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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FreeXenon" data-source="post: 6174698" data-attributes="member: 6228">I am attempting to participate in in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?340362-2013-National-Novel-Writing-Month-%28NaNoWrMo%29-Writers-Role-Call&p=6174371#post6174371" target="_blank">National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)</a> which is in the month of November and I am planning on writing some sci fi. The main character is an alien species that looks like a Mass Effect'esque piscoloth. I am curious if anyone might be willing to give me some ideas to flesh this species out - like a decent name...image of piscoloth: <a href="http://www.sigil.cz/images/articles/sfery/sfery-fiendi/alternate/piscoloth.gif" target="_blank">http://www.sigil.cz/images/articles/sfery/sfery-fiendi/alternate/piscoloth.gif</a>DescriptionThe current name I have chosen is "Slistar". I need a better name here. Anyone have a better name for this critter. If you have any suggestions for their technology, culture, etc... I would like to hear it. I am also not really sure about their primary deity... it feels so cliche: The Slistari are a bit of a territorial and war like species whose primary religion is focused on competition and combat. *sigh*They are the only other known sentient species, besides humans. The Slistari have been space faring for a century or more than humans and their technology is a bit more advanced than ours. They look like a more humanoid form of a piscoloth - a chitinous carapace with dark black eyes, 3 fingers and toes with slight claws on both that are sharp enough to gut a human if they want to. They do not see so well in an oxygen based atmosphere but hear really well into high and low frequencies that we can not. They must usually wear visor/headphones helmet combo to process light so that they can see as well as a human, attenuate specific frequencies (high and low) so that they do not hurt their "ears" while living in human atmosphere. In order to "breath" in human based atmosphere they require a special shot that allows them to process human air into something that they can use (or a gas mask like thing). In order to speak so that humans can understand they need to use a voice modulator with an neural/aural interface. They are omnivorous and can eat about anything, from fruit, vegetables, to still squirming humans.</blockquote>

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