"Aquatic Aliens?" Topic

These are interesting, and I have never seen them before:

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I wonder what the ships and surface suits of something like that would look like.

Any other nice illustrations of other aquatic extraterrestrials?

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Those "aquatic Xindi" look like they were derived from Mudskipper fish like this:

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if you are looking for inspiration you could try looking under X-com terror from the deep.

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This last link has links to all the aliens about half the page down

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cool! Their was a real "Lobster Man" in the Tampa Bay area when I was in college, used to perform at fairs. His wife shot him becuase he kept "pinching" her or something, and the trial was a local story of note. I'll have to read that Lovecraft story, as a sea enthusiast, I don't know why I haven't before :(
To anyone that doesn't know, RAFM and Revirsco make nice Gill Men, both sets using the "Deep Ones" name.

I have to wonder if it is even possible for an aquatic species to develop technology. Intelligence, certainly. But technology, no. How, for example, would they develop fire? And without that, or an analog, how would they be able to build anything but rudimentary tools?

Jizbrand, a good point.

This was discussed by Robert Freitas in one or two of his many ANALOG articles; The simplest solution to the problme is that aquatic/marine aliens would develop either stone age technologies and get no further, or use living creatures for their tasks. It is barely possible that a marine race might develop some elecrtochemical technologies as well, however to advance in this direction they would need to be able to get onto land for some materials and techniques.

Amphibious creatures would do a hell of a lot better, of course.

Develop mega-intelligence. See Forerunner Survey Scouts using technology (sub, tools, weapons, etc..) Massacare Scouts. Be left alone for 100's of years to study and develop technology – including floating amphib/triphib starship. Conquer Universe.

Gracias,

Glenn

Why would the aliens ships be that much different from our own? We have to take our environment with us just like they would.

Fire would be a problem, but not heat (ex: hot smokers and undersea lava). Both would "warm their caves" well enough so to speak. Certain smelting operations would be hard to manage in an oxygen defficient envioronment, but maybe something else would be developed because of this or maybe they would "dome" off area for this.

The aliens from the X-COM series were awesome, wish someone picked them up.

Horrorlicx has a nice Deep One also.

an answer, a terrestrial or amphibian race develops high technology and returns to the sea for one reason or another. Then you have your high tech and aquatic race.

Redroom,

What do those X-Com aliens look like? Any links?

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Grinch's links to the Terror of the Deep ones. I did not see a good site that had all of the aliens listed from all series/sequels to the game. Below is a good one from an RPG version:

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The problem with 28mmMan's answer is that (from our admittedly very limited experience so far) once a species develops sufficient technology, the tool users start changing their environment, rather than adapting to its conditions.

This is not to say that intelligent, technological species have comepletely escaped evolution, but to undergo something as redical as re-adapting to aquatic life seems very unlikely. (Unless you take the approach from the book 'Man After Man', in which humans bioengineer themselves for different environments, including the oceans and even, to a limited degree, space!)