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“Of the living specimens brought from the Pansseram Island Continent, the so-called varadents are the species that have been doing the best in laboratory conditions. Most of the other species seem to need some sort of environmental factor native to their home island to survive at maximum efficiency. The varadents however have been reproducing at a rapid rate in the lab conditions and have shown to be quick capable at maintaining this reproductive rate in a variety of environments. They seem just as much at home in both arid and humid hot conditions and only lower their reproductive rate in terminal climate conditions. Their adaptive abilities can also be noted in their generalist diet. They have been recorded consuming autotrophs and heterotrophs with little difficulty, and are readily able to consume both native and foreign food stuff. On the other hand, only natives of Pansseram could even have a chance at consuming the varadents. The varadents have quills that are filled venom that is powerful enough to kill many taurohs, let alone normal mesopredators. Their anatomy also allows them to move over large distances with great efficiency and speed. Their hind-most limbs are long enough to aid in propelling themselves forward, but unlike the Vorguntat’s hind-most limbs-they are designed for sustained speed. The varadents-just like many other species of Pansseram-use their modified tails as a limb design to release sudden short bursts of energy. This allows the varadent to be able to keep running at 10 miles per hour for sustained periods of time and leap over 20 feet at high speeds.

“Perhaps one of the most interesting-and worrying-aspects of these animals is their uncanny intelligence. They can count all the way up to ten and have managed to navigate our mazes and traps with great efficiency. They are also nerve-racking escape artists. Each one of our specimens have escaped from their cage at least once, and have constantly forced us to build new, more intricate locks every time they escape. When they have escape from the cage, they would have made it out of the laboratory if not for our sensors located in the air vents. And even so, it usually takes us several days to recapture the varadents due to their extreme elusiveness.

“Due to their high degree of intelligence and extreme adaptability, I highly recommend that we prep these specimens for extermination and forbid civilian access to the island continent. We have learned many things about them, but it is only a matter of time before they figure out a method of escape and the risk of them getting out is too high. They have the potential to be one of the most dangerous ecological threats our civilization has seen.”—Varadent chapter of the Pansseram Faunal and Floral Report, written by Dogref of the F’lokep Clan of the Hobesha Tyranny five minutes after all varadent specimens escaped undetected through the sewage system.

Here is the formal introduction to the varadents, one of the important factors that lead to the war that would eventually lead to nuclear annihilation. Coming from the island continent Pansseram, the varadent and its kin evolved separately from the rest of Asterian terrestrial life for 350 million years. After about 100 specimens were brought in from Pansseram and kept in a single laboratory for 3 months, they had all escaped into rural areas of the Hobesha Tyranny. Despite the Hobeshan government’s best attempts to track down the escaped specimens, only one varadent was ever caught. In only a matter of time, the lack of predators led to the varadent population exploding our of control and the population spread so much that in only 2 years they had a population numbering in the hundreds of the millions. They soon spread out of the forests and began to consume the crops within the agricultural areas. By the third year since the outbreak, small-scale farmers were going out of business as their crop production reached a new low and large agriculture corporations began to lose their profits. By this point, the Hobesha Tyranny took more proactive ways to deal with the varadent infestation with an almost reckless use of pesticides. The success of it was very lackluster. Pansseram life tended to produce a wide variety of venoms, which meant that the varadents were more or less immune to the pesticides’ effects. Thus the varadents continued to expand from the farmland and incidentally used various forms of transportation to spread far from Hobesha’s borders. By the seventh year, Hobesha’s agricultural sector was in shambles, and as skyrocketing food prices hurt the economy and famine became an ever closing threat, Hobesha acted in desperation. They invaded their neighboring country the Fobvred Union, whose rampant poverty and rugged topography helped them avoid the varadent plague front. This aggressive action caused one of the Fobvred’s closer allies, the Empire of the Karadash Isles, to attack Hobesha with missile strikes on what was left of its ravaged farmlands. This action eventually lead to a prolonged war that would eventually lead to nuclear annihilation, where the initial firebombing is depicted in this scene here.

The varadents survived the war just fine though. The firebombing did reduce the varadent numbers in Hobesha, but the front was far past there by then and in any case the varadents tended just to move to the cities and feast on the corpses of the famished and diseased. While nuclear annihilation did severely reduce their numbers (they endured a 99.98% population crash), millions still remain over all continents, and their evolutionary future looks incredibly bright.

