The idea of a grub chest-bursting and consuming a living being for the first time in its life and then vowing to be vegan is both terrifying and hilarious
Fun fact: the alien movie originaly had a plot where the xenomorphs where sapient parasites But an adult was needed to teach the young to stop being wild animals With no adults around they lost their intelect (or most of it)
if i recall correctly, xenomorphs steal their host DNA, right? so that's why they look anthropomorphic, so that would make a lot of sense for them to also have human-like brains.
I think they'd like my Garpis. They're loud and stinky ruminants, but they are friendly friends. Superficially resembling small hadrosaurs, they live in big social herds. They are prey animals, that survive by working together, with flexible minds that are good at figuring things out. Stronger than they look due to higher gravity, they compete with each other with shoving and wrestling matches. To actually harm another is unthinkable. Due to their highly social nature, they naively believe that other sapient peoples will be just as friendly. As they reverse engineered a crashed ship and took to the stars, they learn that reality can be harsh. They need some allies to help guide them.
These episodes seem to get more and more detailed as time goes by. I think that's the most people that've ever been in the notable individuals section.
It's definitely the most, yeah If I remember correctly, there were 22 notable individuals in this episode, which is just shy of twice as many as the second most, which was 12 I think Which is awesome, I'm really happy more people are getting involved in these silly little projects
@@Cree8Ball Yeah I was too busy to be a big help this time, missed streams, ect. It turned out really well though so it was nice to basically get jumpscared with awsome goat lore.
These guys are awesome! It's fun how you took such a typically grim, villianized concept as parasitic sapient alien life and turned it into a actually really wholesome and interesting species.
Yeah, that was the main thing I wanted to do with these guys, give them some gross or weird or unappealing quality but make them super cool and empathetic
A little request: could you try to design a creature that would evolve to live on a high gravity planet like the guys from all tomorrows? That would be really cool
Honestly look no further than the deepest diving whales- their entire body is one enormous structure designed to compress and expand as necessary or resist compression and this is evident in their eyes- they are surprisingly rigid though elastic though this entirely revolves around being constantly supported by water regardless of the pressure Another strategy entirely is to just be exceedingly small where other forces are relatively strong where your mass doesn't work against you, a creature like Bdelloid rotifers can survive with all the downsides of exclusively asexual reproduction methods by out-enduring parasites via forming a hardy cyst whereupon it can survive the total drying of the potentially ephemeral pools they might live in and can be distributed via the wind to escape those parasites that survive I imagine a planet with high gravity would more readily produce placer deposits of minerals as the ore bodies eroded away with their parent rock and are collected as the flow of wind, water or other fluid slows and the particles fall out of suspension or saltation, I'd wager it's possible for something to survive just off degrading sulfide minerals like pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and such
I was always of the belief that neither xenomorphs nor sapient parasites were possible. I've realized to my horror that not only are they possible, but a nanotech weilding parasite might be our first alien encounter
I think the Gabarras have lots of potential you could possibly make a two episode series into a multi episode series. The Gabarras are easily my favorite species designed on this channel.
@@Cree8Ball I’ve only watched the first episode because I am not on your patreon but it’s cool to know that I might get to see more Gabarras in future videos
8:04 AS SOON AS I SAW MY PFP I STARTED SCREAMING AND TEARED UP OH MY GOD THIS IS SUCH A BIG MOMENT FOR ME! Also great job cree, thank you for even starting this series and giving a lot of people a small time to shine.
So they’re basically wasps but wholesome? "Here's how it works with gabarras. we lay our eggs in their eyeballs so our young can feast on their brains when they hatch. When you're born that big an A-hole, the least you can do is have a little empathy." -gabarra rick
the title made me think of the mask thingies from rick and morty, yk the ones that take over a creature's body and use it as their own until they lay an egg and destroy the host and themselves in the process
These episodes have really inspired me to try my own hand at worldbuilding and species creation. Thank you. Also, a question about Starscapes (the all tomorrows project): I never understood whether the various posthumans used FTL or not. Some videos imply that there is FTL, while others imply that there is none.
