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Shades by
Kio
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https://unitedhelpukraine.org/ https://savelife.in.ua/en/
She'll get her badge in no time!
Shades by
Kio(High-res version available for free over on my Patreon!)
https://unitedhelpukraine.org/ https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
Species Yinglet
Size 900 x 1214px
File Size 1.18 MB
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Agree on that, now this could be disproven with ancient and primitive human stuff or remains. But an colony makes most sense.
More so with the yinglet transformation crystal who is magic or clarktech if you don't want it to be magic.
Bit it would set the world far in the future like year 2500 so I would expect far more ruins and more artifacts.
is it only me or does OoP world reminds any of the world of the Kanshi pc game? Also an medieval like post apocalyptic setting with aliens.
But here the creator stated it's not an colony but developed naturally and its has a lot more junk around including stuff who look like giant space station reminds,
More so with the yinglet transformation crystal who is magic or clarktech if you don't want it to be magic.
Bit it would set the world far in the future like year 2500 so I would expect far more ruins and more artifacts.
is it only me or does OoP world reminds any of the world of the Kanshi pc game? Also an medieval like post apocalyptic setting with aliens.
But here the creator stated it's not an colony but developed naturally and its has a lot more junk around including stuff who look like giant space station reminds,
One observation that Ran has pointed out is the very lack of ancient remains. There are some artefacts of the past that could not be reproduced any more, which seem to imply advanced technology - but no vast cities or industrial ruins. Humans, at least, seem to have appeared from no-where. Also the night sky of this world does not look like Earth's sky.
One explanation is that this was a colony world that went wrong in some way. Humans, at least, seem to not be native. Perhaps the other intelligent species too. They came, they settled, and some disaster befell them which lead to the loss of much of their technology. In the struggle to survive after, there was little interest in recording the past.
Perhaps the ruins of a great starship remain to be discovered, buried beneath desert sands or overgrown deep in a jungle.
Maybe the ship didn't even have anyone on board, or carried only a skeleton crew. Constraints of engineering may have made it impossible to transport the thousands of individuals needed to establish a new society. Instead it may have carried a cargo of these transformation devices, encased in protective crystal, ready to repurpose existing biomass into instant colonists. Then something goes wrong, the humans are forced to flee carrying only the essential technologies of survival, and the yinglet crystals are left behind.
One explanation is that this was a colony world that went wrong in some way. Humans, at least, seem to not be native. Perhaps the other intelligent species too. They came, they settled, and some disaster befell them which lead to the loss of much of their technology. In the struggle to survive after, there was little interest in recording the past.
Perhaps the ruins of a great starship remain to be discovered, buried beneath desert sands or overgrown deep in a jungle.
Maybe the ship didn't even have anyone on board, or carried only a skeleton crew. Constraints of engineering may have made it impossible to transport the thousands of individuals needed to establish a new society. Instead it may have carried a cargo of these transformation devices, encased in protective crystal, ready to repurpose existing biomass into instant colonists. Then something goes wrong, the humans are forced to flee carrying only the essential technologies of survival, and the yinglet crystals are left behind.
I feel like Valsalia went way too deep into the reproductive biology of yinglets to write them off as aliens. My guess is that all the anthropomorphic beings are genetically human, not aliens or even another species. The Baxxid exoskeleton being made of bone instead of chitin, Ran's comment in the field guide about yinglet egg yolks looking more like a placenta, and Isher being a successful offspring of two very different 'species' all reinforce this to me. There's also been developmental rather than genetic explanations rather conspicuously introduced: besides the yinglets being oviparious, the Baxxid are able to change their physiology after birth.
The random wildlife and livestock, on the other hand, look like earth creatures that have naturally adapted to some kind of environmental change, whether that's an apocalypse or a new planet (bugs do actually still grow giant if they're raised in a high oxygen environment). If there's transformation technology being used on a spaceship here, I think the device might just have been something like The Empty Child from Doctor Who, a regenerator for the passengers that keeps trying to put them back together again, but doesn't know what humans are supposed to look like.
