Wow! Usually, really extreme sizes mean there's a lack of interesting ways to interact, but you're great at thinking of ways to make it happen!

Heh, I always wonder if any of the Araltians have colonists. Considering how many fans your characters have, there'd be no shortage of people volunteering! Probably not, though, considering you generally use the Araltians for more serious ideas about living creatures of that scale.

Yeah, the fun side of working with the Araltians for me is imagining and working out how you'd get around such an extreme size difference. It opens the doors for a lot of interesting possibilities, and not to mention a lot of interesting views.

It's always a possibility. While they do have security measures in place to prevent such from happening, an alien spacecraft could deliberately fly into their flight paths (dispite being told about where they are), or even plot a course to land on an Araltian or Araltys. We are the same size to an Araltian as bacteria are to us,so that alone can make it difficult for them to detect every single person.

brb, colonizing Erika

Population: Artie

And I'll colonize August XD

I think you may have chosen the safer choice!

*facepalm* You people just made me think of a comic strip that would work in-setting on Araltys:


[Doctor watches a tiny rocket launching from his current patient] "Ma'am, it appears you have an advanced case of civilization."

You're welcome? XD


Better than space fleas I think :-P

(well depends on the race that is doing the colonization any way)

Well, being "safer" isn't/wasn't a main concern , Erika was already claimed by Artie XD

It came down to August or Fang in the end - (Now that I think about it - colonizes both) XP

:-P

Hah. I think there's room for more than one, without them ever meeting on an Araltian c.c

True enough, :-P

With my last comment said.. it is defenetly more for the beauty of the choise - Rather than the safety - though it does put the mind at ease

With the tech That has been collected - faze shield Generaters for example (which can only protects a large cities or space stations, but at this point not a whole planet)
we could and have build facility's on her paw & Toe pads

On another note - we small foke are great for keeping control of Space Fleas :-P

Been trying to imagine what her or any Araltians reaction would be, if some of the small races colonized on their skin...
...or even jewelry for that matter (if it was an enhabitable environment (cause I recall some planets into rings and stuff)

Haha. I thought you were already a perminant resident?

Well! Now that that's officially established! :D

Makes you wonder how those moons were able to get made into earrings.

The same was as any other rock would be made into jewellery. Just drilled a hole in it. Some moons and such are basically giant precious gems!

I could see that...though not the whole thing XD

Another method could use specially designed devises that puts a sort of stacus field around the moons or desired planet that would leave a perfect clone in the objects place (as not to effect the galaxy's balance XD)

I love this picture (and its variations) so much It's such a wonderful concept!

Thanks! Angles like this are always fun to draw.

That would be quite the view for any would be explorer.

Definitely. I wouldn't be surprised if someone were to land on her earrings given the chance.

Only for know, what think Araltians about small species like us?

That's a pretty complicated question, as there are many different species on our kind of scale. On a whole though, their relations with alien species is very good. Many of the local alien species have set up an embassy of sorts which is essentially a giant sprawling city, probably the size of a petri-dish to Araltians, in a protected location on Araltys for diplomatic reasons. Araltians are a peaceful nation, and haven't been at war for thousands of years. (As it turns out, most civilisations are happy to play nicely when they realise you're millions of times bigger than them.)

Araltians do trade with other species, and have very different specialities in what they can trade for. August here specialises in Terraforming, which is a much sought-after skill for smaller planets, who've either jeapordised the ecosystem of their home planet, or require assistance in expanding their nations. Trading for entire habitable planets tends to make them "forever indebted" to the Araltians so they are prepared to give very generously back. Fortunately for Araltians, these smaller tend to be good at producing technology at a much smaller scale that they are capable of, so it's often what it's traded for.

As for flying around in space and such, Araltians have set flight paths, and encourage other space-based civilisations to do the same, which allows Araltians to fly through space without interrupting the other planets without their permissions. (As just their sheer presenece can alter tides, or even orbits if they're not careful). So generally they keep well away from alien planets unless it's a planned meeting or event.

So as for what they think? It's often quite hard for them to really conceptualise just how small folks like us really are. It's the same as us trying to imagine bacteria - as we are as big to bacteria as Aratians are to us. But they do know all these alien species are here, and do respect that they are civilisations in their own right, and do their best to keep their distance.

I always think about how had to be the "first contact" for Araltians, a very funny scene for both parts i guess XD

Yeah. I dare say it was a huge shock to the Araltians when they discovered intelligent life on another planet that was so small. And then an even bigger shock when they found the second and third and fourth and they were all "super tiny".

And of course on the other side of things, many alien species mistake Araltians for their God / Goddess / Creator. It's hard to think otherwise when there's someone the size of your entire planet just floating in space beside it.

Many first contacts are deliberate and planned when the Araltians have discovered a species. If however they're a troublesome war filled empire or whatever, they might deliberately avoid contact with them until they are ready. Other times, first contact is completely accidental the Araltian doesn't notice intil they're on the planet itself!

Now than I thing of it, How the Araltias know than we even exist? How they can see us? is something of their technology or they have a kind of super sense that allows them to "See us" in some way?

They would have to use microscopes to be able to see us. They do have detection tools for scanning alien life and adding information about them to their knowledgebase, but Erika deliberately turns those off as then folks know where she's at.

(Not into female furs ... !! ergo, I should stop saying that every time!). But that pic really gives a good impression of the immense size of the araltian there! A view you'd never forget .

SP

Haha. Thanks a lot Slothy! I'm sure there'll be a few folks planning their space flights to her earrings right now.

quite an incredible view indeed!

Thanks!

There's a lot I'd give to look up at the night sky and see that!

It would really give some fantastic views!