Finally got around to making a piece featuring my kemdine (pronounced KEM-dee-nay) species. The kemdine are an alien race that travels the galaxy like a horde of locusts, stripping the resources from every world they find. The invaders have only one truly vital organ, referred to as the core or nucleus. So long as their core is intact, they can recover from almost any injury, and the core itself is extremely durable. The only known way of destroying it is via digestion.

When the kemdine set their sights on Earth, the discovery of this fact resulted in the existence or formerly hidden human predators being made public and those predators being drafted into service for the war with the kemdine. It turns out that the average human predator has a greater stomach capacity, stronger digestive juices and a faster metabolism
than most kemdine, so despite the kemdine's superior technology and greater numbers (at least compared to the population of human predators) humanity is doing a good job at holding their own.

Speaking of technology, despite not being as advanced as kemdine technology, the humans of this world are more advanced than we currently are in real life, with not only relatively fast interplanetary spaceflight within the solar system, but also reliable mass-produced electrolaser (long range, beam-carried "stun gun") weapons and elastic ballistic armor made of "reflex material", suitable for use by predators that expect to swallow similarly sized prey in combat.

The kemdine, on the other hand, have FTL spaceflight and more advanced energy weapons known as blasters, though their weapons also have a stun setting that works on the same principles as human electrolasers. Despite this, their natural regenerative abilities have resulted in them not really developing any sort of armor for combat, and combined with their lack of nudity taboos, this means that most kemdine wear little more than belts or harnesses to attach their gear to.

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