I agree with you. Fortunately, Stella doesn't have 7 unique species. It has 7 unique types of species, with hundreds of species. Hundreds of species is pretty vast.
Again, no. There are seven types of aliens, and hundreds of variations of those type. Dozens of them are then seeded on the map randomly. There are not seven factions.
No this is also not right, as I understand it two planets from across the galaxy that are completely unrelated could both have races from the same phenotype because all a phenotype is, is a general category of life, so you might have two species that are both highly evolved birds that just both happened to evolve from birds just as we would be similar to an alien race if we met one which had also evolved from apes
I didn't say he was wrong but I am saying that I am questioning why Johan says one thing and the page says another, and if the page is wrong, then I would like to get more than a one line statement from Johan before interpreting what he means. What I am seeing though is a lot of eisegesis of what a phenotype is to Johan (as opposed to what is actually is in biology), and what the page means by species, and people are trying to interpret it to what they want to believe it is, and calling others wrong for their interpretations. Lets look at what is officially out there, and if Johan wants to expand on that, great. But I don't think it is dumb to compare an official page against what Johan says.
I guess that's why the correction is "6 phenotypes". All mammals would belong into the same category, including humans, so it's very likely that "mammals" will also have apes, humans, wolves, bears, etc. I find that very promising and hope that other categories can also expand their own stock of races that way.
