Mysterious species?

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This isnt kink related, but I thought I would share some little bits of a species I have slowly been making over the past few years (thanks procrastination!).

My general lore for all of the species is like.. they live in the same universe (and galaxy.. mostly), where Sergals, Novabeasts, Avali, Ampwaves, and many others have claims in different areas of the galaxy, with the vast majority still unexplored (100 billion stars is a LOT). This is sorta a simple way for me to explain how so many different species can interact.

Anyways… onto the species I am making, they are called the “Ventus”, and at the ‘present’ point in lore, are a Kardashev type II civilization, harvesting the energy output of several stars. They canonically originate from a binary system in the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light-years from the Milky Way galaxy. and at the present point, they are more like observers, preferring to watch the other species interact from the edge of the galaxy. Though some members do choose to explore and interact with the inhabitants of the Milky Way.

Although the Ventus has reached their space age over ten thousand years before the ‘present’, their population density is still remarkably very low. Even their most populous system (their home, Dini) having just a few billion.

Their homeworld, Creui is a super-venus world with hundreds of atmospheres of pressure, about 1.2x the diameter of Earth, and with a 7 hour day. The habitable portion of the planet is around a dozen miles/kilometers up above the surface. All life on this planet is areal, floating high in the planet’s atmosphere.

This means the Ventus had practically no access to metals when they first started their space age, and also that they advanced very slowly initially. The first Ventus ships for the better part of a century were “bioships”, they strongly resembled traditional human rockets through convergent design.

A Ventus has a four way split jaw (The common spacefairing variant cant move their uppers apart much, so it acts as a three way), six limbs (rear legs, forelegs, and small-ish wings), and are a little smaller than the average Earth horse.

There is so much more about the lore, I have some google docs I havent touched in a while

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Intersting lore for the species! I want to know if theres any more info on the look of the species. Are they furred, scaled, skinned, or something else? Do they have any interesting proportions like long or short limbs? Spikes? Webbing? Claws? Im curious!

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Wow. You went really deep in on those numbers, huh? That’s pretty cool though, always fun to see someone use IRL details for things like their lore settings!

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Their homeworld, Creui, looks like a mini gas giant with five cloud bands that sprout large storms inbetween. The calm zones are the tropical equatoral, temperate midlatitudes, and polar. The atmosphere does get more turbulent lower down, and any floating island can float into a violent storm. The oxygen content is about 7%, and is also made of other heavy gasses, making it more than twice as dense as Earth’s atmosphere.

The density of a Ventus is around 0.6g/m^3 to allow them to fly in the atmosphere more efficiently, but is also almost incompressible. They also live in layers of the atmosphere where the pressures range 5-30 atmospheres. Life does exist in Creui’s atmosphere at pressures between ~0.1 and 60 atmospheres. the surface pressure is well over 500 atmospheres, counting the ocean of supercritical carbon dioxide.

The closest creature that resembles them is a Gryph. though they have almost no feathers. Their wings are three segment similar to dragons, though… weirder. I am still figuring out the bone structure of the wings, but it restricts the location of the wing membrane to be on the upper portion of the wings to give a smoother upper surface and higher lift efficiency. The membrane starts partway down the tail, and tapers quickly out along their large wingspan. There are feathers that grow starting on the midwing that grow longer towards the wingtips, then shorten out. Their outer wing bone is more like cartilage closer to the wingtips, giving excellent flexibility if they wind up in a storm.

They do have long, hooked claws on their rear legs to hook onto cracks in the floating fungal islands they inhabit. Their main toes are not webbed, but there is a webbed ‘dewclaw’ they can fold out to allow greater flight control. They have a small, webbed, spine along their back that is tallest near the end of their tail. Their body is covered in a semi-scaly surface around their joints, but relatively smoother elsewhere.

There is still a lot more on the physiology of the Ventus. It is mostly that they have a large wingspan for their length, similar to that of an Earth swan, tho with a long tail. Their neck is of a similar length relative to their body as a horse’s. Their hind legs appear to be “backwards” to Earth hind legs, and are longer, with two toes facing forwards and three facing backwards, each with a long claw.

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