User blog comment:Void Samukai/Tenelapis/@comment-10905876-20150115195644/@comment-11135771-20150115212020

OOC: Let me consult my map...

Hmm, well assuming that Pillar Olympus is the big ~200km diameter one east of Vent Gamma, there are a decent number of fish around both the pillar and the vent. Not tons, but a fairly good number.

Around 300km south of Gamma you start heading into an area with a high-ish population of sea serpents, which are more or less exactly what they sound like. They vary in size greatly but generally range between 10 and 300 metres in length. Not that intelligent, but aggressive, fast, and moderately tough. The MRP has encountered one.

Around Pillar Olympus, there is a small population of Clingers. These are predatory plants which grow on the rocks near and on pillars. They integrate metals from the rocks into themselves, resulting in an overall structure something like a haphazard armored fortress with tentacles. They can't move and can only kill things within maybe 5-200 metres of them (depending on size), but are very tough and hard to see.

Pretty much exactly between Gamma and Olympus there is a Seeker colony. That's... going to be really inconvenient, actually, although if you go from Gamma to the very northernmost tip of Olympus you can avoid them. Seekers are by far the most lethal thing on Tenelapis; not very aggressive at all, but highly territorial, come in swarms, and they can murder fleets. I'll give a full description when I get the pictures of the various creatures up, but for now suffice to say that they're a couple feet long, fly quickly on a combination of hydrogen and wings, and spit high-pressure jets of a boiling chemical mixture which will burn through metal nigh-instantly and also contains their eggs, which hatch in around half an hour after incubating in the aforementioned chemical mixture and eat the dissolved remnants of whatever their parents killed.