A long time ago I came up with an alien race concept I wound up doing nothing with.
TLDR you have an all female reptile-like race (kind of like how whiptail lizards IRL are all female). They are aborieal, sapient, and live in tree-top-platform cities. The best way I can describe them is a quadrupedal lizard with a longer snake-ish body, a newt-like skin pattern, six tentacles on their backs for climbing (the tentacles ends can open up to extend many small tendrils for fine-detail manipulation), a long tail ending with a small bladed stinger (functions as an ovipositor like the stingers of most wasps and bees), with a shark like mouth. They use their tentacles to operate their technology. Their clawed talons are generally speaking only for locomotion.
I called them the Ifiti, but any name will do really. Culturally I had them as a space faring race that went full into science and pretty much only cared to learn and discover, having converted their home world into a single library of most everything within 2000 LY of their home system. But again, it's just the race idea that matters.
It's not exactly everyone's idea of sexy, but plenty of people are into aliens that dont' resemble Terran life in some way. Regardless, I don't think we have a forest planet yet (jungles and forests being different and all) and every planet needs a few unique threats. Some be-tentacled lizard girls looking for egg incubators to drop on from atop the trees would be pretty good, IMO.
TLDR you have an all female reptile-like race (kind of like how whiptail lizards IRL are all female). They are aborieal, sapient, and live in tree-top-platform cities. The best way I can describe them is a quadrupedal lizard with a longer snake-ish body, a newt-like skin pattern, six tentacles on their backs for climbing (the tentacles ends can open up to extend many small tendrils for fine-detail manipulation), a long tail ending with a small bladed stinger (functions as an ovipositor like the stingers of most wasps and bees), with a shark like mouth. They use their tentacles to operate their technology. Their clawed talons are generally speaking only for locomotion.
I called them the Ifiti, but any name will do really. Culturally I had them as a space faring race that went full into science and pretty much only cared to learn and discover, having converted their home world into a single library of most everything within 2000 LY of their home system. But again, it's just the race idea that matters.
It's not exactly everyone's idea of sexy, but plenty of people are into aliens that dont' resemble Terran life in some way. Regardless, I don't think we have a forest planet yet (jungles and forests being different and all) and every planet needs a few unique threats. Some be-tentacled lizard girls looking for egg incubators to drop on from atop the trees would be pretty good, IMO.
