Aliens!
Top left: Semi-aquatic cuttlefish people called Saluri. They live on the aquatic world Helia 9, and they have camouflaging abilities that allow them to alter their shape, texture, and color like octopuses and cuttlefish. They need this camouflaging to hide from the massive, carnivorous bone fish that prowl the waters of their homeworld (think three times the size of a blue whale).
Middle left: Large, four-armed omnivores called Rokor. They live on Vadam, which bears resemblance to Africa climate wise. They’re a mainly farming species that dedicate most of their resources to tending their crops and cattle. They’re tough as hell, though, and have to fight of swarms of scavenging Hellmouths to keep them from eating their cattle.
Bottom left: Archivists are tall, delicate, six-armed, semi telepathic creatures. No one knows much about them or where they come from---all they really do is watch, learn, and record everything and anything that takes place in the intergalactic community. People regard them with suspicion because of their abilities and enigmatic nature, but so far they’ve proven themselves to be nothing but gentle and curious.
Top right: The Initi are bony, digitigrade-legged aliens that live on the nigh inhabitable world of Vesiphone (pronounced Vess-IFF-oh-nee), which is basically just rock and lightning and cliffs. They survive through extreme discipline, and are very close with their gods. This particular Initi is a scientist named Doctor Arko Raxa, and the reason for the odd mask is that he fell down a 35 foot drop onto sharp rocks when he was a teenager, snapping his spine, splitting his head open, and crushing his ribcage. He was comatose for 6 months, and when he finally woke, he had to remain hooked up to clunky equipment to keep him alive. Well, being the smart little engineering prodigy he is, he created his own completely mobile, groundbreaking implants and life support systems to enable himself the quality of life he had before he fell. He’s made huge strides in the fields of bio-engineering and is one of the smartest guys around---and though he looks really evil and scary, he’s actually an undersized, self-absorbed prickhead. He thinks he’s funnier and smarter than everyone he meets and doesn’t care if he makes that apparent, and can be incredibly obnoxious to everyone around him. His coworkers have a joking support group for having to put up with him day in and day out. He’s a good guy, though. He just has a shitty attitude. Uncovered Initi faces look like this:
Bottom right: Vulbusa are peaceful, reclusive plant-based aliens that live on Bellivarum. They cannot speak, but rather communicate through slight color changes, body language, and pheromones. They grow their children in groves, worship a giant underground glowing plant, and are totally oblivious to the fact that everyone thinks they look like exotic vaginas. Out of all these aliens they have the most biodiversity and come in thousands of wildly different shapes, sizes, colors, and functions.
