The ideas are comming along nicely now...

<sub>In a long forgotten niche of the universe, vastly removed from the reach of humans, an ancient planet named Tik'al continues it's story...

[14 - 4 Billion Years ago]
In a far off globular cluster imagine a world, like our's, where inteligent life arose and engineered every cubic inch of their solar system especially their home planet where most of our focus shall remain. The world flourished for eons untill their star began to die, seeing as how their star was similar to ours(I.E. relatively small in mass) it burned for roughly 8 billion years. In a last ditch effort to prevent their world, the life contained upon it, and all traces of their history, from turning into a molten cauldren they mustered the highest of their technology and resources to build a massive reflective platform (initially)in circular orbit. This saved their world from being destroyed during their star's death throws, know to us as a planetary nebula. Once It's flames were extinguished the reflective platform slowly rotated to a polar orbit, there it provided the world with the heat it would so badly need in a system without a sol. As luck and foresight would have it, although the surface was significantly damaged, life arose again, from the depths of their planetary core, converted long ago to a cooling system for the many sleeping reactors peppered throughout the sphere. Life started to take back It's foothold, the inteligence that was this world's savior returned, repaired core systems including what remined of the orbital platform, reseeded life that was expunged from the surface in the cataclysm, then promptly left for other more grandiose designs. As time passed the race of preservation slowly faded from memory as did their recollections of "home" which to them had long since become that of the stars. The life, abandoned as well as forgotten upon a world of extreme stability and long age began to evolve...
[...4 - 1 Billion Years ago]
The remanents of our world's host star has decayed from a white to a warm red glow, otherwise known as a red dwarf. The only thing keeping our globe from freezing over, the exceedingly ancient orbital platform. A significant portion of the animal life entailed hear in has adapted to 3/4 of the day being shined upon by integrating chloroplasts into their organelles thus getting energy from sunlight as well as from prey. Yet another usefull aspect of this is the severe cut in oxygen consumption by said animals. Meanwhile the plants have largely died out and have been replaced by "lichen" trees, these lichen differ from those were familiar with on Earth by having a vascular structure similar to plants, a sign of it's symbiotic evolutionary path with moss like organisms. Here invertebrates have evolved internal as well as external skeletons, via the notochord evolutionary path, giving them the ability to get much larger. Initially they all evolved from ocean going organisms akin to colonizing shrimp. Soon these "insectoid-vertebrates" became the dominant animal life upon our world. Now that we have a framework from here I can only say "let the world spin"...
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1st Charater Species - Zaz (The tree dwellers.)
Habitat - Temperate to tropical forest. Planet wide during it's last stage of development.
