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Chapter: The Dance
Characters: ambassador Palas, Capt Chardis, chief gabriall, fintas, her own, seb, senna, Taritha, Teresa
Location: landing pad, TANSTAAFL
└ Tags: friends?, heavy vs stronger

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Discussion (21) ¬

  1. Jochi
    March 25, 2022, 20:32 | # | Reply

    Hmm. First non-humanoid species we’ve met. (By which I mean the
    classic definition, erect torso, 2 legs on the bottom of it, 2 arms
    and a head on top, face on the front of the head.) A spider and a
    something with at least 4 tentacles with suckers ending in different-
    colored eyes and a mouth stalk. No visible manipulator organs on the
    spider. Telekinetic? This will be interesting. And they’re pretending
    to not recognize Catians rather than call them cat-faced humans.
    That’s interesting too.

    • Scarsdale
      March 26, 2022, 08:35 | # | Reply

      The receptionist reminds me heavily of the “twins” from the first
      Men in Black movie. The humanoid form tends to be the most
      efficient with some variations of course.

    • Bill Mullins
      March 26, 2022, 09:12 | # | Reply

      I figure those tentacles would work just fine for whatever manipulations
      the species might need to perform. I do have a problem with arthropods
      that large operating in a nominal 1 g field. Even assuming a better
      respiratory system than terrestrial species, as I understand it the
      mechanics of joints on exoskeletons preclude creatures getting to be
      that large.

      Is PC intimating that the two non-humanoid (upright, bilateral symmetry,
      endoskeleton etc) species evolved on Xanadu along side the others?

      • Scarsdale
        March 26, 2022, 13:41 | # | Reply

        Tentacles mainly work in a water environments because there’s no bones
        to support them if you’ve ever watched the discovery channel etc how
        octopus move out of the water that shows what I’m talking about. Man-
        sized insects were found in the fossil records on earth but the oxygen
        levels were twice what they are today so it could be possible if their
        planet of origin is lower gravity and higher oxygen levels.

  2. President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
    March 25, 2022, 23:14 | # | Reply

    Looks like PC is cribbing a bit from L Neil’s “Roswell Texas”
    tri-pedal alien.
    (Just my observation and opinion. but I could be wrong)

    • Scarsdale
      March 26, 2022, 13:57 | # | Reply

      L Neil used that idea more than once, he used them in the book “Thomas
      Pane Maru” although I bet a different description these were a disc
      shape, lower than a human but much wider, red in color, eyes on top
      and mouths and such on the lower area. The crew was trying to stop a
      nuclear war on their planet. I’d read the book and the other two
      in the series it’s quite good!

  3. rob stanley
    March 26, 2022, 10:00 | # | Reply

    that was a big snake..

  4. Scarsdale
    March 26, 2022, 13:48 | # | Reply

    Clearly the wormholes go to far more locations than first suggested
    I wondered if we were going to start seeing races that were not of
    the Xanadu original number. Space is vast there’s bound to be far
    more races on other worlds than just the ones from there.

  5. Charles Smith
    March 26, 2022, 16:20 | # | Reply

    I’m sorry to say, but that Arachnid in the last panel, would have had
    me out the door, on a shuttle and docked with the mother ship before
    anyone heard my yelling, “NOPE!!!”… I find spiders of all variety
    discomforting, but one that big? Sayonara ya’ll! I’m outta here!!!

    • StripeCoat
      March 27, 2022, 06:53 | # | Reply

      Hi Charles;
      The largest spider I have actually seen is called a Huntsman Spider here in Australia. It’s a non poisonous ambush predator (nasty bite though due to risk of infection) It has a double lobed flattened disc-like body with long legs. It was first seen above my bedroom door. After unsuccessfully trying to trap it in a cardboard box so we could release it outside (where it belonged). The last we saw of it was when it disappeared down the air conditioning vent (also in my bedroom)
      No kidding, the leg spread was wider than the three foot doorway – estimated size about one metre (40inch).
      David.

      • rob stanley
        March 27, 2022, 14:55 | # | Reply

        IF and I mean IF,, that was a spider, not a coconut crab.
        call some one to get it.!! because that is breaking ALL
        the records,. the largest on record is 12 inch (30cm).
        mine (bird eater) was record note worthy at
        10 inch (25.4cm).

        • StripeCoat
          March 27, 2022, 15:50 | # | Reply

          Hi Rob;
          Definitely a huntsman; although humongous compared to others I have seen (leg spread 150-200cm {6-8inch}).
          A bit late to get someone to locate it now as that was at least 25 years ago.
          Didn’t own a camera at the time so no image to prove it.
          David

      • Charles Smith
        March 28, 2022, 08:21 | # | Reply

        Ok, well… Thank you for THAT nightmare fuel… As if the threat
        of a potential nuclear exchange wasn’t bad enough, real life giant
        mutant spiders… Possibly real life RADIOACTIVE mutant giant
        spiders… Whatta world…

    • Bill Mullins
      March 27, 2022, 10:21 | # | Reply

      I’m with Charles re spiders – and arachnids in general. Actually I’m
      not all that big on arthropods. To my eye all arthropods are the
      essence of alien. Even cephalopods don’t creep me out like pretty
      much any arthropod. Centipedes and millipedes are the worst.

      Re the receptionist and tentacled creatures, I know elephants are
      pretty adept with their trunks. Also, what’s to preclude an
      endoskeletal creature from having tentacles?

      • Scarsdale
        March 27, 2022, 13:32 | # | Reply

        I never said it wasn’t possible just unlikely elephant trunks are
        massive and powerful since they use them to gather food and their
        young as well as defense. We can’t actually see the body of this
        creature all we see is 4 eye stalks and a mouth stalk.

  6. John Orange
    March 26, 2022, 17:59 | # | Reply

    I think PeterCat is going to have to add a reference page of Alien
    Races, so we can keep track of them, and be sure we know which ones
    are the good guys!

    • Scarsdale
      March 27, 2022, 13:19 | # | Reply

      Might be a good idea however if they are a one time feature of a plot
      line it wouldn’t make much sense to create a lore on them just for
      the sake of details for a plot line that may never appear again.
      Maybe a brief “who’s who” and leave it at that.
      Don’t forget this is a developing aspect of the universe that the
      wolf/dragon empire that’s far from finished we only got a brief
      glimmer of the “demon” race so far a reference would give out spoilers.
      I own a 3D printer and I’ve only just started to model designs it’s
      an exhausting and time consuming process Petercat has much greater
      detail to model 3-4 times a week as well as outlining story lines
      and writing dialogs.

  7. herekittykitty
    March 27, 2022, 21:11 | # | Reply

    *rubbing forepaws together*
    Now we’re getting somewhere! Talking giant spider!
    Guy behind the desk is pretty hot too.

  8. Jochi
    March 28, 2022, 10:07 | # | Reply

    The “new species” question is interesting in its own right, besides the implication
    that the spider doesn’t know Catians are, officially, humans (or is acting like it
    doesn’t). It also SEEMS to imply that new species show up now and then, some
    that weren’t part of the Diaspora off Xanadu. Or, it could be nothing more than
    the trope of a current resident greeting new arrivals with a “new people” or
    “new faces” line and really mean nothing. I guess we’ll learn more soon.

  9. Jochi
    March 28, 2022, 16:34 | # | Reply

    I just want to state again, that’s a very impressive double-barrel
    she’s sporting in the vote incentive.

    • Dastardly Dan
      March 28, 2022, 17:30 | # | Reply

      I most heartily agree.
      Vast……tracts of land

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