Happy Martin Luther King Day!!! (his birthday was on the 15th but it is celebrated on the third Monday in January)
For anyone out there who read my post last week, my wisdom teeth extraction surgery went well enough. It was a slightly more complex wisdom teeth extraction than normal (I had five wisdom teeth – one extra which is called a supernumerary) – but I think I will be happy with the results once everything is completely healed up. This put a slight delay in my alien species modeling but I am happy to present the next one: Insecturans:
I think sometimes our memory is a strange thing. We have excellent memory of things that we would oftentimes rather forget and little to no memory of things that we would rather remember(“time flies when your having fun” goes the saying). That is how insects have always been with me (I would rather forget them because I am slightly Insectophobic – but I can remember them quite well). However, I feel in this case it might be a slight benefit to me – helping me to emphasize the things that creep me out the most about them. (it also helps that insects are much more simplistic in form than most other animals in the animal kingdom – easier to model).
Insecturans were discovered indirectly(or rather they discovered us) when one of their hive vessels crashed into Gamma Plutopia Spacestation. The frightening organic vessel crashed through the hull and a stationwide panic ensued. Large numbers of Insecturans poured out and began killing crew and destroying station systems. By the end of the day there was only one group of human holdouts left. They decided to make a run for the escape pods. But by the time they got to that section of the ship, there were only two survivors left – a mother and her daughter, a frightened eleven year old. While the mother fought off the attacking Insecturans with a flamethrower, she jettisoned a pod with her daughter in it – the sole survivor. Recovered after drifting in space for weeks, the girl was catatonic and kept whispering the word “bugs”. Insecturans reproduce voraciously, and they expand their territory at alarming rates. We can only hope that their conflicts with other species will distract them long enough for us to come up with a plan to counter them.
As with all the alien species I am doing, there is a leader version that is slightly more difficult to defeat than the normal version. The one on the right with the yellow streaks and more colorful eyes is the leader version.
They will have lower health than humans but they will be much more numerous – often boarding in parties of 5 or 6. Their science and repair skills will be lower than other species and their weaponry will be less powerful but they will make up for this with their greater numbers and their aggressiveness.
4 more alien species to go. Then I will start working on the ships for each alien species.
