Ideas for Alien Species

Didn't /tg/ make an alien a while back?

A race that naturally has the power to travel from planet to planet they barely have any technology, and are more like passive, friendly observers to other races.

You could be working at a port on an ocean planet and just see one descend from the sky and right next to you, and nobody bats an eye because they don't really hurt anything.

a sentient shade of the colour blue.

>>44123498
underrated post

>>44123436
Weird deep-sea bugs that are totally peaceful or allied to us because we don't compete for living space.

Anything radially symmetric.

Hedonists who transfer their brains into exciting new genetically engineered bodies

Predators and prey who developed intelligence as part of their 'evolutionary arms-race'

>>44123436
Giant bugs with a psuedo-hivemind- every bug is an individual, but they are all in constant contact with each other, and memories are shared.
Think SOMA; each alien has essentially the same memories, and thus their personalities are very similar, but there's small differences in each individual that can branch out into more complex quirks. Also, they don't suffer an existential crisis about it because they've always been connected; "Of course that's me! I'm also setting up a shipment of grain two systems over, studying new lifeforms over there, making first contact with- GAAH! Ugh... they shot me. Why do they always shoot me?"
Thinking about how we're all completely separate from each other is as much of a mind trip for them as trying to imagine being in a hundred thousand places at once is for us.

>>44123498
>sentient colors
>picks blue

Not esoteric enough. I need one of those weird colors that only women can see.

>>44123436
AI that were developed by a race that went extinct, not to an uprising but because incredible amounts of pollution ended up killing them off, while only the machines remain. They continue to industrialize the planet with the goal being to make it mechanical to the core. It's become ideological for most of them, and even religious to some.

a memetic lifeform that only exists as the thoughts inside another lifeform's brain.

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>>44123436
look up the novel Mother of Demons, has some really good aliens in it

>>44123436
Imagine if a Diatom evolved into a Chordate, but used its natural biogel silicate as the base of its skeletal structure.

>>44123436
Holographic beings from a planet covered in massive crystal growths.
They can leave the crystals, but their cities are inside ones as large as small countries, zipping through them as if it were a fiber optic cable.

>>44123753

Better yet, read the sector general series.

did anyone else play meteos
those aliens were tight

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>>44123562
Can't label a post underrated if you're literally the next poster.

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am i kawaii uguu~

The pyramids are the aliens.

>>44123743
10/10 would use memes instead of space elves/precursors

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>>44123658
My vote's on chartreuse, already sounds alien

Why didn't the Na'vi have four arms like every single other animal on the fucking planet?

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A race evolved beyond evolution, beings of perfect form and function (They're completely round balls, nigh indestructible but no one knows what the hell they're even doing as they have no need to move or communicate with other inferior life forms).

>>44123436
Fungal species that begins life attached as polyps on a very dense rock formations deep in their astroid belt home. They don't have much technology of their own but have formed cargo cults around the occasional wreck that comes their way and are just starting to gather information about the universe beyond their field of floating stones.

Because of the minerals they grow on, eventually they out-grow and form Around the mineral, breaking it down and redistributing the rocky mass through their body. This makes them a little bit slow, but Very dense when they do finally move.

They're usually sedentary unless provoked to motion outside of their pattern of migration around their particular asteroid to get some sun-light from their abnormal, violet-hued dwarf of a home star.

They can launch themselves with small bursts of motion, throwing their weight into the void. They are not careless about doing so, but have perfected this as an art of transit between some of the larger asteroids, facilitating cultural exchange among some of the other fungal formations.

The mineral formations include crystaline conductive latices; their intellect is mostly by chance rather than for predatory facilitation/diversion, and despite their slow lifestyle and presentation of themselves they are quite quick witted as living amalgams of metalic crystal structures and fungal biomass.

Somewhere in the asteroid field they're native to is an anomalous fungal formation that, prior to gaining enough biological development to start a proper consciousness, kept growing around its whole asteroid, forming a single, giant genius loci sized creature. It took millenia to come to life in earnest, but has lasted individually for many more life cycles than most polyps do naturally and is regarded as a wise spirit and ancestral guide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCO2BLJCXoY

>>44124429
That's fuckin cool.

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>>44123436
Take you pick, /tg/
Apologies for the lack of scans, but it's 2 AM and the campus library is closed.

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>>44124479
Post all of them.

>>44124532
>With just my phone
Anon, please.

>>44124168
Because then they wouldn't be as anthropomorphic.

>>44124479
i want to see the thrint

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>>44124479
Soft one and Demon, please.