Life Cycle - As a nymph it fuses to one of the last species of tree's seed, once fused the tree starts to grow and the nymph seeks out an appropriate home for both. The tree will be in the comming time it's shelter, mutualistic symbiant, and purpose for being. Once the tree is established the zaz defendes the tree with it's life, kills and consumes predators of the plant, feeds the plant, and clears away competing foliage. Although the zaz is initially fused to the tree, once it as well as the tree reaches a significant enough size, it seals it's self inside the tree, there it metamorphs into a fertile adult and breaks free. Once free it still retains the ability to symbiotically fuse with the tree, but it's purpose switches from defender to pack hunter and gatherer for the purpose of it's "hive". A Zaz "hive" can grow extemely large given it's not destroyed by competion from such life forms as large Ohms, or Lichen trees. The tree is a highly evolved colonizing fern that can initially house up to 6 Zaz, depending upon size and health. When an extremely large Ohm destroys most of a Zaz's territory the last of the remaining Zaz becomes exceedingly fertile and develops into it's last stage as a warrior. Once it starts developing to full size it gorges on it's tree's seeds and fruit while living within the tree. The tree fruiting is also a reaction to the Ohm's destructive cycle of "clear cutting" through the Zaz territory. When the Zaz is ready with enough of it's kind, they start a hunting party to get vengence upon the Ohm responsible, and unbeknownst to them to start a new forest. The problem with this is that if the Ohm kills to many Zaz and their tree's, the Zaz cannot launch an acceptable attack upon the Ohm horde thus they must seek out another hive to become a part of. Once in dirrect conflict with an Ohm and having destroye'd the Ohm's "defender parasites", The Zaz pack seeks out a weak point upon the Ohm's armor to pierce, once inside they voraciously destroy tissue, and release en masse their eggs as well as the seeds they consumed earlier. The Zaz larvae fuse with a seed as soon as they can move through the Ohm's systems, once they do they eat as much tissue as they can until either the Ohm's death or it's had it's fill, in which case it burrows to the surface and attemps to make a quick getaway from the Ohm's defensive parasites. The Ohm can live half it's life span without even being crippled by Zaz infection. A large colony of Zaz consists of a few casts like an ant hive, nymphs, drones, warriors, and even the occasional queen. Specializing is triggered by filling neiches in the hive as well as nutritional changes in the individual Zaz's den tree. Every zaz starts as a nymph, and once free from it's parent tree it developes into a drone. After turning into a drone it will eventually change into a exceedingly fertile queen or a heavily armored warrior depending upon predation and the abundance of sustinance. Depicted here is a typical Zaz Drone.
Size Length - (2 cm - 20 m)
Lifespan - (average - 6 years, maximum - 85 years), depending upon conditions
Concept Sketch - [link]
Concept Drawing - [link]
Full On Drawing -[link]
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2nd Character Species - Ohm (The scourge)
Habitat - Planetwide excluding oceans
Life Cycle - Extremely voracious eaters that grow to immense size, while young they are small and provide much of the life on our planet with a necessary keystone species. They are responsible for the near destruction of the Zaz habitat, and massive tracts of lichen forest. Once they reach a "critical mass", and once in the midst of reaching crittical mass they become fertile. During the last stages before their critical mass they become a walking eco-system providing home to a species of "defensive parasites" and a few plant species.
Size/Length - (around 10 cm - .5 km)
Lifespan - (average - 1/2 a year , maximum - 120 Years)
Concept Sketch - [link]
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3rd Character Species - Tulaj (The void walkers)
Habitat - Around unused infrastructure and caves. Generally widespread at night.
Life Cycle - [WIP]
Lifespan - [WIP]
Size Length - (around 8 cm - 16 m)
Concept Sketch - [WIP]</sub>

