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Wow, I have heard of almost none of these. I am usually dissapointed by fictional alien races. They are usually either a humanoid race representing a facet of humanity (Star Trek) or are too strange to be compelling (omnipotent computer, space fungus)
The Zerg are really cool because they are not human in almost any way, yet you can still understand who/what they are and they have a personality to them. Plus, they don't fall into that common trope of being vastly superior technologically because they dont have technology, they are purely biological.
The Zerg are really cool because they are not human in almost any way, yet you can still understand who/what they are and they have a personality to them. Plus, they don't fall into that common trope of being vastly superior technologically because they dont have technology, they are purely biological.
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Sword of the Stars did alien races right even if it had other issues. However, maybe it's just nostalgia talking, but I really like a lot of the species from the Animorphs books I read as a kid. Andalites and Taxxons, Skrit-na and Yeerks. Hork-Bajir and those winged things the Ellimist came from. My first few custom races are all laid out because of K.A. Applegate.
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You know what, I'm also going to throw the gems from Steven Universe into this thread. They're very unique, have cool designs and they're essentially immortal.
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I really enjoy the Tyranids from Warhammer 40k, and also the Zerg since they are very similar.
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Albion was really great in that regard, for a game. It actually bothered with language and culture (and who doesn't like eco-friendly plant housing).
I always hated the look of Andalites but most aliens in that series were cool. Hoping there will be a Yeerk mod.
I hope that someone mods a Gem invasion mod.
I didn't get far in Albion, but I liked those aliens better than most. Still, they were humanoids and possibly modeled after tribal tree-hugging humans. At least they were well drawn and well written.
All from Hitchiker's-The Silastic Armorfiends, the Hooloovoo, and, of course, the Cricketters.
The Zerg and the Terran Confederacy (especially the Terran Confederacy) would be interesting models for Stellaris' societies.
I second the Affront and would add the Idirans from Consider Phlebas and the operators of the Heavens and Hells in Surface Detail. It'd also be neat to see something like the Culture as a "benign" alternative to the inevitable end-game overpowered Borg/Shadows/Vorlon/Mongol invasion. Most of all, though, I'd be delighted if something like the Minds and their ships appeared as galactic oddities/events, appropriately written.
Weeping Angles is the best Doctor Who species hands down, but I'm not sure how you'd model them in a grand strategy game.
The Zerg and the Terran Confederacy (especially the Terran Confederacy) would be interesting models for Stellaris' societies.
I second the Affront and would add the Idirans from Consider Phlebas and the operators of the Heavens and Hells in Surface Detail. It'd also be neat to see something like the Culture as a "benign" alternative to the inevitable end-game overpowered Borg/Shadows/Vorlon/Mongol invasion. Most of all, though, I'd be delighted if something like the Minds and their ships appeared as galactic oddities/events, appropriately written.
Weeping Angles is the best Doctor Who species hands down, but I'm not sure how you'd model them in a grand strategy game.
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They don't own planets, AFAIK, so their ability to send people back in time and absorb their potential life energy sounds like it would be a penalty inside your empire saying "Weeping Angels -x% of this or that stat".
If they do get control of a planet (in Doctor Who they "control" Manhattan), that modifier would get worse.
I don't know. Sounds hard to figure out, but that's not my problem. I just like them
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I wonder why nobody have mentioned Star Control yet, but easily my favorite alien species at the moment are the Chenjesu and their improved version the Chmrr because how bizarrely alien they are as a silicon-based, crystaline lifeform. All their technology are crystaline, they feed on electricity and they even control their starship by creating and manipulating electromagnetical fields.
Chenjesu
Chmmr
I hope in the future Paradox will add crystaline beings as a future phenotype because to make alien spacies more diverse and unique.
Chenjesu
Chmmr
I hope in the future Paradox will add crystaline beings as a future phenotype because to make alien spacies more diverse and unique.
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I wonder why nobody have mentioned Star Control yet, but easily my favorite alien species at the moment are the Chenjesu and their improved version the Chmrr because how bizarrely alien they are as a silicon-based, crystaline lifeform. All their technology are crystaline, they feed on electricity and they even control their starship by creating and manipulating electromagnetical fields.
Chenjesu
Chmmr
I hope in the future Paradox will add crystaline beings as a future phenotype because to make alien spacies more diverse and unique.
Silicon/crystalline aliens rock (lol), I posted Tholians earlier. I think they'd be cool as a future phenotype, but they'd probably need some unique mechanics to make them seem adequately different from other forms of life.
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Poe's law is exploding here... I don't know if you guys are just joking, or if you really don't know what Warhammer 40K is.
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Vulcans. I'm so boring.
OK dude, but why? I mean, are they even really alien in any meaningful sense? Or just humans with no sense of humour and pointy ears?
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