The random wildlife and livestock, on the other hand, look like earth creatures that have naturally adapted to some kind of environmental change, whether that's an apocalypse or a new planet (bugs do actually still grow giant if they're raised in a high oxygen environment). If there's transformation technology being used on a spaceship here, I think the device might just have been something like The Empty Child from Doctor Who, a regenerator for the passengers that keeps trying to put them back together again, but doesn't know what humans are supposed to look like.
One possibility is that none of the intelligent species, or one at most, are actually native. It may have been a mixed colony - perhaps somewhere out in the galaxy is a thriving federation where many intelligent species co-exist peacefully, and the ship was carrying more than one. Or equipped to introduce more than one. It would be quite the coincidence for so many different sentients to evolve naturally on one planet simultaneously.
Perhaps the yinglets, with their extreme rate of genetic change, suffered the worst from the loss of their technological base - no longer able to properly monitor their genetic drift they could have inadvertently selected for rapid growth and high reproduction rate, becoming the Lesser Yinglet and taking thousands of generations before chance (Or an encounter with an artefact) lead them to the re-emergence of intelligence.
I don't think this is earth. The life is too different. The sky is too different. But we are looking at the ruins of a once-advanced, probably multi-species civilisation which suffered some disaster that lead to the loss of their technology and with it their record-keeping ability.
Perhaps the yinglets, with their extreme rate of genetic change, suffered the worst from the loss of their technological base - no longer able to properly monitor their genetic drift they could have inadvertently selected for rapid growth and high reproduction rate, becoming the Lesser Yinglet and taking thousands of generations before chance (Or an encounter with an artefact) lead them to the re-emergence of intelligence.
I don't think this is earth. The life is too different. The sky is too different. But we are looking at the ruins of a once-advanced, probably multi-species civilisation which suffered some disaster that lead to the loss of their technology and with it their record-keeping ability.
So... I had actually initially assumed that big light was on a celestial pole because of the rotation on page #41, and I was like yeah you're right these stars don't match either our north or south pole. Except... after squinting at it for an hour I realized it's actually a whole separate set of celestial objects revolving around its own center.
(And then I was like... realizing that it's a celestial object system, orbital physics and the shape of the nebula staying the same mean it has to be enormous and turning very slowly. The fact we can see the rotation happening even over the course of a morning means there's some kind of relativistic effect. Generally that would mean it's hurtling toward us at near-light speed and the world is doomed, although I suppose we might be looking through the end of a wormhole...)
As far as which planet this is, the other galaxy is covering most of the sky in almost every nighttime picture we've seen. Short some super careful and/or high tech image analysis to map out exactly which stars stay put in #41 (remembering that apparent brightness is thrown off by being overlaid with the nebula), the only picture of the sky I'd trust to be the actual stars is the bit on page #110, and the perspective looks odd to me like it was shot with a telephoto lens which would make the background a very small piece of the sky.
But that said, you do have me wondering about this potential wormhole situation. I'm been tossing around in my head the explanation in Gate: And So the JDSF Faught, that new peoples and technologies get deposited by gateways that open and close periodically from other worlds. It would explain Ran's observations about the lack of proper ancient ruins.
(And then I was like... realizing that it's a celestial object system, orbital physics and the shape of the nebula staying the same mean it has to be enormous and turning very slowly. The fact we can see the rotation happening even over the course of a morning means there's some kind of relativistic effect. Generally that would mean it's hurtling toward us at near-light speed and the world is doomed, although I suppose we might be looking through the end of a wormhole...)
As far as which planet this is, the other galaxy is covering most of the sky in almost every nighttime picture we've seen. Short some super careful and/or high tech image analysis to map out exactly which stars stay put in #41 (remembering that apparent brightness is thrown off by being overlaid with the nebula), the only picture of the sky I'd trust to be the actual stars is the bit on page #110, and the perspective looks odd to me like it was shot with a telephoto lens which would make the background a very small piece of the sky.
But that said, you do have me wondering about this potential wormhole situation. I'm been tossing around in my head the explanation in Gate: And So the JDSF Faught, that new peoples and technologies get deposited by gateways that open and close periodically from other worlds. It would explain Ran's observations about the lack of proper ancient ruins.
