These are headless creatures from Mars, as imagined by Edgar Rice Burroughs and requested for the Steampunk Mod.
Rykor Worker
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Rykors (23/08/10)
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We need moaaarrrrrrr!!!! 
Balthasar
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We're using a Drider unit to represent the Kaldane. We won't see the Kaldanes much anyway, as they control the Rykors telepathically.
jewmpaloompa
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how disturbing!
Balthasar
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Let's put it this way: we're very very happy with these Rykor units. Besides, putting a drider on the shoulders (covering an already existing head) of most Native American units would be far easier than making units with no head at all, because it's easier to cover something that already exists than to uncover something that doesn't. I don't need to waste Plotinus' time and considerable talents asking him to do something I might be able to do myself with a Gimp Animation Program, or with one of Steph's tools.
I think you might have misunderstood me, Balthasar.
I just said that Rykors call for Kaldanes, otherwise Barsoom would be incomplete. And I don't regard any effort done by modders as a waste of time/talents.
Sorry if earlier posts gave any other impression.
Wait until you see what he brings us next
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Nor I, Tak; we agree completely on that. Forgive me if my comments seemed pointed. I was only trying to say that Kaldanes aren't a priority at this time.
That was a belly-laugh.
The Omega
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Hey, wait a minute, you're right! He doesn't have a head! Plotinus releasing an obviously unfinished unit? What has the modding community come to?
Great unit, though. Can't wait to see what comes next.
Goddammit, I knew I forgot something.
I had been thinking for ages that it might be interesting to make some Blemmye units. Blemmyes (not to be confused with the African tribe of the same name who appear in my Desert scenario) were creatures in ancient and medieval mythology, believed to live somewhere in Africa or Asia, which were like human beings but without heads. Unlike Rykors, however, they were rational beings and had faces on their chests. The problem with making them is that with big faces on their chests, you'd need to animate those faces, and texture animation is basically impossible in Poser (it can be done, but only through laborious workarounds such as swapping between different objects). So I suppose the Rykors are as close as I'll get to the Blemmyes.
I had been thinking for ages that it might be interesting to make some Blemmye units. Blemmyes (not to be confused with the African tribe of the same name who appear in my Desert scenario) were creatures in ancient and medieval mythology, believed to live somewhere in Africa or Asia, which were like human beings but without heads. Unlike Rykors, however, they were rational beings and had faces on their chests. The problem with making them is that with big faces on their chests, you'd need to animate those faces, and texture animation is basically impossible in Poser (it can be done, but only through laborious workarounds such as swapping between different objects). So I suppose the Rykors are as close as I'll get to the Blemmyes.
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