Could you draw up a sophont that hails from Proxima Centauri b? The for sure features/ideas in my mind to work off on are that they're bilaterals with a crest/frill akin to a ceratopsian, but is made up of filaments.
Thanks for the submission! I can up with a lot of ideas (as seen in my previous post) but I decided on this armored, pentapedal sophont dude. (Sorry if the crest isn’t made of “filaments” I’m not sure what that would supposed to be, sorry!! I hope you like it anyways ;-;)
I call them simply “Centauri Werms” because they are from Proxima Centari b and are sorta worm like
I tried to tie in elements of a more plausible organism and what they could possibly evolve into over time. Most beginning life on PCb would be aquatic, and most likely have to be semi resistant to their sun’s unhinged rays. But I think eventually they would make their way onto land, and perhaps, like in this case, become sophont. (You can tell I was indecisive on the armor pattering)
Here are my ideas for their evolution. Basically beginning as a simple water based organism, that eventually ventures in land. Their armor becomes more extravagant and now also aids in defending predators. Since they are pentapedal, I considered that the middle set of limbs becoming the main manipulators interesting and more balancing. In this little sketch above, you can see the middle werm “waving” it’s arms as a possible defense tactic. This marks the beginning of their eventual major differentiation.
Finally, some eye anatomy. For simplicity, I draw them as slit-pupil eyes, but that’s not entirely it. The “specialized” eye has shrunk massively, since the Centari Werms have found other ways to protect themselves from the sun and can also predict any unordinaries without the help of this organ. And, since their heads are heavily armored, the peripheral (sorry for the bad spelling) eyes are facing more upwards to see beyond their crests, planted on the cheekbones/unnamed structure that appear to be cheekbones (still figuring out their internal structure)
Anyways, that’s pretty much it! I hope you guys like this guy, and be sure to give me more suggestions!