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A more family-friendly take on the concept I pos((i)t)ed yesterday:

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In this case muscular hydrostats in the form of modified elephant trunks replace traditional push/pull skeletal muscles to serve as tentacular locomotory actuators in a biomech/biosuit arm. Given its basal proboscidean genetic template, this biomachine was very likely fabricated by some iteration of the elephant-obsessed Raman Empire:

This one didn't come out looking as traditionally "arm-like" as I envisioned...I added that eyeball laser for the visual interest almost on a whim, but it detracts from the originally intended implication that the appendage is a dexterous manipulator with nubby little trunk "fingers." Maybe this machine/suit/whatever has multiple paired upper-body limbs, and this is merely one of the auxiliary "weapon arms."

Description
A more family-friendly take on the concept I pos((i)t)ed yesterday:


Mature Content

In this case muscular hydrostats in the form of modified elephant trunks replace traditional push/pull skeletal muscles to serve as tentacular locomotory actuators in a biomech/biosuit arm. Given its basal proboscidean genetic template, this biomachine was very likely fabricated by some iteration of the elephant-obsessed Raman Empire:

This one didn't come out looking as traditionally "arm-like" as I envisioned...I added that eyeball laser for the visual interest almost on a whim, but it detracts from the originally intended implication that the appendage is a dexterous manipulator with nubby little trunk "fingers." Maybe this machine/suit/whatever has multiple paired upper-body limbs, and this is merely one of the auxiliary "weapon arms."