Talk:Floater/@comment-217.42.112.238-20150819135941/@comment-94.21.14.170-20151025033057

Floaters...

Jelly like lifeform, found everywhere from near-surface areas to deep and unlit seabed. Their body tissue allows them to withstand incredible pressures, but the gas held inside can change its properties according to it. They can move by utilizing their many tentacle like "legs". By shaking them incredibly fast, they generate an immense, controlled force, that allows them to nullify any kind of water-current. They have a bouncy body, thanks to the gas inside, that they can absorb from the water, and can mix in anything they come in contact with, thus modifying its properties continually as they desire. However, till this point they could not create a gas that has a higher density than the waters they live in, making them unable to sink effectively. To reach deeper areas, they use rocks by attaching themselves to it, and making it float to the desired location.

Their primitive look can be misleading, as they are intelligent beings. Living in small to great-sized groups, they live a highly social life, and their goals always have a higher priority than their individual life. That means sacrifice is a common thing among them.

The goal of their life is a mistery, but some scientists theorize that they are looking for the deepest areas, because they all have pressure-dependancy. It works like a drug to them, and the greater the depth, the stronger the satisfaction becomes. As such, if they can not find a deeper point at an area, they create it by cracking chunks out from the crust, and lifting it away, creating a hole, with an even deeper bottom. Some others think that they feel the magnetic force, and they are attracted towards the center of the planet. This provides them with an unending desire to dig deeper and deeper, creating wast networks of tunnels deep below the primary seabed.

Thanks to them, thousands of different lifeforms found home in those greater depth tunnels and halls they create. The tunneling is made by their lifting force, but they can also do highly controlled bouncing on each other, creating holes in softer areas of the ground material.

Its reason is still unknown but sometimes they unite their body to form a single giant floater. By uniting their material, they acchieve a geometry that can hold much greater amounts of the light gas inside, making it more than 3 times stronger in lifting-power. However, it counts as a sacrifice equal in magnitude, because by unifying, they all lose their consciousness, becoming a tool for those remain single...

As we have yet to find a mastermind among them, we are to believe that floaters are either an intelligent terraforming tool created by a far more intelligent being, or an unthinkably misterious being. Either way can provide us with great motivation to understand this interesting creature.


 * piece from the works of XY on the floaters***