>>5413602>>5413609>>5413613>>5413634>>5413637>>5413673After hundreds of millennia with intermittent sunlight and an environment saturated with reactive heavy metals, a species has finally emerged to take advantage of an unfilled niche. The Sulfur Clumps are superficially similar to the Growth Lumps in that they’re a bundle of unicellular organisms cooperating to share nutrients, but are fundamentally different, in that the presence of sunlight is irrelevant to their environmental success. Their process of filtering sulfur is inefficient and primitive, the first steps of the narrow band ecosystem toward chemotrophy, and requires a swollen size to process enough to get by. The Sulfur Clumps were relatively late to evolve and had relatively little impact on natural selection but soon spread almost everywhere.
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