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#fedivolve From a journey of four billion years, you arrive at the present day. you are phytophthora nicotianæ, the pathogen responsible for a devastating plant disease known as black shank.
though you are most famous for your work in killing tobacco, you are also adept at infecting onion, tomato, and a wide variety of other plants. your host range includes 255 genera from 90 families of plants
you can cause root rot, crown rot, fruit rot, leaf infection, and stem infection! no part of a plant is safe from you–one of the best plant killers ever evolved on Earth. congratulations!
you thrive in hot and moist conditions, but your sexually produced oospores
can survive harsh winters. your asexually produced zoospores 
are quite agile with their exceptional flagella and can infect hosts faster than the plant-cultivating animals can keep up with. you are a most formidable pathogen!
the animals are very angry with you for killing so much of their tobacco–but this plant is poisonous to them anyway, you think they should be a little more grateful for your help. it’s not as if it matters what they think, though, your descendants will likely remain on Earth far longer than theirs–they are making the whole planet nice and warm for blights like you to thrive.
THE END
Your full evolutionary tree:
domain: archæa
kingdom: proteoarchæota
superphylum: asgard
phylum: heimdallarchaeia
domain: eukarya
(unranked): bikonta
(unranked): diaphoretickes
(unranked): archæplastida
phylum: rhodophyta
subphylum: cyanidiophytina
(unranked): TSAR
(unranked): SAR
(unranked): halvaria
(unranked): stramenopiles
phylum: gyrista
subphylum: pseudofungi
class: oomycetes
subclass: peronosporomycetes
order: peronosporales
family: peronosporaceæ
genus: phytophthora
species: nicotianæ
Author: thank you for playing, everyone who participated!
I’m glad I could share some interesting information about evolution and the nature of life with you. oftentimes people treat evolution as something with intention and direction to it and as a simple contest of which organism is stronger–I hope to have conveyed that the reality is far more complicated, interesting, and beautiful than that 
Life is a sacred, special thing–do your part to protect its continued existence.
if you enjoyed this poll-driven interactive narrative, you might like my ongoing interactive cyberpunk YA story, #Aetherglow ( Ætherglow (npub16nc…h4hh) ), or my other works at my website, https://translunar.academy
see you around the fedi ~
though you are most famous for your work in killing tobacco, you are also adept at infecting onion, tomato, and a wide variety of other plants. your host range includes 255 genera from 90 families of plants
you can cause root rot, crown rot, fruit rot, leaf infection, and stem infection! no part of a plant is safe from you–one of the best plant killers ever evolved on Earth. congratulations!
you thrive in hot and moist conditions, but your sexually produced oospores
can survive harsh winters. your asexually produced zoospores are quite agile with their exceptional flagella and can infect hosts faster than the plant-cultivating animals can keep up with. you are a most formidable pathogen!the animals are very angry with you for killing so much of their tobacco–but this plant is poisonous to them anyway, you think they should be a little more grateful for your help. it’s not as if it matters what they think, though, your descendants will likely remain on Earth far longer than theirs–they are making the whole planet nice and warm for blights like you to thrive.
THE END
Your full evolutionary tree:
domain: archæa
kingdom: proteoarchæota
superphylum: asgard
phylum: heimdallarchaeia
domain: eukarya
(unranked): bikonta
(unranked): diaphoretickes
(unranked): archæplastida
phylum: rhodophyta
subphylum: cyanidiophytina
(unranked): TSAR
(unranked): SAR
(unranked): halvaria
(unranked): stramenopiles
phylum: gyrista
subphylum: pseudofungi
class: oomycetes
subclass: peronosporomycetes
order: peronosporales
family: peronosporaceæ
genus: phytophthora
species: nicotianæ
Author: thank you for playing, everyone who participated!
I’m glad I could share some interesting information about evolution and the nature of life with you. oftentimes people treat evolution as something with intention and direction to it and as a simple contest of which organism is stronger–I hope to have conveyed that the reality is far more complicated, interesting, and beautiful than that Life is a sacred, special thing–do your part to protect its continued existence.if you enjoyed this poll-driven interactive narrative, you might like my ongoing interactive cyberpunk YA story, #Aetherglow ( Ætherglow (npub16nc…h4hh) ), or my other works at my website, https://translunar.academy
see you around the fedi ~