Okay so Atlantis is an important aspect of my CoH comics. If you are unfamiliar with my comics go to
www.jkcomics.comSo I want to bring Atlantis in and I want to do it in a unique way. Atlantis isn't going to have a starring role yet but it does have a cameo/hint moment that occurs in issue 13 or 14 and deals with issue 1 and 2 in Justice-Knights Origins (if I ever get to making that).
Premise:
Thousands of years ago, on another world known as Taos, lived a very advanced species. They were technocratic and abandoned weapons long ago. There science excelled mainly in energy manipulation (power sources, space travel, force fields) and genetics. An enemy armada one day appeared (possibly the Battalion) and pushed the entire Taosian civilization back to their planet, abandoning outposts, settlements and satellites. The Taosians activiated their planet wide shield and remained safe for generations as the alien armada remained in orbit, waiting for the right moment to continue the siege.
To combat an every growing population, they genetically modified themselves to survive in their oceans and continued city development off their shores. Short on weapons technology, they began to create genetically engineered living weapons. Giant hulking creatures, creatures with flying and energy abilities, and even small but powerful psychic creatures. Generations of research and safety came to an end when one of those creatures, a super strong hulk escaped and destroyed everything within its path, including one of the planet shield generators. A whole was opened and the enemy took advantage.
A small convoy was able to escape the planetary attack, making its way to a small blue planet where they hid beneath its oceans. At times they attempted communication with the species already inhabiting the planet but found them too barbaric. The story of the Taosians spread among that species, known as humans, and it eventually became myth and legend.
They refered to themselves as 'Et Lan Taos" which the humans eventually transformed into Atlantis, however Et Lan Taos means, "the people of Taos". Taos had fallen and Et Lan Taos sank beneath the ocean.
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So that's the premise or origin. I wanted to bring certain aspects of different Atlantis stories but change it in a way that hasn't been done in comics yet. You always have them originally being human or another species that evolved on the same planet. They often have magic or comparable technology to the surface world.
Further resource:In the Justice-Knights series, the enemy known as Obedience is actually a Taosian genetic weapon which CyCorp recovered from a ship on the ocean floor. It is Taosian genetic sciences which CyCorp begins playing with in current issues.
Main point of post:
So the reason I am posting is that I am trying to create them using the Icon program. I'm trying to figure out what they look like as a species now, surviving on the dark ocean floor. I can't really start picking technology, armor, etc, until I get the core down. I thought I might open this up to the CoH community and see what feedback you all have and what input to design choices you may share.
What costume pieces in CoH currently speak alien amphibian race and what pieces speak alien technology (armor and such) that the Taosians would have?
