The Arachnid Consortium

Spyder · #1 February 27th, 2001, 03:35 PM

I'd pay 20 bucks to anyone who would make me some cool pics & a cool shipset for The Arachnid Consortium

Right now the pics I'm useing are the purple eyestalks-looking critters...not exactly in the Family (or is that Order?) Arachnidae....

I kinda like the pointy ships with wings...non-aerodynamic looking ships don't appeal to me

Of course, in space, aerodynamics don't count, but, they GOTS to look cool

Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

dmm · #2 February 27th, 2001, 04:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Spyder:
not exactly in the Family (or is that Order?) Arachnidae....

Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Arthropod
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida

Arachnida include spiders, ticks, mites, daddy longlegs (which aren't spiders), scorpions, whipscorpions, and some others.

Spyder · #3 February 27th, 2001, 04:34 PM

Thanks....believe it or not, the note started with CLASS but, I out-thunk myself

Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

dmm · #4 February 27th, 2001, 05:44 PM

That's OK -- I had to look it up in a Bio textbook. But the point is that Arachnids are pretty wide-ranging. Do you want your race to look like giant wolf spiders or giant daddy longlegs or giant scorpions? Or maybe they are a colony organism with a diffuse intelligence, so your race pic should be a big heap of ticks swarming over a host organism?

Spyder · #5 February 27th, 2001, 05:53 PM

Race pic should be spyderish

of course

dmm · #6 February 27th, 2001, 06:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Spyder:
Race pic should be spyderish of course

Oh, yeah. DUH!!!
(Trying to recover his dignity)
But what KIND of spyder? A pale skinny one that spins webs, or a sneaky one that pops out of a trap door, or a clever one that dives under the water with a silk bag full of air, or a big black hairy one that chases down its prey and overpowers it?