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Man, so many influences and associations here I don't even know where to begin...This deep-sea holothurian (genus Amperima) from Erich Hoyt's Weird Sea Creatures instantly struck me as a translucent, soft-bodied marine biomech, complete with hemispherical canopy bubble at the nose of the "submersible" (reference photo scan). But then I have to wonder if this association wasn't influenced by PB's subterranean worm conveyance from "Red Starved":
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( The timing of which episode coincided eerily, I should note, with the theme of my last journal entry: )
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I've also been revisiting (with Dan Bensen) the past couple of days the concept of ancient supercivs, and that in turn brings to mind the Mu-ian and Lemurian biotech posited under
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--WHICH was likely influenced by the "biowizardry" creations featured in RIFTS Lemuria:
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And taking the long retrospective view, it seems impossible that I wasn't also influenced at some point by the "living machines" from The Abyss, a'waaay back in the day (I still contend that the extended version is one of the best sci-fi movies ever made). Then there's also my own
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and the fact that I've had gelatinous marine organisms percolating on the back burner (figuratively) since seeing untold numbers of sea gooseberries stranded on Cannon Beach back in August (see second reference photo), which put me in mind of Gradius
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and also this racy Lovecraftian Sorayama image that has haunted me for years but doesn't really fit anywhere else
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SO I guess you never really know, now do you?

Influences real and imagined aside, reading Weird Sea Creatures got me thinking that the ability of soft-bodied animals to withstand extreme pressures makes them ideal potential candidates for deep-sea biomachines (clearly human-piloted machines are less justifiable), and also the fact that "armor" composed of translucent, gelatinous organic material might be nigh impervious to solid projectiles and even beam weapons. More along these lines to follow...hopefully. Will Scrap soon.
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shinobidrako's avatar
beautyful... simply marvelous!!