Sketches of a long mammal-ish alien with a big fluffy tail. She's wearing goggles and something like a spine brace or corset, and has elaborate cybernetics showing along her neck.

Amaranth

Synthesists are un-specialists, students of the strange margins between fields of study: More mundane synthesists come up with clever tricks like applying actuarial techniques to stellar evolution or getting slime molds to build efficient network maps, but in Amaranth’s complicated multiverse setting, they’re critical members of starship crews where high magic and technology combine in unexpected ways.