Civilians - green parts are their natural body, they is wearing toga. They have no face, only eyes (6 to 10). On the top is crown of branches and that orb is their soul or mind (changes color depending on mood).

Military - they should be twice or triple times bigger than civilians. Their body is merged with armour. Sometimes they replace their body with weapon. Eyes are around head giving them 360 degrees view. Their crowns are smaller.

About all ships - the green parts are glasshouse where organic parts of Unfallen exist. During the battle glass is protected by armour plates. Lines with x are places where weapons could be placed.

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So unique and clean! I love how they can portray emotions despite having no real facial expressions in such an unconventional manner. The simplistic designs are very nice

In a David Brin novel (I don't remember the name, it's part of the Uplift cycle, the third one), there is an alien species that expresses emotions through "glyphs", which are little pictures conjured up above their heads. These orbs remind me of that.

I was wondering what the first submission was since it came through the gates much sooner than anybody else. I have to say I'm not disappointed.

While simplistic the work is very clean and I appreciate that some colour was added in to the design.

While the ships, simply do not excite me in any way; the designs for the actual populous is really cool, but they give me a vibe of plant people rather than tree people.

Excellent work all the same.

The look of the Unfallen themselves is quite interesting. I ruled out drawing multiple eyed faces but it works quite well.

Thanks for the kind words. A bit shame that's too late to change submission.

Frogsquadron wrote:

In a David Brin novel (I don't remember the name, it's part of the Uplift cycle, the third one), there is an alien species that expresses emotions through "glyphs", which are little pictures conjured up above their heads. These orbs remind me of that.

The same for dabuses from Planescape: Torment

But since the Unfallen show only emotions, it could be closer to alien civilization from Ijon Tichy's 14th journey (The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem)

It is clean as it can be. Other concepts are way too complicated, and overdetailed. I understand that this game is a sci-fi, but the science does not allow to use trees as a spaceship. Your design uses greenhouses as living space what is totally makes sense. The "soul orb" is just genius. :) This submission is underrated :( Sometimes less is more.

This is my joint first favourite one. Just because the drawings aren't amazingly detailed doesn't make the design bad. I like how the green stands out against the white.