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Queen: sin-and-love.deviantart.com/ar…
Father: sin-and-love.deviantart.com/ar…
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A Silicon-based extraterrestrial race with a natural Granite exoskeleton (technically just armor plating, as they derive their support form an internal frame like us).

They posses a social structure quite similar to Earth's eusocial insects, with several important exceptions:
*The workers are all male, rather than all female.
*The Queen takes on several mates at once (her equivalent of hormones tries to keep the number at generally enough to equal herself in biomass).
*Rather than laying eggs that hatch into larvae, the Queen gives live birth to pups.
*For them, the Queen actually is the one in charge (contrary to common understanding, the queen in most eusocial Earth insects is actually just a big egg factory that the workers take care of).

And yes, they are indeed meant to look like xenomorph/spider/ant/crabs. they even have a set of protrusile Pharyngeal jaws with titanium teeth, except this mouth is conical in nature (the specific part used is the saginaughty, the third mouth in the lowermost omnivore tier of the base game mouths), except they actually use these primarily as jackhammers (and they also serve a secondary function as their equivalent of the human fist), as they live in subterranean tunnels.

Fiction doesn't seem to realize this that often, but the rock and soil that you break away when digging doesn't just disappear; you have to put it somewhere. This is where their hands originally came in (I say "originally" because this is what their hands originally evolved for; just like how our hands originally evolved to grasp branches); their hands are designed both A)to lift and heave larger rocks, and B) to rake away smaller ones. When digging, they form a line with the ones in front hammering away and raking what they break off under their bellies to the ones behind them, who also rake the rocks under their bellis, and so forth all the way to the surface, where they then use the rocks to build cobblestone and expand their structures upwards.

[To be expanded later]

Description
Queen: sin-and-love.deviantart.com/ar…
Father: sin-and-love.deviantart.com/ar…
Size comparison: sin-and-love.deviantart.com/ar…

A Silicon-based extraterrestrial race with a natural Granite exoskeleton (technically just armor plating, as they derive their support form an internal frame like us).

They posses a social structure quite similar to Earth's eusocial insects, with several important exceptions:
*The workers are all male, rather than all female.
*The Queen takes on several mates at once (her equivalent of hormones tries to keep the number at generally enough to equal herself in biomass).
*Rather than laying eggs that hatch into larvae, the Queen gives live birth to pups.
*For them, the Queen actually is the one in charge (contrary to common understanding, the queen in most eusocial Earth insects is actually just a big egg factory that the workers take care of).

And yes, they are indeed meant to look like xenomorph/spider/ant/crabs. they even have a set of protrusile Pharyngeal jaws with titanium teeth, except this mouth is conical in nature (the specific part used is the saginaughty, the third mouth in the lowermost omnivore tier of the base game mouths), except they actually use these primarily as jackhammers (and they also serve a secondary function as their equivalent of the human fist), as they live in subterranean tunnels.

Fiction doesn't seem to realize this that often, but the rock and soil that you break away when digging doesn't just disappear; you have to put it somewhere. This is where their hands originally came in (I say "originally" because this is what their hands originally evolved for; just like how our hands originally evolved to grasp branches); their hands are designed both A)to lift and heave larger rocks, and B) to rake away smaller ones. When digging, they form a line with the ones in front hammering away and raking what they break off under their bellies to the ones behind them, who also rake the rocks under their bellis, and so forth all the way to the surface, where they then use the rocks to build cobblestone and expand their structures upwards.

[To be expanded later]