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1	'''''Polinices''''' is a SpeculativeBiology art project by J. J. Aniorte that can be viewed on the creator's accounts on Website/DeviantArt ([[https://www.deviantart.com/doublejota here]]), Website/{{Twitter}} ([[https://twitter.com/jjaniorte here]]), and Instagram ([[https://www.instagram.com/nature_from_polinices/ here]]). [=YouTuber=] ''Curious Archive'' has also done a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0fZtNwL5Xk video]] providing an overview of the setting.
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3	The planet Polinices is bombarded by harsh solar radiation that leaves its supercontinent dry and lifeless. But its massive global ocean is full of many strange asymmetrical and/or colonial organisms.
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5	!!Tropes include:
6	* ArtEvolution: The first ''Polinices'' pictures were pencil/pen sketches that weren't always colored in. J. J. Aniorte would eventually start doing detailed and brightly colored paintings.
7	* BizarreAlienLocomotion: The Rotigrada, also called the Sea Wheels, are ringlike organisms that move by rotating themselves along the seafloor like wheels.
8	* DeathWorld: The above-water world is totally inhospitable to life because of the intense sunlight. That hasn't stop some lineages such as the ''Onadromeus'' from trying to establish a foothold on land.
9	* AHeadAtEachEnd: The Amphinatan at first glance looks like a tropical fish with heads at opposite ends of its body. However, the thin "mouths" at each end are actually two cephalopod-like siphons, the real mouth is located at the bottom center within its mantle, and it has four eyes -- two on each side of its thin carapace -- right at its center.
10	* HiveMind: The Chain Fish are small groups of seemingly separate organisms that are genetically identical and share a mind by way of biological radio transmitters and receivers.
11	* {{Kaiju}}: The Laimargia can grow to be up to 60 meters/200 feet in length. They also repeatedly churn up the sandy seafloor to feed on the organic matter in it, not unlike a movie kaiju rampaging across a city.
12	* TimeAbyss: Some of the Hive Sponge colonies that live in the Kyanos Metropoli reef are 10,000 years old.
13	* TheWormThatWalks: The entire biosphere of the planet is comprised of this, with multiple zooids needed to make one functioning polizoan colony.
14	* ZergRush: The Hive Sponges themselves are stationary, but they can release massive numbers of "drones" that swarm potential predators.

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