Mechanos

Mechanos is a planet that is home to the Bacillians.

Description
Mechanos is actually not a planet. It is a planetoid. It appears to be an ever-changing mass of metal and machine parts, with rugged cliffs, craters, and random squashed fridges all over its surface.

History
Mechanos originally consisted of a small, very dense, uninhabitable comet. However, since it was also magnetic, it began to attract floating bits of metal and spaceships from long-extinct races (of course, at the time, they were still alive), turning it into a metallic planet. It also began to pull in an atmosphere, however, prompting the few small bacteria to grow and multiply. However, over the next hundred million years, the surface of the planet changed greatly, so intelligence was needed. For this purpose, the bacterial colonies began to work together as one organism. By the time humans had evolved, the bacteria had begun to absorb bits of metal and incorporate the metals into their cell walls, until soon they appeared to be large metal blobs, known as Bacillians. They are autotrophs and gain nutrients from the metals that surround the planetoid. They tunnel underground and build cities in the deepest metal layers. However, slowly protozooans had been evolving as well, and these became also became metallic, but they were solitary heterotrophs. They became the bacteria's main predators, and eventually, by growing very large with multiple nuclei, were fully adapted to eat the bacteria. They are called Fungoids, due to their passing resemblance biologically to slime molds.

Known Inhabitants

 * Bacillian
 * Fungoid