 October 19, 2011 - 7:56pm | After adding the Ul Mor to my SF website some time ago, it only made sense to me that I should eventually add the Edestekai, Kurabanda and possibly the Eorna. Hunting for pictures of the Edestekai, I could only find two; both black & whites from SF1 Crash on Volturnus. Neither gave me a complete standing subject to mess with on MS Paint. The picture of the Edestekai laying on the examination table would've required more work than the other (two edestekai running away from a Quick Death), so I went with the later. http://ragnarr.webs.com/frontierraces.htm#802983681 Enjoy!  My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
 October 19, 2011 - 10:40pm | That is awesome, but I gotta tell you, your version of the Ulmor is both awesome and scary! |
October 20, 2011 - 8:13am | Ah yes, the Ul Mor pic. Yeah, that's actually an artsey-fartsey chair that someone sells. Found the pic when seaching "octopus" on google. Sent it through the MS Paint meat grinder and viola! I could have used one of the Ul Mor pics in SF1 but wanted something more realistic looking than the sketches. My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
 October 20, 2011 - 9:09am | Got to tell you the green on blue is a bad color combo to read from. Try lightening the blue and switch the text to black or something. It has to do with color theory and the fact that yellow and blue make green, thus green has blue in it-they're just too close. I don't even recommend using a contrasting color to be artsy about it. When conveying information best to use a light background and black print- let the art be art and the copy be copy- less eye strain. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 October 20, 2011 - 12:20pm | That edestekai turned out great! Only thing I can comment on it...move both eyes over to the left more, they're centered on a line that runs between the legs in the description (IIRC). Moving both eyes to the left (have one even jutting out past the bodyline) suggests there's more than two eyes. I made a basic revision, feel free to touch it up:  |
 October 20, 2011 - 1:27pm | Off topic; anyone think this race is playable as a player-character? |
October 20, 2011 - 5:14pm | Off topic; anyone think this race is playable as a player-character? sure, a player character is a set of ability rolls, modified for race, a PSA, some skills and racial abilities. but they are considered primitives and you'd have yet a whole new alien physcology for us to debate and muse about in a project like the core four for figuring out what the race is like and how to play it. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 October 20, 2011 - 5:51pm | i bet they could sell peanuts! -iggy |
October 20, 2011 - 7:45pm | @jedion: So when you see the text on the pages, the background is blue? Because I'm seeing a black back with green text. I'll give black on white a try, or maybe some other color text (yellow?) @shadowshack: yeah I see what you mean now that I look at it some more. Easy for me to move its eyes. So each one of its three eyes are in line with each of its three legs then? @iggy: ...and I'll be adding a monocle, cane and top hat too brother. :) My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
October 20, 2011 - 8:18pm | @ Captain Raggs: that could be my bad as I checked your link from my too smart for its own good phone. Some sites get adjusted to be smart phone friendly, I actually find that annoying. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
October 20, 2011 - 9:26pm | So each one of its three eyes are in line with each of its three legs then?
The text doesn't really define this, it only mentions that due to an equal arrangement that they can see 360º. The pictures, however, illustrate the eyes centered on a line that divides the legs, which actually makes sense when you consider if the eyes were inline with the legs instead, they would have to be looking around their legs. So going around in a circle you would have a leg, an eye, a second leg, a second eye, a third leg, and the third eye....all evenly spaced apart from each other. More simply put, take an equilateral triangle...centered in each side is an eye and each point is a leg. |
October 20, 2011 - 10:24pm | @shadowshack: The first attempt was based on the pic from SF1. Take a look with the Edestekai's eyes in line with its legs. My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
October 21, 2011 - 11:20am | Much better, the bulge on the right suggests a third eye more efficiently than my simple phase shift did. Like I said, there's nothing written where the eye location should be. All we have in that regard are a few artist renditions. The one in SF-1 (specimen on the lab table) has it centered between the legs --- look at the dividing line that separates the legs and the eye is on that same line. The SF-2 pics render the eyes in line with the legs themselves. I would simply agree with the former, since the legs are less apt to obscure their vision as such. But there really is no right or wrong way to do it. Yours looks great! |
October 21, 2011 - 2:13pm | Re: edestekai as player characters; the racial weapon IIRC is a pole arm or pike. Which is part of the reason I've entertained a after the Volturnus campaign scenario where someone is mysteriously supplying the edestekai with flint lock firearms and they are taking particular umbridge with the Ul-mor killing quick deaths. With pikes and flint locks you get classic English Civil War formations ideal for taking down cavalry, which the u-mor are exclusively. If the PC's are hired as Native Protective Police they need to stop this impending tragedy before the u-mor get wiped out as well as figure out who is instigating this. No doubt the eorna will pay a bonus for protecting one of their "child" races and stopping further "cultural contamination" I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
October 21, 2011 - 9:39pm | @iggy: as per you request... care for a peanut? http://ragnarr.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=140781002 My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
October 22, 2011 - 5:20pm | Sad, but the first phrase that popped into my mind was, "They melt in your mouth, not in your hands." -iggy |
October 22, 2011 - 5:40pm |  Edestekai breath? um, eww My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
December 8, 2022 - 8:58pm | kind of sad that all the links in this thread are dead. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
.jpg "SF_DM_Dave_G's picture") April 7, 2023 - 10:34am | Yeah, I went to the way-back machine to try and see Ragnarr's Edestekai in color, and there were a few pages from his website there, but not the one showing that particular picture. Oh well, have to do my own colorizing, I guess! Enjoying Star Frontiers off & on since 1982! A very verbose log of my group's adventures so far...: https://davegweb.wordpress.com/ |
