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Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun, leaving Earth's orbit. Traveling at 20% the speed of light (37,000 miles/s), it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years. Upon reaching orbit, it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter, which looks for potential landing sites for the probes. The first probe, Balboa, explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry, because one of its wings failed to unfold. Two backup probes, Leonardo da Vinci (nicknamed Leo) and Isaac Newton (nicknamed Ike), successfully land on the planet, and learn much about its bizarre indigenous lifeforms, including an apparently sapient species.
Some of the creatures discussed
Arrowtongue
An 8-foot-tall arrowtongue impales its prey with a 26-foot-long flicking, serrated, arrow-tipped appendage. Like many spiders on Earth (and like most predators on Darwin IV), arrowtongues are liquivores, injecting digestive juices into their prey and then sucking out the food. They also are fierce, solitary hunters found across the planet.
Emperor Sea Strider
At over 60 feet tall, the sea strider is the largest life-form found on Darwin IV. It lives exclusively on the gelatinous surface of the Amoebic Sea, whose unique characteristics provide both support for the sea strider's enormous bulk and its sole source of food. The sea strider must maintain constant motion, feeding continuously on amoebic gel that it takes in through mouths on its feet. Behavioral displays include thunderous roars and blue biolights that accent its crested head, back and swaying tail.
Sea Strider Nymph
Hatched from eggs, the tiny sea strider nymphs are attracted to an energy source located beneath the adult's mouthless head. Hollow, lighter-than-air creatures, they cannot yet walk, but they fly about Darwin IV on their short wings, like Earth's hummingbirds.
Some of the many scientific experts consulted in the creation of Alien Planet
String Theorist
Paleontologist
Physicist
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