3D illustrations...

[wizard509]

Hmmmmmm

[Gamerprinter]

Vapor Kine are a kind large, floating, invertibrate creature of unusual biology, about the size of an imperial mammoth. It is native to Mini Neptune type, small gas giants with rocky cores,
and extremely high pressure of mostly-hydrogen atmosphere, but it's metabolism absorbs lithium-6 from the atmosphere and metabolizes it into tritium, which it excretes and eventually decays into helium-3. Although the creature is inoffensive and somewhat less intelligent than an Earth cow, the helium it produces has valuable uses, causing them to be herded in vast ranches in certain gas giant's dense atmospheres, tended by special robotic herders designed to withstand the gravity, pressure and temperatures they need to survive.

[wizard509]

I really,really like this one GP. both your dialog and image.

[Egg Bramhill]

Looks like some crazy mix of an octopus, lobster and an ephelump. A seafood cocktail!

[wizard509]

[QUOTE=Egg Bramhill;645961]Looks like some crazy mix of an octopus, lobster and an ephelump. A seafood cocktai

Yeah but I like it.
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[Gamerprinter]

Well depending on your gastronomic preferences, I tried to cater to all flavors, like this one. The Sea Princess, a powerful being of power from an ocean world, the next leader of the planet in the chosen line...

GP

[wizard509]

[QUOTE=Gamerprinter;645980]Well dep on your tronomic preferences, I tried to cater to all flavors, like this one. The Sea Princess, a powerful being of power from an ocean world, the next leader of the planet in the chosen line. [QUO0TE]



If this is the next leader I sure hate to be a follower.

[handrawn]

Vapor Kine are a kind large, floating, invertibrate creature of unusual biology, about the size of an imperial mammoth. It is native to Mini Neptune type, small gas giants with rocky cores,
and extremely high pressure of mostly-hydrogen atmosphere, but it's metabolism absorbs lithium-6 from the atmosphere and metabolizes it into tritium, which it excretes and eventually decays into helium-3. Although the creature is inoffensive and somewhat less intelligent than an Earth cow, the helium it produces has valuable uses, causing them to be herded in vast ranches in certain gas giant's dense atmospheres, tended by special robotic herders designed to withstand the gravity, pressure and temperatures they need to survive.

I like this - vaguely reminds me of surrealism, Yves Tanguy for example....

[Gamerprinter]

Calling this one - Cylindrical Serengeti.

While it's not the Serengeti, though the animal life seems very similar to Earth counterparts - an antelope specie, a large rodent, something very similar to a rhinoceros, which only adds to the mystery. The Gaea system was declared banned from colonization until further notice by the Colonial Academy of Science. Any system where a sapient developing, non-starfaring species is found, it is declared off limits for colonization and resource exploitation; a kind of prime directive. Also systems with anomalies or mysteries, as the Gaea system is. All it's inner planets are missing, presumably dismantled and used as the material to construct a cloud of over 100 Oniell cylinders, each over 1,000 miles long, slightly more than 100 miles in diameter with millions of square miles of interior space. They aren't easily detectable however, seeming to be shielded from revealing power and operations of each cylinder. When these were found, it was expected to host billions of humanoid inhabitants. Which they do not. Our teams have only managed to enter one, and only allowed to send in probes to film the interior, however, each one appears to have a unique ecosphere, with a defined niche of lifeforms from simple to advanced and filling every niche in the food chain, from grazers to predators and scavengers. We believe these represent different epochs of time on the world of it's builders. Aside from knowing these were constructed 3800 years ago, we have yet to find out anything regarding the builders. Who are they? What happened to them? Why build the cylinders and not inhabit them? Too many questions...

GP

[wizard509]

Thanks GP I like it.