[Marcov]

Just curious. I saw this here: http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/710078/the-scariest-monsters-in-video-games-aliens-creatures-and-creepers-oh-my/?page=2

So, it appears that this doesn't appear in canon. Which mod did this thing come from?

[Nuclear1]

Looks like the SI Arachnas.

[ssmit132]

an insectoid race (with occasional tentacles)

Hang on, Shivans have tentacles?

[-Norbert-]

I guess the forward facing arms of the Ravana, Rakshasa and Sathanas could be exeggerated into being called tentacles...

[The E]

That's like saying a praying Mantis has tentacles. No. Just no.

[PeterX]

Looks like the SI Arachnas.

Exactly this is it and heavy amored and heavy armed.
Peter

[-Norbert-]

That's like saying a praying Mantis has tentacles. No. Just no.

Don't tell me, tell the author. I just tried to figure out how someone might get from Shivans to tentacles, barring a mixup.

[Nyctaeus]

This is updated Arachnas by FSF. He worked on old Arachnas model, but later he recived a new model and probably abandoned old one. New HTL Arachnas is released somewhere in modding section, but that older model is also interesting.

[Dragon]

It preserves the old "feel", unlike the HTL model used by Inferno.

[Marcov]

About the tentacles, I guess the closest to that would be the Shivan destroyer "Demon". Look up at the Veteran Comments; either the author was the one who published this comment, or got the idea from the comment, or just also interpreted the Demon's protruding "spikes" as "tentacles":

In FS1 there's a big undefended blindspot inside the "tentacles", leaving the weapons subsystem unguarded by blob turret fire. This just happens to be right next to the fighter bays, however, so be careful. In FS2 the flak batteries provide at least some cover to this area.

Well, who knows. It's just making me a bit sad (but also a tad happy that the fanmade mods have gone this popular) that these fanwork are being treated like official material .

[FreeSpaceFreak]

What. A quickie screenshot of one of my first modeljobs makes it all the way to "demonstration of the scariness of Shivans"? Someone should send a shot of the new Sath to those guys, like this one.

Still, I feel honoured

[Mongoose]

Somewhat-questionable description and fan-made model aside, I just think it's awesome that the Shivans made it onto something as mainstream as G4.