Welcome to Ganymede!

[ffutures]

Some pictures for the Ganymede section




It's covered with water plus occasional mountains, mud flats, rocks etc. except at the south pole, where there's a small amount of land that isn't continually being swept out to sea by the tide. Basically, I've colorized the globe of Ganymede and added the land mass at the south pole without making any major changes.





Caption reads

A Ganymedan Nympus offers to sell his catch, an amphibious land-leet (left) and an aquatic sea-leet (right). Both are edible by humans, but the land-leet is generally considered "good eating," the sea-leet is not.

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I've actually followed the description of the nympus as closely as I can - it's come out looking a little strange, but the mushroom head, webbed arms, etc. are part of the story. Remember that this will be a fairly small image in the final text, so some imperfections and edits won't be so visible.

Comments

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

So what's the Nympus's name? Something with lots of vowels and consonants and glottal stops I bet. He's one of the best looking fake aliens I've seen so far.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Good question - they speak English to an extent but it's a little mangled:

'Where?' Amherst shook the native's shoulder excitedly.

'In Iticht phulph.'

'In locked valve,' Amherst shouted. 'Of course. It's the only place he could be.'

I'll have to see if I can work out the linguistics in more detail, there aren't many examples of speech.

And I've just noticed that about 95% of the way through the story we're told that the Nympus have green scaly shoulders. At least I got the scaly part right, the green will have to be looked into...