Aquatic Sapience | Designing Aliens

Early this month, I hosted a livestream in which I designed a group of intelligent, fully aquatic aliens. In the days since, I've been working out the lore and world building these aliens with the help of my Discord server. This is the third video I've made like this, but this one is much longer than either of the other two. It also has a lot more specific world building and the culture is significantly more fleshed out, in my opinion. I hope you enjoy the video!
Design Livestream - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZ3LaXehdq6bpqM
Previous Episode - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ_CqnScjNioiaM
Series Playlist - kzbin.info/aero/PLLnFI2QSCj7Etyf-Eyar9IhN2RRH_X0PB
Soda Leaf's Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/blog/starmenagerie0
Discord - discord.gg/S87XARug4
Instagram - cree8ball
Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Star_Scapes/
0:00 Intro
0:12 Planet and Evolution
1:24 The Age of Monsters
4:55 The Story of O'Toni
5:35 The Age of Gods
9:26 The Age of War
10:56 The Age of Justice
11:25 Conclusion
Subscribers: 25,901

[@bequemjoe]

I love me some cold planets nearly entirely covered in ice except for a few hydrothermal vents. One of my favorite genders

[@Cree8Ball]

For real, bro

[@HalfAsleepSam]

Shoutout to cold planets nearly entirely covered in ice except for a few hydrothermal vents gotta be one of my favourite geners

[@Cree8Ball]

My favorite gender, right after illustrated wizards whose face is just glowing eyes in a dark cloak

[@pyrofrog368]

HOLY CRAP THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR USING MY THISTLE WORMS AND SHOWING ALL THE OTHER CREATURES ME AND THE WEEVIL OVERLORD MADE AT THE END it was an actual honour, THANK YOU❤

[@Cree8Ball]

Absolutely, my man! Thank you for making cool stuff for the video!

[@MrTheDudeManGuy]

yo, its me, weevil, thanks again for using the art, hopefully, if it is possible, you make a second part to this featuring more of the world, especially life above the ice

[@the_sprite_man]

Ratocal is basically just adult eidolon wyrm

[@Theleprechaun317]

@@pyrofrog368 they were awesome! Great job

[@RafaCB0987]

I love how far the lore goes

[@Cree8Ball]

Yeah, I wasn't happy with how limited the lore was with the other couple of episodes, so I really kicked things up a notch for this one

[@arturonotari8235]

​@@Cree8Ballbut will they ever be able of leaving theire planet or will they remain there until the termal dead of the nucleous?

[@Cree8Ball]

@@arturonotari8235 no, they're not gonna leave the planet ever

[@arturonotari8235]

@@Cree8Ball Ho... ok.

[@chaotic.taco14]

@@Cree8Balldo they at least discover other planets?

[@Blurby-Sir]

Cree may not be pregnant, or the mailman causing said pregnancy, but he never fails to deliver.

[@bryceshane2057]

I've seen this joke exactly twice, guess I'll only have two nickels

[@AssistantCoreAQI]

​@@bryceshane2057 I'm Not Pregnant But I'm Here To Deliver This Third Nickel.

[@Chekmate-em3mc]

@@bryceshane2057”which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice”

[@thegamesquad5133]

4:36 I would like the idea of some Dune-esque story or legend amongst them to tame or ride one of these "thistle worms"

[@Errorite]

Idea: intelligent aliens from a gas giant.

[@Cree8Ball]

Yeah, I was thinking of something like that! Like maybe they evolved on the surface of the planet's core or something

[@Klarpimier]

@@Cree8Ballor they evolved from spores or liquid water droplets that floated in the upper atmosphere

[@Chekmate-em3mc]

@@Cree8Ballyou did it 🥳

[@Vakowski]

here's an idea: a post human adapted to life on the extremely radioactive and dry surface of earth after the gamma ray burst. I really hope you explore more into what happened in the solar system.

[@nightfuryman1209]

Or the future humans de-extinct modern humans

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

@@nightfuryman1209 thats the plot of ARK survival evolved lol

[@jilezka]

Literally Necrons

[@humptyPPG]

Cree8ball never fails to kill my dog

[@CarroticCereal]

what.

