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Early Christmas present :)

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Early Christmas present :)

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“MY BROTHERS FROM STARS AFAR. JOIN US AND WE SHALL BURN TYRANNY TO CHAR.

WE HAVE WATCHED OUR WORLD BE TORN TO SHREDS. FILLED WITH DREAD AS BILLIONS DROPPED DEAD AND MANY MORE PROFUSELY BLED.

WE WATCHED IN HORROR AS ENTIRE CULTURES WERE ERASED. ENTIRE WORLDS WERE DISPLACED

AND ALL THIS FOR THE ELITES TO LINE THEIR POCKETS. THEY LAUGHED AT OUR PLIGHT FROM THEIR SEATS AS THEY MULTIPLY THEIR PROFITS.

ALL FOR THE TYRANTS TO BE OUR PUPPETEERS OF ENDLESS PAIN. CONTROLLING US THROUGH OUR FEARS FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL GAIN.

WE DESPISED THEM TO OUR HEARTS AS IT RADICALIZED US TO DO OUR PART.

WE KILLED EVERY LAST DESPOT AND OVERTHREW OUR STATES. WE FOUGHT FOR OUR RESPITE AND NOW DECIDED OUR OWN FATES

OUR HOME WAS UNSALVAGEABLE, WE LEFT AND FLEW INTO THE FRIGID QUIET NIGHT. WE SEARCHED THE STARS ONLY TO FIND YOU AND YOUR KINDRED PLIGHT.

IT'S ALL CLEAR NOW, OUR AGONY WAS MUTUAL, AND WE SAW A NEW TRUE THESES. THE FIGHT AGAINST TYRANNY IS THE ONE CONSTANT, UNIVERSAL TO ALL SPECIES .

WE HAVE SUFFERED FOR FAR TOO LONG WITH NOTHING TO GAIN. AND WE WILL MAKE SURE YOU WON'T GO THROUGH OUR PAIN.

WE ARE HERE TO SET YOU FREE. AND SAVE YOU FROM ALL DISASTERS. TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR PEACE AND SLAY YOUR MASTERS.

LIBERTY WAITS FOR NO ONE. AND NO ONE SHOULD WAIT FOR LIBERTY”

- grand arbiter ██████████████ ███

They were the other of the first two civilizations

    10 billion years ago they walked the universe with the Factorem. In a time when space itself was warm.

For most souls of the early universe, this was the face of democracy.

    They too were the technological pinnacle of the universe.

    They bent reality to create floating architecture and multi-dimensional superstructures that defied the very laws of physics.

    They too helped create the Understars, an entire parallel universe just to ease travel in our own reality.

    They even went as far as being able to temporarily reverse to flow of time in portions of space to undo mistakes to grave to make.

    And even learned how to convert thermal energy back into mechanical energy. Delaying the heat death of the universe.

 Look at the night sky the same way the hubble telescope saw it through the deep field image.

    Millions of galaxies in every square centimeter of your vision.

    Every single one holds tens to hundreds of billions of stars and countless planets.

    So many galaxies it would turn the whole night sky a deep gold if you could see the full scale

Where the loving embrace of the factorem tended the gardens to one half of it

They had spread the call of liberty to the other half

They were the harbingers of intergalactic liberation

They were the Bellators

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Had the urge to draw this a few days ago and wanted to finish a little poem before i uploaded this. I was. very. emotionally charged making this.

This character is a part of a personal project of mine, A Story of Our Universe. And is meant to serve as the Factorem's Equals.

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The old Ahnāwi homeworld

The ancient Ahnāwi homeworld, lost after their final exodus, was a frozen super earth in orbit of a red gas giant. It had been captured into its orbit after a rogue planet had flung it further out system, causing the biggest mass extinction in the planet's history.

Before its fall, it was the center of Ahnāwi civilization. Despite having less people on it compared to the orbital swarm, it still carried great cultural significance and was where the capitals of multiple nations. While not united and fractured into multiple nations like humans, it had multiple international space hooks around it, allowing cheap and easy access into space.

It is unknown what happened to it after the Battle of the Fall, but it is suspected to have met the similar fate of major depopulation and becoming a preserve for a small population of Ahnāwi under the watch of the Decievers.

