Congratulations to the two winners. Very good reads both. Liked the explanation for the spikes from the runner up and like the mind powers from the winner. Hope I win the lottery!

You are correct on the science that you have presented but let me remind you this is an ALIEN world we are talking about here. With only 300 words I cant give you a complete rundown of their native biosphere. In there natural environment they do not encounter these extreme forces. The main reason for this is that there natural habitat is at 0.25 G. A "slap" as you say on their world is not as hard or fast as one is here because it doesn't have to be to achieve the same result. So what we would consider a minor change is major to them.

As far as cars and other modes of transport. They really just don't exist. At least not at "Formula One car, maximum under heavy braking 5 g" levels. Don't know about you but unless I am playing in my Z-28 I don't go much over 1 G.

EDIT: For instance do we here on Earth fly around at 40,000 mph? some organisms can handle that kind of acceleration but we can't. Result, we don't do it.

I felt like I was following the spirit of the rules. Was it to the letter? Maybe not. I have not really examined it anymore closely. Perhaps I will. I read the bar/cantina thing as giving the writer a place to start. As a way to get there story going.

Originally I had that in there but I could not tell the story I wanted with it in inside of 300 words. I had to make some decisions on what to cut. The bar/cantina flavor stuff seemed to me to be less important then the fact content. So flavor was cut in favor of fact. I thought the purpose was to give the community a way to actually participate in adding content to the game.

There could also be a follow up contest in the future asking other people to add to this races story. With more facts in the original it would better guide future writers later on. There would have to be some way of adding to this story later because 300 word just wont cut it in the end facts or no facts.

In the end everyone had to make the call on what to cut or if to cut anything. I deemed the 300 word limit more important then the bar/cantina scene. That's my call. If it means I didn't follow the rules so be it. they can disqualify me at anytime.

I realize no one is really chastising me here. I just want to let you know my way of thinking so that this is better understood by anyone that cares.

I see, and thanks for the response. I think it would be nice if, in the future, Cryptic would only post rules that they are actually going to enforce. This would ensure that the competition is actually fair, and not divided into a group of people who followed the rules and a group who choose not to for whatever reason.

Congrats, I'm jealous!

Congrats to the winner(s) on the contest and your BETA spots!

Congrats on the win, but I thought that in order to win this contest...you have to talk about what happened in the bar, not a species bio for the main computer. It reminds me of the planet identification contest winner...it wasn't what was asked for, but won anyway.

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Congrats! A truly enjoyable read!

Congrats! This is a great alien race! How do they sleep with those spikes protruding from thier heads?