[@MichaRakowski-ib1go]

I agrre what

[@binarybiosphere]

Wot

[@c.lagerkvist6140]

Yes i have to say what to

[@darks_gene707]

As a perso who eats nuclear bomb i agree

[@Exquailibur]

The fish cars have completed my life, I can die happy now.

[@Cree8Ball]

The moment I saw the design, I knew I had to make it canon

[@timestorm5687]

man, now ive gotten a neat idea of a relative of these thristleworms becoming like prostetic arms for the males

[@Cree8Ball]

Yo, that wOuld be a neat idea

[@spacefan200]

Woah, Class! Cold planets nearly entirely covered in ice except for a few hydrothermal vents are my favourite kind of planet!

[@mateuszbanaszak4671]

Like Manna from the sky! Finally someone managed to figure out aquatic civilization, and do it with ice planet on top of that. Thank you.

[@THExRISER]

That was incredible.

[@Cree8Ball]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed

[@ProjAthenaSpecBio]

you should make all these creatures eventually meet up and have an alliance for a couple of centuries, then have the Qu from all tomorrows show up

[@generaldelasmontanas2699]

wow you are very creative with aliens. my most unique aliens look like wolves with 4 arms

[@Sodachip]

Was super fun working on this ! ty for letting me help :D

[@PraniGopu]

Oh my god, this is endlessly fascinating!

[@TDroid-0208]

Can’t wait to see what of my ideas got in the video!

[@Cree8Ball]

Hopefully a couple of them did!

[@TDroid-0208]

Yesss my idea for the male freedoms did, and same with my iron slugs!

[@fumarc4501]

Fascinating.

[@Ksescel]

Very interesting! I would love to see a sequel for this

[@Cree8Ball]

I wasn't planning on making a second part, but a lot of people have been asking for one, so I might have to look into jt

[@Ksescel]

@@Cree8Ball ayyyy

[@InvasionAnimation]

Epic video!

[@Cree8Ball]

Glad you enjoyed my guy!

[@ftblr66]

I've heard of stories about under ice sapient life before. I want to hear a story about how a human mining expedition tapped into the ice for survey data and inadvertently made first contact.

[@Theleprechaun317]

Where has this guy been all my life

[@Cree8Ball]

Just waiting for you guys ✊

[@Theleprechaun317]

@@Cree8Ball you’re probably my new favorite speculative evolution KZbinr These are so interesting and complex!

[@Cree8Ball]

@@Theleprechaun317 I'm so happy to hear that! I'm glad you've liked the videos

[@rachelpatey579]

yes master piece

[@TroyTheCatFish]

Fantastic Art and Amazing Video as always!! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤️💖❤️💖

[@Cree8Ball]

Thank you very much!

[@TroyTheCatFish]

@@Cree8Ballyour welcome 🤗

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

The planet is just like Europa/Enceladus moon with a thick sheet of ice above the water ocean and hydrothermal vents

[@Cree8Ball]

I think that was one of the things that inspired it, actually

[@blessedandbiwithahintofmagic]

A species like this on an indepdent planet out in space is such an amazing idea - they'd need such different developments than us to move up in the cosmos, I wonder how they'll get further than this! This is such a cool story here ^&^

[@T0B3573R]

I wonder if their evolution would ever change in the future so, as the fight for males grew less and less inhumane, like, they’d eventually come to the conclusion that males are just as conscious as females, so I’d assume that they’d evolve to be less sexually dimorphic and probably be around the same size. Possibly females are bigger on average, but it’s still normal for males to on occasion be bigger than a female. It’s like how humans are technically sexually dimorphic, but most of the dimorphism disappeared as we evolved, but there are still some remnants of it despite us not living in a hunter/gatherer like time anymore. So now females on average are smaller than males when both are adults, but it’s still common for females to be physically stronger and taller than males because it’s also their genetics that play a role in what determines your physicality. So I’d assume the way they’d evolve in the future would be similar, where the females and males eventually become the same size on average. Probably. I assume evolution for this species works like ours, and how the ones born with mutations that are beneficial get to survive and have their genetic characteristics exist, and the ones that don’t have those mutations eventually dry up and disappear.

