#natalus

[askvectorprime]

What is the story of stardrive in idw2019?

Dear Stardrive Seeker,

Not all newly-forged Cybertronians spend their early lives on Cybertron—always, there are those Cybertronians born with an instinctual thirst for adventure, who yearn to venture beyond the confines of their metallic homeworld. Thus, in the years following the War of the Threefold Spark, the Cybertronian government authorized the creation of a cultural exchange program between the Cybertronian commonwealth and some friendly galactic neighbors, an incentive program where newly forged Cybertronians could study abroad on a diverse range of planets, assimilating the local culture and language as part of a possible career in Xeno-Relations.

I should comment, briefly, on the history of the Solstar Order—it originated corewards of Cybertron, not far from the barricaded region of space known as the “Quintessence”, and expanded outwards not through conquest, but by carefully negotiating trade agreements and alliances with alien civilizations and gradually building a strong federation of many diverse species: Elonians, Intriessians, Karkans, and more. By the era of the Nominus Edict, the borders of the Solstar Order nearly bumped up against remote Cybertronian colonies like Velocitron and Omicron. Despite their proximity, the two star-nations had only ever enjoyed a strained relationship. The Solstar Order consolidated much of its recent power by absorbing the defeated remnants of other empires, smashed to bits by Cybertronian hegemony—in particular, a large contingent of Szorian refugees who’d seen their homeworld obliterated by the Titan Waypoint eyed the Transformers with a deep and abiding distrust. More recently, tensions flared when unscrupulous elements of the Cybertronian government conspired with the ambitious Natalus to abruptly declare that the planet Probat was a Cybertronian colony, despite the fact that no Cybertronians lived there—deliberately smashing years of careful accession agreements that would’ve seen the citizens of Probat join their galactic government.

Into this already-tense environment came Stardrive—already a model mentee with a rare triple-changing bodyframe, a knack for languages, and eying a possible career in Xeno-Relations—who announced that she would like to study abroad on the planet Elonia. The request, while highly unusual, went through, and before long Stardrive had arrived in Solstar space and enrolled in a xeno-linguistics program on the planet Ofsted XVII, with a minor in astro-navigation. Although she faced prejudice and even outright discrimination from many of her organic classmates—and indeed, more than one lecture hall had to be renovated so that she could fit into their classrooms—Stardrive persevered.

One day, Stardrive and her class were on a field trip to monitor the unique phenomenon known as the “Quintessence”, a seemingly insurmountable barrier of electrical energy that prevented the Solstar Order from expanding any closer to the galactic core. Suddenly, while monitoring the phenomenon aboard an orbital research station, Stardrive witnessed a bizarre astrological phenomenon: what appeared to be a nebula somehow shifted into a massive portal that crackled with arcane power, a gateway through which a new kind of shapeshifting lifeform came to attack their vessel! The creatures, their slug-like bodies immune to conventional weaponsfire, easily breached the station’s hull and devoured many of the beings inside. Those who survived were infected with toxic biomatter and converted into more of their kind. However, the invaders hadn’t prepared to deal with a Cybertronian, whose mechanical biology rendered her immune to their necrotic touch, and whose tight-beam plasma blasters could simply burn through their arcane biology. Fighting her way through the hordes, Stardrive piled as many students as she could—including their professor, Rom K’atsema—into her space fighter alternate mode, then beat a hasty retreat as the station exploded behind her.

By the time Stardrive limped back to Elonia, it soon became clear that the Solstar Order faced a grave crisis. The “Dire Wraiths”, as they were now called, had launched coordinated invasions of outlying worlds like Xeres and Buras, and lightly-armed planetary garrisons had already been overwhelmed. Although the Solstar Order’s celebrated diplomatic corps had long since assumed that they could defuse any problem with negotiations, it soon became clear that they were fighting an enemy that had no obvious means of communications, and would accept nothing less than total extinction. It soon became clear that the Solstar Order would need something new to combat the hordes… and, eventually, all eyes fell upon the one Cybertronian in their midst.

Before long, Solstar scientists had gathered enough firsthand testimony and video recordings to draw up a weapon capable of meeting the aliens head-on: a full-body suit of armor forged from artificially-synthesized cybertonium that would be cybernetically grafted to one’s skin, equipped with a plasma-blasting “neutralizer” powered by a miniature energon reactor. While the scientists referred to their creation as merely an “anti-Wraith battle armor”, it was Rom who joked that the suit resembled the knights of old—and so it was he who volunteered to become the first organic to undergo the procedure, and emerge as “Rom, the Space Knight!” Inspired by his example, other courageous members of the Solstar Order stepped up to undergo the process, and over time the efforts of these “Space Knights”, supported by Stardrive herself, gradually helped push the Wraiths back.

