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Entirety Species: Biskza by FamiliarAlien

Entirety Species: Biskza

FamiliarAlien

Decided to drop the word animal because I post these on another site with a smaller title area and since it out saves it I may as well use the same one on both sites! ANYWAY

Just one species after this and I'll finally be caught up on my drawings from all the way in November yay :D
Anyway as kinda hinted at in the last image while Entirety has plenty of futuristic weapons some species are bred and used as weapons. Such practices are obviously controversial but to be fair so to is breeding animals for food or clothing so no one can really hold the Vishquinza as particularly cruel especially when they're herbivores that usually don't use animals for anything but weapons, medical testing and transport. Biskza are a species with a natural phlegm projectile, it actually hits rather hard and fast though still only at a rate slower than a paintball so getting hit in itself won't kill you... the toxins might though. Biskza poison is an incredible irritant and is hard as balls to wash off (which makes sense for a amphibious creature) therefore you're likely to have a sudden severe negative reaction to it. You probably won't die from that unless you're particular sensitive but when your eyes and skin feel like they're on fire you're probably too distracted to defend yourself.

As a species this one is quite efficient for weapon use: they're naturally docile, breed rapidly and actually have a specialized patch on skin along the bottom of their torso that sticks to things (otherwise such a big fast moving projectile would make them go flying in the other direction). Also assuming a specimen isn't used endlessly those things on its back are actually storage of their mucus meaning they can be shoot several of these projectiles in a row. As expected captive bred individuals tend to have larger mucus storage sacks then their wild counterparts.
In recent years biskas have somewhat fallen out of fashion as guns better equipped to deal with damp environments have come to be developed but they're somewhat commonly used on Numamai as ... well they're essentially like cats to the vishquinza people (though more like tiny monkeys in relation to how closely they are as relatives) so most folks keep one around anyway so its honestly cheaper than investing in a fancy gun.

As far as inspiration goes originally I was thinking of going in the direction of Oddworld and having a small creature that was flung at people as a weapon but after seeing these I decided to make them the actual gun. I think it works out better as a concept for a amphibious species suppose to look related to the vishquinza.

So enjoy!
Entirety and all creatures related to it belong to me

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