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[SKAR]

In the E3 2016 trailer(I'll put it up later) I noticed at 0:59 to 1:00 what might be a new alien. I was checking out images on Andromeda and I zoomed in and saw what I thought to be the Asari but the head shape was different and It looked like a completely different creature.. It wasn't a turian. It may have been a new alien species. It had a long blue head. I may be wrong but it didn't look asari. Thoughts?

[PunchFaceReporter]

Oooooh

[Command0rk]

When I first saw the video I thought Asari.. but you're right, the head shape looks a little different. Could be a helmet?

[Sartoz]

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The white gear is Alliance and the female is wearing a helmet.... Krogan is also wearing a helmet.... must be environmental suits.

[SKAR]

When I first saw the video I thought Asari.. but you're right, the head shape looks a little different. Could be a helmet?

I thought I saw a face. Who knows? It didn't look like a helmet.

[SKAR]

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The white gear is Alliance and the female is wearing a helmet.... Krogan is also wearing a helmet.... must be environmental suits.

maybe. Can't be too sure. It's blurry up close.

[CHRrOME]

Huh? 0.99?

Okay assuming it's actually 0:59 (a bit of 1:00 actually, but hey let's stop the douchebagery) you mean this? :

 

Yeah, I thought about it. But then the human helmet kinda has that shape so I dismissed that claim. >>

 

[SKAR]

Huh? 0.99?
Okay assuming it's actually 0:59 (a bit of 1:00 actually, but hey let's stop the douchebagery) you mean this? :


Yeah, I thought about it. But then the human helmet kinda has that shape so I dismissed that claim. >>

Maybe. But I zoomed in and it didn't look like that mask. Oh and sorry about the number. My bad. Sort of forgot about the whole 60 seconds part. LOL

[CHRrOME]

Maybe. But I zoomed in and it didn't look like that mask. Oh and sorry about the number. My bad. Sort of forgot about the whole 60 seconds part. LOL

 

Hehe. Of course it would be easier if we had access to the original video instead of the youtube crap, but oh well. It's really hard to see because it's too blurry and the chars are too far away in that scene. So it could literally be a new alien, or just a human with the weird helmet.

[Kabooooom]

I don't know about that, OP, but there are two new aliens in the trailer for sure. One is the large, Yahg like thing. The other is harder to see, it was found by a user on r/mass effect. It's on a computer terminal in the background when there's a scene of a dev working on some art or something. On the screen, there are a few characters standing and the Tempest in the background. In the foreground is a gray, bipedal alien that looks like a Vorcha, but isn't. It kind of looks similar to what one of the original leaks described for what people assumed was the Khet. I'll try to find the image.

[SKAR]

Hehe. Of course it would be easier if we had access to the original video instead of the youtube crap, but oh well. It's really hard to see because it's too blurry and the chars are too far away in that scene. So it could literally be a new alien, or just a human with the weird helmet.

True.

[Kabooooom]

It's at 1:10 on the far right computer screen. Couldn't find the original zoomed in image on Reddit. Looks like a tall, gray, Vorcha / Prothean cross...pretty much exactly like the leak described.

[SKAR]

It's at 1:10 on the far right computer screen. Couldn't find the original zoomed in image on Reddit. Looks like a tall, gray, Vorcha / Prothean cross...pretty much exactly like the leak described.

Khet. Hmmm. Someone post the video. Maybe it's the new alien.

[Mcfly616]

Looks like an asari with a helmet. Could be a female human as well. Hopefully it's nothing new, because that'd mean we have another species that looks entirely humanoid from the neck down.

[SKAR]

Looks like an asari with a helmet. Could be a female human as well. Hopefully it's nothing new, because that'd mean we have another species that looks entirely humanoid from the neck down.

We already do. The Khet. What? You want more Hanar? Id praise more humanoid aliens. It seems more realistic.

[Command0rk]

I thought I saw a face. Who knows? It didn't look like a helmet.