[@Our_Prime_Entertainment]

I LOVE VIDEOS LIKE THIS, I’M SUBSCRIBING

[@Cree8Ball]

Heck yeah, glad you liked it! And don't worry, I have a tOn of other videos liked this planned for the near future

[@Our_Prime_Entertainment]

@@Cree8Ball I’m excited to see what is to come!

[@sansprobus7209]

These gals remind me of the Land Serpents from Elden Ring! Very cool.

[@ximenasorondo2051]

please do a vid on the great sheep panic of 1888.

[@RumoredAtmos]

Very interesting story.

[@TisOsha]

babe, wake up Cree8Ball just uploaded

[@jonkamberaj]

You could make a part 2 of this video for the sweepers

[@LilaRoush]

Yes absorb him bbg just use his body 💚

[@Cree8Ball]

These are the feminist role models we need in our society

[@SaltyCrabOfficial]

aquatic gerudo octopi, got it

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

This reminds me of the Owoc and Gukuy from Mother of Demons.

[@infurnessfire4452]

Here an idea for the males since they cant have computers they can train the males to become biological computers kinda like the mentats who replace the supercomputers and ai in dune

[@Giakozilla]

Man i wish i could participate in these projects...

[@Cree8Ball]

I'll try and have the next stream on a weekend or something, so more people can watch it

[@Giakozilla]

@@Cree8Ball God listened to my prayers :']

[@MichaRakowski-ib1go]

Great video but will ther be a part 2 of the story i wont to know what happend next did they managed to co on to Land?

[@Cree8Ball]

I don't currently have a part two in mind, but they may show up in some capacity on a future installment of this series

[@MichaRakowski-ib1go]

Cool

[@legospartan3.042]

Is this Cut Leak Content for HALF LIFE 3!?!

[@the_blue_jay_raptor]

I wonder how these guys would interact with Humanity, would the Humans be seen as gods?

[@wellplyd8110]

now make one for gas giant planet

[@TheWolfQueentm]

Yeah but how they forge it underwater?

[@Cree8Ball]

@@TheWolfQueentm with the volcanic vents

[@joaobaka8404]

About the picture showing the priests, what are their clothes made of?

[@Cree8Ball]

I think we decided they were made of woven algae and seaweed and things like that

[@tiberiusstaicu7853]

welp , its time to join another discord server

[@marxtheenigma873]

So is the "head" place an eye or a beak like mouth? Then where is its mouth or does it have any eyes?

[@Cree8Ball]

The "head" and "neck" is an eye and eye stalk. It's mouths are on the ends of its front two tentacles

[@dalekrenegade2596]

Great video. I have e a few questions though. How do these guys eat? How do they communicate with eachother? They are the size of a human hand? Would it make more sense for the titles of the priests to be switched? Blue for the Frozen surface barrier and Red for the volcanic ocean floor.

[@Cree8Ball]

They have mouths on their front two tentacles and expel an ink-like waste product from their back two tentacles, which they use to communicate, along with light-based speech from the bioluminescent lights on the fronts of their head. And the blue priests are for the frozen surface, while the red are for the volcanic floor. Also, yeah, they're the size of a human hand. You can see an exact size comparison on my community page, if you want.

[@dalekrenegade2596]

​@@Cree8BallOh, the Soda Leaf picture suggested otherwise. Thanks for the response.

[@Cree8Ball]

@@dalekrenegade2596 9:29 the soda leaf picture has the frozen ceiling priests in blue and the volcanic floor priests in red lol??

[@dalekrenegade2596]

@@Cree8Ball What? The picture suggests the opposite which didn't make sense to me given the context of the surface being a frozen ceiling and the ocean floor is where all the life giving heat is found.

