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Hello again. I've been thinking about the types of alien species that would live on the planets, specifically, the non-sentient (using the scifi meaning of sentience) creatures wandering around. I base most of my ideas on traits that are highly successful in nature evolution-wise, that have been around for millenia, and also what I think would just be cool. Here's my list of ideas and reasoning for each one:
-Space Chickens! As the first colonists set out to populate the Americas, so too did they set out to populate the stars. They brought with them animals that could serve a purpose, and chickens seemed one of the most logical domesticated animal they could thing of. A cow would never survive long terms without gravity to hold it in it's grazing patterns, but a chicken with wings... Oh man. They would thrive. As a result of their long terms, and their multiple generations of space flight, they have evolved slightly. With even shorter wings, and longer toes to grab onto things, even their eggs started to bounce instead of simply crack when dropped. Some of their caretakers even made chicken space suits for their chickens, and they became quite common... with a compartment to hold the eggs. They left groups of them wild on many planets they visited. These chickens became some of the most prevalent colonists in the universe, and are still kept as pets on many spaceships.
-Spiders! It is said that if spiders were the size of cats, they would quickly put humans on notice as the top predator on Earth. The only limitation they have? Gravity! Their exoskeletons couldn't handle it. Now it's reasonable to think in an infinite universe, spiders have grown into many infinite numbers of forms, including the sentient space-faring species of their world... But what if there were a few stowaways on one of the early colony ships? These spiders, moving from ship to ship, over time would have grown to enormous sizes, and become so efficient, even in the low and zero gravity environments of colonized space stations and moons, they are suddenly the size of cats or larger. Oh my.
-Tentacle monsters. Much like octopodes and their 10-tentacled squid cousins, these creatures would be the perfect predators in their environment. Intelligent and able to squeeze through tight spaces, using their tentacles for low-gravity locomotion, they could grab and squeeze the life out of their victims. In the gravity of planets and moons, they opt to stay underground where they can support themselves, and will reach outside through cracks and crevices to grab unsuspecting prey with their tentacles, pulling them under the ground to be consumed.
-Dinosaurs! C'mon, you granted our wish for Minecraft in space, now add some dino-behemoths to the surface of some planets!
-Leaches: These wouldn't be the blood-sucking leaches though, blood is not similar enough between the many space-faring species to be useful... plus those pesky space suits make it really difficult. No, these leaches float around like space debris with minimal thrusting capability, and when they get close enough to a space ship, they latch on and suck out your power. If you've been having power outages, lights going off, doors malfunctioning, weapons not firing... it's time to pull out your personal weapons and go for a space walk. You might find a few dozen of these slurping the sweet taste of fission reactor power right out of the navigation relay nodes.
- Space Whales. These have appeared in many forms in Science fiction, but the basic idea is that they can propel themselves through the void for long journeys, consuming the dark-matter particles and the deuterium and tritium let off of stars. These beasts have large pressurized inner cavities that some space-faring creatures have hitched rides in. Some have even been enslaved and used as warships.
-Spiders! It is said that if spiders were the size of cats, they would quickly put humans on notice as the top predator on Earth. The only limitation they have? Gravity! Their exoskeletons couldn't handle it. Now it's reasonable to think in an infinite universe, spiders have grown into many infinite numbers of forms, including the sentient space-faring species of their world... But what if there were a few stowaways on one of the early colony ships? These spiders, moving from ship to ship, over time would have grown to enormous sizes, and become so efficient, even in the low and zero gravity environments of colonized space stations and moons, they are suddenly the size of cats or larger. Oh my.
-Tentacle monsters. Much like octopodes and their 10-tentacled squid cousins, these creatures would be the perfect predators in their environment. Intelligent and able to squeeze through tight spaces, using their tentacles for low-gravity locomotion, they could grab and squeeze the life out of their victims. In the gravity of planets and moons, they opt to stay underground where they can support themselves, and will reach outside through cracks and crevices to grab unsuspecting prey with their tentacles, pulling them under the ground to be consumed.
-Dinosaurs! C'mon, you granted our wish for Minecraft in space, now add some dino-behemoths to the surface of some planets!
- Special request: Velociraptors. These super fast and super intelligent creatures will hunt you down if it perceives you as a food-source, or enemy. But if you are careful, you can reason with these guys, and even employ them as your protectors. They have prehensile fore-claws, so they can even be taught to wield weapons, although, they really don't need them.
-Leaches: These wouldn't be the blood-sucking leaches though, blood is not similar enough between the many space-faring species to be useful... plus those pesky space suits make it really difficult. No, these leaches float around like space debris with minimal thrusting capability, and when they get close enough to a space ship, they latch on and suck out your power. If you've been having power outages, lights going off, doors malfunctioning, weapons not firing... it's time to pull out your personal weapons and go for a space walk. You might find a few dozen of these slurping the sweet taste of fission reactor power right out of the navigation relay nodes.
- Space Whales. These have appeared in many forms in Science fiction, but the basic idea is that they can propel themselves through the void for long journeys, consuming the dark-matter particles and the deuterium and tritium let off of stars. These beasts have large pressurized inner cavities that some space-faring creatures have hitched rides in. Some have even been enslaved and used as warships.
