Bullquir

	Diet: Omnivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: Low

Information: This creature is found on the plains of the surviving half of the Quir’s home planet. While its diet is mostly made up of grass and fruit, it can and does eat the meat of any creature that threatens its herd. The alpha male is usually the one that makes the kill with its large horns. Its tusks are incapable of doing any real physical damage, though pressure from its biting jaws has been known to cause hairline fractures in some cases. Young tend to stay with their family even into their adult cycle. Offspring rarely leave the herd unless they are forced out by the alpha.

~Zeek Slider

Quiraptorish

	Diet: Omnivore Danger Level: Medium (Predator) Social Ability: Low

Information: It lives in the jungles of the half of the Quir’s home planet that retained an atmosphere, but its no bigger than a domestic cat here on Earth. While it does display predatory behavior, it rarely hunts. Instead, it sets up traps consisting of objects that fall and surround its prey in an arena-like construction where it can get a jump on it at its leisure. It’s unusually parental behavior suggests that it isn’t very fond of children, as young are abandoned the moment they know how to use their claws.

~Zeek Slider

Paiese

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Low Social Ability: Medium

Information: The eyes of this creature are not physically connected to optic nerves of any kind. They are suspended in a fluid that functions are electrical receptors for the optic nerves located at the base of the bulbs. This gives the creature a very unique ability to rotate its eyes in any direction it needs to, either interdependent from the eye on the other side or in synchronization. The bone plates located above the bulbs are there to protect it from the suns harmful rays.

Its muscle density in its body is rather high in order to support its large head on such a small body.

~Zeek Slider

Ergh

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: Medium

Information: This slimy creature lives in large areas of muddy soil and high humidity where it feasts upon long grasses and roots. Its jaw can open a full 180^o in order to consume large vegetables that grow just below the surface. Its legs are limber enough to give it an extra boost when running away from predators while strong enough to support its weight. But most of all, this creature lacks the sense of smell. For all it knows, the mud it is wallowing through could be its own waste.

~Zeek Slider

Dinde

	Diet: Omnivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: High

Information: This alien primate has the unique ability to blend its mating call with the rest of the ambient noises of the jungle it is found in. Its large ears contain a specialized organ that can pick out a specific frequency from each call to determine if it came from another member of this species or the one that it is trying to mimic. Observations of this ability show that it cannot reach the lower octaves of large creatures.

Another unique feature to this creature is its faun-like horns. Though they pose no threat if found on the wrong end of a head butt, they do serve a purpose in identifying family groups. Depending on bloodlines and which traits dominate over others upon breeding, the horns will change shape and even length between individual family groups.

~Zeek Slider

Miludo

	Diet: Omnivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: Medium

Information: Once thought to be an herbivore, it is clear from its diet that it does have a taste for meat even if it is in the form of sea creatures. Its skull cap never fully formed bone mass but evolved a protective layer of fat that pulses during brain activity that would be considered extremely advance for this creature, such as logical problem solving and critical analysis of a situation. The claws on its feet help give it added traction in its natural environment of purple-colored swamp marshes. They act like hooks on Velcro by attaching themselves to tangled grasses and then breaking them in half when taking a step forward. The breaking of the grass actually fertilizes the marshes they live in, so the extinction of this creature would mean the extinction of the swamps it also lives in.

~Zeek Slider

Opticoid

	Diet: Omnivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: Medium

Information: This creature has eyes nearly everywhere except its head! It has three sets on its biceps, a pair on the forearms, a pair looking backwards on its shoulders, and a large central eye on its chest. Where the eyes should be on its head are replaced with giant bat-like ears. Sneaking up on this creature has been proven to be impossible due to its omni-directional vision. Much of its brain activity is hypothesized to be devoted to sight, which may explain why this bipedal creature has yet to evolve past a primate-like state of intelligence.

~Zeek Slider

Cuddle Bug

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: Medium

Information: A large, furry insect that is a very popular pet among races in its quadrant of space. Its body is mostly made out of fat, making it very soft and huggable. Hence the name. Its wall-eyed expressions has been known to be rather enjoyed by older women of some social groups, often being called cute even when it doesn’t mean to be. Owners are instructed never to feed it sugar or anything that has the same chemical make-up as sugar. The reasons have yet to be published, but one can only imagine what could happen.

~Zeek Slider

Oglark

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Low Social Ability: Medium

Information: The hinge to its jaw sits far behind its eye cavity, which suggests this creature has a small brain size and visual information tends to get to it late. It has four tubular ears that can pick up sound as compensation. The odd thing about it is the suction cup fingers and foot this creature has. Normally, creatures with these features would be found in moist areas, but this one prefers to live in areas of high altitude where moisture is hard to come by. It uses its six wings to glide on cold hair currents to get from one location to another. Landing is just a matter of making sure its suction cups attach to a rock-face surface. Its diet is made up of mountain grass, what few breed that grows at those heights.

~Zeek Slider

Mopunk

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Low Social Ability: Medium

Information: A tall black bird that refuses to act like one. It barks instead of tweets. It chooses to run when it has shown evidence that it can fly. It only flies if something chases it off a cliff and it finds itself in a free fall. It will strip trees bare of both leaves and fruit leaving nothing behind. And despite its coloring, it likes to be seen.

It won its name partly for its behavioral quirks but also because of the Mohawk-style crest atop its head.

~Zeek Slider

Sario

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Low Social Ability: Medium

Information: Another surprising creature! At first glance, it may look like six-legged cat with purple fur. The fur is actually a natural rubber. Further analysis of the creature shows evidence of some unusual healing. Instead of forming scabs, it forms fabric patches. Instead of scars, it forms something that resembles stitching. Though they pose no threat to any other creature, they are highly combative within their own species, mostly over family dominance.

