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The first Likpas begin to cultivate and build houses for themselves. But soon the Mother asks them to go to the ocean to look for lithium.
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This sound is a Pixabay sample that I reworked, in order to make it more frightening. The trick was to apply a notch filter at 150Hz, so that it is no longer a white noise, but a voice, in a way.
The licence is about everything free save redistributing the raw sample.
This sound may look not much realistic. But you must think that this water is hot, and in more highly selenitous: we would float on it, as on the Dead Sea. Science fiction often show extraterrestrial worlds as bizarre, with odd colors or impossible shapes. I was on the contrary keen to show them as they probably are: much ressembling Earth, but differing of it by some peculiar points, sometimes subtle, depending on their own history and composition.
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The plight of these first Likpas was quite unenviable: thrown in a world of biochemistry without feelings, victims of a monstrous biology experiment, alone in a raw mineral landscape where everything had do be built and cultivated from scratch... They had no resource other than their hands, with no recourse in case of injury or disease.
Happily they were faring well, despite some setbacks. Instructed by experience, they rebuilt a better house, more solid, more waterproof, and large enough to host a dozen of them. Indeed at this point their crops allowed me for more births, although at a slower pace.
Some iron oxide nodules in the streams around hinted at iron ores, and smitheries would certainly be a huge step forward.
The analysis of the sea water they had brought back showed a very different composition from Haralik oceans: acidic, with sulphates, phosphates, chlorides of calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. No astonishing that life could not appear on Likearth! Often a very little trick of chemistry is enough to block life... For proof, this water also contained carbohydrates, amino acids, and even nucleic acids, but as much in left and right form. Everything was raw from geochemistry, not selected or processed by life. Hence the awful taste of this water... but also it is sugared!
And it contained lithium salts!! Of most metals actually. But with the waves, it would be impossible to extract by the Likpas, we needed Boobettes.
Eh yes, scifi is not necesserally bizarre worlds, like pointy purple mountains! This beach and this water look quite terrestrial... differing only of ours with details that we do not remark at the first look. The bitter taste is caused by magnesium chloride, a common salt also present in Earth oceans. The sugar comes from the cosmic organic matter that Likearth received during its formation. The green color and the foam come from the plankton that the Mother seeded the ocean with.
So this is how we do true scifi, with a very bizare detail, but logical in the context. Ok, right, if you do scifi too, please find something else.
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Scenario, graphics, sounds, animations, realization: Likchenpa (pseudonym).
Now has come time to reveal: Likchenpa, it's me.
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