The Archi Epoch

Every story has a beginning, and as this foreign nature expands an unnatural sense of familiarity within this new world begins to settle and permeate.

By the dawn of the first millennium to the first mega-annum, life on Hoxia quickly finds a foot hold on this strange world. Unease is apparent, though none of the lifeforms are aware. Their ganglia seems to only have one goal / task at hand.

Survival, at all costs.

^The sulfur supervolcano chain in the Southern “Skipping Stone” Island Chains, one of the only major carbon outputs on the planet. 

Here, 4 of them are depicted going off near simultaneously, erupting within hours of each other, an event that might require you to wait another 10,000 to a million years to occur again.

Their striking blue coloration originating from the sulfur present in their magma, alongside other elements create massive beams of light stretching into the sky.

^Besides phytoplankton and algae, these genetically modified trees serve as one of the largest oxygen outputs of Hoxia. Their fire proofness, biocide production, and numbers serve as the major flora in flooded swamps. After their death, they become submerged usually in water and pile up after an inland flooding event from constant rainfall, this alongside their biocides make it impossible for these logs to rot or decay, preventing carbon from being released back into the atmosphere. The enormous oxygen percentage, 39%, makes it prone to ignition and forest fires, though these are drowned out by rain and serve relatively little threat to these trees’ fireproof bark.

A Giant Cockroach basal species descendant climbs upon a tree and prepares to fly towards the horizon.

Because plant life decay is impossible they serve as a tremendous food source for those that are large enough to consume them en masse . . .

^An enormous basal species descendant of the Gigantometrus scorpion, sitting at the mouth of a cave, viewing a plains biome of Hoxia. The Hoxian plains consist of dense foliage and low lying plants, and flood very often from riverbanks or torrential rain. Although biodiversity is not as dense, the grasslands offer a chance for certain lineages to escape the tropical warzone that is the swamps.However, many predators lie on the borders, opportunistically anticipating those that attempt to pass.

These flatter expanses of land are usually found above the tropical equatorial belt, and generally experience less frequent rain and more frequent sunlight. They vary in overall structure, with some simply being vast plains of grass to some being tall reeds or grasses that become flooded during the rainy season.

Similar to the swamplands, the plains host an enormous amount of vegetation, and even more so offers another vast opportunity for sustenance for those that are capable of conquering it.

^ In various outer expanses at the edge of the microcontinental islands are vast stretches of beach and geological sea stacks. These beachsides host a large environmental range for Coconut Crabs to wander about. However, oftentimes the area bordering the inlands has trespassers venturing into their territory, and conflict over the scavenging of carcasses occurs. 

And unfortunately for most other apex predators, the isolated Coconut Crabs are much to large to be contested easily .  .  . for now.

POLAR ICE BIOMES

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DESERT

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