Adventures in Sketchtopia Part 25: Thousand Worlds 7

Maneuvers and Mandibles.

This is part seven of a series of sketches on a single topic, the Thousand Worlds.

Lancers and Bruisers (A): These two alien species are almost always deployed to battlefields together. The slender Lancers have birdlike heads and spears that shoot energy bolts. The larger, ogre-like Bruisers have massive swords with glowing hot serrated edges. Together, they have ranged and melee attacks covered.

Lancers and Bruisers (B): Another version of the two species. Here, the Bruisers have smaller blades and less armor. The lancers have more detailed armor and more detail on their spears.

Lumbering Tree-scrapers (Introduction): This large alien species is barely beyond the cusp of sapience. They use only the most rudimentary of tools and their language remains simple to the point of nonexistent. Regardless, the Thousand Worlds find a use for these lumbering monsters, low-tech terraforming. Their primary diet is whole trees which they scrape apart using claws, extendible mandibles and stone knives. A herd can take out a clearing of trees in short order, making way for airfields, bunkers, and other strategic structures.

Lumbering Tree-scrapers (Mouth): As noted, they have two, large, mandible-like structures that extent out of their mouths to scrape trees (left images gives two different angles). Their actual mouth and esophagus system is more complicated and harder to depict. They are able to retract their mandibles completely. leaving only a beak-like covering (right image).

Lumbering Tree-scrapers (Esophagus): There is a chamber in their neck area that further crushes and passes the wood they digest down to the stomach.

Lumbering Tree-scrapers (Internal): Their skeletons are similar to terrestrial vertebrates but have more spiny protrusions in their limbs. The brain is further back in the head than one might expect.

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