Starring your favourite aliens?

[Jonathan Palfrey]

Will it be feasible to implement the fictional aliens of your choice in this game, I wonder? Vernor Vinge's Tines or Larry Niven's puppeteers would be cool.

However, some species might be too powerful for comfort, such as Larry Niven's thrintun or Moties.

 

[Essecibo]

my favourite alien is justin bieber

 

[Talar]

It looks like you can design your species from a number of predefined options and there will be modding support, so yes I would say.

 

[Jonathan Palfrey]

Puppeteers have three legs and two heads (the brain is not in the head) and are highly intelligent but cowardly.

Tines are somewhat doglike but communicate very efficiently using wide-frequency sound. In practice, they have a kind of short-range pseudo-telepathy that allows a group of them to function as one, smarter than any individual member.

Thrintun can use telepathic compulsion on other species to enforce slavery. Moties are divided into specialized subspecies that are frighteningly efficient in their own specialities.

The question is whether the available options include all these variables.

 

[viola]

I want to play as the Aliens from Signs!

I'll try to conquer my enemies by sending small groups of unarmed, naked guys around in the enemy's countryside, only to have all of my efforts squandered by the unexpected enemy's usage of Wooden Doors and Baseball Bats. Also, the members of my species melt when they come in contact with Water, that's why I mostly try to conquer the planets that are almost entirely covered in Water. Did I already said that the guys I send to conquer planets are also naked?

 

[Garuda]

I hope they include the Vogons.




... .... and poetry appreciation chairs.

 

[senjineer]

My favorite species are :

Puppeteers - Larry Niven's universe ( Book "Fleet of Worlds" - currently reading )
Volus - Mass Effect universe
Hanar ( religious faction ) - Mass Effect universe
Ketarov ( kind of neo-socialist ) - Distant Worlds universe

Also I like any all other "aquatic & squid-like" aliens

 

[Jonathan Palfrey]

Puppeteers - Larry Niven's universe ( Book "Fleet of Worlds" - currently reading )

Puppeteers first appeared in the short story "Neutron star" (Larry Niven, 1966), then in several other stories, then in the novel Ringworld (1970).

Fleet of Worlds (Niven & Lerner, 2007) is the first of a series of relatively recent prequels to Ringworld.

 

[Zaltys]

Oh, right, species will likely be moddable.
...mind blown. This has so much potential.

There's so many that I'd add. All the species from Mass Effect, Star Control, Master of Orion, Ascendancy,...

 

[Ezumiyr]

Gowachins ! Law fanatics AND frogs, that's the perfect combination !

 

[Barciad]

Well that has me sold straight away. Just what will the limits be?

 

[aruon]

togrutans and twi'leks from star wars. cuz dey be hawwwwwt... and actually kind cool when you read specifics about them.

and huragok from halo, because they are biological machines in the literal sense and have unparalleled engineering skills

 

[Isimiel]

 

[GrafKeks]

Daleks: For their genetic supremacy ideology ( not a fan of the theocracy/emperor ), killing themselves if they recognize their impurity. And their extreme hatred for everything non-Dalek ( although I do not like the new memories are being supressed bullshit, it was better when it was their literal nature to hate )

Irkens: Extremely narcicistic and child-like behaviour, extreme disguist for other races ( codeword: organic sweep ). Just like the Dalek they have an actually very interesting backstory. They are connected to an exo-cortex which is programmed with their job for the empire, and just as much if not even more their brain than their actual one.