"And here is where most of them die."

Seconded

Best comment ever.

that was fuckin hilarious

Hehe, good call X3 who know what they're saying

Die Grundlage des Bildes ist erhalten geblieben wie ich das sehe, sie sind in einer Besprächung. Nur viel Detailreicher und die Helme sind jetzt sind jetzt nachvorne hin zu öffnen.
Sehr interessantes Konzept für die Gelme und Rüstungen. Wenn ich mir die Details ansehe weiß ich wofür du die Zeit und die Arbeit investiert hast. Sieht wirklich großartig aus.

Danke =^-^= freut mich, dass die Dinge rüber kommen

OMG! <3

^^

Red-shirt, red-shirt, red-shirt, one that will live and ensign Ricky.

I read that as four red shirts and a survivor X3 If you're counting the characters though, there's six of 'em

Ha! I didn't scroll the page. That's a big ass picture.

"Mine's bigger."

I doubt that :b

...end Cat?

http://www.maniacworld.com/end-cat.jpg

Loving the armor. Especially how the faces go clear.
I think I found my new wallpaper...

Heh, I wont complain X3 glad you enjoy

WOW this is amazing O_O

Thanks Necro ^^ you been alright?

Yeah Im hanging on ^^ *hugs tightly*

good work, love what you have done

Thank you ^^

ipoke.. why must you put them in there armor.. how can i pet them in that now :p

Don't worry, it comes off, when the work is done

ehhe when is there break :)

Your race is cool enough. Now you put them in power suits with uber cool weaponry. I officialy have a scifi boner.

Heh, seems no matter what I draw, I sprout bonrs all over the place... o.o XD

It's great.

But I can't help wondering why they put armour on their ears, but leave the area between their sternum and chin unprotected.

My guess would be because of the size, n noone wants a blown off ear. you need good mobility on your neck like any other joint, having even segmented plates could limit that motion, especially if they lock or get damaged (same as the shoulder/elbow and other joints)

Would you like them to go, perhaps, Batman? Who can't move his head with that costume? (the old one)

I had to laugh when I heard the production notes about that. It explains a lot about the fight scenes though X3

It's also possible that the ear gear has sensory equipment and/or protects sensitive ears from Very Loud Things That Go BOOM while keeping them in communication at all times. Or they could be really fancy iPods that play elevator music.

the last part of your comment, good sir, wins :)

Elevator music! Of course!

Now it all makes sense to me.

The ears are a stiff and don't need to bend save at the helmet joint. The neck needs to be free for extended mobility. I'll admit it's a little very open, but any variation I tried on putting armor there just looked weird :/ I guess I'll figure it out some time, just like I did with tail-armor, but for now it's just gonna remain like this

Thanks for the reply. And I feel like an ass for bringing it up. But I love your designs, and have a thing for armour, so I couldn't help bringing it up.

Perhaps it could be part of an evolving technology? The first British tanks were very effective, but they had serious design flaws - for instance, the driver had to look through an open slot in the armour, which of course allowed the enemy to shoot him. It was only later that periscopes and armoured glass were incorporated to solve this problem.

By god this is beautiful <3 I really REALLY want to commission you some day when you aren't as busy, get Xander done in battle plate

Heh, thank you ^^ maybe when I have a bit of a free head again, but that's been a rare instance as of late X3

Wow. Awesome work, iPoke! So much detail, such great lighting! Great work! :)

Tygon

iPoke

Tygon.

Su-Al

This looks awesome! I really like the one on the far right looks really cool. Great work.

Thanks :3

When I first saw this I had to do a double take, for a sec I thought you where just re-uploading the original again. After reading your description though, and looking at the original, it was instantly clear it wasn't the original, and it was also clear, how much better your art has gotten.

Heh, yeah, I can see how that might be confusing at first, but that's why I added the 2011 in the title X3 even if that doesn't necessarily give it a way at first glance. Shows I managed to capture the originals aesthetic enought o make it recognizable though, which is good =^-^= I'm glad you enjoy it! :3

"And over there is where were putting the pool!"

