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Yes. Yes it does. A big gun that will fry your juicy-brain meat like a raw egg in a microwave. This, folks, is an Arbiter, and Arbiters are bad, mmm'kay? They're cannibals, they breed like flies, they really dumb individually but in a pack they are never to be underestimated. Not to be confused with the cute little aliens from the Halo series.
And oh shit, did I mention they have fucking GUNS? And spaceships? All stolen technology of course, raped from other species they have annihilated. And although they do mate to produce off-spring, they can also reproduce via parthenogenesis. That's some bad-ass shit right there.
This is freakin' AWESOME... Inzekkt from DA (http://inzekkt.deviantart.com/) spent a long time doing this, and there is a metric butt-load of details in it as well that are sadly eaten alive by compression. She is the bee's knees of alien space monsters, and a freakin' awesome lady.
FEAR THE PERSPECTIVE! FEAR IT, DAMN YOU!
You can see some pretty cool previous commissions I've had done by Inzekkt;
here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1913330/
and here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1747506/
And oh shit, did I mention they have fucking GUNS? And spaceships? All stolen technology of course, raped from other species they have annihilated. And although they do mate to produce off-spring, they can also reproduce via parthenogenesis. That's some bad-ass shit right there.
This is freakin' AWESOME... Inzekkt from DA (http://inzekkt.deviantart.com/) spent a long time doing this, and there is a metric butt-load of details in it as well that are sadly eaten alive by compression. She is the bee's knees of alien space monsters, and a freakin' awesome lady.
FEAR THE PERSPECTIVE! FEAR IT, DAMN YOU!
You can see some pretty cool previous commissions I've had done by Inzekkt;
here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1913330/
and here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1747506/
Category All / Fantasy
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Actually if you could get close to one they would be warm and fuzzy... they're covered in millions of very fine hairs they use for sensing vibrations in the air/ground. And due to their biology they are warm-blooded and the parts that aren't armoured are soft and squishy...
Cuddles tiem nao?
Cuddles tiem nao?
The bending is a perspective thing, as if you were viewing it through a gentle-gradient fish-eye lens. Might look a little odd, but I like it Inzekkt did a great job on the pic - and yeah, that bullet-hole is a sweet little touch. Basically gave her the rough description and let her go crazy. She's good like that.
Cheers on the nice comments
Cheers on the nice comments
It is a race from Magic The Gathering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatu.....thering#Sliver
Slivers are a little more ridiculous than arbiters though. They go beyond sharing mental thought and share physical attributes - kind of like bacteria i guess. If a Sliver is immune or fire, all Slivers around it are immune to fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatu.....thering#Sliver
Slivers are a little more ridiculous than arbiters though. They go beyond sharing mental thought and share physical attributes - kind of like bacteria i guess. If a Sliver is immune or fire, all Slivers around it are immune to fire.
Ah, okay. Wasn't familiar with them - thank you for the link and the info.
I designed the Arbiters to be a little more mundane. They communicate using scent and a very weak form of biologically generated radio signal, which is useless at any distance over 100 metres or more. Each individual is really dumb - think smart as a chicken. Their intelligence increases in proportion to their numbers. They have no rulers, no queens, they're all the same. Breed, expand, make sure that theirs is the only the lifeform allowed to exist. Every individual is utterly expendable and worthless to the whole in persuit of the hive goals. The only immunities they get are genetically inherited from their predecessors and those are only against biological threats - they are non-magical and quite susceptible to environmental threats as per any other organism we'd be familiar with.
I designed the Arbiters to be a little more mundane. They communicate using scent and a very weak form of biologically generated radio signal, which is useless at any distance over 100 metres or more. Each individual is really dumb - think smart as a chicken. Their intelligence increases in proportion to their numbers. They have no rulers, no queens, they're all the same. Breed, expand, make sure that theirs is the only the lifeform allowed to exist. Every individual is utterly expendable and worthless to the whole in persuit of the hive goals. The only immunities they get are genetically inherited from their predecessors and those are only against biological threats - they are non-magical and quite susceptible to environmental threats as per any other organism we'd be familiar with.
Whenever I commission an artist, I give them as much artistic licence as they need/want. Beyond a basic description and suggestion they're free to go nuts. All I mentioned was "armoured space-maggot with a REALLY bad attitude (plus a couple of anatomy details) and a big fuck-off weapon". Inzekkt delivered in spades In the stories I've written, the Arbiters portable weapon of choice is a very powerful focused electro-magnetic pulse weapon. Very short effective range (10 - 20 metres max) but wide spread and extremely effective. Destroys anything even vaguely technological that relies on electricity, and also completely fries anything biological that has a bioelectrical nervous system. Because the stories are set in 'this' universe, this includes most alien species the Arbiter come across. The biology of most alien animals (evolved or otherwise) uses variations of what we would consider a conventional nervous system, tiny electrical signals sent via the nerves.
As for the perspective, I know there are imperfections, but they're irrelevant to me; I'm just really stoked with what the artist produced
Anyway, thank you for the lovely comments!
As for the perspective, I know there are imperfections, but they're irrelevant to me; I'm just really stoked with what the artist produced
Anyway, thank you for the lovely comments!
Raid would probably just annoy an Arbiter, I definitely think Napalm is a better bet in this situation. Kill it with fire. Lots and lots of fire. Torch its nest. Take off and nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Yeah, perspective on this one is absolutely killer. Inzekkt rocks my world.
Yeah, perspective on this one is absolutely killer. Inzekkt rocks my world.
Alien & Aliens - the two best movies of the lot. Both classics (one horror, one action). Both of which stand the test of time really well even compared with movies coming out now. There were so many memorable quotes in Aliens, such a fantastic movie. You definitely have great taste, Sir.
Both of those movies are in my top 10 list of best movies ever created, saw Aliens first and then Alien. Alien scared the living shit out of me when I first saw it, but then again I was 14 years old at the time. Dallas crawling around in the access ways with the flame thrower was probably the single most terrifying moment in that move.
Love the quotes and once liners in Aliens, most of them from Hudson, got to love Bill Paxton character.
Love the quotes and once liners in Aliens, most of them from Hudson, got to love Bill Paxton character.
Actually Arbiters in my stories *are* a bit furry, in that they're covered in millions of very fine sensor hairs to detect vibrations and air movements. Although if you tried cuddling one it would eat you. In fact, it would eat you no matter what you did. They're not very nice. And they're rather large. And they smell.
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