Here’s Ma’liik, a fighter pilot of the Odraani empire; an evil faction from a yet-to-be-named retro-sci-fi universe.

This is the first picture of the red-eyed skink girl WingedCrusade won through the auction my bestie; Nimtai hosted over her page. -3- (Thank you so much, you sweet bastard, you know you won’t get away with it that easy <3)

I really can’t wait to see how WingedCrusade will fell her with life through backstory and traits of all sort! Please stay tuned, a bust and a ref sheet is coming up in the next few weeks!

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Some generic ‘evil’ space empire, the Odraani. They’re from a planet comprised of mostly scalie species, which are also likely matriarchal, as 5/5 chars I’ve drawn are female - because I’m weird. They were somewhat dwindling in numbers since they have little habitat but a lot of resources, and thus started colonising other systems. Soon they ruled over several other smaller space nations. Their tech is considered outdated and bulky - having a lot of resources they didn’t bother with optimising stuff.
Since on ground their forces are somewhat handicapped - bulky life support systems, generators for plasma weaponry - their main strength is the the fleet: orbital bombardment, chemical weaponry etc .. their pilots are highly regarded and valued, given their relative small numbers.

Their main fighter ships, the Drakke, are considered to be surprisingly up-to-date, even innovative in the general space theatre; heavily armed and agile. The only thing they are somewhat lacking is armour; since pilots are anything but expendable, the Odraani were the first to install pressurised cockpits that also served as escape pods; while they were much appreciated by the fighting forces, they were too complicated to maintain and few factories had fine tools to manufacture them; after roughly 5000 units, they switched to unpressurised cabins; and issued the pilots sealed suits; in the ship they were connected to a main air supply tank, but after ejecting - the seat had basic manoeuvring nozzles -, the suit switched to small supply of air, housed in the small backpack of the pilot along with blunt electronics for heating and beaming distress signals.

Special thanks for Feranta for being awesome and supporting me all the way to finish this piece. <3

Thanks a whooole lot again, WingedCrusade, for adopting this girl, and everyone else for participating

The Odraani and the rest of the alt universe © meh
Ma’liik © WingedCrusade

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