The latest aliens. Call them Ishmaelans: these sharklike aliens built an early industrial society from hunting Astrocetus, space whales. When humans arrived, they discovered how to harness the whales' interstellar travel power. So the age of the space pirates began.

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On the other end of the anthropomorphic scale, the Astronautilus people Vela are man-sized molluscs. After making contact with aliens, they went from doing theoretical physics while eating fish raw to being the greatest galactic scientists in the

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Some people would prefer alien designs all be "more alien," but I think I missed my goal with the last Carina Moth people design. I made them more anthropomorphic, added elements of katydids and mantises, and made them cuter. They also wear sweaters.

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