Last Sophonts!
At last, I have finished— Mergators are sophonts that are native to planet aptum, they evolved in temperate river deltas and banks, they’re octopods that use their 2 hind pairs as paddling fins while the front pair are either used in seizing prey or manipulating objects and tools. They evolved as ambush predators akin to crocodiles, however they used simple traps to capture and seize prey, they have the largest variety of domesticated mammals, from herded fish-like or cattle-like animals, to traveling shark/whale-like beasts of burden, to dog-like hunting partners, and several others.
There is a significant size disparity between males and females has caused misandry and the de”human”ization of males, being treated more as pets to be mated with. It was only in the late colonial era when comparably ‘radical’ scientists tested the intelligence of males with results suggesting equal intelligence to females. Since then the global relations between males and females has been very unstable, with groups of males even enacting violence on females, for better or worse. Since their discovery just under a century ago, the interstellar network has made an effort to help males gain their rights, however further interference with the problems of mergators societies would be deemed as a soft form of colonization that can’t be tolerated on another note, here are some other things, a sketch of the group of aliens that would make first contact with humanity, one of them looking at the wreckage with a growing feeling the civilization here may have destroyed themselves. the second thing is just a bunch of concept art i made in march, there are sketches of a previous idea i had for the Spidarrots, they were previously called the "Lionsparrows". among other concepts. the last thing was also march concept art of some bullcrap aircrafts i made, probably stuff in the "Final War" (Nonchalant lore mention oooo...)