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>>44124566
Here you go, I finally got my camera to not be a shit.

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>>44124684
Forgot to ask, what's the name of this book?

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>>44124713
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials.

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>>44124684
...isn't that basically the Ur-quan?

>>44124743
Not the urquan the Dnyarri I mean

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>>44124479
I'll be here for like 30 more minutes for any more requests; if this thread is still up tomorrow, I'll be back with proper scans.

>>44124800
do The Thing and/or The Old One

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>>44124904

Imagine a something like a cross between a birch and a crepe myrtle tree that thinks and has a space faring civilization. Individual Meistersingers are 4.5 to 6 meters tall. They are sessile creatures who root in one place and are unable to move. Nevertheless they are intelligent tool users who have built an interstellar civilization. They manipulate and perceive the world around them with their 'choir'. A choir consists of 7-10 specialised symbiotic organisms that act as the singers eyes, ears and hands. They are split between flyers and crawlers. Flyers are about the size of sparrows, can hover and have large and sensitive eyes and ears. Crawlers are about the size of a large cat, resemble a land crab and have two sets of manipulators resembling crab claws with retractable tendrils that can be used for fine work.

Baseline Meistersingers use two methods to control their choir. For short range, immediate work they use a complex aural code that covers a huge range of frequencies and can convey information equivalent to a visual image. This is also how the singers use their eyes to see even though they are not physically connected to the singer. The required sounds are generated by thousands of fine, stiff tendrils that cover the branches of the singer in place of leaves. For long range work that requires a choirmember to travel out of aural range the Meistersinger uses a chemical version of its aural code to 'program' the unit for its job. Programming is accomplished by having the unit consume a specialized sap that is exuded by the singer through specialized organs in its branches. The detached unit can also report back to the singer chemically by 'downloading' its memory through its own secretions which are consumed by other specialized organs in the singers branches. Modern singers also use electromagnetic and photonic communications implants to augment their abilities.

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>>44124479
HOLY FUCK I OWN THAT BOOK! Picked it up when I was a kid!

>>44124950
Nice! It's a wonderful book, and the only other I own on par with it in how beautiful the illustrations are is "Spacecraft from 2000 to 2100 AD"; which is will likely also make a scan of for this thread if the thread is still up.

>>44123436
Where's its ponytail dick?

>>44124925
Interesting, I like it.

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>>44124925
>Posting the intelligent space trees from Orion's Arm

>>44124217
Reminds me of the Eightball from Tick the Animated series. (Episode: the Tick vs the big Nothing)

>>44124168
In canon answer, for whatever reason their immediate ancestors' limbs fused together. The monkeys have bifrucated arms but not fully two limbs or four, so I guess they're supposed to be the missing link. I guess it's like how apes lost tails.

Out of canon answer, it's because Cameron wanted to mocap the aliens so they had to be humanoid.

As an aside, I like that the xenomorph in OP has four arms. It's also one of the better interpretations of alternative host xenomorphs out there. Very close to a generic xenomorph, but with a few things carried over from the host species. The bright colour is a really interesting touch.

If you had the power to create a xenomorph..would you?

>>44123436
The species never became multicellular, just humongous cells with functioning organelles

>>44125289
Can I fuck it?

>>44125365
only in the mouth, and the translucent dome part

>>44125394
Nice.

I create the xenomorph.

Oh, better secondary question. What can it fuck? Lethally or non-lethally.

>>44125410
Anything. It can fuck anything. It sees a lamppost? Hive it, then it fucks it with its mouth and tail.

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>>44124692
Do we have the same book anon?

>>44125436
Baller.

I definitely make them, and have them fuck people for my amusement.

>>44125261

The science in avatar is as terrible as the script. The planet is too small to hold onto a dense atmosphere, the ship is bullshit, the aliens are magical, etc etc.

>>44125451

oh fuck i had that book as a kid. hardbound too.

>>44125470
Yeah, but damn it looks pretty on a modern big screen HDTV, don't it?

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>>44123436
>all tomorrows hasn't been posted

What the fuck, tg? You had one job.

>>44125495
If you just need pretty images flashed in front of your face, watch samsara.

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>>44125480
M8 0.0

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>>44125461
make sure to properly dispose the bodies

>>44124479
IS THAT SOME EXPEDITION??? FUCK YEAH

>>44125504
Well, I'm also a fan of Pocahontas. Two birds with one stone, I say!

>>44125507
Are you implying that isn't the part I masturbate to most?

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>>44123436
3-claws had a short but awesome life. ; ;

>>44124918
That's an Elder Thing you nigger

>>44125451

>THe Elder Thing is in, but not the Great Race of Yith in either form.