Their natural habitat is that of brightly-colored marshlands. This probably explains the rubbery skin, but not their healing abnormalities.

~Zeek Slider

Paoconl

	Diet: Carnivore Danger Level: Low Social Ability: Low

Information: A darkly colored creature very similar to the Earth gator in its aggressive behavior. It’s a scavenger by nature. The fins that line its back are actually sensitive organs used to detect blood in the air from fresh kills. Upon finding a scent, they sluggishly make their way towards it to consume whatever may be left. In order to scare off their predators, they roar and bark with every step made.

The meat of this creature is poisonous. As a result, very few creatures actually hunt them for food. If they are hunted, it is because of their annoying noise.

~Zeek Slider

Sconix

	Diet: Carnivore Danger Level: Medium (Predator) Social Ability: Medium

Information: A rather large beastly creature that is directly responsible for the extinction of several creatures on its home planet. Most of its prey has been saved by galactic ecologists and placed in a wildlife reserve to repopulate. It’s rather unusual for a carnivore to deliberately destroy its food web, but clearly its appetite knows no boundaries.

Its anatomy is very similar to that of a T-Rex here on Earth, but with large downward-turned horns. Observations by the ecologists that saved its food web provide no clues as to what they may be used for. It is hypothesized that they could be family group indicators, as the horns size and curvature changes from generation to generation.

~Zeek Slider

Phenobriteha

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: Medium

Information: A strange creature with an equally strange reason for extinction.

This creature will collect its waste product in the bulb above its head. It will then release another chemical once the bulb is full and burn its waste in a bright flash. As a result, it has no true waste product or anus. The large legs are used to support the main body while the smaller legs help it navigate hilly areas.

It was recently eradicated from a wildlife sanctuary due aesthetic dispositions of the empire that runs the sanctuary.

~Zeek Slider

Zircon

	Diet: Carnivore Danger Level: Medium (Predator) Social Ability: Low

Information: The story goes that this creature was created from a nightmare made real through machines like the Creature Tweaker.

It is a monstrous insect that will use its duel stingers to slash and hack its prey like a Samurai warrior. To consume it, the three pairs of jaws open and close in a sequential pattern in, essentially, turn flesh and bone into paste that is then slurps up with a small tentacle mouth. It’s exoskeleton is as hard as steel but is light as plastic.

It’s also huge! We are talking several stories tall.

~Zeek Slider

Nihode

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Low Social Ability: Medium

Information: This was the creature that we made that broke the machine. We took a very large creature and made it very small. We then changed its diet from carnivore to herbivore. We then changed it from having scales to having fur. And then changed it from dark colors to light ones. And just for fun, we gave it naturally forming crystals.

Apparently that’s what caused the machine to say “That’s it! I’ve had enough!” and blew up in our face shortly after creating a pair of these creatures. I hope we produced a pair that can reproduce, otherwise this may be the only time you will see this creature.

Later!
Ross

Summy

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: Low

Information: I think this creature wins for having the largest body mass with the smallest skull size. I modeled it after the Earth giraffe but gave it a large fin behind its head that we genetically programmed to react with its various emotions. It was pretty cool seeing this creature come to life and seeing the fin stand fully erect in shock as it was trying to get used to its new surroundings.

I think it will like where we released it. Lots of open land to run around and fruit in high trees that no other herbivore can get to.

Later!
Ross

Dolewan

	Diet: Omnivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: Medium

Information: Hey! We got it working again, and this time we REALLY pushed the Creature Tweaker to its limits. So much so that I think we broke it after making three radically different creatures.

The Empire that let us use their wildlife sanctuary as a testing ground said that they noticed they are in need of an Omnivore, so we scanned in one of the carnivore’s DNA and completely messed with it. You can’t even see any resemblance to the original species! It’s amazing!

They will be observing this creature in the wild for several months, mostly to see if it will survive having been radically genetically altered. It should be interesting, since I gave it two different types of eyes and a small mouth at the end of a long snout.

Later!
Ross

Krest-etraw Blipu

	Diet: Herbivore Danger Level: Medium Social Ability: Medium

Information: So the last creature we made was this beautiful bird. We both agreed that we didn’t like the coloring for something that looked so majestic in flight, so we fixed that with the Creature Tweaker. However, we also learned that this bird originally was an omnivore, which we thought was odd. We decided to change its diet into that of an herbivore, as well as take away a few of its claws.

These simple changes resulted in the crest on its head to become larger and more pronounced, which we liked. Unfortunately, it still retained its dull coloring of the tail feathers. It seems that some things we simply cannot repaint with this machine. But this creature looks beautiful now with its golden wings and large feathers.

Well, I had a lot of fun creating life, but after this creature, the machine broke down. I don’t know when the next time we’ll be able to pay with this again, but I’m told I’ll get a call once its fixed.

Later!
Ross

Kregas

	Diet: Carnivore Danger Level: Medium (Predator, Pack x4) Social Ability: Medium

Information: There isn’t much you can do to improve on an already awesome looking creature like what this originally was. So what we did was just give it bigger claws and a meaner mouth. As simple as these changes were, we noticed yet another mutation! The forward limbs appear to be armor plated, and the inner toe on these limbs are gigantic! Another surprise is that this creature figured out pretty quickly that these mutations can be used to its hunting advantages.

We released about four of these into the wildlife sanctuary and noticed that they maintained the same pack behavior of the original creature. Only now they are more dangerous.

Later!
Ross