It soon became clear that Stardrive couldn’t fight alone; fortunately, the Cybertronian embassy on Elonia was able to pull the strings that would allow Sentinel Prime to authorize the deployment of the Wreckers on the technicality that the Dire Wraiths posed a threat to Cybertronian territory—namely, their embassy on Elonia. Supported by a hundred Space Knights, Stardrive and the Wreckers took part in the effort to take back Xeres, which had, by this point, been turned into a grotesque hive-world where billions of fast-breeding Wraiths reproduced. Their victory was pyrrhic; they were able to cut off the primary source of the infestation, but only by destroying the planet and scattering millions of Wraiths across their member worlds. The Solstar Order would have to prepare for a protracted war against the alien infiltrators, who'd already put down roots on dozens of planets—but Stardrive, honorary Space Knight, gladly agreed to support the Space Knights in their quest.

#ask vector prime #transformers #maccadam #idw2 #stardrive #exarchon #solstar order #quintessence #elonia #intriessia #karkas iii #nominus prime #velocitron #omicron #szoria #waypoint #natalus #probat #ofsted xvii #dire wraiths #rom the space knight #sentinel prime #wreckers #xeres #buras

[chiiroptereh]

A couple bats to wrap up the year. There was gonna be more but, just my luck, my tablet's pen is malfunctioning real bad and I'm on the other side of the globe in New Zealand right now. Oh, well; expect more when that's taken care of!

Nerdy stuff under the cut. Happy holidays, everybody!

In terms of chiropteran diversity they may not be the most dramatic examples, but these species are in separate classifications entirely. The left is an eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis, though I did take some liberties with the colors) in the Vespertillionidae family and the right being some indiscriminate funnel-eared bat (specifically a Natalus sp.) from Natalidae. It is worth noting that both families are in the same superfamily, though, but pff, that's not even a real word.

It's no secret that I love my lasiurine bats (though I really broke the mould this time with a L. borealis instead of L. cinereus, woah gotta slow down there) so she was my first on the sheet. I'm already pretty adept in terms of lasiurine anatomy so she was more of a shading test which I'm rather happy with! They're so whiskery 🥺

At first the second bust was supposed to be of a generic Myotis species, but I thought that might be a bit boring (not that I don't love them too of course but my sketchbooks are full of them) so I went with a different pointy-faced little fella. Or, well, I think my thought process was more like "what's another species that when its mouth is open just looks like :V" but same deal. Funnel-eared bats are a very small family and you can tell they aren't very far-removed from vesper bats, but it's their subtler differences that interested me. They have these really funny moustaches, b-shaped skulls and almost woollen fur. They're also a more traditionally "ugly" species and that especially made me want to showcase how lovely they are.

I do wonder if the eyes are maybe a little uncanny, though. I intended for anthros of species without visible scleras to remain partially faithful to that and have enlarged irises/pupils but I dunno, looks kind of cartoony here, haha. Oh well, still plenty of room to experiment!

I'm very happy with these! The difference in fur texture especially was something I didn't think I'd be able to pull off, but I think I nailed it (without references, too! Booyah!). I hope to bring you guys some more underappreciated species as well as showcases of diversity soon; there are so, so many bats out there to love and they're all so different. Much love, hope you enjoy!

#digital painting #bats #chiroptera #funnel-eared bat #natalidae #natalus #eastern red bat #vespertillionidae #lasiurus #anthro #furry

[natalus-photography]

#natalus photography #wedding photography #wedding #wedding couple #wedding bouquet #wedding photoshoot #slovak photographer #wed

[honeyhueym]

Senior yr on Wednesday…wat….

#wat… #crazy #honeyhueymart #oc trio #original characters #malia natalus ariti #lucian charles #raymus Atticus nyx #Lucian is my bfs oc #tehe

[hometoursandotherstuff]

In case you've never seen a bat nursery. These are Mexican greater funnel-eared bats (Natalus Mexicanus) in a roost with young. The bats’ chosen caves are known as ‘hot caves’ with near 100% humidity and temperatures sitting around 40°C (104°F).

