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Description
Organic watercraft derived from (nyctosaurid) pterosaurs, obviously--or more accurately, from massively hypertrophied nyctosaurid heads. The core body's been so fused, reduced, and atrophied as to render the organism completely dependent upon its custodial sapients for sustenance and metabolic maintenance. As per thomastapir.deviantart.com/art… I picture the animal nourished via an "I/V drip"-style nutrient feed system. Some variants may retain a rudimentary digestive system, allowing them to opportunistically supplement their diet via more conventional methods during long sojourns.

That force-feedback neural control yoke interface is inspired by a woodpecker's tongue:
41.media.tumblr.com/89451b3c29…

Will Scrap soon. I'll probably continue to work further along these same conceptual lines...I sketched up some tapejarid variants a while back, but they never quite came together. : /
This one's already kind of a companion piece to or variant iteration of
thomastapir.deviantart.com/art…
with a pterosaurian rather than avian memetogenetic heritage.

Description
Organic watercraft derived from (nyctosaurid) pterosaurs, obviously--or more accurately, from massively hypertrophied nyctosaurid heads. The core body's been so fused, reduced, and atrophied as to render the organism completely dependent upon its custodial sapients for sustenance and metabolic maintenance. As per thomastapir.deviantart.com/art… I picture the animal nourished via an "I/V drip"-style nutrient feed system. Some variants may retain a rudimentary digestive system, allowing them to opportunistically supplement their diet via more conventional methods during long sojourns.

That force-feedback neural control yoke interface is inspired by a woodpecker's tongue:
41.media.tumblr.com/89451b3c29…

Will Scrap soon. I'll probably continue to work further along these same conceptual lines...I sketched up some tapejarid variants a while back, but they never quite came together. : /
This one's already kind of a companion piece to or variant iteration of
thomastapir.deviantart.com/art…
with a pterosaurian rather than avian memetogenetic heritage.