| rdfs:comment | - An aquatic creature is one which can only breathe water. For example, the Gill Norns aka Fish Norns. This is usually gengineered to occur by switching references to 'air' in the respiratory reaction genes to 'water'. As such, truly aquatic creatures are not possible in Creatures 1. Compare to amphibious.
- Aquatic is a recurring enemy type in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. Enemies under this type have been present sinceHyperdimension Neptunia but no proper name was established until Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory. As the name implies enemies under this type are all sea-based.
- Aquatic is the secret language used by SeaWings to communicate in the Deep Palace (or anywhere underwater) where they can't communicate clearly without going to the surface to talk. Instead of spoken words, Aquatic uses a series of talon gestures and the flashing of the bioluminescent stripes along the dragon's body. Because only SeaWings possess these stripes, Aquatic is not spoken by dragons from any other tribe because they cannot physically speak it due to lack of bioluminescent stripes. Tsunami is a rare case of a SeaWing who does not understand Aquatic very well at all, courtesy of being raised in a cave by the Talons of Peace. Webs didn't teach Tsunami Aquatic, possibly because he didn't think she would escape with the other dragonets. Riptide and Anemone taught her some Aquatic whe
- The aquatics, Piscanthropus submarinus, (also known simply as aquas) are aquatic (as well as partly semiaquatic), ocean-dwelling, dugong-like humans, engineered from handler humans, first appearing in 300 years (the 23rd Century), in Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future. Now humans have done it too. In the green half-light below the ocean's turbulence they swim. An unaccustomed eye might have taken them for dolphins, moving and turning, dashing away in a sudden streak, hanging for a while motionless.
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| abstract | - An aquatic creature is one which can only breathe water. For example, the Gill Norns aka Fish Norns. This is usually gengineered to occur by switching references to 'air' in the respiratory reaction genes to 'water'. As such, truly aquatic creatures are not possible in Creatures 1. Compare to amphibious.
- Aquatic is a recurring enemy type in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. Enemies under this type have been present sinceHyperdimension Neptunia but no proper name was established until Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory. As the name implies enemies under this type are all sea-based.
- The aquatics, Piscanthropus submarinus, (also known simply as aquas) are aquatic (as well as partly semiaquatic), ocean-dwelling, dugong-like humans, engineered from handler humans, first appearing in 300 years (the 23rd Century), in Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future. The sea waves, blasted by a southwestern gale, curdle and foam in cold blue slopes that march remorselessly across the desolate surface of the northern ocean. From the lead-grey sky the chill rain hisses down in the icy green hollows and is lost in the streaming foam of the crests. The sea surface is not a welcoming place. Below the screaming, tumbling chaos of the surface and in the top few feet of the ocean water the gale is silenced, the waves suppressed to a gentle to-and-fro motion. Further down, the movement becomes weaker and weaker until it dies away completely. This is the world of the fish - and of the creatures that have abandoned their life on land to accept their ancestral home in the great oceans of the world. To some extent the sea otters did this, with their sinuous bodies and their webbed feet; the seals and walruses did it more efficiently with their streamlining and their flippers; but the now-extinct dolphins and the great whales and manatees did it to perfection, even adopting the almost fishlike ways of their forebears. Now humans have done it too. In the green half-light below the ocean's turbulence they swim. An unaccustomed eye might have taken them for dolphins, moving and turning, dashing away in a sudden streak, hanging for a while motionless. They cannot breathe air, these creatures of the ocean. Instead they circulate the seawater through their mouths and pectoral gills, extracting the oxygen as it goes. They also feed constantly, filtering plankton through the same gills and transferring it to the digestive system. Now and again they take a fish - turning and streaking after it with a twist of the tailfin, a balance of the arms and a quick bite. The tailfin is all that is left of the human legs. In embryo, the limb buds grow together and fuse into one organ. The hip girdle does not develop and the limb bones become almost an extension of the backbone. The phalanges of the toes spread and shape themselves into a network that supports the powerful diamond-shaped fin. The hands retain their human structure, but the arm has flattened and become modified into a balancing and stabilizing organ. The development was started a century ago as part of the star-colony project, but the creatures developed were only partially successful. Later the engineering laboratories, in a last bid to produce something permanent before being closed down, refined the design and produced a truly aquatic human being; and (their final triumph) the genetic changes that they produced were actually hereditary. Yes, these newly-developed creatures were fertile, and produced viable offspring. The process really started way back in the early days of civilization when man's quest to possess all the things of the world took him to the water. He invented mechanical devices that enabled him to take his air down into the sea with him and to breathe it at a workable pressure. Implements strapped to his body allowed him to see underwater and to swim with powerful leg strokes. As time went on great communities, rather like island cities, were established on the seabed. The sediment-choked ruins of these still litter the continental shelves. When genetic engineering was developed, gills could be cultivated from raw tissue and grafted onto the human body, enabling humans to breathe like fish. This was still clumsy and imprecise compared with the later engineering of a creature with no need of cities or artificial swimming and breathing devices. What swims here is merely the surface race of the creature. In the blackness below, hundreds of fathoms down, others exist, rarely seen by any but their own kind, and even then they are not strictly "seen". In the blackness they can only feel their way about and communicate with one another by a kind of echolocation. These creatures are sluggish and inactive. There is little food at these depths and they must conserve what energy they have. Since the aquatics rarely meet any other form of human, there is no enmity between them and any other group. A female suckling a wriggling youngster undulates gracefully towards a group of males who are chasing fish. She speaks. The "voice" is a rattling sound, produced from clicks in the relict windpipe in the neck. The young males clatter their reply and swim off in what seems to be a random three-dimensional pattern. Suddenly the fish with which they were sporting congregate in a mass in front of the female's head, herded there by the precisely coordinated movements of the males. A quick flick and a snap, and she has swallowed one - the rest scattering into the green murk. She clucks her thanks to the males and swims sedately away. To look at, one would think that these are creatures that had existed in this environment since the world was young. It is only the face - a grotesque parody of the traditional human face, with big bulging eyes, tiny degenerate nose and downturned mouth - that shows it to be derived from a Homo sapiens.
- Aquatic is the secret language used by SeaWings to communicate in the Deep Palace (or anywhere underwater) where they can't communicate clearly without going to the surface to talk. Instead of spoken words, Aquatic uses a series of talon gestures and the flashing of the bioluminescent stripes along the dragon's body. Because only SeaWings possess these stripes, Aquatic is not spoken by dragons from any other tribe because they cannot physically speak it due to lack of bioluminescent stripes. Tsunami is a rare case of a SeaWing who does not understand Aquatic very well at all, courtesy of being raised in a cave by the Talons of Peace. Webs didn't teach Tsunami Aquatic, possibly because he didn't think she would escape with the other dragonets. Riptide and Anemone taught her some Aquatic when she came to the Sea Kingdom. Riptide taught her how to say "squid-brain", and he said that she should say it next time she saw Whirlpool.
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