[@Cree8Ball]

@@dalekrenegade2596 the blurb above the blue priest says "priest of Kuiahu, church of the frozen abyss" and above the red priest is "priest of Euok, church of the surface flame," which is correct for each color. Either way, it's fine, I'm just curious where our misunderstanding is lol

[@user-tx3rg9gi3o]

the ybette look like the engineers (huragok) from halo

[@ximenasorondo2051]

i had this idea exept in my one the aliens where on a rouge planet wich was slowly freezing over as they had to come up with new ways of not freezing to death with there limited resourses.

[@PRGME7]

Some potential lore expansions I thought of: (TW: Suicide) 1 Mental health: I imagine that treatment for things such as depression and anxiety would vary a lot between the sexes. For females they’d probably get whatever treatment they could get. But for males, I’d imagine that suicide would be the more favored option. Because 1: societal inertia from a matriarchy to something more equal. And 2: need for the species to reproduce. Of course some groups are quicker to suggest suicide than others. Chapter 2: cults While this draws inspiration from a dystopia I made I think it would be interesting to explore the underbelly of this species’ culture. What if there was a cult that actively wanted males dead? As in these guys are remnants from the older teachings? these cultists would actively seek out mentally il males and drive them to “mate” for lack of a better term? How would this species handle a cult like that? Would they consider it as a part of their treatment for mental health or would they try to fight back against the cult?

[@ajgibson1307]

God bless

[@roboticintelligenceunit1a652]

So, are these aliens completely trapped underwater like an exoplanet, or can perhaps poke their eyes to see the stars and expand beyond? Edit: goddammit! Edit2: YAAAAAY

[@EyeOrCoke]

All hail cre8ball

[@ellenman]

DO A PART 2

[@Cree8Ball]

I might do a part two on these guys, specifically, but for now, you can look at the other two videos I've released in this series, there's a playlist on the channel. And even if I don't do more with the Ybettes, themselves, there will be plenty of episodes with other, new aliens

[@TroyTheCatFish]

I shared this video on Tumblr

[@Cree8Ball]

Thank you! I appreciate that a ton!

[@TroyTheCatFish]

@@Cree8Ball Your Very Welcome 🤗

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Vaguely reminds me of the Yule

[@user-ib2fs5gg2s]

i have a question, how did the comunicate with eachother?

[@Cree8Ball]

The little thing coming off their heads glow in the dark, similar to an Angler fish and they use those by like blinking rhythmically

[@user-ib2fs5gg2s]

@@Cree8Ball Thats very cool ! then i wonder how they see? or if they even need sight

[@Vivers01]

Can you give me a quick lore dump about past aliens? Thanks

[@Cree8Ball]

The first episode has the Harlos, which are a bunch of sapient aliens with basically no dexterity -- like they don't have hands or anything like that. So they domesticate these other aliens, called the Joones, which aren't sapient but have fully dexterous hands. Together they're able to make a highly advanced, space faring civilization and all is going well until a nuclear war kills everyone on the home planet. Luckily, though, the moon colonists survive and are able to push the species forward. Then episode two has the Yöks, which are radiotrophic plant-like things that evolved on a highly radioactive planet. Again, there's a nuclear war and again, they start exploring space. But unlike most other species, they decide to develop massive mega structures, like Dyson Spheres and planet sized space stations, which required them to indiscriminately harvest thousands of star systems, killing a lot of aliens in the process. But luckily, they've been stopped since then and construction on the mega structures has ceased

[@Vivers01]

@@Cree8Ball thanks!

[@tiberiusdawn2042]

I wonder what would happen if they meet the tool breeders from al tomorrow

[@Cree8Ball]

Probably a civil law suit lmao

[@tiberiusdawn2042]

@@Cree8Ball yeah I wonder some of them would also get freaky with eachother

[@oreosaurs2658]

I’m in gulag

[@Cree8Ball]

Gone but never forgotten ✊

[@oreosaurs2658]

@@RegularRhombicDodecahedron nuh uh

[@nautilusnotasquid]

I’m too tired to Florsche find today, sorry 😅 also darn I feel horrible for the males. The language looks AMAZING!

