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10 years ago
Warning! The following journal may just be a rant!
Yeah, yeah, no big surprise, right?
This time, it's a bit different, and I've put some tremendous thought into this, and bouced ideas off my friends and the like.
Designing an demi-scaley alien race.
So, here we have the rough gist of it:
Form:
Taur-oid - they possess two legs, two support appendages, and two arms. The two legs are flat footed, and are shaped like a robin foot just much thicker to support quite a bit of weight. The two support appendages can double as arms in the sense that they can grab things, and manipulate them to a minor degree. These are placed (by comparison to human) just above the hips, and can be clasped to the legs to walk bipedal. The two arms are just that, two long protrusions wtih hands on the end; four digits, one being opposable.
Long tail, used to counterbalance and mate, it has a cross shaped incision on the tip that unfurls when procreating (will get into that later)
Head is snake-like, but it has no mouth, and four lateral eyes (like a spider). There are ridges under the eyes that lead into horn-like protrusions that extend anywhere between 1/2 foot to 1 foot behind their head. Their neck is rather short, but thin by comparison to their shoulders.
Biology:
Nature of genders: there is one uniform sex. Procreation occurs when three entities create a coccoon like pod and insert their genetic material (they insert their tail ends into ports in the coccoon).
Subsistence: because their planet is desolate and barren, plant life is negligible. But, there are proteins floating about in the thick atmosphere that is absorbed (via osmosis: lesser concentration to greater concentration) into the body tissue, and the tissues replicate the necessary proteins and dispense with the unneccessary ones (expelled through nostrils)
Growth pattern.
Gestation - while gestating, the amount of proteins the pod is able to absorb determines the rate of growth the child will undergo. Upon reaching a certain size, all pods will burst, and leave a young alien in its wake, able to move around minimally, but rendered effectively blind and mute.
Aging - like gestation, the rate of growth is determined by the amount of proteins the child is exposed to. The size to which these creatures will grow, is also determined by protein concentrations. (Wars have been fought over high concentration zones, where children can be conceived and born in the same day)
Waste - the only waste product produced by this race is dead tissues and unused proteins. These are deposited in the blood stream and then shuttlec to hollow chambers in its upper chest cavity and expelled by exhaling.
Names are negligible. Individuals are identified by scale colours placed into the forehead in an inverted t shape, curving under their eyes.
Scales are ripped out and replaced by other coloured scales for body modification.
I'm working on some more physical aspects, and on social/tech structure currently.
This time, it's a bit different, and I've put some tremendous thought into this, and bouced ideas off my friends and the like.
Designing an demi-scaley alien race.
So, here we have the rough gist of it:
Form:
Taur-oid - they possess two legs, two support appendages, and two arms. The two legs are flat footed, and are shaped like a robin foot just much thicker to support quite a bit of weight. The two support appendages can double as arms in the sense that they can grab things, and manipulate them to a minor degree. These are placed (by comparison to human) just above the hips, and can be clasped to the legs to walk bipedal. The two arms are just that, two long protrusions wtih hands on the end; four digits, one being opposable.
Long tail, used to counterbalance and mate, it has a cross shaped incision on the tip that unfurls when procreating (will get into that later)
Head is snake-like, but it has no mouth, and four lateral eyes (like a spider). There are ridges under the eyes that lead into horn-like protrusions that extend anywhere between 1/2 foot to 1 foot behind their head. Their neck is rather short, but thin by comparison to their shoulders.
Biology:
Nature of genders: there is one uniform sex. Procreation occurs when three entities create a coccoon like pod and insert their genetic material (they insert their tail ends into ports in the coccoon).
Subsistence: because their planet is desolate and barren, plant life is negligible. But, there are proteins floating about in the thick atmosphere that is absorbed (via osmosis: lesser concentration to greater concentration) into the body tissue, and the tissues replicate the necessary proteins and dispense with the unneccessary ones (expelled through nostrils)
Growth pattern.
Gestation - while gestating, the amount of proteins the pod is able to absorb determines the rate of growth the child will undergo. Upon reaching a certain size, all pods will burst, and leave a young alien in its wake, able to move around minimally, but rendered effectively blind and mute.
Aging - like gestation, the rate of growth is determined by the amount of proteins the child is exposed to. The size to which these creatures will grow, is also determined by protein concentrations. (Wars have been fought over high concentration zones, where children can be conceived and born in the same day)
Waste - the only waste product produced by this race is dead tissues and unused proteins. These are deposited in the blood stream and then shuttlec to hollow chambers in its upper chest cavity and expelled by exhaling.
Names are negligible. Individuals are identified by scale colours placed into the forehead in an inverted t shape, curving under their eyes.
Scales are ripped out and replaced by other coloured scales for body modification.
I'm working on some more physical aspects, and on social/tech structure currently.
