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Attack on @splitfoxe (FOLLOW THEIR TWITTER TOO PLEASE!!)
#fuck yeah#i live for this#I keep coming back just to stare at it#it’s gorgeous#please give this artist all my love#seriously this goes so hard I cried#like literally#like I was on my last straw before I saw this#like I was so ready to give up but this saved me
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i remembered i can just make stuff up (stream sketches + scrapped designs)
uhhhh quick fire for the second image from left to right juvenile vessel - old world cable maintenance - artistic diplomat vessel
Headcanons below the cut:
(Im not kidding word counter marked this as a 5 minute reading time open at your own risk)
While the sentiment of the architect network as "a thousand strings in a melody, not one louder than the rest" is a poetic interpretation of the network, it is not necessarily reflective of the precursors society as a whole.
At its peak, the species span billions of planets with billions on billions of individuals, all with their own degrees of autonomy and divergence. If each architect is equal in its power, than it is equal in its power to choose. Even if the soul of an architect, its very essence and its personality, is designed so perfectly that its primary desire is the perpetuation of order and advancement (two inherently divergent concepts), faults occur. Breakages occur. Pockets, cultural subsets, faded transmissions, and any other element of lost insight be it archaic or modern, lends itself to the impossibility of an entirely homogeneous society.
Whether a hive minded society reflects the only means to perfection is debatable, but its important to remember that our main portal in to the precursor world is Al-an, a known prodigy born and raised in to a society that has done nothing but benefit him. His view of his people is intrinsically skewed. He has never had a reason to see beyond the propaganda, nor question his directives. They have never once failed him.
But what of the little guys? The constructed failures so to speak. Those destined to be cast in to the bowels of poisonous cobalt mines and those who's birth purpose is to be irradiated and isolated for the greater good of the collective. Those who's genes prompted sub-standard intelligence who will never be seen as truly important. Their needs must be cast aside by design for the greater good of the collective. By design they must be ignored, their thoughts not relevant to the forwarding of progress.
Because there is true power disparity there is a true hierarchy.
Aware of this, the precursors devised a system of checks and balances to ensure that scientific progress remains at the forefront, rather than the accumulation of power by any individual.
As with all things though, power inevitably seeks to maintain and grow like a cancer.
One such exertion of power comes in the form of a "hive master". These unique individuals require precise expensive machinery in order to be produced, and as such are very rare. The vessels they require are likewise uniquely suited to only these hive masters and their unique ability to sway the voices and personality of any individual connected to the network. They themselves are invisible, completely undetectable except in physical form. Their unique telepathic abilities only work when paired with these vessels. They have no voice nor will of their own and are said to represent architect society on its most basal level.
Given their difficult to produce nature established personalities are very often used in place of new seed combinations. Personalities most suited for repurposing as a hive master include those who are most senior, intelligent, and aligned wholly with societal goals.
They are typically only found on heavily populated planets with more than a few thousand individuals. There they go undetected, like the sound of wind lost in a sea of voices, whose squall directs its very rampage. They are also enlisted for many unique duties on populous planets, such as the refactoring of corrupted individuals and silencing cultural sub-sets.
The average architect probably isn't even aware of the existence of a hive master unless their profession lies in the refactoring and diplomatic processes.
Despite the cultural drive for a monotonous and orderly society, artistic expression is common and encouraged in some sects. All architects possess the desire to express themselves, similarly to humans. Some do this simply with their inbuilt biolights that vary naturally with the individual, while others (less commonly) modify their vessel or design new and unique ones for themselves.
A vessel after all is a costly investment you cant just change like the season, its built to last you a couple thousand years. It's only natural that some seek to don something unique.
This behavior is sometimes detested by more traditional architects, but is not universally frowned upon.
Diplomats are actually encouraged to take on more artistically designed vessels. Often with their respective species' artistic values in mind. They've found greater success with alliances when they don't look like massive sticks in the mud.
Subsets of culture also at times develop unique vessels. Such as an order-over-progress movement that developed on the fringes of the network and preferred pie-bald esque vessels. Alternatively in the past as wars waged between the architects the opposing sides often don differing forms to show their allegiances. In more recent history, a wave of white-clad vigilantes advocated for a complete reset of the old-world collective.
Aside from artistic and affiliation vessels, mainstream precursor society also used a series of varying vessels to reflect personal occupation. Some of the most notable included the warrior vessel, who by design met the largest accommodations of standard architecture for the purposes of intimidation and physical altercations. Al-an's vessel likewise is very common as a heavier-built variant meant to face harsh outer worlds such as 4546B. On base, more light and energy efficient vessels make the dominant force where defense isn't a huge priority.
Microvessels such as those seen above in grey are fairly uncommon despite their energy efficiency. They are most efficient on old world planets that have been in development for hundreds of thousands of years, where the march of time means that not all builders past and present were on the same wavelength and as such small and precise forms mean that construction can be completed with minimal risk to crowded infrastructure.
