ahh i love world building and thinking about alien species. would you mind talking about your aliens for a bit? or can i see your other blog? (all good if you'd rather not!)
Thank you so much for asking!
My aliens are called paski, and I jokingly call them my xenophobic communist llama aliens. Below is a drawing I made just now just for you of the four subspecies (all ladies; the males have different horns):
Left to right is a Raatasira paski (desert subspecies), Binasinga (islander), Caandiki (temperate), and Pilasira (arctic). There used to be a fifth subspecies, the Takasira (steppe), however they are extinct due to a genocide put on by the Raatasira a couple millennia ago.
The Raatasira took over the world in Ye Olden Days and run things with an iron fist. Everyone has their own language(s) and culture(s), but every single paski must also speak Raatasingh. You know how it goes. Colonialism.
They're spacefaring, and about thirty five years go made First Contact with humans, had a war about it, and lost. Now the two species have an uneasy peace and are working out how to live together. Right now there is one (1) joint human/paski world colony, and a handful of joint space stations. Since this is a very recent development, there are Tensions.
Things I think are neat about these guys:
Tech is a mixture of ceramics and biotech. They have spider cars that are grown in labs and have rudimentary learning capabilities. Their spaceships are basically floating shells with living coral inside the walls. You do not want the coral to die. A lot of space travel involves keeping the coral alive.
They have two thumbs-- one grasping thumb and one slashing one. If they smack ya, that slashing claw can open your skin down to the bone.
They've got a heat-sensitive pit organ located in front of each eye. Their vision in general is more red-shifted than ours. They cannot see purple. They've also got much, much better vision than humans, but their senses of smell and taste suck.
Females have double canines.
Females are typically larger than males. Average height for a Raatasira female is up to about 6'5'' (196 cm), while a male is around 6'0'' (183 cm). Pilasira can get larger. Binasinga are the smallest.
They kinda suck! They are very xenophobic, towards humans and towards each other. They are deeply ableist-- the majority of my characters have fallen through the cracks that way and have to turn to humans for help. As stated above, Raatasira run a tight ship and they've got both a military police and a goon squad (called the Protection Force) to keep society in line. It's a bit of a hellhole for folks who don't fit the cookie cutter, but contact with humans is forcing society to change.
I crated them in 2011 when I was majoring in Animal Science, so I was thinking about spec bio all day every day. I had a lovely group of friends who asked me questions incessantly about them, so I developed them quite a bit. If you want to check out my main blog, the tag is "paski headworld". Just be warned it's a tyrannical society, and I spend some time putting a magnifying glass to it. And also I personally have undergone some character development, so there are some things from earlier years that I would change nowadays because I've learned more and grown as a person.
But yeah, paski are my babies. I love them very much. I joined tumblr specifically so I could blather about them to my heart's content.
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