#sat'tchuckthuck

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pilots have had an overall, fun fact. I don't think I've posted about them publicly for a while. freaks from moon sat'tchuckthuck (kyhuine given name in their study of astronomy on altuyur)

22-08-2024 edit: extra colors examples and an actually rendered version (oc)

you can view the evolution of their design under the cut ->

these have never been posted before because i thought they sucked, and also just because i didn't feel like doing it. several sophonts existences in the solar system are friend-only information atm lol

the first version has been posted on their first post, as much as i still like the mecha design by itself (despite the fucked up leg placement) , i think it should only have a single pilot, and i also don't think there was much thought put behind how people sit in there etc.. So it looks a bit awkward overall. their first design was just a quick doodle i need to draw as fast as i can before i forget the idea, so it's not good LOL. its wonky, very wonky.

this one is from march 2023, there isn't much change between the two but i still think they're interesting to have in the row. the clothes look awkward, i don't think i thought about how they'd be put on by the pilots, the layering, and so on. what used to be manipulator limbs look award too

this is when i was trying to make them more fun. i shortened them, made them longer and blabla.. but in the end, they just looked like corgis/ dogs to me and i wasn't satisfied with that. Not that i think sophonts can't look like x earth animal, this is just me wanting to feel satisfied with my own work and not wanting to make dog 2. i don't know the exact date of this drawing, but im assuming its in late 2023

in may 2024, the current design of pilots was made. funnily enough, it just came to me one day. My brain flashed an image and i tried to draw it as fast as i could. compared to the top drawing the limbs for carrying their youngs weren't finalized.

the crest changing between every drawing / versions doesn't matter. because their crest changes color constantly to communicate and speak with each others. like a sort of cuttlefish skin effect, i guess pilots can still be fully white. it's just their coat for when temperatures drops. But since their moon is going through an ice age their body keeps is disoriented constantly. Workers who stay outside all year will have a winter coat constantly. But people who work / stay inside all the time are in heated environment, thus their winter coat never start up. and so on with that

heres test of the freak with winter coat ->

their texture would be horrible, the end bits of their fur is harden, its so thick and packed and feel like velvet. even the non winter coat still feel like velvet

Despite the current design having longer legs, they're still small guys because that's more fun. Pilots are 100 cm (3ft) tall. you can pick them up (they might be sized wrong on the doodle whatever)

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miscellaneous pilot things from today, I'm not an animator as you can see

yesterday i realized they're centaurs, i think i took this long to realise because they're so squished up. When i think of the word centaur i think of a more elongated being, lol. not that it matters eitherway. centaur body plans are very cool forever and ever

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old work, from march 2023

working-class worker of Satmikah/sat'tchuckthuck finishing to make a cigarette. A metal beast pilot, probably charged to harvest metal with it's mecha. Not the most thrilling job to have but its better than coal harvest

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mecha from Satmikah/sat'tchuckthuck

as I mentioned once, I plan on adding life on two other moons of the gas giant of altuyur (moon neighbors yay). this is my entry for it, while the sentient species of satmikah/sat'tchuktchuk (name depends on the language) are technologically much more advanced than the people of altuyur they are not in contact with one another. And they are not that interested in the conquest of space.

Their various mechas are mostly used as protection in the harshly cold terrains, to harvest data for scientific purposes, patrol, delivery or various other tasks that each have their own specific models.

here's a glims at what the species of that moon look like! on pilot A you can kind of see its head peaking out

no fancy drawing, had the sudden idea of their looks randomly in my head and quickly drew it in ms paint about a month ago maybe(?). 8 limbed, with 4 eyes and velvet-like short fur around the body. while the two front limbs are used for manipulation, the pair of flat, large hands near the body nostril are mostly kept against the body. they are actually specialized for carrying their own egg against their stomach, not ever letting it touch the freezing ground.

while now they are technologically advanced enough to not worry about that issue since they have heated homes, it is still something they do because they think it comforts the baby inside the egg.

their inpiration! corgis, honestly just corgis, since they have no name yet i call them silly space corgis for now. not sure how ill make their name and how they name their own moon because i plan on their language sounding like constant chirping and some whale stuff thrown in there

about the mecha! ir eally like mechas but this is my first time drawing one, as much as i enjoy it and feel proud i did it i feel like its a bit wonky and not that functional, ill try to think more about it when ill make others:

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outdated pilot design

minimum wage worker in sat'thuckthuck

I don't think I could find an in-world name i can write down since they use chirping and various sounds and their crest to communicate. So ill call them pilots, referring to how they can pilot diesel mechas and other machines.

I think of sat'thuckthuck being stupidly industrialized, with a dieselpunk feel. the surface of the moon is harshly cold for most of the year so pilots have underground shelters. Unfortunately, people with no family, that have a shit job or other circumstances might stay on the surface inside of a mecha for the entire winter. Living inside a mecha is not luxurious, there isn't much place and that space they have might vary on the mecha model.

So this moon is in high contrast with altuyur's non-industrial world, without borders or really any money system that has a prehistory/middle age (north Africa) feel to it. It is quite silly that quadrupedal 8-limbed space corgis have more advanced technology and stuff that looks like what we humans have than the more humanoid bird/dinosaur thing that kyhuines and maanuls are. But I like it that's what i want

about the drawing, id imagine this worker operating something close to a crane or just anything harvesting minerals since i also imagine the place they're in to be a mine. They're wearing gas masks on the face because their workplace isn't filtered correctly, and the mineral harvesting outside can release toxic gas.

each line in the red area are like nostrils, they inhale from there and exhale from that stomach nostril. Animals of altuyur have single pair of nostrils which is usually on their chest, while animals of sat'thuckthuck have head nostrils to get the air in and stomach one to get it out.

also if the hand is different from last pilot drawing its cause I'm still figuring out which type of hand ill like better and i think i like the one from previous drawing move honestly.

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been following your spec evo stuff for a bit now and im just curious how soft the creatures are (the pilot guy looks SO soft)

their fur is actually quite short it feels a little velvety and looks like the hair you'd find on a moth, but then again moths are too fuzzy looking while pilots are stupidly smooth coated so its not a good example.

pilots are just very fat! with a layer of short but dense fur. if they were wet there wouldn't be a drastic change mostly just a bit of volume lost