HEAE-58

HEAE-58, or HEAE 58, or Janjira 4b, is a pixel evogame in the same universe as Janjira V4. HEAE-58 is in the in the unique position of both being a revival of an old evogame (HEAE-72), but also being the spin-off to an evogame that came after its inception. HEAE stands for Hypothetical Enclosed Asteroid Ecosystem.

HEAE 58 is a discord pixel evogame that takes place within an asteroid, with there being 4 pockets that have life and are generally big enough to support a healthy biosphere. The asteroid is roughly 230 km long (143 miles) and is around the size of Japan's northernmost main island, Hokkaido. Gravity in HEAE 58 is produced by centrifugal force, which makes the gravity pull towards the outside of the asteroid, not unlike those seen in torus shaped sci fi spaceships to 'produce' gravity. (What is shown in the map may be a little inaccurate with how it would work in real life.)

As of 6/24/2021-5/15/2022, HEAE 58 is rather inactive and still on Generation 3, though we need only a couple more submissions to move on. This means that life is still simple, being all microbes, not even multicellular yet.

HEAE 58 is far smaller than Janjira v4, being at 26 members, rather than Janjira's 149 members. Despite this, HEAE 58 seems to be a bit more active than Janjira, though activity is never a constant thing for both servers. This is not uncommon for discord evogames. The MicrEvo server is vastly more active.

The Edge Pocket
"Being halfway the softest of materials, it is highly erodible."

Being roughly the smallest cave, and also the closest to the vacuum of space, it is a unique pocket. It is home to the T and its many descendants.

Current Atmospheric Composition: 60% nitrogen, 17% oxygen, 2% argon, 20% carbon dioxide, and 0.1% other gases. Trace amounts of, methane, water vapor, and neon are some of the other gases that make up the remaining 0.1%.

As no new oxygen is being created, carbon dioxide is going up while oxygen is decreasing.. With the complete lack of gas exchangers, carbon dioxide in the waters and air of the Edge Pocket is rising. On the other hand, oxygen is going down.

If left like this, a runaway greenhouse gas crisis is bound to happen. This will not only increase temperature, but also make it significantly harder to breathe.

The Great Internal Cave
The largest of any other pockets, this place is home to the D and its many descendants. "The largest of the caves."

Current Atmospheric Composition: 53% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 2% argon, 21% carbon dioxide, and 4.1% other gases. Trace amounts of, methane, water vapor, and neon are some of the other gases that make up the remaining 4.1%.

With a decent amount of gas exchangers, the composition of gasses in both water and in the atmosphere of the Great Internal Cave is slowly changing. Slowly enough that it has not killed off a significant amount of the population.

The Micro Lake
"Nearly completely submerged."

This pocket remains mostly underwater, leaving practically no dry land other than the walls and ceiling. It is home to the H and its many descendants

Current Atmospheric Composition: 70% nitrogen, 24% oxygen, 2% argon, 22% carbon dioxide, and 0.1% other gases. Trace amounts of, methane, water vapor, and neon are some of the other gases that make up the remaining 0.1%.

As no new oxygen is being created, carbon dioxide is going up while oxygen is decreasing.. With the complete lack of gas exchangers, carbon dioxide in the vast waters and little air of the Micro Lake is rising. On the other hand, oxygen is going down.

If left like this, a runaway greenhouse gas crisis is bound to happen. This will not only increase temperature, but also make it significantly harder to breathe.

The Double Bubble
"What happens when two cavities meet?"

This pocket is rather interesting as it seems to be 2 different pockets that are connected, which is the reason this place has 2 different base organisms. the S (HEAE 58) and the Y (HEAE 58).

Current Atmospheric Composition: 60% nitrogen, 13% oxygen, 1% argon, 25% carbon dioxide, and 0.1% other gases. Trace amounts of, methane, water vapor, and neon are some of the other gases that make up the remaining 0.1%.

With the abundance of gas exchangers, the composition of gases in the atmosphere (and water) have changed drastically, this has led to population decreases in descendants of Y, though none have gone extinct.

Over time life will adapt to the new atmospheric composition, though those adaptations will not constitute new evolutions.

= History of HEAE 58/72 = There is quite a bit of history with the HEAE series, consisting of 2 reboots and various map designs.

The first iteration of the map, for HEAE 72 was... chaotic. Then, a very talented member, RTC Studios/Rhys Crow (prominent in early Janjira v4) remade the map digitally. It was made the main map in the First Reboot.

HEAE 72, being already inactive, died after weeks of neglect. Though, after a while, a prototype of what would possibly be how a new reboot would be done was made by Schwefel Kamm. It had greatly simplified the chaotic mess that was the first HEAE 72 maps. But once more, it was left for a while. And then one day, during a livestream of NeoBioHazard making a cladogram for Janjira v4 in the discord's voice channel, Schwefel Kamm, revived this idea and made the map known today. The base organisms for HEAE 58 came from this stream as well, as NeoBioHazard revealed a large sprite sheet of new cells for possible future games.

In the first version, the atmosphere was vaguely mentioned as just being "supernova dust and water and all of that stuff." Which is.. annoyingly vague and ambiguous. As one can see in the paper drawings, the clumps of atmosphere look sort of like mini-nebulas, and they would produce frequent light in the form of lightning (or somewhat frequently, but it wasn't constant.)

The server also had both silicon and carbon based life, for some reason... Tt was planned that at the end of the projects life, the asteroid would smack into a planet, causing a panspermia event that would start a whole new project.