 December 13, 2010 - 7:30pm | I need a black silloutte of a clikk. Just the outline, anyone have something? (Of course if you have a full image that would be great but afaik, none exists) A typical Clikk female stands 3.7 meters at the shoulderwhile the male stands at 2.2. Both sexes have six limbs and a tough,exoskeleton. Its four rear legs allow the Clikk to move quickly. These legsalso give the creature excellent stability. |
 December 16, 2010 - 3:39am | In d20 Future, I seem to recall there is nearly that: a clikk (or klick, as it is there). Yep, page 49 of the d20 Future book talks about the klicks and shows what one looks like. Maybe a google search can pull it up, too. Long live the Frontier! |
December 16, 2010 - 3:45am | Google Star Drive Klick to find what that image looks like. That's all I can find. Hope it helps! Long live the Frontier! |
December 16, 2010 - 7:07am | Thanks! They are described as looking like vrusks. I'll draw a head image, front facing and leave it at that. It will retain the mystery! |
 December 16, 2010 - 12:39pm | heres an auction listing for Click Clack module involving Clicks http://cgi.ebay.com/STAR-DRIVE-TSR-Adventure-Module-KLICK-CLACK-11364-EXC-/200474276768?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ead32b3a... I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
December 16, 2010 - 2:04pm | I'm not sure if they meet the description posted by the Author of the SFMan article.  If you purchase that item, scan a pic for me. lol |
 December 18, 2010 - 4:23pm | Here is a quote from SF3: "...a race called the Clikks, resembling the Vrusk..." and "...the Heliopes will be friendly and curious about them; however, they shy away from Vrusks..." |
April 3, 2011 - 6:28am | Here is a quote from SF3: "...a race called the Clikks, resembling the Vrusk..." and "...the Heliopes will be friendly and curious about them; however, they shy away from Vrusks..." this would suggest a more vrusk like body with the scorpion like tail depicted on the heliope on the star mist module cover I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 April 3, 2011 - 12:38pm | best I got was a wikipeadia entry... looks like a space troopers bug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star*Drive Definitely not Vrusk, and I see no scorpion tail. Oh humans!!  We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".~ anymoose, somewhere on the net... so... if you square a square it becomes a cube... if you square a cube does it become an octoid? |
 April 3, 2011 - 12:46pm | There was a creature in spelljammer that looked like a preying mantis that could serve as the clikks. the creatures had a passing resemblence to a vrusk, body wise at least, but had a flattened head with preying mantis features and two front scythe-like front claws. a Click though might have a secondary set of manipulating limbs beneath the battle limbs on the upper torso, and 4 "legs" on it's abdomen. I think the creature was called Xixchil (ZIX-chil). Woot, I'll send you a pic so you can see what i'm talking about. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
April 23, 2011 - 9:34am | http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5147229199_7d3055a3b2.jpg Only image I could find that didn't look too much like a Thri-kreen, apparently they could be considered species-cousins, the mantis effectivly being strong in both of them, the Xixchil might be a younger offshoot from the Thri-kreen..... sort-of like ogers-to-orks, neader-to-man, but not quite as far back as fomorian..... anyway, they look like a race of mantis-warriors to me.... maybe with a change of the head, added scorpion tail, and a few cosmetic adjustments it would look better. I like all the variant 'Kreens in their oversized family tree.  I consider them to be the Elves-to Humans of the Vrusk.  someday I am going to give another run at a very buggy campaign! Just as soon as I get all these tenticals picked out of my teeth , still have to finish up that sushi-world too.Oh humans!! We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".~ anymoose, somewhere on the net... so... if you square a square it becomes a cube... if you square a cube does it become an octoid? |
April 28, 2011 - 2:04pm | Thanks! Someone else sent me that image as well. I guess for now they are a mystery until we capture one. -lgm |
 May 15, 2011 - 4:25pm | Hey wOOt! I think something just... Clikked! http://ragnarr.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=125943948 two weeks to late? My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
May 15, 2011 - 11:29pm | I actually like that one, it has been labeled as Vrusk in many places, but it seems to fit the Clikk much better. That view of the cover art on the Klick Clack module that was mentioned by jedion357, shows extra spindly arms, but it gives a Clikk-eye-view, and makes it difficult to discern details. That point, gives the Vrusk/Clikk image, an omitted appendage issue. Oh humans!! We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".~ anymoose, somewhere on the net... so... if you square a square it becomes a cube... if you square a cube does it become an octoid? |
