Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Unknown User on June 05, 2010, 11:01:51 PM
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I often wonder just how many alien races K.A. created in the Aniverse, and while I like them all I begin to wonder which one is the forum favorite! So, please name your favorite (or not so favorite) spicies of alien and why. If someone else has taken yours or you just can't decide which one you like best, name a random species and a fact or two or three about them. The results from this topic are going into a kind of forum encyclopedia I may or may not ever start or finish.
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This guy at DeviantArt has an amazing collection of illustrations he's done of practically every alien in the Animorphs universe, even the really obscure ones.
http://monster-man-08.deviantart.com/gallery/#Animorphs
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Yeah...i saw those drawings.....awesom eness
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I like the Pokemon reference.
I actually really like the Helmacrons, but the Chee are up there too.
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Leerans all the way. Can't beat physic octo-toads!...."BEWARE THE HYPNO-TOAD!". ;D
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The Five, which are apparently somewhere between The Four and The Six. Specie evolution, perhaps?
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Andalites and Hork-Bajir are both cool. Skrit Na are interesting, as well as Yeerks, but those two races are creepy for different reasons.
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I'm all about the Leerans. How bizarre must their culture be? What would life be like if privacy didn't exist? I'm writing a fic right now about a Leeran original character and his culture. Also, HYPNO-TOAD.
Other than that, I have a mile-wide soft spot for the Chee, Ketrans and Taxxons.
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Pemalites are my favourite! :D Also gonna put in a special mention for the Mercora and the Generationals.
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i thought the Venber were really cool and had an awesome name. :D
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The Capasins were dangerous.
Crayak of course.
Did someone mention Pemalites and Howlers?
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It's a tie between the Andalites and Yeerks for me. I just think they're fascinating biologically, especially since they are both highly intelligent.
As for the "animal" aliens, the javelin fish thing the Visser morphed was pretty rad.
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Not exactly a species, but pre-singularity Ellimist and Crayak are my favorites, in terms of concept.
Before they ascended to mystical wishy-washy spacetime godhood, these two were technological marvels who transcended biological existence by yoking their fragile physical selves to titanic machine constructs of glass and steel and chained lightning; they commanded fearsome arsenals bristling with weapons that could tear stars in half with a single shot, or reduce planets to scattered ashes in a single blast; they wove in and out of real space with impunity, and had mastered faster-than-light travel to a degree beyond any other species of the galaxy.
Then they fell into a black hole, and the wondrous machine-gods became funky non-corporeal consciousness thingies wedded to the very fabric of spacetime itself...or something. Eh.
One thing Animorphs is really missing, as a sci-fi series, is sublime moments of geek static technowank. I like my phasers and my anti-entropy fields and my coherent neutronium whips and my quantum-computed Turing machines running a hypercubic chess match in four dimensions while modified tesseract-capable Langton's ants wander about changing the binary nature of the chess cells mid-game.
Pre-singularity Ellimist and Crayak are the closest the series comes to embodying that concept, though The Ellimist Chronicles was sadly lacking in specifics.
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One thing Animorphs is really missing, as a sci-fi series, is sublime moments of geek static technowank. I like my phasers and my anti-entropy fields and my coherent neutronium whips and my quantum-computed Turing machines running a hypercubic chess match in four dimensions while modified tesseract-capable Langton's ants wander about changing the binary nature of the chess cells mid-game.
Pre-singularity Ellimist and Crayak are the closest the series comes to embodying that concept, though The Ellimist Chronicles was sadly lacking in specifics.
True, but remember that one of its only attempts at using true specific scientific principles was to say (In TAC): "We couldn't fly the humans back to Earth as fast as possible because it would cause everyone on Earth to age several years in the process; that's relativity for you." I was like "... Um, no it isn't". So yes, it would be nice, but I'm afraid that the results of repeated attempts like that would only constantly upset and drive crazy any reader who was anticipating it positively.
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True, but remember that one of its only attempts at using true specific scientific principles was to say (In TAC): "We couldn't fly the humans back to Earth as fast as possible because it would cause everyone on Earth to age several years in the process; that's relativity for you." I was like "... Um, no it isn't". So yes, it would be nice, but I'm afraid that the results of repeated attempts like that would only constantly upset and drive crazy any reader who was anticipating it positively.
