12/14/15 Recovery 07

16 Comments

1. 

   KNO3

   December 14, 2015 at 12:46 am

   Time to give a flying critter some explosive medicine?

   Wow, look at that teeny tiny wings for such a huge creature, Anti gravity boosters maybe?
2. 

   Raidne Skuldia

   December 14, 2015 at 1:16 am

   Or maybe the planet just has lower gravity. Or more dense air. Or it’s got a lifting-gas body. Or it’s yellow because of black body radiation because it need to heat an airsack to stay aloft like a hot air balloon. Or the entire creature is a lifting body? It doesn’t really look flying-wing shaped enough for that, though. We’re also only really seeing it diving; perhaps its wingspan is actually much larger, but it tucks them in to dive.
3. 

   Pedrocelli

   December 14, 2015 at 1:19 am

   That looks more like a massive face plant than a deft pull-up and scoop, but I’m guessing it was a scoop. What an ally to have even if it was accidental! Kthauwk!
4. 

   Coyoty

   December 14, 2015 at 3:12 am

   That sucks.
5. 

   Herandar

   December 14, 2015 at 9:55 am

   Well, at least it fits in with the Pokémon naming system. (Pokémon can only vocalize their names.)
6. 

   Chedder Monk

   December 14, 2015 at 3:53 pm

   The spell was “Summon Bigger Fish”. How could it summon a Kthauwk? Ah well. This spell was never very reliable.
7. 

   0z79

   December 14, 2015 at 6:14 pm

   Why did the crabs giving chase have their thorns out? Or were they just reacting to the big flying thing trying to eat them?
8. 

   Christopher Baldwin

   December 14, 2015 at 6:31 pm

   My thought was that they were pursuaded by the four-leggers that the humans needed to be stopped, and went on the offense.
9. 

   Muzhik

   December 14, 2015 at 7:18 pm

   Heh. So now we have YET AGAIN an apex predator (or at least one that can be trained to hunt yet not eat the prey. Good Spot! Who’s a good tracking Kthauwk? Huh? Good Spot!)

   I guess this just goes to show the truth of the old saying:

   When dealing with close air support, it’s the Kthauwk that counts.
10. 

    Lev

    December 14, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    Is its name a hint at Cthulhu?
11. 

    Minando

    December 15, 2015 at 4:50 am

    No wonder this world’s inhabitants are that bad tempered…with nasty things like THIS flying around.
12. 

    Stewart

    December 15, 2015 at 11:56 am

    Ah yes! The time-honoured literary device of KTHAUWK EX MACHINA.
13. 

    KNO3

    December 15, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    Well Lev Nia! Nia! Nawgah’nagl fhtagn! (Nope, nope, not home, but dreaming?)
14. 

    clacke

    December 16, 2015 at 1:20 pm

    The crabs are chasing them, because they were enlisted by four-footers in http://www.baldwinpage.com/annagalactic/2015/12/09/120915-recovery-05/ .
15. 

    Martini

    December 18, 2015 at 5:41 am

    Now this is strange. We have crablike creatures, cephalodlike creatures, and now this. Two arms, two feet and two wings. Have the evolved from six legged vertebraelike creatures?
16. 

    KNO3

    May 20, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    A bio engineered world methinks.