>A world without light
>Many are born without eyes, which are useless in the dark. Almost all are translucent as they have lost pigment in their skin. Many also have extra-long appendages such as antennae to help them feel their way around in the darkness.
Presumably it would also be without a sun, meaning everything is frozen and life can't exist
There are computers that exist down to 4K, and anything purely mechanical doesn't much care about the temperature (so long as it doesn't break). Hydraulics would even still work, you'd just need to use helium.
In theory, robots could colonise something at 4-6K. As for how you'd power them: Combust solid hydrogen and solid oxygen or fuse hydrogen.
As for how navigation would work in a lightless area, they'd use sonar or vibration sense.
>Presumably it would also be without a sun, meaning everything is frozen and life can't exist
What about deep caves or the deep ocean?
No sun, and yet, not frozen.
Deep sea is really, really fucking cold. And salty. Almost no life exists here, and animals here feed on what falls down from sun-lit part of the ocean.
Just because light doesn't reach there doesn't mean the sun doesn't affect it. There wouldn't even be an ocean without a sun
Are we to conclude that this world has at least one sun, but no light then?
There's ecosystems that live on sulfur feeding bacteria. The Sun's still needed to kickstart life but it's not necessary for maintaining an ecosystem
World could be a rogue planet. Started orbiting a sun, then got thrown into space.
Life at the time was unicellular and lived off the briny oceans. Also the world has a metallic core rich in radioactive elements, so it still has geothermal shit and magnetic field.
So world that used to have a sun, but no longer has one maybe?
Thermal vents
So the producers of the place would be chemotrophs, using some shit like thermal vents to generate energy?
>Many are born without eyes
Many what?
Races?
> the sun does not exist if you are underwater
Whatever you say bro
There are planets that for whatever reason were slingshotted out of their own solar system and wander the void of space. If they had life beforehand there's a chance it might persevere in the deepest trenches even after the loss of a sun. I've always wanted to see a setting/story about what kind of life and environment might come of that
There are all sorts of ways of having a warm planet with no sun, not the least of which is tectonic motion from the natural gravity of the planet.
If the planet has a large moon, it would also be much warmer for the same reasons.
And a lightless setting can still very well have a sun i.e. even if the originating source of the ecosystem is the sun, it still doesn't provide any light if you live thousands of miles under the earth. The lightlessness can be local even if the planet is lit.
>Many what?
Salamanders
And all the creepy imagery is completely pointless because no one's there to see it.
>Salamanders born without eyes
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