Discord is being difficult, make sure my child is alright Update: My son is doing just fine, he even has a new friend! :) (Paper and Pencil son, not biological, I should have make this clearer)
Oh man I know this is weird but this is a topic that interests me massively. A few months ago, I started thinking about what an intelligent parasite (that was anatomically similar to humans) would be like culturally. Take everything about our culture and flip it inside out, boom thats their culture. One of the biggest differences I found was that parasitic aliens wouldn't make much if any music, music, as the ability to "feel" rhythm evolved as a reproductive mechanism, think of birds and their little dances. If the aliens' other reproductive partner isn't sentient and you trick or brute force them, no music is needed. I cannot cannot wait to watch this and see where this series goes! Edit: That was really awesome! My favorite detail was the fact that they invert the creator/destroyer god dichotomy of humans. That makes so much sense! I had never thought of such a thing. I love that you went into detail about the drug culture and it being economically important. It is amazing how culture and economics interact. I found it really interesting how the species got split. I assume all races would have local ethnicities, but I wonder if in this case the extreme differences between the two prevented widespread racism and fighting? Is it something about their internal character? Or were they just so different that each "race" could specialize and avoid conflict? So many interesting questions/angles...
you should make a disease that would turn people into heavily mutated ghoulish like creatures and also introduce biowarfare to a massive level in your project
As always, An amazing beutiful video Cree. I feel like there could be more importance of drugs, But of course youtube is a pansey, An oh boy am i excited for the next episode! you really hyped it up in the discord.
@@Cree8Ball it would be safe to assume they would assume aliens had body plans like them at first, we did it with aliens at first too. We assumed aliens would look somewhat human for ages
How would you design the biggest plausible creature that biology and physics would allow, considering all the factors that Earth has proven to be a recipe for true giants? Blue whales seem to have lucked out on the quartet of: aquatic (no worries of gravity), air-breathing (more oxygen), filter feeding (near-unlimited source of food) and antarctic (big body retaining heat is an advantage) but how would you tweak those factors on other planets to get them to grow even bigger?
The main way I would is by giving the planet lower gravity, so the pressure would be even lower. But other than that I don't really know honestly. What would you suggest
Great worldbuilding! Ngl the parasitic aspect of their lifestyle doesn't feel as relevant as it could be, but I look forward to seeing part 2 and what else happens with them!
@@Cree8Ball Yeah I was expecting it to impact their culture or development a bit more, like that other alien design where they use other creatures to manipulate tools and stuff for them But I suppose it makes sense that it wouldn't be too impactful if their parasitic lifestyle is only relevant at the beginning of their lifestyle, the only big influence it can have being their beliefs, but I suppose their dependence on hosts can also impact their societal development like with the aforementioned species.
@@Cree8Ball like a spaceship essentially that is completely organic rather than being built their grown. And the civilization who uses organic technology has cell phones computers you know like day-to-day technology nothing too crazy. And maybe like I don't know I'll buy her organic gun or something. I love your work I've seen a lot of your videos I love all of tomorrow's I love the story and you do a pretty good job so I was wondering. If you could draw like bio-organic ships and bio-organic day-to-day technology such as a cell phone or a computer. And maybe like a gun or something just very curious on what you will come up with. Because I love bio-organic stuff something that is grown rather than just being built in constructed taking time and resources. It can just be grown somewhere safely and security like in a giant vat or something.
It's probably pretty awkward, but they use the hand at the front of their face. That's why most of their clothes are fairly minimal bands that they wrap around their torso or little helmets strapped to their arm-jaw-thing
technically the animal isn't a parasite though... its kids are... I was thinking more of a tick situation where they'd be attached to the host most or all of their life and that would be their primary means of sustenance. This is still cool, but not what I was expecting.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of when I originally started working on the project, but this "parasitoid" creature is what we ultimately ended up with by the end of the design stream
