Artstation Challenge - Beyond Human (3rd place)
Beyond Human
Humankind is on it's evolutionary ladders end, much like the giraffes inability to grow any larger or its heart wont support their mass, humans are now facing its own demise. Humans have had to move from a harmonious existence with the planet to a new parasitical existence where they are forced to use machinery to ensure that the last stand of humanity lingers on as long as possible. In the human place as the dominant life-form is a replacement, a much more agile and enhanced species called Alpha Seeds (see Alphas, Seedlings or Genesis seeds). They arrived in a meteor shower that struck the Earth, creating massive tidal waves that eliminated majority of the human civilization. The shift in the Earths atmosphere created the perfect breeding ground for the new life that had arrived. Humanity has a cure for their problems and it's the heart of the Alpha Seeds, the new species that rule the planet use biotechnology, a new way of using the high intensity energy their heart can
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Alpha Seeds
Doro
He is the hero of the story, an agile runner, full of explosive energy that he uses to "parkour" through the environment and glides between larger gaps.
Dogg
The Huntress trusty steed and has incredible speed and agility. It navigates through the use of echolocation. It is known to hear these creatures shriek as they bounce through the massive forests of Earth.
The Wise one
This wise old creature sits patiently on one of the branches of the great tree that signifies one of the major impact sites of the Great Arrival (as the call the disastrous meteor shower).
Breacher
This sex legged gorilla-like hero is a heavy duty attacker and defender with a built in roll-cage on his head and hardened parts. With his own biotechnology, he grows out his own knuckledusters to be used in his close-quarter fighting.
Di, the Huntress
She's a experienced hunter that lurks in tree tops or rides her agile mount Dogg. Her reactive bio accessories create gauntlets, leg armour or a helmet on demand if she needs it in battle. She is a force to be reckoned with
The Black Fog
Bossman
This is the leader of the humans, the last remaining "pure" human. Most of his body is intact but it's aided by massive tentacle arms that allows him to move around for more tactical advantages.
The Scout
It flies through the air and keeps a few keen eyes on it's surrounding. This very agile flying villain is as dangerous as insane. When it spots a victim it releases it's swarm of nano drones that flies and crashes into the victim, paralyzing
The captain
He is a vicious hunter-killer of the Black Fog, he has drones attached to his body as spikes and he sends them out in swarms, flying through the forest and updating him with tactical information on location and behavior of his pray.
Centipede
This fast and agile foe hunts down the Alpha seeds and stores them in it's pouch to take them back to where they will extract their hearts. With his white face he tries to mimic the Alpha Seeds.
Doctors
These horrible creations pin the Seeds down and uses it's accessories to extract the heart with no care for the wellbeing of the victim. With it's choker hands it pinch them down, injects them with a paralyzing agent and inserts tube