#unknown nature

[humansbgone]

Is there an "explanation" for "what" the Unknown Nature is, or "how" it works? Just like, in general, does any kind of origin exist for it or is that just how things are in that universe, no questions asked?

You'll see!

[humansbgone]

Hi! I have a question on the cell structure of macrovolutes. Do they have cells that are the same size as a "normal" animal, or are they proportional to the size of the creature? Like, do they have big cells or many more small cells?

Typically cells are the same proportionate size, but not the same inside (molecules do *not* scale up), with looots of Unknown Nature stuff going on distorting the physics of it (molecules may have an effect as though they were larger).

I can't say too much on this--engineering my own physics for fictional biochemistry in any greater detail is a little beyond my abilities!

[humansbgone]

(This is content for Humans-B-Gone!, an animated sci-fi series about a giant praying mantis who works in pest control--those pests including humans. Watch it on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/c/humansbgone )

Pictured: Tricularia in orbit over Angion.

Angion is an Earth-like planet, orbiting a single sun on a cycle only slightly longer than Earth's. The surface is uninhabitable to most lifeforms, apart from radiotrophic fungi and bacteria.

Tricularia is the site of our story, a giant mutant bladderwort growing out of Angion. An actual bladderwort is a carnivorous plant, and the bladders trap and digest unfortunate little animals that bump into them, such as water fleas. Tricularia, however, works as a sort of massive organic space station.

Each bladder (each about the size of a small country) contains and tightly controls a unique ecosystem, from forests miles deep to jeweled glass deserts, and even more bizarre. There are 86 bladders (not counting sub-bladder systems) spread out in orbit around the planet, with more bladders growing still. All minerals must be pumped up by Tricularia from the planet below. As a result, the only soil is humus, the place isn't old enough for most rocks, and most abiotic substances are very rare.

Because of the small size of the bladders, there is no gravity (or at least, so little gravity as to be virtually nil) apart from the gravity-like effects of the Unknown Nature. If not for the bladder walls, all oxygen would escape into space! The bladders also circulate air, creating wind currents by "breathing."

On the bladders live not only macrovolutes, but such lifeforms as forest octopuses, huge flying microbes, weasels with prehensile organs…and of course, human beings.

[humansbgone]

Their world must be very strange indeed if there isn't any gravity. This does at least explain how macrovolutes can exist (And how the ones with wings can still -fly-), but what replaced gravity with the unknown nature? Or was it always this way?

To be fair, gravity does exist in their universe--just not there, specifically. I'll be explaining a lot of this in an upcoming lore post, actually!

As for how it came to be this way...that's an answer that's a little farther down the road!