[Aardwolf]

Edit:
The text says, going clockwise from the top:

• Vorlon-esque head + shoulder region (Make more insect-like[?])
• Fix this joint area
• Put some sort of finger here
• External ribs, barely above the hardened chest [plate]
• Back plate/shell?
• Segmented abdomen
• Chicken legs
• Maybe add some long spines/hairs sorta like the Protoss have?
• Symmetrical, obviously
• 3 toes
• Jagged thingies

Another, better quality picture:


Official (diplomatic) name: Azaru (subject to later change)
Technical name: Mantisidae
Colloquial names: Mantis, Bug, ... maybe more later ...

A humanoid/insectoid alien. Technologically advanced, but still uses melee combat extensively (although not exclusively).

And now another sketch, same alien. Some changes, some maybe temporary, some approaching final.

Edit:See next post for sketch #2.

[Aardwolf]

OK, I've decided that trying to 'enhance' the images made them look like ****. So I've uploaded an un-enhanced version. I still don't have a working scanner, so this was (still) done using my camera.



Edit:
Here's my latest idea for the backstory:

• Humans and Mechs separate; Mechs emigrate from Sol
• Human-Bug war
• Human-Bug war ends (no clear victor)
• Plant invasion of Sol; Plants become heavily entrenched after a number of victories
• Mech assault on Plant invasion force; Mechs bombard all Plant locations, killing many Humans
• Bug fleet rescues a number of Humans from Sol
• Human-Bug alliance
• Super Space War (with Lasers!) (The game, if I make a game out of it)

[DarthWang]

Interesting

[Wobble73]

What's the watermark at the top of the page??

[Aardwolf]

"Environment"

I just found it lying around, I'm assuming it's recycled paper or something.

[Stormkeeper]

When I was young, long hours of playing Dark Colony, left me with a deep and distinct impression such that the word alien evokes the image of a Sy-Demon.

Your alien is highly intresting. How does it control machinery ?

[Droid803]

Your alien is highly intresting. How does it control machinery ?

Yeah, how does it control machinery? Sickles aren't good for uhh...things that need gripping.

[Stormkeeper]

1) Stick the sickle into a control port, and tiny nerves along the sickle interface in the port allowing direct control with the alien's mind
2) Direct neural interface through a helmet.
3) They have a pilot strain.

One of those ?

[Wobble73]

"Environment"

I just found it lying around, I'm assuming it's recycled paper or something.

Ah right, it looked like the alien writing they found on the wreckage of the Roswell incident!

[Aardwolf]

It's got hands on the two lower arms. I just can't draw fingers, so I gave it fists instead of open hands.

[Titan]

pretty kool. make it more menacing and spiky, and you get what the shivans should have been.

Granted, the fact that they're not humanoid makes them pretty creepy...)

[Stormkeeper]

"Shivan" doesn't elicit spikes in my head, imo. But the alien is pretty cool. Reminds me of these guys.