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100 Gram Hybrid War  

(Sector D) Coastal Sector  

OFFICIAL GENOME 

1. Upland Burrowing Crayfish (Base):

 

• Main Build. Already decent armor plating, smaller abdomen means smaller weak point, one main pair of vertical claws, a smaller pair of claws on the second pair of feet (which helps with digging, but can also be useful in combat), etc etc. 
• Burrowing. These animals are great at burrowing and can dig well over a few feet into the ground. This allows them to stay safe away from predators, retain moisture on land, and makes for a great home to reside in, so they don’t have to constantly be moving about in the open. These burrows usually connect to the water table directly into bodies of water, so they can constantly stay moist. They rarely come out of the ground, only to forage, mate, etc 
• Can swim and traverse on land 
• Can dig in mud, sand, etc 
• Gills are specially made so that as long as they are moist, the animal can breathe anywhere. That also means that staying in burrows increases moisture levels, allowing the hybrid to stay on land longer

 

 

1. Tasmanian Giant Freshwater Crayfish

 

• Beefs up the hybrid, brings up to 100 grams. Overall, heavily influences the build to make it better combat adept and have better survivability, while not messing up the digging. This was the best option since it is also a crayfish closely related to the burrowing crayfish 
• Provides much stronger pair of main claws (One for crushing and other for slicing), both very powerful. Beefs up the second pair of claws also for grip, grappling, and digging. Also positions them horizontally instead of vertically (better for combat, grabbing, etc) 
• Stronger exoskeleton, thicker carapace, better armor 
• Stronger limbs and more protected limbs and joints which are adept to walking and swimming. These legs also are much better at carrying weight and can work well on uneven terrain and rocks. 
• Provides a better tailfin (telson and uropods) which is both much better for swimming and shoveling dirt. This combined with stronger muscles in the abdomen also allows for a quick backwards getaway underwater 
• Provides swimmerets, which are great for swimming, and can also help shovel away dirt

 

 

1. Ghost Crab

 

• Much better eyesight is adept for terrestrial life. It is adapted to be great for low light conditions and nocturnal life, so the hybrid can come to eat at night when its cooler and safer, and it is easier to see underground (ghost crabs love to burrow into sand). Their eyesight still works underwater since there is some influence from the giant freshwater crayfish 
• Exceptional motion detection 
• Instinct to burrow into sand more 
• Makes the eyes much taller and more elongate mounted on stalks, allowing for great 360-degree vision to see in all directions. The eyes can be almost fully pulled into the body if needed

 

 

1. Christmas Island Red Crab

• Makes the gills much sturdier, allowing them to retain moisture longer and not stick. 
• Allows the gills to hold actual water which drastically increases the time the hybrid can survive on dry land 
• Articulating plates can fully seal the gills, allowing them to stay moist longer and not lose water 
• A scaphognathite is provided to help create an air current over the gills to make oxygen extraction on land easier (the hybrid can still breathe normally underwater like a crayfish) 
• High physical resilience, better weight bearing feet, and a high tolerance of metabolic byproducts and biochemical stress, drastically increasing stamina. This combined with the fact that the hybrid will usually be resting underground means that when it does go into combat or hunting, it can exert high levels of energy and power for longer or walk greater distances without tiring.

  

 

1. Coconut Crab

 

• Beefs up the crusher claw specifically to make it even stronger (while keeping the same crayfish shape).  
• Bridges burrowing with horizontal claws. Coconut crab claws are positioned so they can be both used for digging AND grabbing/combat, which we will use on the hybrid. 
• Provides instinct to make tunnels much wider and more roomy for more space to move around and for storage 
• Leg joints are more well protected 
• Provides metabolism, allowing the hybrid to eat other animals, fruit, carrion, and more 
• Makes the hybrid have a slower metabolism usually, so it can just chill in its burrows. And when it does hunt or forage it can be quicker and exert more force in bursts 
• Instinct to fight over and steal other animal’s kills and things and predate equally large animals and bring food back to burros to eat in peace 
• Provides some foot enhancement (curving the bottoms a little) which helps both with digging AND allows the hybrid to climb almost completely vertical trees 
• VERY strong sense of smell which works great on land via antennae enhancement. (while the giant freshwater crayfish allows it to still be able to smell well underwater)

