Imagine a world like ours, only 6.5 light years away – but
filled with life forms unlike anything found on Earth. Take a
simulated trip in the near future, where astronomers and
biologists alike admire the potential to Darwin IV, a nearby
planet with two suns, 60% gravity and an atmosphere capable of
supporting life. Having identified Darwin as a likely home for
life, scientists send a series of unmanned probes to the planet.
Initially, the expectation is to find microscopic life. But the
probes soon find themselves in the middle of a developed
ecosystem, filled with various creatures of all sizes. Looking
through the “eyes” of the probes, marvel strange inhabitants of
the planet – like the heavy Groveback, which supports a small
forest vegetation in the rear; Prongheads deadly hunt in packs,
like wolves, and the elegant Gyrosprinter, an elk-like creature
with a body of luminescent biolights points. The look and the
biology of each animal is based on the laws of evolution and
physics, then the model to fit th