>>5761231To confound the etymology,
>John Proctor's name in greek essentially means John AnusUnrelated to John Proctor from Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a portrayal of McCarthyite America, here is an entoproct IT MEANS INSIDE ANUS according to wikipedia a sessile aquatic creature related to the Bryozoans, who possess a crown of feeding tentacles or lophophore.
In Revelation Space there are some psychic / aquatic machine upload xenoform creatures called Pattern Jugglers inhabiting oceanic planets, I hunted around for visual inspiration I like the blissful colours and morphological shapes of these creatures compared to the standard sci-fi humanoid with knobs on head etc.