I still need to add weapons platforms. I adjusted the model last night after rendering, with 3 ballista mounts over the neck and a catapult in the rear top shell. I'll make the adjustments and re-render, but this is the job I've done so for. Now there is a canon Sea Turtle Spelljammer ship that is capable of being a submersible. Well I did my non-canon version based on an Alligator Snapping Turtle shell and head - as it is more scary. Added marine turtle flippers and rendered it.
The Zhitchaka are a humanoid crustacean race from a planet of shallow tropical seas, as a starfaring race of militant philosophers. They exist within the Kronusverse setting. (I'm currently sidetracked developing a collection of Spelljammer ships, but once done, I'll get back to setting development for Starfinder). This creature uses parts from a 3D insectoid collection by Bernhard Vanderhorst - not my 3D design.
I can only count 8 GP.It has 10 legs
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The abdomen has 6 legs, though at this angle it's hard to see, then the 4 forelimbs - that's 10.
For clarification, this illustration is for my Starfinder setting, not Spelljammer, finding a cluster of small asteroids, gathered and bound together by an intelligent, alien, gargantuan spider (presumably Tiny to Gargantuan, starship scale) and those mean large, humanoid scorpion spider I produced yesterday, is their tiny males of the species. Each queen has dozens of male laborer warriors to protect her. They catch passing small asteroids by placing webbing between it and their nest. Noting, I'm calling this a spider nest, not "the spider nests", as apparently these can be found in asteroids belts, dust clouds and nebula where these giant spiders dwell.
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Updated this illustration, by adding two drapes of webbing on either side presumably connected to larger, nearby asteroids as anchor points to secure the nest, and provide net traps to catch passing small asteroids and perhaps ships into their webs to be carried back to the nest to feed on and add structures to the nest itself...
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