| Property | Details |
|---|---|
| Species | Staurobrachia capacitor (“Pole-arms capacitor”) |
| Type | Mobile Forager |
| Attitude | Defensive |
| Biome | Dolerite Spires, Karakorum Power Plant |
| Biomod | Homing Sense |
| Scan Tool | Bioscanner |
The Surge Jelly is a lifeform found primarily in the Dolerite Spires and around the Karakorum Power Plant.
Appearance
The Surge Jelly is modeled after a jellyfish, with a distinctive arrow-shaped stinger. It is primarily colored light blue, but it has bright pink dots lining the circumference of its head. Its stinger has a light blue outline, with symmetrical patterns of yellow and purple that are comparable to angel wings.
Behavior
The Surge Jelly is often seen sending an electrical shock attack as a defence mechanism. The shock is evenly dispersed in the radius of the attack, which is about the length of 2 times its size.
Databank Entry
Surge jelly (tentatively Staurobrachia capacitor). Large, complex jelly that hunts with electric shocks.
- Single animal: Unlike colonial organisms such as the Portuguese man'o'war, the surge jelly is a single animal with specialized tissues—far more specialized and complex than Earth jellies. Proposed class name: staurobrachia (pole arms).
- Complex internal structure: Outer bell ringed with sense organs called rhopalia. A nerve net coordinates the bell's motions to swim and seek prey. The visible inner structure is the gut.
- Feeding structure: The jelly retains its stalk—a remnant of its growth in a stack of clones. The stalk draws in nutrients for the gut.
- Charged fins: Two rigid fins contain wirelike electrocytes, likely a development of ancestral tentacles. These organs build voltage to stun or kill prey. Measured power ranges from 400 to 1000 volts at 1 ampere: enough to kill a human.
- Peculiar passengers: Traces of radioactivity, high-temperature waxes and sulfuric acid imply contact with a hydrothermal vent. Composition of the jelly's tissues suggest origins in the deep ocean.
- Former domestics?: Jellies in close proximity communicate through their electric fields. Whether jellies have individual names or a grammatical language is purely speculative, but some patterns may be trained or learned—even passed down through generations of jellies.
Assessment: minor danger in close contact. Fascinating research prospect from a distance.
Source: Scan a Surge Jelly
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