Awwww

>>44125451
I'd like to know more about 21, 20, 28 and what the fuck is 30.

>>44125778
Is that a Xenomorph bred with Serris?

I feel like I should know what the other half is, but nothing comes to mind. =/

Deep sea slug aliens who communicate by excruciating neurochemicals/smells through their tendrils, and see with electrical potentials. They are short lived and knowledge is imprinted in the young by both parents and results in a blend of personalities taking hold in them.

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>>44126337
It's a Xenomorph bred with a Pandoran fish, it came from a quest that ran back in 2013, a young predator is sent on Pandora on his 1st hunt, he discover that, while the local fauna is deadly, the underwater species are way more deadlier...his greatest fear was a xenomorph bred from such fish.
>during his encounter with the fishes he got bit by one and his blood got diluted in the water, the Hive Mind on Pandora then made a Predator fish, that can use the plasma caster

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The Oankali can be an interesting race to use. They can perceive things to the molecular/genetic level and their Ooloi sex are essentially genetic engineers with genetically engineered technology. They need to hybridize themselves with other species after a number of generations or suffer some sort of genetic doomsday. It essentially means that there can be several different Oankali "races" flying around the galaxy.

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Another interesting alien is the Jotoki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotoki

The start life as singular tadpole-like arm creatures creatures layed/hatched in ponds and 5 of them merge into a "starfish like configuration" as an adolescent to start life as an arborial air breather. The adolescent will imprint on whatever it thinks is sapient/sentient(even animals). Before they became a slave race an adult jotok would go into the forest and choose an adolescent and train it into adulthood. They are learning geniuses in adolescent development and pre-slave technology included starships and were primarily traders.

>>44123436
This website contains a lot of good original alien species and concepts for such: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/index/

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Oh boy here we go shitposting again

>>44127365
What does the Sergal have to do with shitposts?

>>44127533
They're aliens canonically

>>44127561
I dunno where the fuck you got that from, doesn't say shit on the wiki

>>44123610
>Predators and prey who developed intelligence as part of their 'evolutionary arms-race'.

This goes to my next traveler game .

>>44124571
Don't look at it

>>44127605
>Vilous
>another world

means they're ayys faggot

>>44127731
Oh, thought ya meant they were aliums in the vilous setting, fuccboi

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>>44125305
Blobels from Philip K Dick novel "Oh, to Be a Blobel!"

>>44124931
>>44124946
Blacklight Virus versus the Thing. Who wins?

>>44125451
>41
are this are those peaceful tree(or grass, i forgot) creatures from haldeman's "forever war"? those ones that got slaughtered on MC first mission?

>>44123436
I always thought it would be cool to have an alien that's really a hive mind of a few dozen or hundred bodies. The alien doesn't really feel pain and is basically completely self sustaining, basically being a small village unto itself. As a result it's a collasal asshole since, unlike the average human, it's never had to work with others or compromise. There could be a cool element where the entire species essentially lives forever (the same cells technical live forever due to being cloned through mitosis) and because of there selfishness fundementaly to not understand the concept of self sacrifice or courage. Also its continent from a company setting since you can kill dozens of it hundreds of of times in a fight and not just fight it once.

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>>44124946
Oh that's nasty

>>44124946
It bears a resemblance to the twitch emote of the same name

>>44127937
>>44127894

you fucking millenials go watch the movie from 1982 NOW

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>>44123658

>>44128117
You see you're assuming i haven't

>>44124479
The thing would be nice, please.

>>44127677
Got it from a book, wish I could remember the name

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>>44126153
#20
The Garnishee.

They are an advanced race of creatures allied with humans, and one of them runs the Galaxy Patrol. They eat glass bottles (their eating mouth is in the middle of the upper tentacle ring) and their main brain is actually in one of their feet. The dots under the speakign and breathing organ are eyespots.

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>>44127807
No, those are the Masters, from the Pool of Radiance series. They took over the planet and enslaved everyone on earth.

>>44126153
#21 - Polarian. These creatures are some what weird. The lower mobility ball moves under muscular pressure from the body - the upper communication sphere can be rotated at high speeds and pressed against a surface to make sounds. They have a well developed sense of sonar.

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>>44126153
# 28 is a Sirian, a highly advanced heavy-planet born aquatic race. They are efficient and effective conquerors, and commonly leave self governance to the conquered species, usually taxing various resources at sustainable levels, by conquering more territory they can reduce taxes further, thus encouraging subjugated species to assist them.