 

Appears similar to the helmets shown in concept art I'm thinking :

 

[Mcfly616]

We already do. The Khet. What? You want more Hanar? Id praise more humanoid aliens. It seems more realistic.

 More realistic? Because you've seen aliens?

 

 

More hanar? No thanks. Maybe something that doesn't walk upright. Maybe something that doesn't use two legs and two arms. Maybe something that doesn't have eyes in the center of their face with a nose and mouth directly below it. Basically something a lot stranger and more out of the ordinary than what we've been getting, because design-wise it's been a bit unimaginative.

[O'Voutie O'Rooney]

Pardon me while I go start a romance thread devoted to this character.

[SKAR]

More realistic? Because you've seen aliens?


More hanar? No thanks. Maybe something that doesn't walk upright. Maybe something that doesn't use two legs and two arms. Maybe something that doesn't have eyes in the center of their face with a nose and mouth directly below it. Basically something a lot stranger and more out of the ordinary than what we've been getting, because design-wise it's been a bit unimaginative.

I'd think aliens would.look more like us than Hanar or some weird creature. Who really knows. Bet they're wondering what we look like too. They're on their own forums talking about us.

[SKAR]

Pardon me while I go start a romance thread devoted to this character.

You go do that.

[Kabooooom]

I'd think aliens would.look more like us than Hanar or some weird creature. Who really knows. Bet they're wondering what we look like too. They're on their own forums talking about us.

I think nature is far more creative than that, and luckily too because otherwise the universe would be a pretty mundane place.

For proof of nature's creativity, you only have to look at species on our own planet. I am a comparative neurologist, I study the brains of animals - their anatomy, their evolution, their physiology and behavior.

Now, with regards to the most intelligent species on Earth, the majority of them are vertebrates - like us. Some of them, like our closest relatives among the apes, look quite similar to us. Some of them, like elephants, cetaceans, and certain avians like the Corvidae have quite diverse body plans, but nonetheless have the common denominator of being a vertebrate and their anatomy is easy to understand and not alien at all.

But the reason that most of the smartest animals on Earth are vertebrates is largely because we are enormously successful as a group of animals, NOT because intelligence requires a body plan or brain like ours to evolve. And the proof of that comes from an exceptional group of animals - the Cephalopods: the octopus, squid, etc.

To use the octopus as an example since it is the best studied of these animals, we don't know exactly how intelligent they are - but we do know that they are incredibly ****** intelligent. Like really, really intelligent. Almost scary smart. They overlap the apes in cognitive skill, and that is probably an understatement. And their general body plan and brain anatomy is almost entirely alien to us.

Despite that, people like me have found some curious neuroanatomical homologs to structures in the vertebrate brain which independently evolved in the Cephalopoda. This suggests that there are probably only so many ways that you can actually build a brain in nature. But despite that, the majority of their brain is alien. We have made great strides in understanding how the vertebrate brain works in the past two decades, it is no longer the mysterious black box that it once was. But the octopus brain? What we do know of it, we know enough to say that it doesn't process information the same way our brain does for the most part -it uses totally different methods.

So in summary, on one single planet in our vast universe, intelligence has evolved to similar degrees of complexity using entirely different methods in two completely different branches of the phylogenetic tree of life. If you had never seen an octopus before because they didn't exist on Earth, but you found one instead on another planet - you would think their anatomy was entirely alien and unusual. And yet, nature was creative enough to do it on a single world.

So, I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that in the vastness of the cosmos, among the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy and the hundreds of billions of galaxies in our universe, nature has exploited or will exploit every possible conceivable way to build an intelligent living being. And some of those beings, perhaps the majority of them, would likely be utterly alien to us.

That said, some of them may be quite hominid in appearance. But I would be hugely surprised if that was at all common, despite our success on Earth. It would be a mistake to think that because we kick so much ass, aliens must be like us, because if we nuke ourselves and our vertebrate kin into extinction, it may very well be the descendants of the Cephalopods that take our place. And what an interesting world that would be.