May 15, 2011 - 6:22pm | Wait a sec. Are the Clikks that alien species that was shown on the cover of Sundown on Starmist? [back] No those were the Heliopes; that's right. Going over the module now to find a description of Clikks. [back again] Nothing definitive other than they are "like the Vrusk". Well I suppose that allow lots of wiggle room for what the Clikks look like, wot? Quite so. My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
May 16, 2011 - 8:44am | That's supposed to be a vrusk - wow, freaky. I like the clicks remaining mysterious. :-) |
May 16, 2011 - 5:35pm | I think the Clikks are mysterious, with or without an image. I think C'tullu is too, even though he has many more images to define appearance. It would be nice to have an image that draws together all those parts that have been mentioned being tossed around in various sources, so there is something to show at the table, for those that might want to. Oh humans!! We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".~ anymoose, somewhere on the net... so... if you square a square it becomes a cube... if you square a cube does it become an octoid? |
May 17, 2011 - 6:00pm | The image on the front of the module is a heliope, from what I gathered |
May 17, 2011 - 8:13pm | Yeah, that post from me was a back and forth type as I'd answer my own questions after asking. Someone's got to keep an eye on me I suppose.  My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
May 17, 2011 - 8:47pm | Yeah, that post from me was a back and forth type as I'd answer my own questions after asking. Someone's got to keep an eye on me I suppose. Two photoreseptors, as often as I can spare them.  |
May 18, 2011 - 12:00am | Are you saying The Click Klack Module shows a Heliope-Eye-View, of a terrorized grave-robber? [confused] I still read the "like the Vrusk.", to Indicate a similarity, that might cause them to be confused at a distance, or a dark ally... not in an open park at noon from 20ft... or even mistaken by another Vrusk at less than 200meters... Oh humans!! We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".~ anymoose, somewhere on the net... so... if you square a square it becomes a cube... if you square a cube does it become an octoid? |
June 8, 2011 - 6:08pm | They are similar enough to a Vrusk to cause an unconscious revulsion by the Heliopes |
June 8, 2011 - 6:33pm | A one eyed Human might confuse one for a Vrusk at 200meters in a dark ally...  that might be fair enough. Just by the description alone though, without a picture, I find it difficult to make that mistake, however, I might not be considered human...  so maybe that discounts my observation as an alien perspective.Oh humans!! We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".~ anymoose, somewhere on the net... so... if you square a square it becomes a cube... if you square a cube does it become an octoid? |
June 8, 2011 - 9:37pm | One aspect of this thread that makes the Clikk race almost a non-issue to me is that their race either died out countless of centuries ago, or if the PCs do happen to encounter them, the Clikks would be so far advanced that they'd blow the doors off of any frontier tech the PCs had. I can however see artifacts from the Clikk civilization being used as adventure hooks, like in 'Sundown on Starmist'. Perhaps TIT&AS might assign the PCs to continue searching for Clikk artifacts beyond the Starmist adventure. Actually, I would like to see more extinct race write-ups that GM's can use on Indy Jone type adventures. I grew up on the movie 'Forbidden Planet' and the extinct race Krill that Morbius was obsessed with. Krill shaped doorways, devices designed for Krill by Krill, their self-sustaining power source; all of it well thought out for a race we never wind up seeing. My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
 June 9, 2011 - 5:24am | Remembering that all of the Star Treks had an extinct race about every fourth episode there could be alot there to use. While most were the standard forehead changed aliens their were some useful ones. Of course since the Clikks have a secret hibernation base full of those who are infected with the disease that wiped them out but the automated computer program is very close to finding a cure as soon as it "recruits" some more test subjects we will be seeing them again soon. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
June 10, 2011 - 6:07am | Yeah, what they look like pretty much only maters as something to put on a half-decayed and damaged wall mural, or found in some hypercube-data record right before the hobbled connections fry the circuits of the lesser frontier-tech computers. However a visual of the Clikk could give a better impression of what an underground luner base might have looked like, before several tens of thousands of years of lunar shifting and settling crushed the larger portion of the outpost to rubble, only leaving behind a few crew-compartments and a common-gallery... so, what might an entertainment center and a soft cushy couch for a Clikk look like anyway? Not only are there likely few live specimens around, those that are around have likely devolved to a society on par with Mammoth-hunters, Eloi, and Morlocks... not much of a society left to speak of... and biologically not quite what they once were... and what ever the tech level used to be at their height, 90% of anything remaining would