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Published: 2010-09-20 11:05:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 170365; Favourites: 3819; Downloads: 5476
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(For a basic view of the Birrin Bodyplan, which has 6 legs, see this link [slightly out of date] [link] )Refugees, faced with starvation and loss of livelihood by the diversion of the river that feeds the vast lakes they live upon, were shipped to uninhabited badlands in neighboring nations. The state responsible for the disruptive developments paid local poor governments, in arms and financial relief, to accept millions of displaced people inside their borders.
Ill feelings due to the destruction of their towns and habitat, anger soon erupted into large scale protests which the financially insecure and corrupt nations had trouble containing.
Seen here is a vast march from a nearby tent city; angry refugees storm an area of newly (but cheaply) build admin towers created to manage the huge displaced population.
Younger and angrier refugees quickly turned to violence, attacking understaffed riot police staff with knives and other improvised weapons.
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I believe that a form of society that can achieve a perfect Utopian state, is a hive-mind or hive-conscious species, but sacrificing their free will in doing so
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Or perhaps a species that entirely lacks malice or the desire for social power.
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This would be most ideal, and achievable with a huge investment in time and renewal of education and concepts (like these dumb people that hit their kids to "teach them a lesson", only for the kid to get a lesson that hitting is good and solves problems - all (or 99% of) violence stems from that)
As for a hive society, what point would be in it? It'd be one dictator manning masses of mindless drones.
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You read the Ender saga? That has an interesting hive species.
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Dude, you're a genius. I love your work
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Uncultured aliens. Thank goodness we don't treat other human beings like... wait.
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We have travelled to the distant stars, and all we found was assholes. Oh, and that planet of rad t-shirts, but I think that was a fluke.
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This is an awesome picture! Β Great work! Β You have a great imagination. Β Excellent idea for a sic-fi movie! Β
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Lets hope I can get someone to give me a few million bucks some day
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their brain is on thair abdomen right? , then what use is slithing the mecks blood vesels if you want to kill, also where do they breath?
i like the species
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The brain is in the head and first half of the neck now
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I love this! Seeing some typical behavior and infighting for a society, but with an alien that doesn't even look remotely human.
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Thats what I hope to show
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Very human stuff, but with an alien shell, I like it a lot!
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You've successed in making a sapient species that realisticly looks alien yet has the same mindset as human beings.
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Could you give us an idea of what the Birrin language sounds like?
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Sort of like the Raptors from Jurrasic Park, with a bit more birdsong.
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It them right in da face !!!
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Abiogenisis. I've been amazed by your work for a long time. I was wondering, where did you draw inspiration to create these creatures?
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Lots of places, lets see. Dune sandworms, polychaete worms, insects, graboids birds and dinosaurs.
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That is a lot of places. Thanks for the quick answer! ^u^
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And I forgot Mantids!
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I can see the graboids an mantis parts! Amazing!
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Simply amazing bro, I love how this alien race is similar to humans in the sense of emotions, technology, and politics. Frickin awesome ^^
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I am curious as to how the Riot Police See out of their helmets?
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I kept reading comments, and found a comment more than 6 years old were Abiogenisis said:
"The helmets two lighter green strips are transparent tinted plastic. However they do restrict side vision."
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It is probably not opaque, tinted grey maybe? Looks like you can see through the helmets, because you can see the head in the helmet of the one in the right.
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WoW! Wonder how humans would've reacted.
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Probably in the same way...Β Β
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Exquisite! As a computer scientist a lot of the biology is lost on me, but I really like how you've been able to create technology that is simultaneously modern (very primitive and very sophisticated things are easy to draw... in between is where it gets interesting), valid from an engineering perspective, AND recognizably alien. That, and the way the gritty realpolitik of this scenario clashes with its fundamental alienness brings to mind what I like best about Niel Blomkamp's work. You, sir and/or madam, are an inspiration to my own worldbuilding project.
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Thanks, I agree that one you decide the clothing and machinery has to actually work, that is when things get very interesting
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I concur. I'll wager that if (when!) we come into contact with a technologically developed extraterrestrial civilization we'll find MANY more commonalities than we were expecting.
I've actually run into this as a PROBLEM, where what I thought was a reasonable amount of technological similarity ended up making the aliens seem insufficiently alien. Eventually, I just decided to refer to things by more technical, escoteric names, and that seemed to work. Then I got into the habit of thinking like that in real life, as well (although fortunately not in day-to-day conversation)- the end result was that it turned my daily routine into a bad cyberpunk novel.
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I'm loving the mandibles on these Birrin creatures. This might have been said many times before, but you're probably one of the few artists out there to make a "plausible-looking" race of sapient aliens.
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Thanks, I aim to keep on doing it
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Being a Birrin must be tough! Best race since the Navi, Wookie and Thark.
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You have quite a knack for portraying mood, even when your characters aren't human.
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Thanks, can be rather hard, fighting birds are a good reference though
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That's a nice-looking, if archetypal, script. Do you have a cipher for it, or does the text here not have a meaning?
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Actually at this time the text is quite random. As the worldbuilding proceeds I will develop a cypher, though not a true language I dont think.
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Yeah, I thought so. It looks cool though.
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Fantastic. I could only imagine your take on David Brin's many aliens from his 'Uplift' series. Great police outfits and such imaginintive creatures.
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im deff checking out all your stuff and i love this detail and quality put into your own species, one question the birrin refuges, are they racially different or do they partake in tattooing
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