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Not related to A Phoenix's Ascendence (Byzantine CYOH)

Apologies for this inconvenience, the internet went down for over two days over in my area (it wasn't related to the Optus outage in Australia that occurred a few days ago), which led to me having to derail the Dinovember challenge for a while and this gave me the idea to finish a long-awaited idea in my queue.

For the meantime, here is something I made from this unplanned break, a piece of fanart of the ongoing series of Choose Your Venus by Siryeehaw and a little bit of soft specevo (specifically behavioral stuff), once again utilising the idea of "convergent evolution" (like I did with the Eradu ) rather than trying to go all in on the alien. Also since I had the idea of creating a few OCs for lols, I figured I would do this through my headcanon version of the Venusians with partial input from the creator and a little bit of schizo-posting involved.

Coincidentally, there are also reptilian-like Venusians in H. P. Lovecraft's (and Kenneth Sterling) short story "In the Walls of Eryx", in which they were called "man-lizards" where they communicate telepathically with their tentacles (in classic Lovecraftian fashion). Perhaps there's more to it or maybe I'm peering too much with contextual stuff.

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Venusians (Orthostosarus aphorditi), natively called Zunjakh, are 4 foot tall parareptiles or pseudonapsians [1] that are native to the planet Venus and the second "sophont" (sapient species) known to humanity as of 2035. In that timeline, Venus somehow retained most of its water and went on to develop complex life that is comparable to Earth. It rotates like the Earth, albeit it has no moon and has no seasons discernible to man. Without a large object like the Moon, Venus would have "calm" waters that aren't pulled by tidal gravity.

The Zunjakh as they call themselves, are often mislabelled as reptiles and derogatorily as lizards, are not Earth reptiles. While they (might) share outwardly physical traits, slit eyes, a lack of mammaries, carnivorous, cold-blooded (there being less Venusians in the tundra) and many that would commonly attribute reptilian features to something of that nature, they are fundamentally more like Earth's mammals. They give birth to young (hence a traveller might see a subtle belly button), a notable departure to what one might attribute to a reptile. They also don't shed scales (quite scaleless in fact).

The Venusians evolved and eventually built a civilisation that is just complex as those found on Earth, albeit stuck around the early Renaissance, approximately the 15th century in more densely populated areas, such as the Celestial Empire. In the late 20th century, the United States would discover the existence of the Venusians and eventually arrived on the planet as the first humans to step foot on this twin planet in 2030 with only twenty men, who were construction workers and scientists with a strong interest to Venusian biology. There, they discovered a small city-state or more so, a village called Cthalstk and began making a long-term commitment to trading with them and surrounding locals.

Here, are two Venusians (specifically the Far Indies Venusians) that greatly contrast the current culture of local Venusians. Vekak, a male Venusian, is the typical subject wearing traditional clothes, whereas Whetchul, a female Venusian, is one of the recent recruits and volunteers (or "minutemen" as some might put it) to the American colonial settlement Copernicus, who make up the Venusian-dominated security force- the 1st Hesperian Patrol.

Both greatly contrast what the future of Venus might be in just a single large, remote island alone: their roots and to (later) violently resist man's infiltration of their society or to humanity, their "saviours" and be uplifted as an equal race to their Earthly brothers.

Back on Earth, the Final Reich [2] and China are preparing to also open their fronts to Venus, determine to shape the fate of the reptilian natives, but even so, the Americans are a step ahead of their rivals back at home...

[1] - Basically "false synapsian", the latter word meaning a group of extinct mammal-like reptiles on Earth which had some predecessor traits that would later go on to be modern mammals. There are also similar animals within the parareptilian class, where its not just the Venusians that somehow aren't laying eggs.

[2] - The German Empire ("Second Reich", Kaiserreich) but fatalist

Description

Not related to A Phoenix's Ascendence (Byzantine CYOH)

Apologies for this inconvenience, the internet went down for over two days over in my area (it wasn't related to the Optus outage in Australia that occurred a few days ago), which led to me having to derail the Dinovember challenge for a while and this gave me the idea to finish a long-awaited idea in my queue.

For the meantime, here is something I made from this unplanned break, a piece of fanart of the ongoing series of Choose Your Venus by Siryeehaw and a little bit of soft specevo (specifically behavioral stuff), once again utilising the idea of "convergent evolution" (like I did with the Eradu ) rather than trying to go all in on the alien. Also since I had the idea of creating a few OCs for lols, I figured I would do this through my headcanon version of the Venusians with partial input from the creator and a little bit of schizo-posting involved.

Coincidentally, there are also reptilian-like Venusians in H. P. Lovecraft's (and Kenneth Sterling) short story "In the Walls of Eryx", in which they were called "man-lizards" where they communicate telepathically with their tentacles (in classic Lovecraftian fashion). Perhaps there's more to it or maybe I'm peering too much with contextual stuff.

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Venusians (Orthostosarus aphorditi), natively called Zunjakh, are 4 foot tall parareptiles or pseudonapsians [1] that are native to the planet Venus and the second "sophont" (sapient species) known to humanity as of 2035. In that timeline, Venus somehow retained most of its water and went on to develop complex life that is comparable to Earth. It rotates like the Earth, albeit it has no moon and has no seasons discernible to man. Without a large object like the Moon, Venus would have "calm" waters that aren't pulled by tidal gravity.

The Zunjakh as they call themselves, are often mislabelled as reptiles and derogatorily as lizards, are not Earth reptiles. While they (might) share outwardly physical traits, slit eyes, a lack of mammaries, carnivorous, cold-blooded (there being less Venusians in the tundra) and many that would commonly attribute reptilian features to something of that nature, they are fundamentally more like Earth's mammals. They give birth to young (hence a traveller might see a subtle belly button), a notable departure to what one might attribute to a reptile. They also don't shed scales (quite scaleless in fact).

The Venusians evolved and eventually built a civilisation that is just complex as those found on Earth, albeit stuck around the early Renaissance, approximately the 15th century in more densely populated areas, such as the Celestial Empire. In the late 20th century, the United States would discover the existence of the Venusians and eventually arrived on the planet as the first humans to step foot on this twin planet in 2030 with only twenty men, who were construction workers and scientists with a strong interest to Venusian biology. There, they discovered a small city-state or more so, a village called Cthalstk and began making a long-term commitment to trading with them and surrounding locals.

Here, are two Venusians (specifically the Far Indies Venusians) that greatly contrast the current culture of local Venusians. Vekak, a male Venusian, is the typical subject wearing traditional clothes, whereas Whetchul, a female Venusian, is one of the recent recruits and volunteers (or "minutemen" as some might put it) to the American colonial settlement Copernicus, who make up the Venusian-dominated security force- the 1st Hesperian Patrol.

Both greatly contrast what the future of Venus might be in just a single large, remote island alone: their roots and to (later) violently resist man's infiltration of their society or to humanity, their "saviours" and be uplifted as an equal race to their Earthly brothers.

Back on Earth, the Final Reich [2] and China are preparing to also open their fronts to Venus, determine to shape the fate of the reptilian natives, but even so, the Americans are a step ahead of their rivals back at home...

[1] - Basically "false synapsian", the latter word meaning a group of extinct mammal-like reptiles on Earth which had some predecessor traits that would later go on to be modern mammals. There are also similar animals within the parareptilian class, where its not just the Venusians that somehow aren't laying eggs.

[2] - The German Empire ("Second Reich", Kaiserreich) but fatalist