World-eating.
Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 4:30 pm
I find this concept a turn-on to no end. Not just "absorbing" (for the want of a better word) all the life on it like the comic/cartoon character Galactus, but an entire world being swallowed whole. Speaking of Mavel, am I the only one who's gotten off on the idea of Ego the Living Planet being soft vored?
My idea of a world-eating sequence goes like this (feel free to apply a different pred, this is just my pref):
Some sort of fairly small space-worm gets sucked into orbit around an earth-like world. As it eats sattalites and such, it grows to a great size, though still much smaller than the planet. Say, five miles long with a mouth that has a one mile diameter. It's orbit tightens to the point where it touches the outermost regions of the atmosphere (or whatever). When it's mouth makes contact, it begins to stretch wider and wider until over the course days, it has eaten the planet entirely, now taking it's place in orbit of it's star.
(WARNING!: Digestion content ahead!)
Only now, acid starts to seep into it's belly, seeming as yellow rain to the inhabitants of the world. Suddenly, the stomach contracts, causing the worm to belch up much of the air, leaving only enough oxygen for a very few to survive to see the horrors of digestion. The now-tight chamber begins to churn causing increasingly larger bits of the worm's enormous meal to break off. Soon, it is shown that the acid had only just began to flow. A massive tidal wave of bile sweeps over the planet, eating the world away right down to the core, though it takes weeks to do so.
(NOTE: Digestion content complete!)
I'm gonna stop here, because that's where my fantasies usually break off, for this particular concept. So, anyone else into this?
My idea of a world-eating sequence goes like this (feel free to apply a different pred, this is just my pref):
Some sort of fairly small space-worm gets sucked into orbit around an earth-like world. As it eats sattalites and such, it grows to a great size, though still much smaller than the planet. Say, five miles long with a mouth that has a one mile diameter. It's orbit tightens to the point where it touches the outermost regions of the atmosphere (or whatever). When it's mouth makes contact, it begins to stretch wider and wider until over the course days, it has eaten the planet entirely, now taking it's place in orbit of it's star.
(WARNING!: Digestion content ahead!)
Only now, acid starts to seep into it's belly, seeming as yellow rain to the inhabitants of the world. Suddenly, the stomach contracts, causing the worm to belch up much of the air, leaving only enough oxygen for a very few to survive to see the horrors of digestion. The now-tight chamber begins to churn causing increasingly larger bits of the worm's enormous meal to break off. Soon, it is shown that the acid had only just began to flow. A massive tidal wave of bile sweeps over the planet, eating the world away right down to the core, though it takes weeks to do so.
(NOTE: Digestion content complete!)
I'm gonna stop here, because that's where my fantasies usually break off, for this particular concept. So, anyone else into this?