...[Infinate WIP]...
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Responsibilities -
Affiliation - [ Pending A Special Large Project. ]
Friends - & so many more not listed here...

<sub>Over time I will be adding more to this list for all 'o' ya ...
(Electronica/World/Rock/Orchestral)
Daft Punk - Technologic [ [link] ]
Primus - The Thing That Should Not Be (Metalica Cover) [ [link]).mp3 ]
Björk - It's Not Up To You [ [link] ]
M.I.A. - Galang [ [link] ]
The Dresden Dolls - Gravity [ [link] ]
The Crystal Method - Born Too Slow [ [link] ]
Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup [ [link] ]
Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon [ [link] ]
Lamb - Fear Of Fours - b line [ [link] ]
Lily Allen - Smile [ [link] ]
Björk - Triumph Of A Heart [ [link] ]
Björk - Hyperballad (Brodsky Quartet Mix) [ [link])%20-%20Bj%F6rk.mp3 ]
Yoko Kanno - Shadow Of Doubt [ [link] ]
Strauss - Blue Danube [ [link] ]
Morcheeba - Trigger Hippy [ [link] ]
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Put A Lid On It [ [link] ]
The Crystal Method - The Name Of The Game [ [link] ]
The White Stripes - Blue Orchid [ [link] ]
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army [ [link] ]
Gustav Holst - Mars Bringer Of War [ [link] ]
Marily Manson - Dope Show [ [link] ]
Enya - Orinoco Flow [ [link] ]
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat [ [link] ]
The Prodigy - Spitfire [ [link] ]
John Lennon - Imagine [ [link] ]
(Video) Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution [ [link] ]
Yoko Kanno - Fish Silent Cruise [ [link] ]
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat [ [link] ]
Solaris - Nimbus [ [link] ]
DJ Doublestaxxx - The Magic Playground [ [link] ]
Juno Reactor - Pistolero [ [link] ]
Lords Of Acid - Marijuana In Your Brain [ [link] ]
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon [ [link] ]
The Beatles - Within You Without You [ [link] ]
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat [ [link] ]
Jan Johnston - Flesh (DJ Tiesto Mix) [ [link]).mp3 ]
Hive - Ultrasonic Sound [ [link] ]
DJ Tiesto - Adagio For Strings [ [link] ]
(.wma)Bob Marley Vs Funkstar De Luxe - Sun Is Shining [ [link] ]
Ram Jam - Black Betty [ [link] ]
Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy [ [link] ]
Lee Scratch Perry - Norman The Gambler [ [link] ]
UB40 - Red Red Wine [ [link] ]
Primus - My Name Is Mud [ [link] ]
Primus - Tommy The Cat [ [link] ]
Bodyrockers - I like The Way You Move [ [link] ]
Armin Van Helden - My My My [ [link] ]
Lady Sovereign - Love me or hate me [ [link] ]
Parliament Funkadelic - Flashlight [ [link] ]
Gorillaz - Rehash [ [link] ]
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. [ [link] ]
Ravi Shankar - Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra 5 Morning Love [ [link] ]
Macy Grey - I Try [ [link] ]
Nightwish - Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan [ [link] ]
Seiichi Tanaka and Taiko Dojo - sokobayashi mix [ [link] ]
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire [ [link] ]
Prodigy - Fire [ [link] ]
Prodigy - Diesel Power [ [link] ]
Tuva Ensemble - Ögbeler [ [link] ]
Buddhist Chanting - Melody For Mahakala [ [link] ]
Tibetan Mantras & Chants - Three Monks With Bowls & Cymbals [ [link] ]
Erofex - X Ray Vision (Remix) [ [link]).mp3 ]

Trip-Hop/Rap
Lady Sovereign - Love Me Or Hate Me (Feat. Missy Elliot) [ [link] ]

(Dark Trance/Industrial/Metal/Ect...)
Combichrist - This Is My Rifle [ [link] ]
Dimmu Borgir - Eradication Instincts Defined [ [link]
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DragonForce - Through The Fire And The Flames [ [link] ]
Nine Inch Nails - Leaving Hope [ [link] ]
Front Line Assembly - Final Impact [ [link] ]
Rammstein - Links 2 3 4 [ [link] ]
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People [ [link] ]
StaticX - Push It [ [link] ]
Einstürzende Neubauten - Three Thoughts (Devils Sect) [ [link]).mp3 ]
Einstürzende Neubauten - 12305 (Te Nacht) [ [link] ]
Dimmu Borgir - Puritania [ [link] ]
Terrorfakt - Arsenal [ [link] ]
Terrorfakt - Malice [ [link] ]
Terrorfakt - Zeroclip [ [link] ]
Stormkern - Armagedon (Terrorfakt Remix) [ [link] ]
Check out Terrorfakt's website for more of this craftyness... [link]
Gasr - Conspiracy (Terrorfakt Remix) [ [link] ]
Otep - Possession [ [link] ]
Static X - Push It [ [link] ]
:Wumpscut: - War [ [link] ]
:Wumpscut: - Just A Tenderness [ [link] ]
:Wumpscut: - Mesner Tracks - Lindbergh (Ocean Part) [ [link] ]
:Wumpscut: - Opening The Gates Of Hell [ [link] ]
:Wumpscut: - Wreath Of Barbs (Terrorfakt Remix) [ [link] ]
Slayer - Reign In Blood (Terrorfakt Remix) [ [link] ]
Tool - Die Eier Von Satan [ [link] ]
AOXOV - The Dragon Temple [ [link] ]
AOXOV - Light Attraction [ [link] ]
AOXOV - Psy Break L4 [ [link] ]
AOXOV - Delay Of Release P2 [ [link] ]
More AOXOV here ---> [link]
CHECK THIS GUY'S MYSPACE, I worked with him and hes got some damn good potential musicaly [link] ...


