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Re: Alternative biochemistry and Supercritical liquids Not to get restrictively technical, but the special thing about water in our biochemistry is that it acts both as a solvent and as an electron donor in photosynthesis. Supercitical CO2 would not have a homologous function. Ammonia could, because you can strip an electron from an ammonium ion to produce N2 from NH4+. Water is also "redox neutral" in that it is both oxidized and "reduced" (having to H groups), although this perception of neutrality may subjective due to water's role in our biochemistry. Methane, for example, is much more reduced, although it can also serve as an electron donor in metabolism. Heck, its science fiction. Don't worry about the solvent. Figure out where the ecosystem's energy is coming from. That will control all of the biogeochemical cycles, and you can work from there.

So far I've found exactly one "module" for the Valdorian Age, but none at all from any company for the Turakian Age or the Atlantian Age. Have any been written? I want to get my group into this system, but I haven't got the time to write things up (which is why modules exist in the first place, of course). Thanks for any leads.