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Out of all the varied wildlife of planet H-915, the Liir are one of the most remarkable and well-documented, being highly social and intelligent insectivores who communicate with complex flute-song created via specialized hornlike nasal cavities atop bony jawless faces, with narrow pointed snouts to facilitate piercing the nests of the arboreal termite-like creatures they feed on. Of these traits their intelligence is the most noteworthy, understood as full sapience on par with baseline humanity. As a result, it’s not unheard of to see Liir in the engineering and comms divisions of starships, with their keen hearing and acoustic capabilites making them well-suited for the latter.
My second entry for that challenge (turnaround here!), this time it’s a character demonstrating some special accommodations that one might see for nonhumanoid starship crew! More technically refined than any I’ve done in the past, having been sculpted and retopo’d with a full normal map in Blender.
My second entry for that challenge (turnaround here!), this time it’s a character demonstrating some special accommodations that one might see for nonhumanoid starship crew! More technically refined than any I’ve done in the past, having been sculpted and retopo’d with a full normal map in Blender.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Miscellaneous
Species Alien (Other)
Size 720 x 1280px
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They're more behaviorally akin to birds and partly elephants (the notion of them being highly intelligent coming from both) in a lot of ways, one of which I should have specified is that they can manipulate via neck, tongue, and forelimbs but it's not very well-suited to building things or working with technology, or at least not at the stage of development that first contact was made—on accident, by researchers who didn't realize how intelligent the Liir actually were until it became clear that they'd learned to spot and sabotage trail cameras.
In addition, I wouldn't really call their prey sessile or easy to find; it's made up of a variety of species (not even necessarily just termite-types, really, and diet is supplemented with sap and nectar) with varying nesting strategies and defense mechanisms. Many of these nests are well-protected and constantly built/destroyed/relocated, with one component of Liir social structure being locating them and traveling in groups to find them, as well as circumventing whatever defenses they have (hence well-developed vocalizations). Not to mention avoiding predators and environmental hazards.
In addition, I wouldn't really call their prey sessile or easy to find; it's made up of a variety of species (not even necessarily just termite-types, really, and diet is supplemented with sap and nectar) with varying nesting strategies and defense mechanisms. Many of these nests are well-protected and constantly built/destroyed/relocated, with one component of Liir social structure being locating them and traveling in groups to find them, as well as circumventing whatever defenses they have (hence well-developed vocalizations). Not to mention avoiding predators and environmental hazards.
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