12-10-2018, 09:43 AM
Based on most of my research, ammonia based life would probably benefit from a hydrogen atmosphere, which unfortunately isn't very likely to form on any kind of terrestrial planet or moon. So ammonia life would probably most likely exist in gas giant atmospheres where there is plentiful ammonia and hydrogen. They would be slow, almost like gas bags or jellyfish-like colonial organisms which would probably fit in nicely with the idea of a biochemistry that uses gels and macromolecules instead of cell membranes.
The only way i could think of the Soft One inhabiting an icy rock homeworld is if there is cryovolcanism that spews methane into the atmosphere, where it is broken down into hydrogen. A lot of this would escape into space but some may distribute to the surface, providing respiratory gas for the Soft Ones similar to how the Muuh breathe. But then that still leaves the question of what they would metabolize, since they obviously don't come from the same kind of planet.
The only way i could think of the Soft One inhabiting an icy rock homeworld is if there is cryovolcanism that spews methane into the atmosphere, where it is broken down into hydrogen. A lot of this would escape into space but some may distribute to the surface, providing respiratory gas for the Soft Ones similar to how the Muuh breathe. But then that still leaves the question of what they would metabolize, since they obviously don't come from the same kind of planet.