to propel itself aimlessly. The rim of the Skipper Skittler's mouth, has several sensitive nerve endings that can detect wether the Skittler is facing sand or something else. If that's something else, the Skipper Skittler will latch its mouth on it, force it into its stomach, where it can be dissolved into nutrients to sustain the Skipper Skittler.</span>