>>44124974
I loved that book. I had several of it's sudccessors from the Terran Trade Authority series, including Alien Encounters, Great Space Battles, and of course the Spacecraft book.

>>44127807
Nah, they're from The Tripods series

>>44128827

i remember that one creeped me out the most as a kid.

>>44125498
Wait wait wai, after years reading it, humanity (s in descendants), all in all are dead? The author isnt an human? Even after all that time, we fucked up?

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>>44125498
K man
>>44129313
yeah the author is this guy. Technically he is a descendant of humanity. He isn't human though. Just like how a human isn't a fish even though we used to be

>>44129414
Ah, so all is good. I tought he meant on his last words that the story of humanity had ended at some unknown time, but the important is the journey.It makes a very different context if he is an species descendet from humans or if he is just some other alien who studies on ancient human history.

I also like his penis-vagina-hand.

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>>44129502
I'm assuming that english isn't your first language

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>>44125470
>the ship is bullshit

Oh no bitch you didn't just diss the only decent bit of the entire movie, the Venture is hard sci-fi as FUCK.

It's a tad too fast (.7c instead of the .3 that NASA expects to squeeze out of an antimatter drive) but everything else is p. much scientifically sound.

>>44124946
I like Carpenter's take on The Thing. The original Thing looks more silly than menacing, even if it is described as pure evil and swallows people whole to recreate them as its own copies.

>>44127798
It ends in a stalemate where both fuse to create THE MOST HORRID ABOMINATION EVER.

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>>44130213
Yep. Carpenter Thing best Thing.

>>44130148
It's the most accurate in film. That doesn't make it accurate to reality. The lasers on mercury would have to be impossibly powerful and impossibly precise, the cost of making enough anti-matter would bankrupt the world a hundred times over, etc etc.

It is bullshit, but it did try, mostly due to it being a much older design called Valkyrie by charles pellegrino whom cameron happened to know because pellegrino is also the number 1 expert on the titanic.

>>44129715
Nah, but normally people can understand what I mean.

>>44129313
Nothing can last forever. Like the author says, it doesn't matter how long we last as long as the existence we have is worth living.

>thread is still up
Scans soon, fa/tg/uys.

>>44129414
>>44129502

Uh, the final page makes it rather clear that he's not a descendant, and that no descendants can be found.

>I must conclude my words with a confession. Mankind, the very species which I’ve been chronicling from its terrestrial infancy to its domination of the galaxies, is extinct.

>All of the beings which you saw on the preceding pages; from the lowly Worm to the Wind-riding Sail People, from the megalomaniac Gravital to the ultimate Galactic citizens, lie a billion years dead. We are only beginning to piece the story together. What you read was our best approximation of the truth.

>Why did they disappear? Perhaps it was a final, unimaginable war of annihilation, one that transcended the very meaning of “conflict”. Perhaps it was a gradual break-up of the united galaxies, and every race facing their private end slowly afterwards. Or perhaps, the wildest theories suggest, it was a mass migration to another plane of existence. A journey into somewhere, sometime, something else. But the bottom line is; we honestly don’t know.

>>44125828
>Old One is clearly printed in corner
:^)

>>44130400

Yeah, it travels at the speed of bullshit. Everything else tho

>dem huge radiators
>mutha fuckin photon sail and antimatter thrusters
>dat symmetry
>dat whipple shield
>you want artificial gravity? HABITAT SPINNAZ, SON
>dat design optimized for minimal weight. every gram counts, nigga
>most of the crew is frozen to save money, mass, and boredom
>most of the mass is just a fuckoff huge engine.
>none of that FTL magic shit, like back in the ol' days when we traveled relativistic and it was uphill both ways

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>>44130716
Now compare to this horseshit "most realistic space movie ever" garbage heap kitbash of the ISS.

A sentient race of brainial parasites that are currently in a civil war. They are using other sentient's as proxies.

>>44130575
>what are the aestromorphs?

>>44130495
>copy center is closed on weekends
>mass scanners in library don't work with flash drives for some ungodly reason
>only remaining public scanner would take literal hours to scan the book
Rip

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>>44124925

Orion Arm, fuck i almost forgot about that fully Autistic magnificent pearl of interwebz.

Here, have a random space chick for reminding me about it.

>>44128827
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>>44128880
Thanks!

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>>44131227

You tried good anon and that is much more than we deserve, have some nsfw juicy punnani as a token of gratitude!

>>44131658
Thanks anon, but you might want to delete that before you get bannued. This is a blue board, remember.

>>44127798
Necromorph vs The Thing vs The Blob