Spacefuture: Bombshell's Illyrian Ranger

[Rigel]

In the country of the blind, the saying goes, the one-eyed man is king. Certainly when venturing into the obscure unknown of space, the monocular Illyrians are as good as any human, despite a completely different evolution. Their quick regeneration and centrally-located brain-analogue allow them to survive injuries a human could not, while their alien metabolism means resource competition between human and Illyrian is minimal. 

Here is one brave planetary explorer on a rugged rocky ringed planet. It appears extensively cratered, but the presence of atmosphere and weather should have worn the features down...



Well, that answers that! 

 

Distant evolutionary cousins, perhaps? Or just convergence? 

 

These native life forms are unused to creatures with eyestalks like theirs that can move about freely on the surface! 


The eye-worms are unused eyestalks from a Wizkids Beholder--they come with a set each of Eyebeam Eyes and Regular Eyes. Waste not!
They were inspired by this pulpy artwork--not mine, all credit to the original artist.

[Glitterwolf]

Awesome!

[Iridil]

Brilliant repurposing!

[Rigel]

Thank you! I've really been on a bender of 'monsters with an odd number of eyes' lately. Glad you like the beholder eyestalks!