(Comedy)
David Cross - Pandering To The Locals [ [link] ]
George Carlin - List Of Impolite Words [ [link] ]</sub>


If It doesnt load try adding the extra code behind the [link] to get it to work...
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"Modern society rests on the contest of ideas, the ability to question perceived wisdom and to challenge authority. Without that contest, and without the right to free speech that makes it possible, societies stultify and become entrenched in their beliefs. That freedom to question and to challenge must include the right to be offensive, to affront people’s most heartfelt beliefs, even to disparage that which they hold sacred. Otherwise it is an empty freedom." - The Dominion Post

Science
<sub>"One early and important discovery in support of the SET occurred in the laboratory of Kwang W. Jeon, a biologist at the University of Tennessee. Jeon witnessed the establishment of an amoeba-bacteria symbiosis in which new bacterial symbionts became integrated in the host amoeba (Jeon 1991). In 1966, when the bacteria first infected the amoebas, they were lethal to their hosts. However, as time progressed, some of the infected amoebas survived and became dependent on their newly acquired endosymbionts within a few years. Jeon was able to prove this dependency by performing nuclei transplants between infected amoebas and amoebas lacking the bacteria. If left alone, the hybrid amoebas died in a matter of days. Yet if he reinfected these hybrids with the once-lethal bacteria, the amoebas recovered and once again began to grow (Margulis and Sagan 1987). This discovery served to demonstrate that endosymbiosis could provide a major mechanism for cellular evolution and explain the introduction of new species (Jeon 1991)." - [link]


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Philosophy
"Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water." - Milarepa, Drinking the Mountain Stream

"There are those with enlightened knowledge: this is not knowledge by birth, or knowledge by learning: it is beginningless in here, having transcended the bounds of self and other, it is being unbound by knowledge of self and other." - Dogen, Rational Zen

"Do you want to know what my body is? My body is the same as the whole earth.
Do you want to know what my mind is? My mind is the same as space itself.
Do you want to know what my vision is? I see there is nothing to see.
Do you want to know what I hear? I hear the unheard.
Since I have been seeing and hearing, why then do I speak of the unheard? If you listen with your ears, after all you cannot understand; when you hear through your eyes, only then will you know." - Ssu-hsin


In the mean time here's some music links...

:Wumpscut: - Just A Tenderness [ [link] ]
Daft Punk - Technologic [ [link] ]
Bjork - Play Dead [ [link] ]</sub>

Oh my Oh my, I bet many of you thought I have abandoned my online friends, Nay I say! I've just been busy with ALOT of work, the kind that instills the vital quality of suffering into an artist's soul, hard labor. Ive also missed ALL Of You so fricken much... Any who, my lastest musical addiction - :Wumpscut: Is like a heavy gothic techno... :Wumpscut: - Slave To Evil - "There was a time I thought the mind would force the body. There was a time I thought the mind would force the soul. But then, I went evil. But then, I went mad. Evil Is ruling over my existence..." Quite dark I know but It's how I feel living under the "sea" of greed and selfishness human society has turned into. Any ways I'm gona try and get some of my recent/new stuff on soon... Hoping he's not forgotten - Bumwardo Imortal... [Listens to a little Bjork And :Wumpscut:... Seeks balance.]

More specifically I'm going through a cycle where my mind craves calming, subconsiously effective, and emotional music, so for the past week and a half preaty much all I've listened to was Bjork... [Buys some Parliment Phunkadelic in a vain attempt to snap out of "it".] I blame just starting a hard job and having preaty much no "me" time, for this "resprung" affinity's place... Other than that I'm in mode, trying to make the work week go as fast as possible, still sorta aclimating... I hope all Is going well for ya... [Yawns] I'll see ya again soon...

"I wish : I want to stay here
I wish : this be enough
I wish : I only love you
I wish : simplicity

Look at the speed out there
it magnetizes me to it
and I have no fear
I'm only into this to

ENJOY

I wish I'd only look
and didn't have to touch
I wish I'd only smell this
and didn't have to taste

How can I ignore?
this is sex without touching
I'm going to explore
I'm only into this to

ENJOY" - Bjork_Post_Enjoy