Another unique and uncommon vessel is that of a juvenile grow-out vessel. These are seldom customized beyond survival needs, and are designed to acclimate a freshly generated architect to the physical world. Like a living vessel, they grow with the individual starting from broodling all the way until young adulthood. They tend to be a bit clumsy and lack the ability to interface with most technology. Always running a blue biolight, these vessels to not require a lot of energy to function physically. A juvenile architect must prove its maturity before it is allowed to graduate in to an adult vessel. This change-out phase is a diplomatic process and one can sometimes wait many years before being approved in to maturity.
The treatment of a new architect varies quite significantly depending on their birthplace and genotype. High performing juveniles are singled out very quickly for better education. Despite the rarity of children in architect society they are not given much importance. A single broodmother may be the ward of up to fifty broodlings, each of which given little attention in favor of allowing them to develop social skills among themselves. Despite architect's seeming infinite power to control resources, broodling mortality is surprisingly high.
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Subnautica silly
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fill the tags with ryley, robin, and al-an headcanons
i was roleplaying with a ryley robinson bot on char.ai and they told me they were transfem and used any pronouns, ryley bot i roleplayed with, i will always remember you. (while this isn't one of my headcanons i love the idea, au material? i don't know, au doesn't feel like the right word. STILL LOVE THE IDEA REGARDLESS)
i headcanon ryley looks fantastic in red flannels with the sleeves rolled up :) it's weird, i know.
i headcanon ryley as nonbinary (he/they or they/he) and aroace!
i headcanon ryley is great with kids, like a goofy clumsy parent that while not understanding some things completely they still just like to see you happy :)
"hey i heard you like stalkers, wanna take a ride in the ol' seamoth to take a peek at the kelp forest?"
#YOU ARE SO REAL FOR THIS#OMFG KEEP THESE COMING#KEEP THE RYLEY FANBASE FED#WE ARE LITTLE MORE THAN STARVING VICTORIN CHILDREN
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scans you and adds you to my database of silly critters
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I did another subnautica shirt 👉👈
It's not good but I just enjoy painting on fabric, so here's my black and white peeper :)
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having ryley robinson as a comfort character is great because when i play subnautica i always make sure i'm in my base or lifepod just so i can pick up where i left off and say "alright where we goin ryley"
#YOU HEAR ME#my niche comfort#literally I take him on fun adventures#we have little picnic#we hang out#we make homely bases to chill in#I have made Multiple cosy little “cottages’’ with loads of plants and all such#we are the cottage core lesbians
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Finally. All in one place. All of the Ryleys
At least, the main eight of them. This took me a week. Please enjoy! And also this gif of all of them together.
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rly robnobsnob from snubauticar
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ryley robinson on the aurora getting that violation of a haircut (alterra ships dont have barbers they have the coworker-of-a-bunkie from a couple floors down who smells of cheddar cheese and somehow managed to smuggle some dubious looking hair scissors onboard)
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HI MY NAMES ROXY AND I THINK THE SEA EMPEROR LEVIATHAN IS. REALLY FREAKIN HOT
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I have an observation room set up next to the kelp forest for 2 reasons
1. To scan for Stalker teeth since I can never find them on my own
2. So the Stalkers can play with the camera drones while I’m away <3
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if you like it, PLEASE REBLOG IT
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finally, I can sleep with Ryley Robinson
#subnautica#ryley robinson#ryley robinson subnautica#I literally bought the biggest size I could get#honey bring out our finest sheets for the guests#I can finally get a full eight hours of sleep
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Whoops.. my hand slipped :)
AI-AN belongs to: @kichyin-pichy
Roman belongs to: @queercatboyrights
T-OHM belongs to: @an-ev-ent-full-time
OV'AN belongs to: @splitfoxe
ILA-AI belongs to: @beastkaiju
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#oh my gosh#look look it’s my baby#LOOK AT THEY#LOOK SO PRETTY HOLY COW#YOUR STYLE MAKES ME SOB#I LOVE IT SO MUCH HOLY COW YOU DREW THEM SO WELLLLL WAAAAAAA#SOBBINGGGGG
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no no literally i hc him as bisexual and trans and a sprinkling of the nonbinary like he is so,
diversity win! the only survivor of the aurora crash is bisexual
#he is gender envy#and totally bisexual I mean come on just look at him#and perhaps a little ace too#can’t believe unknown worlds really just distilled gender and moulded it into this little ocean bi guy
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Ryley Robinson from Subnautica and Issac from Dead Space interact (from a sketch request page on my server)
Please excuse the 8-bit purple guy I couldn’t crop him out
#subnautica#art#sketch#ryley robinson#ryley robinson subnautica#dead space#Issac dead space#request page#I do not actually ship these two I just thought it was kinda funny seeing as their games are pretty similar#we all already know that Ryley Robinson is my husband anyway so
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