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C.M. Kosemen's "Fat Creature": A Dissection
Topic Started: Oct 4 2013, 05:30 AM (694 Views)
Cyrus Theedishman
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A while ago on C.M. Kosemen's sketch blog on Tumblr, he posted a sketch of a fat, silent creature that communicates through three flexible digits (image from post above). The design seemed so distantly familiar because it subtly resembled one of C.M. Kosemen's earlier creations, the Qu from All Tomorrows. Knowing that they, through a billion years of self-imposed genetic modification, changed themselves until they reached perfection, I attempted imagine what their terrestrial ancestors (assuming that they, like the later Asteromorphs, are microgravity-dwelling) would look like. Given the apparent synamorphies with the billion-year-old space gods this creature has, I thought that this creature could be that ultimate terrestrial ancestor, just that C.M. Kosemen won't tell us if it is, assuming that he was slipping through surprises in his sketch blog.

Below, I will try to prove through two wonderful (not really) color-coded diagrams I made in Microsoft Paint to compare the anatomy of the fat creature and the Qu, along with the possibly-related "tracing creature" found in the same illustration as the Qu proper on page 16 of All Tomorrows.

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If this fat creature is indeed the ancestor of the Qu, I have a confession: when I was imagining what the ancestors of the Qu would look like, one of my ideas was that they were fat. Great minds do think alike, after all!
Edited by Cyrus Theedishman, Oct 4 2013, 05:34 AM.
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Wow ! That's actually a brilliant dissection ! I would've never correlated the two as being the same organism but the comparisons do make sense...and after all Nemo is a bit of a troll in the sense that we does like to shock and surprise :D

Edit: It came to me just now. Why don't you try to create a fictional evolution of the Qu and their terrestrial ancestor ? I think that would be a brilliant project on your part :)
Edited by Armaknee, Oct 4 2013, 04:47 PM.
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is an interesting comparison, I never imagined something like.

someone in a subject about Qu, in the other forum, meant that his ancestor could be another creature, I draw Kosemen, the Bauropodon. could be relatives or missing link.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071015174111/http://www.nemoramjet.com/zoopicbauropodon.htm
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Cyrus Theedishman
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Do not asking *silly* questions about Heatmor. It makes Orz *frumple* so much.
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Wow ! That's actually a brilliant dissection ! I would've never correlated the two as being the same organism but the comparisons do make sense...and after all Nemo is a bit of a troll in the sense that we does like to shock and surprise :D

Edit: It came to me just now. Why don't you try to create a fictional evolution of the Qu and their terrestrial ancestor ? I think that would be a brilliant project on your part :)
Personally, I think it would be best to wait until Mr. Kosemen releases the second addition of All Tomorrows (he says he is working on a "revised" edition of All Tomorrows) to see if there would be additional information about the Qu before any speculative work on our part regarding the evolutionary history of the Qu should be attempted.

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is an interesting comparison, I never imagined something like.

someone in a subject about Qu, in the other forum, meant that his ancestor could be another creature, I draw Kosemen, the Bauropodon. could be relatives or missing link.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071015174111/http://www.nemoramjet.com/zoopicbauropodon.htm
Glad you mentioned Bauropodon (if that is a generic name) from Galactic Zoology! When I first saw that creature I thought that it looked like it had much in common with the Qu (stalked eyes, horizontal mandibles and smooth skin), but when you look at some additional features, such as the possibility that the the nostril, spiracle or whatever on the side of the creature's head may be paired, the fact that there is an additional orifice lower down the body, and the fact that the inferior pair of eyestalks is connected to the shoulder girdle (whereas in the "tracing creature" both pairs of eyestalks are connected to the head), there may be room for doubt. This would leave us with either two explanations: that the creature is not related and just happens to look similar, or it is a very grossly mutated form of Qu stock.
Edited by Cyrus Theedishman, Feb 15 2014, 11:12 PM.
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If anything, it wouldn't hurt to write to Memo and ask him if he plans to delve any further into the identity of the Qu.
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