I'd forgotten that incident until you mentioned it, but yeah that was pretty bad and funny at the same time. Technically yes, traveling in a spaceship at a significant fraction of c would cause time to flow more slowly inside the ship relative to the outside world, but in TAC the ship was halfway between the orbits of Earth and Mars. To get from there to Earth would take a few light-minutes, yet Elfangor is talking about a time dilation of several years.
Hey, maybe Elfangor was right and Einstein was wrong. Andalites are technologically and theoretically far ahead of humans, after all. Either that or at maximum burn, Andalite ships age themselves and their occupants backwards in time.
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here's a few (http://animorphs.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Species) if you forget your species :)
what about the humans...?
seriously though, i thought the ketrans were pretty cool.never could fully picture their odd shapes (though monsterman did a pretty fantastic job (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/115/c/b/Animorphs_Races__Ketran_by_Monster_Man_08.jpg) at portraying them)
i was a huge fan of the hork-bajir. (chronicles was one of my faves)
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gotta give love to the giant squishy cannibals. taxxons for the win. I love the idea of a species so hopelessly hungry that it will willingly eat itself. Morbid, but it's the mark of a good writer when she/he can make someone feel sorry for a cannibalistic species that willingly gave themselves over into slavery for meat.
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Gedd. Those weird monkey things. Chadoo. Iskoort. The Arn - Yeerk Target practice.
Also, oh goodness:
:ax:
Hahahaha!
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here's a few (http://animorphs.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Species) if you forget your species :)
what about the humans...?
seriously though, i thought the ketrans were pretty cool.never could fully picture their odd shapes (though monsterman did a pretty fantastic job (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/115/c/b/Animorphs_Races__Ketran_by_Monster_Man_08.jpg) at portraying them)
i was a huge fan of the hork-bajir. (chronicles was one of my faves)
whoa. monster man is pretty good. has he drawn other animorphs stuff?
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Has anyone mentioned Father yet?
Or those aliens from The Familiar that never showed up again?
Or that species that Ax said was clearly resembled the Klingons.
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i think the one Ax talked about were the Hawjabrawn?
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I think you are correct. That sounds more correct than what I was going to say, which was something I also believe he mentioned but it began with an O and was in reference to the shape of the Enterprise or something like that.
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Ongachic! I think he said the Klingons were clearly Ongachic females or something.
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THAt's the one! I said it right as i looked at your post. XD
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do you read pokemon? "gotta catch'em all"
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Hmm.
It's getting harder to think of species that haven't been mentioned yet (naturally).
Should we make up a name for the thing that managed to exile Crayak from his little corner of the galaxy?
Something along the lines of "Mysterious Plot Bunny That Never Returned"?
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anyone mentioned the smak and the maak yet? what about the mecora and the nesk?
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Should we make up a name for the thing that managed to exile Crayak from his little corner of the galaxy?
Something along the lines of "Mysterious Plot Bunny That Never Returned"?
I've seen fanfics where The One was the being that banished Crayak, and it was in the Kelbrid part of the galaxy during Book 54 to finish off Crayak. Of course, that's just in fanfics, but I think it's a reasonable speculation.
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Also, oh goodness:
:ax:
Hahahaha!
i miss dino...
..we had a lot of fun with those.
we did all the ones after :andalite: on the [more] smiley list.
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I have a hard time believing that Crayak and the thing that banished him had a similar mindset. If they had, he wouldn't have been banished, The One would have just used him til it had no more use for him. Plus, The One doesn't strike me as being beyond the normal time-space continuum.
I like to think the thing from The Familiar was the thing that banished Crayak. I have my own theory for The One, but I really need to get back to writing those fan fictions and I really haven't had time to do it either, hahaha.
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i also don't think the One seems all that powerful. He seems actually more like a demi-God. And entity that's just powerful and mysterious.
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How come no-one has mentioned the Taxxons? (or atleast I think no-one hasnt) I loved battle sequences with Taxxons, I always imagined how fun and horrible at the same time it would have been to fight against a pack of pissed Taxxons. Or to morph to a Taxxon.
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Horrible, definitely. Fun, I don't think so. I hate birght colored bugs! And Taxxons happen to be a giant bright colored stink bug.
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I hate bugs, especially centipedes, maggots and anything beetle-like creep me out. (The funny thing is I'm fascinated by ants and bees) So I guess I would get some perverse satisfaction beating a huge centipede.
But I really liked how the books described the Taxxons, even though they sounded ugly and disgusting I still have lots of respect to all strong carnivores. A Taxxon would be one hell of a predator in real life.