Adventures in Sketchtopia Part 41: Thousand Worlds 9

More Worlds to Come...

Rummaging through some sketch books, I found more entries to add to my series on the Thousand Worlds. Back to the fight.

Offworld Interceptor: A human agent using a combination of high and low-tech gadgets to scope out worlds with potential Thousand Worlds presence. Weapons include guns, crossbows, blades, and throwing stars. Think Batman meets Halo.

Additional Interceptor Weapons/Attachments

Swarm Beetles: Human-sized insectoids with no technology. Instead, they use their natural abilities: wings for flying and middle pair of appendages as stabbing weapons. Beetles dwell in and defend a home Coleoptoplis.

Coleoptoplis: Massive insectoid creature with a hive made from mud supported on its back. Serve as living infantry carriers and mobile bases for Swarm Beetles. Sometimes called Swarm Hives. Alternative sketches found in Part 1.

Bioforge Abominations: Creatures created by the Bioforgers, a race of robots within the Thousand Worlds. The Bioforgers strip landscapes of organic matter and form custom-made creatures to serve as shock troops. Below are shown a generic humanoid and centaur form, each with arm-blades as primary weapons.

Bioforger: Rarely seen outside their spacecraft, the Bioforgers are mechanical in nature and rely on Bioforge abominations for most battles. However, they are equipped with advanced scanners and a magno-blade.

Cluster Shields: Hovering robots with two shields and twin guns. Two different conceptions of individual bots are shown on the right. Swarm together to form large, defensive bubbles (left).

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