The Sunscoured Flats
A vast arid desert under a fierce white sun and slightly heavier-than-Earth gravity. Liquid water survives only in deep aquifers and brief dawn dew; days scorch, nights freeze, and relentless wind drives the dunes across cracked salt pans.
9 species · 9 starting species
Starting species(9)
Dewlapper
🦎 Tetrapod
A water-hoarding, four-limbed forager that shelters by day and works the cool dawn for dew and prey.
Spinifex Tuft
🌿 Plant
A spiny, waxy plant that locks in moisture and roots deep to reach buried damp.
Sand-Sifter
🦗 Arthropod
An armoured insectoid that sifts wind-blown grains for seeds and dried scraps.
Dune-Strider
🦬 Grazer
Lopes across the pans on long limbs that shed heat, cropping salt-tolerant growth.
Thermal-Kite
🦅 Flyer
A featherlight flier that rides desert thermals for hours, hunting drifting insects.
Pebble Snail
🐌 Gastropod
Seals into a stony shell through the heat, emerging at dew-fall to rasp crust algae.
Dust-Stinger
🕷️ Arachnid
A pale, eight-legged ambusher that waits in cool burrows and strikes after dark.
Sand-Diver
🦫 Burrower
Slips through loose sand like water, surfacing only to seize buried insects.
Crust-Bloom
🦠 Microbe
A microbial crust that lies dormant for years, greening within hours of rare rain.
All species (9)
- DewlapperEvo 1A water-hoarding, four-limbed forager that shelters by day and works the cool dawn for dew and prey.
- Spinifex TuftEvo 1A spiny, waxy plant that locks in moisture and roots deep to reach buried damp.
- Sand-SifterEvo 1An armoured insectoid that sifts wind-blown grains for seeds and dried scraps.
- Dune-StriderEvo 1Lopes across the pans on long limbs that shed heat, cropping salt-tolerant growth.
- Thermal-KiteEvo 1A featherlight flier that rides desert thermals for hours, hunting drifting insects.
- Pebble SnailEvo 1Seals into a stony shell through the heat, emerging at dew-fall to rasp crust algae.
- Dust-StingerEvo 1A pale, eight-legged ambusher that waits in cool burrows and strikes after dark.
- Sand-DiverEvo 1Slips through loose sand like water, surfacing only to seize buried insects.
- Crust-BloomEvo 1A microbial crust that lies dormant for years, greening within hours of rare rain.
Tree of life
- resilient
- strained
- fragile
- ★ canon
- 🧬 hybrid
- 💀 extinct
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