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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5907043" data-attributes="member: 177">Aren't you being a little inconsistent about where you're willing to stretch reality for your game systems?For terrestrial life, it is only "extremophiles" that live there, and the chemicals involved are toxic to us, sure.  But it isn't humans who are doing it. You're talking about something smart enough to use and design new tools, that has extremities dextrous enough to make tools, and that lives in an aquatic environment - you're not talking about anything currently on Earth.  Lava doesn't actually cool that quickly - it can flow slowly along the ocean floor for miles before hardening.  And there are hot spots in the ocean that last for centuries - building up communities of those extremophiles you mentioned above.I'm sure when the first man thought to try to build a fire hot enough to melt stone, they laughed at him, and told him it couldn't be done.  But, necessity is a mother, and all that.  Just because you can't think of *how* it would be done, doesn't mean you can't say it is done, for purposes of a game.I mean, really, I know your tech levels include, say, FTL travel, and darned tootin' you don't know how they'd accomplish that, but you're willing to say, "it happens".</blockquote>