Description

“Of the living specimens brought from the Pansseram Island Continent, the so-called varadents are the species that have been doing the best in laboratory conditions. Most of the other species seem to need some sort of environmental factor native to their home island to survive at maximum efficiency. The varadents however have been reproducing at a rapid rate in the lab conditions and have shown to be quick capable at maintaining this reproductive rate in a variety of environments. They seem just as much at home in both arid and humid hot conditions and only lower their reproductive rate in terminal climate conditions. Their adaptive abilities can also be noted in their generalist diet. They have been recorded consuming autotrophs and heterotrophs with little difficulty, and are readily able to consume both native and foreign food stuff. On the other hand, only natives of Pansseram could even have a chance at consuming the varadents. The varadents have quills that are filled venom that is powerful enough to kill many taurohs, let alone normal mesopredators. Their anatomy also allows them to move over large distances with great efficiency and speed. Their hind-most limbs are long enough to aid in propelling themselves forward, but unlike the Vorguntat’s hind-most limbs-they are designed for sustained speed. The varadents-just like many other species of Pansseram-use their modified tails as a limb design to release sudden short bursts of energy. This allows the varadent to be able to keep running at 10 miles per hour for sustained periods of time and leap over 20 feet at high speeds.

“Perhaps one of the most interesting-and worrying-aspects of these animals is their uncanny intelligence. They can count all the way up to ten and have managed to navigate our mazes and traps with great efficiency. They are also nerve-racking escape artists. Each one of our specimens have escaped from their cage at least once, and have constantly forced us to build new, more intricate locks every time they escape. When they have escape from the cage, they would have made it out of the laboratory if not for our sensors located in the air vents. And even so, it usually takes us several days to recapture the varadents due to their extreme elusiveness.

“Due to their high degree of intelligence and extreme adaptability, I highly recommend that we prep these specimens for extermination and forbid civilian access to the island continent. We have learned many things about them, but it is only a matter of time before they figure out a method of escape and the risk of them getting out is too high. They have the potential to be one of the most dangerous ecological threats our civilization has seen.”—Varadent chapter of the Pansseram Faunal and Floral Report, written by Dogref of the F’lokep Clan of the Hobesha Tyranny five minutes after all varadent specimens escaped undetected through the sewage system.

Here is the formal introduction to the varadents, one of the important factors that lead to the war that would eventually lead to nuclear annihilation. Coming from the island continent Pansseram, the varadent and its kin evolved separately from the rest of Asterian terrestrial life for 350 million years. After about 100 specimens were brought in from Pansseram and kept in a single laboratory for 3 months, they had all escaped into rural areas of the Hobesha Tyranny. Despite the Hobeshan government’s best attempts to track down the escaped specimens, only one varadent was ever caught. In only a matter of time, the lack of predators led to the varadent population exploding our of control and the population spread so much that in only 2 years they had a population numbering in the hundreds of the millions. They soon spread out of the forests and began to consume the crops within the agricultural areas. By the third year since the outbreak, small-scale farmers were going out of business as their crop production reached a new low and large agriculture corporations began to lose their profits. By this point, the Hobesha Tyranny took more proactive ways to deal with the varadent infestation with an almost reckless use of pesticides. The success of it was very lackluster. Pansseram life tended to produce a wide variety of venoms, which meant that the varadents were more or less immune to the pesticides’ effects. Thus the varadents continued to expand from the farmland and incidentally used various forms of transportation to spread far from Hobesha’s borders. By the seventh year, Hobesha’s agricultural sector was in shambles, and as skyrocketing food prices hurt the economy and famine became an ever closing threat, Hobesha acted in desperation. They invaded their neighboring country the Fobvred Union, whose rampant poverty and rugged topography helped them avoid the varadent plague front. This aggressive action caused one of the Fobvred’s closer allies, the Empire of the Karadash Isles, to attack Hobesha with missile strikes on what was left of its ravaged farmlands. This action eventually lead to a prolonged war that would eventually lead to nuclear annihilation, where the initial firebombing is depicted in this scene here.

The varadents survived the war just fine though. The firebombing did reduce the varadent numbers in Hobesha, but the front was far past there by then and in any case the varadents tended just to move to the cities and feast on the corpses of the famished and diseased. While nuclear annihilation did severely reduce their numbers (they endured a 99.98% population crash), millions still remain over all continents, and their evolutionary future looks incredibly bright.