Alien Race Concepts by Snow

This lovely guy is an "enemy" creature on the planet Kevanti. He lives on the ground, moves via his "exoskeletal ribs" and is known for eating eggs, hatchling chicks, and really anything that moves. He can't "see" as he lacks eyes, but he makes up for it by sensing movement on the ground via the same exoskeleton he uses for movement.

This beautiful lady is from a distant world and has been described by some humans in such delightful terms as "horrifying", "eldritch monster", and "that's too many tentacles". However, despite human lack of appreciation for her appearance, she has been voted by her own race as the winner of multiple planet wide beauty contests. Human scholars aren't too sure why any creature needs so many tentacles, but rumor has it they're used for movement in the dense liquid mercurial oceans that cover their planet, though Humanity can't say for sure, as mercury is toxic to our biology.

This friend lives on Anteo with the Vrensean and the Yamti. Living mostly in the underground cave systems, it's hard to find one of these guys in space as they dislike the artificial lights that are on most ships. Used to navigating by vibration and the dim light of phosphorescent stones, they have relatively poor eyesight on the surface, and thusly their main interactions with their neighbors are done via meeting places commonly deep within forests or near the entrances of their cave systems, where the light is much dimmer than the open plains that Yamti call home.

These lovely "mole rat" like guys are also rumored to have the ability to manipulate the dirt and rocks around them, and an uncanny knack for smithing and metallurgy, as well as mining. Because of this, most of their cave systems are reinforced in one way or another and their main cities walls are lined with metal, lending to a rumor that Anteo's core is solid steel.

This lovely 'shrimp' lives mostly solitary life on their homeplanet. Serving as a guide for younger members of their species the older ones are considered 'wise beyond measure' and are experts in at least one form of combat, be it physical, or use of water manipulation to fight off enemies and hunt down prey. They then take on an apprentice to pass these skills down--usually only one at a time--, though their race is equally appreciative of the ones that would rather use their brains than their brawn, philosophers and scientists are common and often have multiple apprentices.

Not much is known about this chill dude, but his species are rather good with chemistry and biology, and are known for combining these skills in the fields of medicine and recreational drugs, and have been known to find ways to "recreate" the recreational drugs of other species into ones with minimal if any side effects and multiple practical uses for both the original race and other races.