Honestly I have been running with the idea that its a failed colony atempt. Not a failed colony, a failed attempt. The colonists servived, but, they did not have the tech and materials needed to build up, had to basicly rediscover basic tech by learning, and only a small amount of the gear they where saposed to have actualy made it to the surface with them. That explains the humans, and the human tech and culture at current, and with known history.
Yinglets are a clear evolution of the lesser yinglet, yah, a high probability that they where created, the transformative giving more indications of that, even if there is no good reason for how it works, it feels more like high tech, than magic.
Baxid and indrals are probably native races.
Yinglets are a clear evolution of the lesser yinglet, yah, a high probability that they where created, the transformative giving more indications of that, even if there is no good reason for how it works, it feels more like high tech, than magic.
Baxid and indrals are probably native races.
oooh I almost missed that, and at first I was unconvinced buuut with those proportions you're right Valsalia must have researched enough detail to draw specifically the swiss cross which means some form of worldbuilding has happened. Also the pink colored uniform is another European symbol of neutrality, although it would also help stand out in a crowd of redcloaks. We haven't seen this uniform before even when Elim got stabbed, and it's a different shade of pink from the surgical staff, I wonder if this is some kind of special unit picked out for diplomatic/interspecies medical emergencies?
Red to indicate house personnel. Pale red so it does show the blood stains. These aren't surgical doctors, they are more like field medics. But the cross, yes - that cross indicates that this culture does, at some point, have a connection to that of Earth - at least enough to still retain the memory of that symbol. Even if they no longer remember the origin, and just have an understanding that medics and their equipment have always been labelled with a cross so they can be quickly identified in an emergency.
Well, yes. Ivenmoth is a trading company. They are just a company which has secured such dominance of Val Salia that they are also the de facto government. I don't know if there is a vestigial civil authority, but if there is they are going to be under a lot of pressure to do whatever Ivenmoth requests of them. Their stated purpose is still to generate revenue, but sometimes generating revenue requires a peaceful an ordered city so the best way to keep business thriving is to run that city.
A lot of militaries also use the term 'company' in their unit structure, usually the smallest subdivision of a military that could staff its own facility while operating independently (i.e. the unit under a captain in the rank structure). But this is still related to the business definition of a company, in the end it's all bureaucracy.
Also it is canon that Val Salia is a company town https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13287205/
(although note that the author of the Val Salian Regional Field Guide was paid by House Ivenmoth to write it, I'd definitely take some aspects of its history like the lawlessness with a grain of salt. More likely they moved in and replaced the existing leadership to enforce a monopoly on trade activities, and to make their own currency standard which means they can mint their own coins and have local merchants feed their army for them.)
Also it is canon that Val Salia is a company town https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13287205/
(although note that the author of the Val Salian Regional Field Guide was paid by House Ivenmoth to write it, I'd definitely take some aspects of its history like the lawlessness with a grain of salt. More likely they moved in and replaced the existing leadership to enforce a monopoly on trade activities, and to make their own currency standard which means they can mint their own coins and have local merchants feed their army for them.)
but also the more I look at it the more I'm not sure, there's definitely a slight outward curve and the way the creases are drawn suggests a bit of shape, and more importantly he/she/they are wearing their chest strap higher which is a boobs thing. Also frock coats made of nonstretch fabric tend to look flat and/or be flattening anyway, we don't see a lot of women in the Ivenmoth uniform but for comparison see https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49928969 And chances are that both Isher and the threadsmiths have custom tailored uniforms while this characters' is probably off the rack and exactly the same as the men's.
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I've noticed that you can sometimes even get in extra votes from different IP addresses, or if you're disconnected from your IP and open up again later.
It closed out last month at 844 votes and 28th place. It's currently at 170 votes and 37th place. The highest it's reached is 24th place, and the top vote getters seem to end up with something close to 15,000+ votes, at least recently.
Vote early, vote often! Help OOPs get noticed!
And now that the crisis has faded, the stress REALLY starts to sink in, and the shakes start, and the medics want to help but are trying to figure out HOW and there's a wounded (sort of) Baxxid in the corner with a murder on his rap sheet and we are all going to smile now, say nothing, and get a drink of water once we can draw it without the contents getting vibrated out of the glass...
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