likely be unrepairable even to their own high-tech engineers of yore... What might be the remaining deep-underground 'phoenix regenesis' vault projects built by the dying Clikk are likely not fairing any better than any other fragment of their once great interstellar imperium after a few decllenium. But, in the tradition of the trope, one or two stasis chambers might still contain the equivalent of a Clikk mummy, in a stasis field conveniently waiting to degrade to critical condition just as the heroes enter the chamber, and immediately after deciphering the outpost manifest and discovering the collapse of this particular outpost was attributed to some bio-engineered plague... Or worse... bio-engineered insectoid mother-in-law clones that only know how to boil burnt biscuits and complain about how messy their room is... Now that what remains of the Rebirth Outposts guardian AI, has determined that this intrusion from outside allows for the resurection of the mother-in-law of all Clikks to be awoken in some yet-undiscovered chamber... what fate beholds our heroes, will they ever clean their assigned quarters in time to meet the UPF rescue team for the afternoon scfi-matinee? or will they be grounded indefinitely after she sees the mess they made of her lovely wall murals? Would be no wonder why the Heliopes are biologically averse to what might have been their previous insectoid masters, if the latter was the case... [shudders] Oh humans!! We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".~ anymoose, somewhere on the net... so... if you square a square it becomes a cube... if you square a cube does it become an octoid? |
June 9, 2011 - 5:04pm | One aspect of this thread that makes the Clikk race almost a non-issue to me is that their race either died out countless of centuries ago, or if the PCs do happen to encounter them, the Clikks would be so far advanced that they'd blow the doors off of any frontier tech the PCs had. Call him Captain Not Overlooking the Obvious- very true but a rough pic of the species would be good for the purpose of a write up and to give people something to look at. I agree about the general principle that the Frontier races dont really want to encounter one of these buggers at any time. I also agree that a good write up on them would be very helpful from the perspective of a Raider of the Lost Clikk adventure. So that said I went looking for a good place to start a discussion on the clikk in the projects and rather than start a new project I've started a "core 4" style discussion in Zebs expanded : http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/5422 http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/5423 I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 9, 2011 - 7:57pm | [Call him Captain Not Overlooking the Obvious- very true but a rough pic of the species would be good for the purpose of a write up and to give people something to look at.] My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
June 10, 2011 - 7:48am | Has anyone got any idea what the cover art on the Click Klack Module is? I really did get the impression that it was a reawakened Clikk-Klikk, scaring the bejezees out of a Human Xenoarchaeologist, in a reimagined style of the classic Mummy movies from Universal or Hammer Films.  Does anyone have the module? I haven't seen anyone make more comments about it beyond the couple links to the picture in another book.Roymeo Wrote amongst some cave paintings in some Hole in a Wall: Clikk The Clikk equivalent of a auto-pistol is fired by inserting a long, sharp foreleg into a conical tube and clench the tip to fire the weapon. Levers have for handles a narrow funnel depression into which a foreleg could be inserted. Security [and? with? handled by?] six beings. Mushroom like seats. The descriptions of Weapons and Lever use, looks like a referenceable description of the front cover of the Click Klack Module... and the Klikk image from the Alternity references. I can see the security of the Clikk being made in a Pentagram Formation, with a Team Overseer in the middle... point forward or rear isn't much of an issue, it brings three to four units to bear on each of the five points or sides, while still leaving as few as three, two, or one to watch the rear... and suggests a near-radial structure for the Clikk's physical form viewed top-down, and a bilateral form viewed face-on, not unlike a spider. Mushroom seats would thus be pretty easy to sit on given these considerations, with levers on the floor and buttons on the wall, fanning around one side in a simi pentegram arc, it could be a basic Clikk interface. Just some long comming thoughts...with so little to go on this has been rough... Oh humans!! We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".~ anymoose, somewhere on the net... so... if you square a square it becomes a cube... if you square a cube does it become an octoid? |
 June 10, 2011 - 7:13pm | I have the Click Klack module somwhere. I will try to find it. Incidently there is a picture of a klick in d20 Future as well. Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Edwin Louis Cole |
June 10, 2011 - 7:51pm | I think thespiritcoyote is a clikk, just look at his avatar. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
