La Era de Perseo, Los Cristalodermos de Quimera / The Age of Perseus, The Crystaloderms of Chimera

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Un saludos a todos, el siguiente relato fue inspirado por el arte digital de @xpilar, los invito a que visiten su blog. La imagen que motivó este relato es la siguiente.


Greetings to all, the following story was inspired by the digital art of @xpilar, I invite you to visit his blog. The picture that motivated this story is the following.



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Los Cristalodermos de Quimera

Definitivamente los cristalodermos, eran unas fascinantes criaturas y también unas de las más intrigantes hasta ahora encontradas, no se podía decir si eran o no inteligentes, de hecho, no era posible saber siquiera si tenían la capacidad de pensar, incluso, a simple vista podían ser confundidos con algún tipo de estructura artificial o algún capricho de la naturaleza, de este peculiar planeta.

Desde que fue descubierto el planeta Quimera, representó un gran reto para los expertos y académicos humanos, en un primer momento se creyó que se trataba de un mundo sin vida, su atmósfera rica en hidrógeno, helio, vapor de agua, sulfuro de hidrógeno y silicatos, era potencialmente tóxica para casi cualquier forma de vida conocida, y el registro geológico mostró que había sido así por varios cientos de millones de años, sin embargo, se podía notar un continuo intercambio de gases atmosféricos, no se trataba de un mundo inerte, por el contrario tenía algún tipo de misteriosa dinámica que no se entendía.

Pero la mayor interrogante y a la vez el mayor atractivo que presentaba este mundo, eran las misteriosas estructuras cristalinas de aproximadamente dos metros de alto, similares a pilares que parecían crecer por todas partes, en un principio se llegó a pensar que se trataba de construcciones realizadas por algún tipo de forma de vida ya desaparecida, pero la existencia de estructuras pequeñas adheridas a otras más grandes mostraba que eran naturales y que de alguna forma los cristales de silicio de los que estaba compuestas crecían en el entorno y les daban forma.

Fueron los trabajos de dos biólogos de la Academia de Cerbero, los que expusieron la hipótesis de que estas estructuras, formadas fundamentalmente de silicio, en realidad estaban vivas y al igual que cualquier otro ser vivo eran capaces de generarse, organizarse y determinarse a sí mismas, aprovechando los recursos que le brindaba su entorno, fueron en un principio comparadas con plantas, por su escaza capacidad de desplazarse y la aparente carencia de un sistema nervioso.

Sin embargo, el descubrimiento de estructuras mayores, en las que varias de estas criaturas se organizaban para formar grandes y complejas redes que abarcaban cientos de metros, condujo a especular que se trataba de un comportamiento organizado, que demostraba intencionalidad en ellas, más aún cuando se determinó que realizaban grandes migraciones, que podían durar cientos de años, para agruparse en estas extrañas redes, desplazándose a razón de unos pocos centímetros por día.

Aun hoy, los cristalodermos y su extraño ecosistema, en el que ellos parecen ser los únicos seres vivos, es un misterio lejos de ser descifrado. El planeta Quimera, que en un principio había sido marcado como aprovechable para la minería, fue oportunamente descartado y decretado como habitado, por lo que, desde entonces, sólo los equipos de investigación pueden visitarlo, únicamente con propósitos académicos.

Texto de @amart29 y arte digital de @xpilar, Abril de 2019

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The Crystaloderms of Chimera

Definitely the crystallodermes were fascinating creatures and also some of the most intriguing so far found, it could not be said if they were intelligent or not, in fact, it was not even possible to know if they had the ability to think, even at first sight could be confused with some kind of artificial structure or some whim of nature, of this peculiar planet.

Since the discovery of the planet Chimera, it represented a great challenge for human experts and academics, at first it was believed that it was a lifeless world, its atmosphere rich in hydrogen, helium, water vapor, hydrogen sulfide and silicates, was potentially toxic to almost any known form of life, and the geological record showed that it had been like this for several hundred million years, however, you could notice a continuous exchange of atmospheric gases, it was not an inert world, on the contrary it had some kind of mysterious dynamics that was not understood.

But the biggest question and at the same time the greatest attraction that this world presented, were the mysterious crystalline structures of approximately two meters high, similar to pillars that seemed to grow everywhere, at first it was thought that they were constructions made by some type of form of life already disappeared, but the existence of small structures adhered to other larger ones showed that they were natural and that somehow the silicon crystals of which they were composed grew in the environment and gave them form.

It was the work of two biologists from Cerbero's Academy who put forward the hypothesis that these structures, fundamentally formed of silicon, were actually alive and like any other living being they were capable of generating, organizing and determining themselves, taking advantage of the resources offered by their environment, they were initially compared with plants, due to their lack of ability to move and the apparent lack of a nervous system.

However, the discovery of larger structures, in which several of these creatures were organized to form large and complex networks that spanned hundreds of meters, led to speculate that it was an organized behavior, which demonstrated intentionality in them, even more so when it was determined that they performed great migrations, which could last hundreds of years, to group in these strange networks, moving at the rate of a few centimeters per day.

Even today, crystallodermes and their strange ecosystem, in which they seem to be the only living beings, is a mystery far from being deciphered. The planet Chimera, which at first had been marked as exploitable for mining, was opportunely discarded and decreed inhabited, so that, since then, only research teams can visit it, only for academic purposes.

Text of @amart29 and digital art of @xpilar, April 2019

Otros relatos de la serie La Era de Perseo / Other stories from the series The Age of Perseus

Sólo me queda agradecer a @xpilar por permitirme usar su arte digital en mi publicación y por motivarla. Muchas Gracias @xpilar

Gracias a todos por visitar mi publicación, espero sus comentario y agradezco su apoyo, hasta la próxima


I can only thank @xpilar for allowing me to use his digital art in my publication and for motivating my creation. Thank you very much @xpilar

Thank you all for visiting my publication, I hope your comments and I appreciate your support, until next time



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