How I assumed buggers looked

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How I assumed buggers looked

Postby Fly Molo » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:13 pm

I always assumed the buggers looked a lot like the Antican race from Final Fantasy 11. I loathe how they represent them in the comics.

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Postby neo-dragon » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:14 pm

I never pictured them looking so bulky, although I guess some of that is the armour.
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Postby Fly Molo » Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:21 am

Well, they are somewhat taller and more narrow in game. But screen shots always smush them. I figured real buggers where almost 6'6" tall with the queen being 9' and having huge wings.

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Postby locke » Sat Mar 13, 2010 3:12 am

they weren't bipedal in the books. and remember how low the cielings were on eros cause they didn't need the headspace tall humans needed.
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Postby Fly Molo » Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:45 am

Oh really, I don't recall reading about how they stood. They travel on all 6-8 then?

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Postby neo-dragon » Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:33 pm

I don't recall how many legs they were said to walk on but they are definitely not as tall as humans. As locke said, the ceilings on Eros were quite low.
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Postby ptr.arkanian » Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:01 am

it is stated in the enderverse books that the formics are insectoids but they have an endoskeleton. i always imagined them more ant or insectlike.
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Postby Graff^ » Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:34 pm

I always imagined them as really big ants that use 4 legs on the ground and the rest up in the air. But, that's just me.
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Re: How I assumed buggers looked

Postby Mr. Wieczorek » Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:32 am

I always thought of the buggers as a mix between the aliens in Alien, and insects on earth

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Re: How I assumed buggers looked

Postby winbe008 » Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:24 pm

I imagined that they would look something like a water beetle...

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Re: How I assumed buggers looked

Postby jimmyjazz951 » Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:59 pm

I sort of pictured big, upright cockroach.

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Re: How I assumed buggers looked

Postby AviLocke » Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:33 am

There is a description in the book when Graff is explaining their possible evolution to Ender. He says they are very much like ants (at least they were 100 million years ago). Since then, they evolved and lost their exoskeleton and gained an internal skeletal structure.

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Re: How I assumed buggers looked

Postby AviLocke » Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:34 am

I found the section. It is on page 248 (Kindle location 5134 of 7050). Graff says, " They evolved an internal skeleton and shed most of their exoskeleton, their physical structure still echoed their ancestors, who could easily have been very much like Earth's ants."

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Postby Gravity Defier » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:38 pm

I found the section. It is on page 248 (Kindle location 5134 of 7050). Graff says, " They evolved an internal skeleton and shed most of their exoskeleton, their physical structure still echoed their ancestors, who could easily have been very much like Earth's ants."
Yeah, I remembered this and wondered where others got their impressions they looked anything other than ant-like.
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Re: How I assumed buggers looked

Postby klugeet » Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:11 pm

I always figured they looked a bit like the geonosians from star wars, but green, and with less of an exoskeleton...

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Re: How I assumed buggers looked

Postby teenbat » Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:52 pm

Well, if you read Xenocide, it says that the Buggers are short (under five feet) and black, and they grab them (Novinha, Ender, Miro, etc.) by the hands, so they have to have at least two legs off of the ground.

To tell you the truth, I imagined them to look like this:

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Which you may recognize as the aliens from District 9.

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Re: How I assumed buggers looked

Postby Clockwork » Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:52 pm

As I remember, the ceiling isn't that low everywhere on Eros... Weren't most of the rooms high enough so even people could stand up? Only the corridors were low, which might indicate that the Buggers travel (fast) on (almost) all their leggs, but when standing still (or moving slow), they only stand on 2 or 4 leggs...

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Re: How I assumed buggers looked

Postby Tiny genius » Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:15 pm

That's pretty much the impression I got, especially after reading SiF. The corridors in the ship there were too low even for the Leguminotes.
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