The home moon of the avali, Avalon, has low enough gravity for organic avali to fly so some thought about the cyborg being able to fly was given. The hips have attached thrusters to aid in flight which have been modified from the avali ship thrusters to instead have air intakes for flight within an atmosphere. The plating of the armor is loosely based on canonical avali artwork, but in reality I may have made it too blocky for the avali aesthetic. This body glove hides the inner workings of the cyborg body while also providing some form of protection. The avali are known for using complicated materials like graphene and carbon fiber for their technology so underneath the plated armor is a combination of the two as a body glove. The strange cords coming out from behind the head with a crystal on tip is a reference to one of the avali plumage options in official artwork. The heat sinks are a mixture of the ear armor shape of the original tactical helmet and the space ship heat sinks, which does mean the heat sinks can open up to release built up heat. I decided to replace the ears with heat sinks, as it would be of most importance to keep the head as cool as possible for the organic brain inside being used to below freezing temperatures. Although in this case, eyes were added for personality and a display added above the top of where the muzzle would be.
So let's get into what concepts I pulled to try to make this.įirst off the head shape is an altered concept of an official tactical helmet design on the wiki. They are a fictional species originally created on Spore but blew up in popularity upon the creation of a Starbound mod. Although what I invisioned may not be what the creator of the avali had in mind. I referenced a ton of official artwork of the avali to try to get this concept as close as I personally could envision it to canon. I am well aware of the canonical lore of the avali where cyborg avali can be almost indistinguishable from organic avali, although I wanted to do a take of what an avali would look like if it was externally robotic. Some even go so far as to receive full-body prosthetics, essentially reducing the individual to little more than a brain in an artificial casing riding a mechanized body." Some, however, choose to be fitted with extensive cybernetic augmentations voluntarily, since the replacement limbs are both usually superior in function to the organic counterpart and less critical to survival in case of injury.
" These augmentations often take the form of replacement limbs and organs, mostly fitted in response to debility or critical injury.
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