#baby bats #bat nurseries #batty for bats #other stuff

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Cuban Greater Funnel-eared Bat (Natalus primus)

(Photo from Zoological Society of London)

Conservation Status- Vulnerable

Habitat- Western Cuba

Size (Weight/Length)- 50 mm

Diet- Flying insects

Cool Facts- Upon first glance, this flying ball of fluff doesn’t look like much. Then you realize it’s a Cuban greater funnel-eared bat and the entire room starts cheering. Due to a mix of introduced predators and white-nose syndrome wiping out entire colonies, these bats were declared extinct in 1919. In 1992, a single cave in a tiny island off the coast of western Cuba was discovered to have a few hundred individuals. Today, conservationists are racing against the clock to find a cure for white-nose syndrome and eliminating all predators from the bat’s islands.

Rating- 13/10 (Every individual counts.)

#Animal of the day #Animals #Mammals #Bats #Saturday #February 11 #Cuban Greater Funnel-eared Bat #biology #science #conservation #the more you know

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972.

1.) Mexican funnel-eared bat (Natalus stramineus)

2.) Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis)

3.) Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii)

4.) Natterer's bat (Myotis nattereri)

5.) Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii)

#bats #mexican funnel-eared bat #greater mouse-eared bat #bechstein's bat #natterer's bat #daubenton's bat

[birdhouseblog23]

Fate head cannons that I think about on a daily:

■ When Bhima was summoned to Chaldwa he saw how skilled Emiya Archer was in cooking, thus began a cooking competition. Everyone placed their bets with the judges being Pravati, RobinHood, Tamacat, and Ganesha.

It was a battle of flavors and ferocious appetites. But, at the end of the day it ended in a tie. However that did not stop Bhima to continue on mastering his cooking skills and saw Emiya Archer as his senpai/rival.

■ When Anastasia discovered build a bear she dreams of spending millions dollars worth of money just so that she can have every single collectible item of stuffed animal to any collaborative event item. She would even share most of her items with other heroic spirits. However she also found out that Vlad can also knit and create stuffed animals so she luckily does not spend her money, but would gladly collect all made by Vlad for her stuffed doll Vivi can have company while she's away doing her duties as a heroic spirit.

■ Ibaraki Doji does not eat bananas for two reasons. One is because of the fact that ever since the Rashamon event she keeps having nightmares of bananas getting squashed in front of her that look just like her. And two..she's just not a big fan of bananas in general.

■ Eric Bloodaxe, Hercules, and Lu-Bu come together twice a month to share drinks under a camp fire to share their stories of their exploits. This often times leads to friendly banter, tearful memories, and drunken outburst of brawls.

■ If Raikou chose a pokemon it would be Pikachu not only because it's adorable, but mainly due to Punk Pikachu costume reminds her of her son Kintoki.

■ Li ShuWen Assassin and Li ShuWen Lancer secretly like playing fighting games with Tomoe Gozen and Beowulf. Their favorite fighting game is Mortal Kombat.

■ MHX watched Ridely Scott's Alien for the first time and couldn't sleep for 2 months from paranoia. She would check the vents in the Natalus and her spaceship. The situation got worst when she got accidently scared by Cu Alters tail. Good news she didn't cut off his tail. The bad news? Cu Alter was in a bad mood for a week which almost started a battle inside the Natulus. She apologized later.

■ Charles Babbage likes to build Gumdam figures on his spare time.

#fate series #fate grand order #fgo #fategrand order #meme #headcanon #fgo headcanons

[serrice]

my messages are gone and im kind of freaking out? and i cant message anyone from this username... am i like shadowbanned? are they getting rid of messages? or did all of my friends suddenly decide to block me

@radiodread natalu help

[savebatsfromscratch]

(Dragon Ocs) Riptide Parts 6 and 7

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Originally shared: Mar 12, 2023  

Scratch link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/797242051/ 

(More notes under the cut.)

Instructions: 

Press the green flag and don't steal my animation or characters! After the part plays, you get to see what the characters look like without the pallet. (Not in animated form though, I was lazy lol.) 

Characters: Natalus (darker lineart / the one with spots in his chest fur) and Winterberry (lighter lineart / the one with upturned spikes) 

If anyone knows my ocs for some reason, you'll see that Natalus looks like Fang and Winterberry looks like Fang's mom. ...that's because Winterberry IS Fang's mom and Natalus is Fang's dad! :D 

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Notes and Credits: 

@savebatsfromscratch (me) for the animation and characters. 

The song is "Riptide" by Vance Joy. It’s good.

Negru_Cat on Scratch for the map. 

Scratch bitmap.