X3 ... once they put the holes in the ground

Well, why did You think we were doing that orbital bombardment?
XD

Boy, I'm glad you've got the Holo Interface option Sarge. Those holly-vids give my brain the "Heebie Jeebies."

o.o?

Sorry. I got that line from "Red Limit Freeway." A series of science fiction stories by John DeChanche which were about an intergalactic truck driver and his rig. He was required to wear a helmet that gave him holographic displays of the roadway for a few AUs or so, but he complained the darn thing bothered his eyes.

Call of Duty, Lombax Warfare.

X3

THis is amazing! That armour is perfect for them!!!

Hehe, thanks Demmy =^-^=

freaking awesome dude, i love how their armor is suited for their ears lol and the halo look rules!

No real Halo look anymore, but then there's no real look to anything, you can technically argue that any sort of body armor is just generic body armor now, cuz almost every game as some form of it X3

I'll admit to trying to bring it around to something more mudlar at some point, but I've begun to flesh out my own style on certain aspects :3

heh then by all means, FLESH IT OUT! *thumbs up*

Heh, they're majorly time consuming X3 every once in a while I can do that though

For some reason your style looks allot like how they made those Forerunner structures and sentinels. I love it!

I wont deny that, though I actually ended up with these shapes when I tried to hyper-modernize egyptian style architecture X3

Its always amazing to bring back the ancient architecture in a new jacket.

Wow this is a really awesome pic. I love the detailism of their armors, helmets and wepons. The face of the the two guys without the face mask are really fantastic and I love how you did the holographic shemata. Your work is always absolute perfect.

Thank you very much =^-^= glad you enjoyed!

Yes I really did.

End cat will end you and all you love.

Just so ^^

"All right so here is the F.A. server room located as shown here" *points* "After server infiltration and deletion we will then proceed along here to i17 and regroup at the local Ihop. bring your own lunch money"

"...and remember to hold hands when you get back on the bus."

and dammit Jonsie grenades are not tips for you waiter.

Those helmets look DAMN claustrophobic.

Nice work, I really like the holographic display. Minimalist, but gets the point across.

They're supposed to be closely attached, makes'em shake around less when you move your head.

wow this is cool i like it but for all that is holy do more company of idiot's before i explode all over you with infinite rage and 1 a million years of pain LOL

XD I really wish I had the energy and drive to do so, but it'll all hav to come at its own pace

You have definitely come a long way

Thanks :3

"Is... is that a topless bar?!"

"I think it is."

"Saddle up, we're gonna do a little... recon."


Okay, who let the COI crew cosplay as Si'itians?

XD I'm sure the newbies do that in basic all the time... or o boring deployments X3

"A V-Condom was spotted atop the apex of Tower B."

X3 it all makes sense now ;b

Very dramatic looking and great perspective!

Thanks ^^

At first I thought it was a very high tech pool table

Last time around people thought it was a hyper-advanced kitchen hoover XD

As always, yer work is superb.

Thank you ^^

*Nods*

:3

just wondering, how do you know who is who in therms of ranks?
they don't seem to have insignia or anything.

The surface of the armor can adapt to it's background, which is how the two faces are shown without taking off the helmets. The insignia 'can' be shown on the surface, but is generally not displayed unless there's HUD IFF failures to not mark officers for the enemy. If you wear a suit, your HUD would display rank insignias for you next to the IFF tags, names and data, depending on what you set it to show.

that makes sense, I suppose.. in these times.. having visible insignia is like marking yourself as a sitting duck for snipping.

At first glance, I assumed that the two soldiers with visible faces had removed their helmet face-plates, but it seems that the helmets are still intact. Did the faceplates turn transparent, or are their surfaces just functioning as displays, giving a multi-angled look at the wearer's face?

The visible faces are a repurposing of the suits background adaption feature. It's meant to serve as a camouflaging feature, but it can be used to show the wearer instead to make communication with NMPs and other encountered species more... personal

Awesome and Atmospheric pic!!! all thumbs up man

Thanks =^-^=

I'm curious in regards to the grade of weaponry and gear. I'm a newer fan, so alot of the older reference material, if it exists, is unknown to me, and thus my curiosity is peaked.
What is your armor inspired by? The chest pieces seem very remenescent of the Halo chest pieces with the long, wide open neck and chest slits in the plating itself to provide mobility, while the arm armor Either Reminds me of the WH40K Carapace armor, or possibly the Mass Effect styled shoulder/arm armor.

