[Showcase] Amber's assorted arts

These creatures are manmade on a commission basis, and engineered to fit the customer's specifications; if the customer wanted something which looked exactly like their favorite video game character, the engineers would do that. Though the "Fandomon" were shut down due to copyright infringement, the Fordian engineers got around this by making things which weren't copyrighted. It wasn't until they made Mechaton and it destroyed the labs that Fordian production stopped for good.

Fordians have many things in common with Pokemon but are bio-mechanical, artificial lifeforms. They are hardier, stronger and more adaptable than Pokemon. When they multiplied and escaped into the wilderness, they drove natural Pokemon to extinction and formed their own ecosystems.

The name "Fordian" was coined from the protests of a man who likened the production of these creatures, called "designer Pokemon" at that time, to the mass-production of humans in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World (he drew this comparison due to the production of "homunculi", which are the Fordians that look like humans but aren't). His "condemn this Fordian facility!" protests were misunderstood by the general public who didn't get the reference, and they thought Fordian was the actual name of the creatures. To suppress his protests, the engineers adopted that as the official name, becoming Fordia Systems Limited.

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The gist of the plot is that everything is digital in this world, and some enigmatic virus programmer makes a virus which wreaks havoc on the all digital stock market which makes everyone think a second great depression has occurred, causing them to freak out. This was a ruse to promote organized crime though, something much more problematic in this world. To deal with the influx of criminals being arrested they made the Detainment District which is like a prison-city, and serves as a major setting in the game. So the game in general is a sci-fi/crime themed RPG which aims to be more realistic than the typical RPG - characters who use chemical weapons can't replenish the energy to use it by sleeping at an inn, they need to purchase chemistry sets and use them, also the Fire Breath skill the playable Exodrake character has can't be used outside if the wind direction is blowing towards him. So it goes for more realism than most RPGs, but still takes SOME artistic licenses, but those which are within reason/not proven to be implausible, like warp drive technology on the spaceships.

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The female Exodrake is dramatically larger, ranging from 8-10 feet typically, and built for strength while the males are built for agility. Females possess horns (hardcoded to the W chromosome so it's impossible for males to have them), tail blades, and more jaw feelers that form a "beard" while the male has a "goatee". They also have large scales on the nose absent in males. Males fall within a typical height range of 4-6 feet, have superior eyesight, less bone fusion thanks to their lighter body which means they are more flexible as well, and are really fast. This dramatic sexual dimorphism was indeed important for their survival in the world they come from. Also, both male and female Exodrakes can have babies (they are viviparous as all of the higher animals from their world are). I could explain this better but I don't think anyone wants to know about that lol . Just know my explanation is scientifically sound and they have the necessary organs for this to be possible.

Biologically Exodrakes have no real Earth analogue; the best brief description I can make for them is "highly advanced insects with endoskeletons", but even that draws too many analogues to Earth creatures. Descended from distant insect-like ancestors, their "tail" is anatomically an abdomen; the body cavity extends into it which is why it is a "crotch tail". They belong to a clade of alien animals called Draco, or dragons, named because these animals all have a characteristic fire breathing adaptation which uses a hydrogen+platinum+oxygen reaction to create fire, and some of them actually do closely resemble dragons of lore.

For fire breathing, dragons expel the hydrogen gas from glands in the mouth and platinum powder from the nostrils after grinding and snorting it, which meet at a distance away from the face and they shoot it in quick bursts so they avoid injuring themselves. Still, with the rarity/value of platinum and the amount of personal/property damage fire breathing can cause, doing so is highly taboo and illegal in their society. Platinum is never sold as jewelry or the like; it is permitted only in lab settings on their world, and holds tremendous value on the black market.

Their homeworld, Hrr'gthr, is an Earth-like planet with much of its geography ideal for a planet loaded with forestation, especially rainforests. The semi-arboreal race bases much of their culture on the forest as it is so important to them. Carnivorous, they actually respect plants more than animals, so Exodrakes typically don't get along with human vegans lol.

In the modern day (on Earth it is the year 2054 in their world), Exodrakes openly coexist and trade with humans, so the races are allies who no longer find each other strange after coexisting for millenia. For the most part. Xenophobia is an inevitability between races who cross each other's ideals so much. But for the most part they get along, and interspecies friend circles are the norm; even interspecies romantic relationships are pretty common. Exodrakes think very similarly to humans and are intellectual equals, the main reason for the compatibility of the species.

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