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Published: 2011-11-12 15:23:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 147133; Favourites: 2580; Downloads: 2053
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Powerful Birrin societies have engaged in space exploration and exploitation for decades, constructing a number of orbital facilities, satellites, and launching several manned interplanetary missions. The critical orbital systems, with their relay of radio and television data, climate monitoring, GPS signal transmission and global defence, form an expensive and vulnerable investment by the major houses.Maintenance of these systems, and the manning of interplanetary vehicles, is undertaken by a politically independent astronaut corps funded by an investment pool of nations and organisations with interests in space. Paid well, the corps construct, salvage and decommission orbital objects on a contract basis.
Seen here, a technician sets to work repairing damaged internal systems on an orbital antennae. The large impact-hardened diagnostic package has been integrated with the antennas' interface to root out faulty code or hardware for repair or replacement.
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It looks more like the aliens made a trading partner with human explorers given how familiar their technology they use and clothing they wear.Β
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These are the creatures from the David Brin uplift series are they not? i'm assuming thats where their name came from, really cool to see them fleshed out.Β
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I would be curious to see a Birrin get into a suit like that, looks tricky as a hexapod. Great concept and detailing though.Β
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Team effort: other astronauts assist in putting on EVA gear
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I feel like the birrin are only like 50 to 100 years ahead of us in technology... is that assumption true?
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They used to be about 50 ahead of us, though it isnt totally even (better space and nuclear technology, worse social media/miniaturized tech) Now they seem to be about 1980s ish tech level at the time of the book I am working on.
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Could Birrin and Humans collaborate well together?
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Some of them could for sure!
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As soon as they have achieved warp/hyperdrive they can meet other alien species.Β
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Or just wait and see if other aliens invent it, and come visit
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I love how the use of shapes and colours scream 'early earth space exploration' until you notice the finer details, that humans don't bend there, or bulge there, the unfamiliar, made familiar, by the trappings of the most hostile of places. Wonderfull juxtapositions.Β
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how long did this stuff take you, looks like a life time
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A few weeks on this fella!
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The birrin spacesuits are rather cute. :-D
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Wouldn't it make more engineering sense to encase the head in a glass bubble helmet instead of trying to articulate and insulate 4 thin eye stalks? Space suits are inherently stiff because of the pressure differential and I imagine a Birrin with fragile and flexible eye stalks would either tire easily or be completely unable to move hose eye tubes.
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I agree - future designs will probably incorporate a bubble instead
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That's a good helmet concept too.
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Cheers. Next time I might do a full bubble though to avoid the eye stalk weak points.
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Will we learn more about the birren?? I'm fascinated with them. You have a very clear vision of this species.Β
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Putting them together bit by bit
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Yes, yes and yet another yes. This is how modern sentient species done right. I wish if some movies did contain such detail. Even in Star Wars series you cant see a full spacesuit...And with that diversity there, its hard to belive that all the creatures have the same requirements and needs to maintain existence. The effort you put into this species is out of this world
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Thanks! I try to fit things to an alien anatomy while maintaining function
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Sorry for pretty much fave bombing your entire gallery, but your stuff, it's just too damn amazing for words! Oh my god! Just... JEEEZUS your birrin species and culture and their tech and stuff is really intriguing and interesting to me, this is probably the most fascinating thing I've found on Deviantart!
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Glad yee like it
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I Love It!!
On the Birrin's back, there appears to be some sort of symbol. Is it a pressure gauge, or a Birrin insignia?
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That is a symbol, while there is a gauge where the umbilical joins the suitΒ
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Would Birrin be peaceful if they had come in contact with human astronauts or vice versa?
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Probably, since astronauts of both species tend to be pretty level headed
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How big Birrin are compared to humans? Because It would be COOOL to see a human space explorerΒ meeting a Birrin in space, just both floating there. It would also be a little interesting to see what they look like when they eat, in comparison we would look like chipmunks. You make flat-out good art man.
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