As for their specs, I'm currious on that too! The armor does appear to have 'power' of some sorts, but appears to be no where near as bulky as most conceived 'power' armor. Is it a simple kevlar or equivalent material weave for protection as the Hardplate armor with power to tactical feeds and IFF indicators, or is it a thin layer of artifical muscles to enhance the soldiers, or any other number of possibilities?
For the weapons, the bodies look like they are inspired by the well known FN P90, with the man on the right's optical sight possibly influenced FN F2000's integral optics sight.
So many possibilities, so many questions, and I would dearly appreciate any and all explanations, or a link to previous explanations XD

I'll get back to you on this in a little bit

*Bounces up and down in excitement, getting his notepad and pen ready*

To answer your questions on the armor.
The original older style had a few more curves in it and was inspired by this piece from the WH40k 4thEd SM Codex. Actually a lot of my aesthetics come from the original warhammer illustrations, while my designs try to take a more practical, clean approach.

As for the actual specifications of the armor here’s the fluff for the old suits, but I’m gonna say in advance, these are outdated and are gonna be getting a major overhaul with the proper introduction of the new suits.
Upgrades and additional information include, but aren’t limited to; waste management, nutrition and oxygen supply, body energy as a charge source for the suit systems and more, so stay tuned for when I finally get to do that.
Weapons are inspired by all sorts of source material, but the original guns were inspired by the assault rifles of the landmates from Appleseed. Here’s what I have on the standard issue rifle. The other weapons are based on other principles and I’ve been working on new designs for other weapons as well, to flesh things out a bit.

Hope that satisfies you for now.

I just wonder how they can be so close to each other and not smack their ears into each other.

i say it's practice.. an part of their combat training

You just get used to having ears like that X3

I love your art and he armor here, but one day I want to see how they get their ears into it.


Although, there are several possibilities depending on the avaible technology.

I imagined it much like putting on a glove X3

Oh this is so great I spend a lot of time taking a good look on al of them and their equipment.

Hehe, glad to hear ^^ thank you

I believe it is a safe bet that this race will be known throughtout all of FA as some of the baddest felines ever done a helmet and fire a weapon. gonna be famous!

Heh, I'm sure hoping for it. We'll see whee I end up ^^

Apart from all the cool stuff in this pic, the concept you introduced here caught me - the glass helmet front. Neat - actually, more than that!

Hehe, I'm a slight bit iffy still about it's implementation, but for the time being I'm saying it runs via the background adaption feature of the suits :3

Wwooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

When I get older, I wanna be paint and drawl like this. :3

Learning never ends X3

Superb work.
Excellent detail, well done.

Thanks ^^

They kind remind me of Ministers from City of Unity... except for the blue eyes. And the fact that the Ministers are all dead!

These guys wore white before the Ministers did ;3

What do you mean by that?

Did these guys influence them?

Goodness I'm late here >.O

No, by no means did I influence Sul on his design work or decisions... or at least I think I haven't o.o you wanna ask him for that, but as far as I know, the Ministers and my Si'itian power armors developed apart from eachother.

Setting the whole armor on transparent is the usual practical joke they do on the newbies of the group?

Nudity isn't half as embarassing for Si'itians as it is to us, but I suppose if you did want to pull it on someone, there's your chance X3

Yeah, maybe not nudity, but definitely the Hello Kitty underwear. ^^;
(How on earth would those end up there...?)

To my opinion, one of your greatest pics ^^

Thanks :3

"I really don't like the looks of that bulding"

Hjuk hjuk, but seriously. I like your design of a futuristic command room.

Actually a lot less design went into this room than into the original one X3 I'm thinking about drawing the briefing room of the Nut some time, but that's still in the future

You'd think those huge ears would always be running into things.