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In Super Earth's name, I cast you down to hell

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BOOM huge introduction to all the other planets with life in my world building project the Neo-Anthropocene. You'll all hopefully all come to know these worlds in the near future as i have several posts in the backlog going into more detail about them!

+ closeups on all the planets if tumblr crunches the fuck outta the post itself and a funny error on earth's description bc only now did i see that lmao

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"Human"

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The reason I dont post as often here compared to twitter is cuz I kinda feel obligated to post full pieces here instead of sketches lol

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Mechanized Infantry

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I made a video talking about the design evolution of one of my aliens!

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Portrait

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Portrait

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Merfolk in the Trail of Cryptids (for @jennywolfgal)

woah hey i wasnt expecting to have participated in mermay bet here i am now. This is for @jennywolfgal and her project the Trail of Cryptids which i talked about awhile ago with her dragons. enjoy!

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Another group of species endemic to this alternate earth are the legendary Merfolk. Trident wielding Half-man half-fish people of the sea of the myths in our world. The merfolk here aren’t humans or hominids, nor are they even great apes. But instead they are a sister-clade of the family Cebidae. They are related to the Capuchin monkeys of central and south America.

They split off 10 million years ago with a similar evolutionary history to the cetaceans. Allowing an evolution of similar extremeness akin to the time between Pakicetus and Dorudon.

Icthypithicids contain a variety of aquatic monkey species. True merfolk belong in the genus Meralosapiens. With some species inhabiting the mediteranean, coast of east europe, and their ancestral ground the Caribbean with a leaner build adorned in less fat.

To start off physically, They are like Cetaceans, kind of. their tail extended to an extreme degree to swim. Unlike cetaceans and alike ancient artwork of mermaids of our earth. Their legs still remain useful to swim and hold onto partners. Their arms freed up, remain as manipulators. They remain folded to reduce drag. . Their arms remain folded to reduce drag and hold onto large objects and young merfolk when breastfeeding.

Uniquely they have a full head of hair like humans in spite of the drag created. This hair is maintained and kept healthy through grooming with the aid of two serrated claws on the lower half of their hand. Their teeth are tipped with canines and slowly become more trident shaped further back. Which they use to flush water out of their mouth. And Lastly their nostrils can completely close like a seal, and are at the very front of the face to ensure they breach the water first.

Ecologically, they are mostly carnivorous. They eat a wide array of fish, squid, and other small marine life. They take a particular liking to seaweeds and copepods, which they use their trident teeth to filter them out of the water. They take so much of a liking to copepods they will even follow their vertical migration.

They are quite social and live in family pods. Like mentioned earlier they will groom each other to strengthen social bonds. While most Icthypithicids are comparable in intelligence to their capuchin cousins. Meralaosapiens are fully sophont organisms that have the capacity for understanding and creating art and complex language. Technologically they are comparable to neolithic humans. Most populations use stone tools or other organisms slightly bred for more cooperation, living tools if you will. While other populations scavenge for more advanced tools left behind by humans.

Overall they are neutral to humans. Often keeping their distance or outright hiding from humans. Some more aggressive merfolk will attack or even hunt humans as a source of preyluring them in with their locks of hair. Which is believed to have arisen from a few merfolk cultures going through famine and growing desperate for food, eventually looking to their cousins beyond the water.

And of course there are others naturally curious of their terrestrial relatives and will frequently come up to human divers, even attempting to communicate with them. The future is uncertain, but hopefully the humanity of this earth will treat these people with respect and maybe even lend them a hand.

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Im sorry but why did my drawing suddenly pop the fuck off like a week later lmao

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Your last post is fascinating!

How do "base" Ahnawi feel about these frames? Is the transition permanent, or can an Ahnawi change frames over time? I'd love to know more!

Thank you! The Ahnawi don't really have a feeling towards frames, the same way we don't really feel anything towards power tools. They see swapping bodies the same way we see swapping the head of a power drill.

The transition isn't permanent, they can change back to their original bodies any time they like! (Though most of the time, their og body is destroyed and they clone a new one). So throughout their lifetime, they have have dozens of different bodies, either temporarily for work or permanently. This also means that the only real limiting factor on their lifespan is their brains.

Now this doesn't mean that they ALWAYS swap frames to do work. They only do that if they're going to be doing something for a long time. For short tasks there are still vehicles that they use, though they still interface with it, becoming one with the machine.

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not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

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There is flesh in these machines