I know we on the project volunteered to keep our identities off the individual stories but it's been a year and also things have only gotten worse so let me tell you

Writing this comic last year and having every single god damn thing come to pass at this point is just

Fuck, man. I'm so tired.

Aw man I forgot to put the tags

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legs via mechanics like that of a gyroscope. This is in no small part a consequence of adapting to a sedentary way of existence early on.

industrialisation in the first place, breeding an almost universal germophobic culture that embraces sterility.

They manipulate the world around them with their legs which end in dexterous digits. The Yiyu demonstrate extroardinary balance, being able to keep perfectly upright even on just two-

stars.

One may think that adapting to swamp-like ecosystems would give way to a culture unafraid of dirt, grime or sickness, but this has had the opposite effect - in fact, several plagues crossed with a simultaneous (and still ongoing) ice age are what prompted the Yiyu to sapience and-

in many areas, such as the rate at which they have developed technologically over the course of several millennia. Although they are a multi-system-spanning people now, it took several thousand years for them to transition from poking into space with unmanned satellites to settling among the-

before grasping them in the blink of an eye, funnelling the prey into one of two mouths protruding from their underside.

Due to growing into a niche which necessitates a slow, stationary and patient lifestyle, Yiyu psychology has been moulded to be very averse to immediate change. This is apparent-

lifestyles more so. With a slender frame adjusted both for a lowered gravity as well as camoflauge to mimic waterlogged trees and patterns to match, the Yiyu evolved to be effective ambush predators. They would wait patiently, stood perfectly still, for small swimming animals to come their way-

The Yiyu are an old and much more advanced society of creatures than ourselves. Being the third member species of the SCW, they originated primarily from the swampy habitats of their comparatively-frigid home planet, Yaea. This environment has shaped their bodies in noticeable ways, and their-

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able to understand wormhole mechanics much earlier on, sharing this technology with their interstellar neighbours. (8/8)

actually a black hole present in their native star system named Koh. Although Koh is a black hole, its stable orbit and extremely small radius, despite its planet-level mass, keeps it from posing any real danger to the rest of the system. The Boueue studied Koh for generations and thus were (7/?)

burdening themselves with the weight of the past. As mentioned in the previous post, they and the Scerere are the first two Ruminaaan sophonts to meet in person. The Boueue were also the first in Ruminaaan Space to develop wormhole technology, which can be attributed to the fact there is (6/?)

no solid ground, there is no such thing as a fossil record which they can use to unearth most of their own history. While this is tragic, it also subconsciously drove the Boueue to be much more forward-thinking, prioritising the present in relation to a progressed future, rather than (5/?)

is made of selectively-bred and genetically-altered plants and animals - traversing the stars in living, breathing ships. While this may appear cruel to us, to the Boueue it is just an everyday aspect of their day-to-day lives shaped by their environment. Also due to the fact their planet has (4/?)

have an external sac which can inflate or deflate to move up and down on a vertical axis. They also communicate using morphing patterns and colours on their skin, similar to cuttlefish.
Due to the fact their planet has no solid ground, and subsequently no ores to work with, their technology (3/?)

technological development.

They evolved primarily in the upper-atmosphere of their ice giant homeworld, ensnaring flying prey with their dexterous tentacles, which they also use to manipulate tools. Their bodies are largely comprised of a huge, buoyant organ which they use to keep aloft, but (2/?)

The Boueue are the next species along we'll be taking a look at. They hail from a gaseous ice giant, similar to Neptune or Uranus, only much more temperate and with a higher water content. Evolving in such an environment has had profound impacts on their biology, and especially their (1/?)

Introducing the Boueue, yet another of my sophont alien species

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Introducing the Scerere! Another in a long line of intelligent alien species I'll be posting about

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I wrote about how I don’t mourn the burnt out husks of automated vehicles.

www.jphilll.com/p/i-dont-mou...

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

Hey, another sophont done! Apologies this one took so long.

These are the Cri, a large aerial intelligent alien. Learn about them in greater detail in the alt text
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Yet another design made for a contest for Callum Diggle's comic Humanity Lost. Although these designs didn't win, I get to include them in my own project! These are the Fulnera, a now-extinct sophont species of alien. Check alt text for more info
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