[@Cree8Ball]

Don't worry my guy, there aren't any Florshes in this one, anyway

[@andiralosh2173]

This form of oppressive matriarchy is giving hyena vibes

[@Klarpimier]

Are there ibid nicegirls or whiteknights?

[@kaeldavidson6898]

I like the ra'tokal. They're most definitely not extinct. I like my monsters, and monsters are hard to completely remove. That's the truth of it because l like monsters Yeah, I know it's a lil stupid...

[@cosmiclightning4264]

Please make my concept of a black hole system

[@Cree8Ball]

I have a lot of alien ideas that I wanna do, but the black hole system is absolutely on the list

[@orsonzedd]

They're gonna haaaate humans

[@orsonzedd]

@RegularRhombicDodecahedron because we're tall

[@orsonzedd]

@RegularRhombicDodecahedron why wouldn't they

[@angeleye0331]

How do they eat?

[@Cree8Ball]

Their front two limbs have mouths on the ends

[@angeleye0331]

Ok

[@dawntavishflynn8802]

How do they speak the language you wrote for them if they don't have teeth, tongues, or lips?

[@Cree8Ball]

They can expell water through the holes in their shells, kinda like an octopus, and they use the sounds of that to make words. A lot of their language also uses ink and bioluminescent signals (the little dangle above their eye can glow)

[@veaceslavstoianov4378]

Cree8Ball never fails to clap my cheeks

[@Cree8Ball]

You're damn right

[@veaceslavstoianov4378]

@@Cree8Ball yes sir

[@markmark-wt8sd]

What if humans me the aliens?

[@_404_error_]

Ah man, the sub species didn't make it. My dissipointment is imeasureable and my day is ruined.

[@bunk_foss]

🤑🤑🤑🤑

[@ZINCr_aka_Q]

A conversation between a ybette female and a human male would pretty be awkward

[@Cree8Ball]

Both sexist but in opposite directions

[@ZINCr_aka_Q]

@@Cree8Ball and þæts only aßumiŋ þe human *is* sexist, since þæts optional nowadays (pardon my Eŋlish)

[@pokepoke1889]

:] Are these all connected

[@Cree8Ball]

They are yeah! They're all in the same universe but some of them (like these guys for example) don't really interact with any of the other species

[@Parfumlestink778xby]

He thought he would be reborn a female in just one cycle 😂😂😂he mad asl ahaaa 😂😂😭🙏

[@Cree8Ball]

This is my favorite comment 😂

[@Parfumlestink778xby]

@@Cree8Ball it is an honor

[@guruditsingh8909]

Can you pls make a species where the males don’t get bullied upon the females and are actually the dominant gender

[@Cree8Ball]

Well the other two aliens in this series have minimal sexual dimorphism, so the males are probably the dominant ones in both of those

[@ODJJ-77.83]

Dodododif

[@ximenasorondo2051]

poor ra,tokals they didnt do anything wrong they where just trying to survive

[@Cree8Ball]

Yeah, an earlier draft of the script had a little section talking about how extermination campaigns are actually a really bad idea, but I ended up cutting it for the sake of simplicity

[@Cree8Ball]

@marshalmarrs3269 sure, I guess

[@limeguyYT]

so basically, they’re just girlbosses

[@Cree8Ball]

@@limeguyYT damn straight

[@ODJJ-77.83]

Fkfkfkfkffkfkfkfkff

[@andiralosh2173]

I really appreciate how all "religions" are wrong 😂

[@Cree8Ball]

Yeah, that's usually a bit of a theme in these videos lol

[@skylordthe1st]

Wow reverse feminism

[@petruska111]

why would the males even need to be intelligent though ? their goal seems really simple to me.

[@Cree8Ball]

Probably because the gene that made the women intelligent happened to also make the men intelligent. Intelligent men turned out to be just as likely to survive and reproduce as unintelligent men, so they continued to pass their genes

[@Therrealmasonjar2]

when's the next starscapes?

[@Cree8Ball]

It'll be out before the end of the year, don't worry