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Published: 2020-11-04 05:54:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 6305; Favourites: 52; Downloads: 0
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This is a creature concept I made on the side while working on my picture book. It's a genetically engineered species of human designed to survive the vacuum of space and colonize the various moons of the outer solar system (as well as similar environments in other solar systems). This actually combines concepts from Dougal Dixon's Man After Man, Fredrik Pohl's Man Plus, and James S. A. Corey's The Expanse. Standing at around 9ft tall due to microgravity, the "Spacemen" can tolerate extreme radiation and cold, survive on little-to-no oxygen, and feed on (as well as breath to an extant) sulfur and methane. Winglike structures on it's back have photosynthetic membranes that provides sugars and some oxygen to its body and byproducts are expelled through outlets on the wing digits and legs, acting as a form of propulsion when floating thru space. I haven't attached this to any particular story idea yet but I'm leaning towards one called Centauri which centers around the Alpha Centauri system.As always comments and critiques are welcome.