[SKAR]

I think nature is far more creative than that, and luckily too because otherwise the universe would be a pretty mundane place.

For proof of nature's creativity, you only have to look at species on our own planet. I am a comparative neurologist, I study the brains of animals - their anatomy, their evolution, their physiology and behavior.

Now, with regards to the most intelligent species on Earth, the majority of them are vertebrates - like us. Some of them, like our closest relatives among the apes, look quite similar to us. Some of them, like elephants, cetaceans, and certain avians like the Corvidae have quite diverse body plans, but nonetheless have the common denominator of being a vertebrate and their anatomy is easy to understand and not alien at all.

But the reason that most of the smartest animals on Earth are vertebrates is largely because we are enormously successful as a group of animals, NOT because intelligence requires a body plan or brain like ours to evolve. And the proof of that comes from an exceptional group of animals - the Cephalopods: the octopus, squid, etc.

To use the octopus as an example since it is the best studied of these animals, we don't know exactly how intelligent they are - but we do know that they are incredibly ****** intelligent. Like really, really intelligent. Almost scary smart. They overlap the apes in cognitive skill, and that is probably an understatement. And their general body plan and brain anatomy is almost entirely alien to us.

Despite that, people like me have found some curious neuroanatomical homologs to structures in the vertebrate brain which independently evolved in the Cephalopoda. This suggests that there are probably only so many ways that you can actually build a brain in nature. But despite that, the majority of their brain is alien. We have made great strides in understand how the vertebrate brain works in the past two decades, it is no longer the mysterious black box that it once was. But the octopus brain? What we do know of it, we know enough to say that it doesn't process information the same way our brain does for the most part -it uses totally different methods.

So in summary, on one single planet in our vast universe, intelligence has evolved to similar degrees of complexity using entirely different methods in two completely different branches of the phylogenetic tree of life. If you had never seen an octopus before because they didn't exist on Earth, but you found one instead on another planet - you would think their anatomy was entirely alien and unusual. And yet, nature was creative enough to do it on a single world.

So, I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that in the vastness of the cosmos, among the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy and the hundreds of billions of galaxies in our universe, nature has exploited or will exploit every possible conceivable way to build an intelligent living being. And some of those beings, perhaps the majority of them, would likely be utterly alien to us.

That said, some of them may be quite hominid in appearance. But I would be hugely surprised if that was at all common, despite our success on Earth. It would be a mistake to think that because we kick so much ass, aliens must be like us, because if we nuke ourselves and our vertebrate kin into extinction, it may very well be the descendants of the Cephalopods that take our place. And what an interesting world that would be.

True. You're probably right. We have no way of knowing though. For all we.know there could be homosapiens on the other side of the galaxy. Or dinosaurs. Or cat people.

[Kabooooom]

True. You're probably right. We have no way of knowing though. For all we.know there could be homosapiens on the other side of the galaxy. Or dinosaurs. Or cat people.

Cat people probably would just hide on their own planet because they're a bunch of puss1es. Hopefully, all indications are that we are ambitious enough to branch out and explore the stars. With time, and a little luck, we will probably answer that question definitively.

Edit: had to outsmart the auto censor, because that pun was too good.

[SKAR]

Cat people probably would just hide on their own planet because they're a bunch of puss1es. Hopefully, all indications are that we are ambitious enough to branch out and explore the stars. With time, and a little luck, we will probably answer that question definitively.

Edit: had to outsmart the auto censor, because that pun was too good.

We can't be the only ones. That is truly impossible.

[CHRrOME]

It's at 1:10 on the far right computer screen. Couldn't find the original zoomed in image on Reddit. Looks like a tall, gray, Vorcha / Prothean cross...pretty much exactly like the leak described.

 

You mean this?

 

 

I reduced the brightness so is less withey. It looks just like a human with a pseudo mask (like some characters like Samara wear in ME2). There's another dude behind and that's the Tempest.

It looks weird I believe because of the lighting and the awful video quality (this is a frame from the 1080 youtube oficial video).