Pretty sure they've had them for long enough to be aware of where they're pointing them. Else they probably wouldn't know where to put their tails either

"Look! buildings, BUILDINGS! our enemies hide in concrete rectangles! The cowards! THE FOOLS!, We :asthma attack: we... should take away their concrete rectangles."

General Grievous much? XD

Once again the detail leaves me going "holy s***!"

Now for my standard issue question: Does that middle section of the visor come off or is it some sort of hologram, can't tell which with the blue outlines around their faces

The armor surface is a holo-emitting surface which can recreate limited background camouflage. It's not meant to be used for this, but many guardsmen use it to reveal their faces for easier conversation and recognition for others

A really cool species in pimp armor.

Where's the Female Troopers?
Equal Military Involvement for the Women!

Lady in the back with her face visible...

Small detail that I happen to like: how not all the suits are exactly the same. There seems to be room for customization in them, which is pretty cool.

I was gonna expand on that, but we'll see wether I do or not.

The attachment surfaces are all in the same places, but you get to pick what you put where.

Wow, as usual AMAZING. Do you make these things as a HOBBY? and How long did it take you to make this anyway? =))

Yeah, I do these as a hobby, though I'd much rather do them for a living X3 can't remember how long it took me all together. My sense of time for working on these things is messed up, since I don't get to work on them in one go anymore

Haha, wow, Okay, thanks man! Peace out!

Coolness.
I wonder how they would stack up against my Imperial Forces.

Remembering back to the imps, their chances look grimm :/

I dont think our boys have ever squared off.....

Reminds me of space opera... A certain campaign where we essentially had a huge faux paus of agencies. A murder happened in a space port to an ambassador still under space fleet protection from an apparent interstellar drug cartel fighting over an illegal drug shipment. The characters happened to be planet's CIA (BOSS), Port Authorities (PPF), Space Forces command investigation, and Interstellar Police Agency (IPA)... There were many long 'debates' done as all the agencies grinded for dominance while relentlessly hunting the criminals who in turn tried to kill us at every turn. >_>

Such is the perils of beurocracy

I have to say. A lot of the bickering disappeared quite quickly when our offices started getting bombed and someone almost died from being shot by a sniper. Hell hath no furry like a bunch of pissed off bureaucrats and military commanders.

That is some wicked skills you have there
it would be great if you did a 2D animation about this just say

Nice scene :3
The look of those armours is grand. But I am mostly impressed the fasct that there are six of them. I would never push myself to do something like this as drawing repeatable stuff gives me a lot of pain.
And everytime I see a scene with a holo projector my brain automaticly displays the scene from SouthPark movie, you know which one xD

Heh, well, you might not do a lot of repeptitive work, but you do amazing perspectives and distortions yourself :3

Looking back through your stuff, I resaw the face on the one on the far right:

"Not sure if good plan, or GREAT plan."

XD Undecided sceptic

at least he's not "Grumpy Sl'ltan".

These guys operated on a meritocracy military right? where rank was about how skilled you were, more than politics and 'clout', right?

I was always interested in how their military was structured. Their whole 'verse seemed interesting.

I'm working out the details and kinks to answer that question.

To put an answer down for the question you asked first. Yes, promotion and commendations are judged 50/50 by superiors and peers/subordinates

Thanks. That's kind of what I figured. One last thing, are those little triangle shapes on their shoulders ammo cells, shield generators, or some kind of fast react countermeasure, like on tanks. I see them and I'm like, that's interesting. That shape seems to be used a bit on their armor.

Hindsight, it could just as easily be a cover for whatever secures their armor in place, and can be remove as needed.

Heh, you're actually the first one to ask X3 I've actually extended their layout to some other areas as well. They're sort of emergency response counter measures for close quarters. They're essentially falt shotgun shells that are meant to disorient or wound enemies that get too close, are in a superior position or physically ambush guardsmen at close range. I've extended the suit systems to include kill munitions as well, but they're not showcased here yet.

That kind of system on an infantry level is impressive. I can imagine a version for VIPs in dangerous situations.

... now my brain got to thinking about 'fashionista armor': even i don't know what that means. (Practical armor that's fashionable, i guess....)

*muffled talking noises*

..."Guys, take your damn helmets off"