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The Triadultus have only made contact once. Despite extreme reserve and secrecy in every other manner, their delegates arranged to meet in person at the First Contact Summit.Most of what can be postulated about the Triadultus is gleaned from exhaustive analysis of the physiology and behaviour of the delegates. Notably they appear to be a colonial organism comprised of three distinct individual organisms. One organism comprises the base or "foot" of the body, and appears to be whole despite a physically intrusive interface with a lightweight synthetic trunk. The two other partners in the entity appear to be cut down to a head and a single arm each.
Communication at the summit was sparse and confused. The Triadultus, despite initially appearing confident, became disoriented with their surroundings and uncomfortable with the human delegates. Finely tuned questions and discussions-points from the Earth Plenipotentiary Peace Commission evidently disturbed the Triadultus representatives; revealing they were under the belief and experience that they physically resembled the homo sapiens they were meeting in every apparent measure. The summit was cut short. No followup communications with humanity have occurred since.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!! I LOVE THE WORLDS THAT YOU CREATED !!! Their research, study, travel through them is always new discoveries, new stories.
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i really like your style of drawing, the short story you have given also gives a lot to reflect appone in all that "under the belief that they physically resembled the homo sapiens they were meeting in every apparent measure" as both a metaphor you create of the situation and also a point of view another life in the universe have on us. brilliant.Β Β
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Just found your gallery. Awesome blend of mech and bio. Reminds me of phyrexians from MTG
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Lovely and also very weird. Love the blend of bio and mech!
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Is your art based on a book at all? Because the names and designs bring back memories of a rather good book I read awhile back but have forgotten the name of.
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Im glad i have found your deviant art and that you are still doing art! I bought you how to draw robots and how to draw vechiles book way back in 2007. You have been a huge inspiration for me thoughout the years thanks.
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Between you and Alex Reis, I cannot pick a favorite! You have been such an inspiration to me; and occasionally have provided some nightmare fuel. I wish you further success in art!
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You are my favourite artist, number one in my bookΒ΄s, definately! I love the style you have, and i REALLY love how you narrate your art, i mean writing some fantastic story behind every picture... My all time favourite is the Ghoul whit a child and the story in it. Thank you for your art, iΒ΄m a fan of yours and allways will be.
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Wait, what does it mean when it says they thought they resembled the humans? Did it think it looked like a 4 limbed, 1 headed vertebrate mammal, or did it think it was talking to a cyber-augmented 3-being colonial organism?
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Captivating! You've shown your mind in both the image and the text.
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Engaging backstory, just great. I loved it. These Triadultus here are an excitingly original concept-alien, in my opinion. Precise details, subtle colouring.Β
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The Golden Age-era Mars Odyssey short story was written partially as a reaction to a challenge in the sci-fi community: Β Portray an alien that thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man thinks.Β
This is that. Β Marvelous work.
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I am glad I found your awesome work here I love the story and the design!
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I might be overthinking this, but I get the idea that the Triadultus was perhaps also quite freaked out by the humans. Not their physical appearance, but maybe our own style of thinking struck it as fundamentally alien?
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That could definitely be a part of it! Β Humanity will certainly speculate about it for a long time after.
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I suppose talking with the equivalent of disembodied limbs would freak anyone out. I wonder though, are we the first sapients they've encountered? If not either the whole galaxy is populated by colonial organisms and the reaction is at least a little understandable or theΒ Triadultus are insular prudes not worth associating with.Β
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As amazing as your drawings are I think its the little stories that really intrigue me. They are far more intricate and peculiar than my own imagination. But I guess that's the point, you don't have to draw the delegates and their reactions, we can easily imagine them. Draw the strange creature, tell us the story and then let our imaginations fill in the blanks and create the moods and feelings that are unique to every viewer.
Great work as always. I anxiously await the next chapter
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Wow! that looks Amazing yet unsettling. I do get a pharaoh like vibe from it. Wow
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I quite enjoy the off-putting fusion of the mechanical and the organic.
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A weird alien individual that is actually composed of three others. I hate to imagine how a conversation with something like that would be like.
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Also, a brief thought: this could be the Prince with the Turquoise Head
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There are definitely some echoes there.
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This I feel is the quintessential creepy alien contact situation. A tall lumbering multifaceted being that no one can really physically relate to, therefor scaring the crap out of everyone present. With the fact that it's revealed something so unrelatable looking was under the belief that it wasn't; in an attempt to be deceptive for mysterious, perhaps devious reasons. Then backed out suddenly when it knew that that fundamental condition for it meeting in the first place wasn't in play, nor was it in any other past (unofficial) ventures. Something from outer space that is that bizarre looking in size and shape, with an apparent strange understanding and perception of it's surroundings, in the same room as me, would make me uncomfortable.
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Very cool, glad you're sharing the feel I aimed for!
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Fascinating alien, I love how original artwork always is!! 
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so cool! Β your art is always so different, but inspiring.
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Very interesting. Story and representation. I'm Favorite-ing and Watching. :3
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I've noticed that with your more cybernetic themes in your pieces, a few common elements can be seen. For instance, metal cylinders are often incorporated. As well, many of your creations contain an element much like the first elbow joint of these collective creatures' arms. As someone who finds your work to be an influence, I was wondering if you could provide any insight into your motives behind these themes.
As for this creatures' concept, I've gotta say that I really enjoy the fact that you decided to compose this entity of multiple organisms. It brings to mind the communal nature of the cells in our own form, yet it is resented in macro. Bravo, to say the least.
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Interesting to hear the recurring motifs you've seen in the work.Β I tend to view those recurring forms as the results of differing fundamental principles in the created world.Β So it's almost like those forms are the natural shapes that tend to happen in a world with slightly different physics from ours.
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Keith proves once again, that aliensΒ dont need to be humanoid cliche figures.
But could be either advanced primitive life forms, or advanced lifeforms with a primitive trait.
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this is awesome stuff, I really dig all of your designs.
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Finally an alien dat doesn't have two legs and five fingers on each hand!
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Your designs and back-story are both simply superb, as ever.
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you meant the robotic/armoured hands+heads??
man, such a weird description, i loved this character and its conjucture
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this is amazing and surprisingly colourful. I'm super impressed with this. You're always too amazing at designing robots and creatures as well as their back stories. I look forward to more.
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I can't agree more, with the statement above.
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