 

 

1. Blue Crab

 

• Allows the hybrid to be able to completely tolerate, fresh, salt, and brackish water 
• Larger range of motion in the pair of clawed arms  
• Bright red-orange claws 
• MUCH sharper cutting/slicing edge on the claws, especially on the actual slicer claw 
• Transforms the back pair of legs to be more like paddle legs than walking legs which will both help with digging and swimming (the legs won’t completely be paddles. They are still kind of functional walking legs.) 
• More Serrate, Papposerrate, and Pappose setae on the arms, walking legs, and mandibles/maxillae, maxillipeds for better slicing/tearing and manipulation

 

 

1. Pseudoscorpion

 

• Venom glands in the claws to inject venom

 

 

1. X. Tulumensis (Species of remipede)

 

• Refashions the first pair of maxillae into large, sharp fangs that inject venom.  
• Stronger biting muscles 
• The venom itself is highly neurotoxic. One of the main components of the venom are Chitinases, which breaks down and weakens the exoskeleton of arthropods, and any hybrid using chitin.

  

 

1. T. Woodwardi (Species of amphipod) (paper 1, paper 2. Paper 2 isn’t on this exact species, but it is safe to assume everything said in it applies to this species)

 

• Significantly strengthens the exoskeleton’s chitin by mixing in calcium-carbonates and calcium-phosphorates (including fluorapatite). Extinct amphipods have VERY high levels of these in their exoskeletons 
• The same applies for the mandibles. The amphipod makes the mandibles, maxillae, maxillipeds, and fangs MUCH stronger, more reisistent, and can take on more stress and crack things more easily. This makes the biting/crushing strength insanely strong for a small crustacean.  
• Provides more biting muscle, although most of the power comes from the actual tools 
• Everything said about the jaw applies to the dactyli/claw

 

 

1. Brazilian Wandering Spider

 

• Further enhances venom. Makes the neurotoxins much stronger and can target a wider range of organisms. We are not getting rid of the remipede neurotoxins either, since these work well on fish and crustaceans, while the spider not so much 
• Going of off the logic of combining scorpion and crustacean claws, we can use the spider to make the fangs MUCH larger and stronger

 

 

1. Japanese Porcupine Crab

 

• This crab covers the entirety of carapace, abdomen, basically the entire top side in very sharp spines of varying sizes, some short and thick, other taller and narrower. These basically act as porcupine spines and discourage pretty much anything from attacking. They won’t be nearly as long as to no interfere with burrowing  
• Legs and arms will also be covered in spines to both defend them. The spines could also double them as offensive weapons, the hybrid using the 2 front pairs of arms (both of which still have beefy claws), to smack opponents. Same goes for the abdomen 
• Although kind of brittle (chitin is rigid), since calcium carbonates/phosphates are mixed in to a high degree, they don’t break as easily and aren’t nearly as brittle

 

 

1. Spiny Lobster

 

• Makes the spines on the front face forward, so the hybrid can fence its opponents and keep them at bay (only the spines on the front/head and stuff face forward. On the rest of the body and back, they face straight out 
• Slightly wider tail for more coverage and stronger abdominal muscles for backwards swimming (the abdomen is still smaller than the actual lobster due to the base) 
• Makes the antennae much more beefy, but also tougher, and almost the same length as the entire body.  
• Provides strong thick controlling muscles at the base of the antennae, doubling them as weapons. The antennae, with sharp edges and spines near the bottoms, can be whipped around in all directions, cause laceration wounds on enemies and attackers. They still work as powerful olfactory tools, and spiny lobster makes them even stronger (underwater, that is)