#my art #my animation #actual post #ocs #dragons #map part #riptide map part #scratch.mit.edu #animation #video

[lunarwildrose]

When I was a child, I believed I was a mermaid in my past life. 🧜🏻‍♀️

Thankyou to my dear friend, Natalus @natus.insensatus for introducing me to the song, "Mermaid" by Skott! 🥰

{I wanted to use "Mermaid" by BUCK-TICK, but Instagram didn't have it. 😔}

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#personal #Nabi #Mermaid #Skott #Karasu #sillyselfies #photocollage #artreference #artreferences #facialexpressions #expressions #expressive #selfiecollage #selfie #birthmark #beautymark #brunette #brownhair #brownhairedgirl #browneyes #brownhairdontcare #brownhairwithwhitestreaks #brunettegirl #brunettehair #brunettehairstyles #shorthair #shorthairdontcare #shorthairgirl #girlswithshorthair #girlswithshorthairdoitbetter

#Instagram #personal #Nabi #Mermaid #Skott #Karasu #sillyselfies #photocollage #artreference #artreferences #facialexpressions #expressions #expressive #selfiecollage #selfie #birthmark #beautymark #brunette #brownhair #brownhairedgirl #browneyes #brownhairdontcare #brownhairwithwhitestreaks #brunettegirl #brunettehair #brunettehairstyles #shorthair #shorthairdontcare #shorthairgirl #girlswithshorthair

[astrolognevenkablazik]

Asteroid Child (Dete)

Ovaj Asteroid je baš ono što njegovo ime i znači ~ 👧to je naše unutrašnje dete 👦 Najčešće se koristi u uporednim čartovima. Ovaj Asteroid je najbliži Mesecu, po svojoj prirodi, pa tako prilikom tumačenja uporednog, obavezno treba pogledati odnos Meseca i ovog Asteroida, iako naravno prilikom tumačenja ovog Asteroida u samom natalu, možemo da dobijemo puno informacija o toj osobi, shodno postavci…

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#2022 #Asteroid Child #Asteroidi #Jun

[rollercoaster59]

natalue Portman 13 algebrea

[natalus-photography]

#wedding #wed #natalus photography #wedding photography #wedding photoshoot #wedding bouquet

[honeyhueym]

You're on your own kid,

you always have been.

#malia natalus ariti #oc #oc art #original character #art #digital art #background art #honeyhueymart #honeyhueym art #i love her so much #I LOVE U MALIA

[astrowhitelion]

U ponedeljak 19.09 ćemo biti osetljivi i skloni promeni raspoloženja. Mesec je u svom znaku Raka, ali nosi sećanje od prethodnog dana kada je imao izazovne aspekte sa Jupiterom i Merkurom. Ti aspekti nisu teški, ali mogu da donesu neko razočaranje koje se može osećati i na samom početku ove nedelje. To može da se oseti kao unutrašnje nezadovoljstvo, jer nam neke stvari ne idu od ruke. Pošto je Merkur retrogradan verovatno ćemo morati neke planove da odlažemo.

Generalno, kada je Merkur retrogradan mi moramo da budemo spremni da menjamo svoje planove u hodu. Ponedeljak je vrlo dinamičan dan kada ćemo imati dva važna aspekta.

Prvi je opozicija između Merkura i Jupitera, a drugi je trigon Sunca i Plutona.

Prvi aspekt može da ukaže da ćemo menjati planove po pitanju putovanja, jer obe planete i Merkur i Jupiter govore o tome. Takođe, moguće su promene planova i po pitanju obrazovanja. Možda nećete moći lako da dođete do neke važne literature koja vam je potrebna. Sve u svemu, treba da budete fleksibilni i spremni da se prilagođavate. Što se tiče naših osećanja i raspoloženja ono će se u velikoj meri popraviti tokom dana, jer će Mesec imati lep sekstil sa Venerom i sa Uranom.

Oba ova aspekta će nam u velikoj meri pomoći da zadržimo pozitivno raspoloženje i da ne dozvolimo sebi da nam sitnice pokvare dan. Drugi aspekt govori o našoj spremnosti da duboko i korenito menjamo sebe na bolje.

Sunce u dobrom aspektu sa Plutonom daje dobro zdravlje i veliku vitalnost. Ovaj aspekt govori o hrabrosti i spremnosti da se pomogne slabijima i nemoćnima. Svi koji imaju u svom natalu trigon između ove dve planete su nekada u prošloj inkarnaciji bili hrabri i odvažni. Često veliki lekari, hirurzi i iscelitelji imaju ovaj aspekt.

Zato je ovaj početak nedelje dobar za odlazak kod nekog bioenergetičara ili iscelitelja. Ako planirate neku hiruršku intervenciju gledajte da na početku ove nedelje odete na konsultaciju kod nekog hirurga.

#youtube #intuitivnivodickrozgalaksiju #skolaastrologije #horoskop #nedeljnihoroskop #daily horoscope