Whats gonna be your custom Race?

[FACEofINSANITY]

So since we can create our own races, whats yours gonna be? whats its history, background, who is the leader of your race, what do their ships/fleets look/consist of? what are their traits, what are their political agendas, etc, even what they look like?

SO come on gib us what your got zipping around your brain

 

[jazzroen]

well my first custom race will be heavily based on the Turians from Mass Effect. So it's gonna be an avian species with a military society. big focus on building up a strong fleet. They will also be very open to uplifting species that are ready for it if they in return become a part of their empire. I will try to act with honor to my allies but be merciless to my enemies. A militaristic government form will be mandatory, perhaps a monarchy even.

now that I think about it, maybe Garrus would be a good name for my species haha.

 

[LemonMonk]

A thread like this existed before. I'll be making the Holy Ulmar Empire, a benevolent species, spreading influence peacefully.

 

[JALC]

A fungoid race with a warroir society and a military based on never bringing enough dakka

 

[zukodark]

A technocratic oligarchy based on materialistic and individualistic ideas, fanatic in one of them, depending on which unlocks technocracy. If none of them do, I will choose something else. If both unlocks technocracy, I will go fanatic individualist. Avian race group, not sure about the planet type. It will be heavily focused on science, and their relations and actions will be based around what is best for technology. "All for the individual, the empire and for science.

 

[cookiesandmilk3]

One point in Militarist, one point in xenophobe and one point in spiritualist. If allowed by these choices, they'll be an absolute monarchy and empire. Their society will have gone pretty much in the opposite direction to ours, with the vast majority being religious (and with many religious values enshrined in law), and while willing to cooperate and trade with other species and nations, they would be very against integrating foreigners into their society and would be willing to kill aliens to save some of their own. They see the usefulness of technology and don't fear it, but aren't particularly obsessed with technological progress. They will value loyalty to the king, piety and military strength above all. I imagine they would get off to a bad start with their neighbours but relations will eventually stabilise and become normal, although they'd be reluctant to form a federation and cooperate as closely with other nations as others might. They'll have great big battleships as the pride of their fleet, and will seek to pummel their enemies into submission with great firepower. I don't know what phenotype I would take, maybe I'd even make them humans!

 

[Isimiel]

genocidal cybernetic insectoids

 

[FACEofINSANITY]

mine...

The Empire

Oldest known Empire spanning most of the civilized history of the empires home planet Insipious, now named Imperial Capitol, and is one of the longest running int he galaxy.

The Empire is Heavily Militaristic, and is greatly Tradition to its old ways, it is Scientific and Economically powerful while its political abilities are lacking due to constant power shifting in the galactic forum (senate).

All in the empire must pledge allegiance tot he Emperor and serves him when they are in his military, the military is a separate identity to the Imperial forums (separation of military and government), all must serve a term limit in the military or security forces, personnel are placed pending on their attributes and aptitude.

The emperor overseas much in the empire, whether in the forums or military, pending on the emperor at the time one might push more politically then militristically or vice versa, though the current royal family has been ruling the empire for the last 900 years a blood line filled with greatness.

Humanoid in appearance but are much stronger how ever they follow a strict code of honor which is one of the many downsides to the race.

their ships are large and heavily armed and armored, how ever they have traded off speed and maneuverability for these, how ever they make up for their short comings for a strong fighter and bomber drone squadrons.

 

[RenevB]

I'm going to play humans as the militaristic xenophobes we are.

{this option is available because you have the cynical trait}

Though in reality, I will probably start as a peaceful race of scientists first, to learn the game.

 

[Samusas]

Terran Federation of course.

SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZIENSHIP

 

[beckermt]

Xenophile, collectivists, spiritual. I'd like a democracy of some sort, but maybe it'd end up being a religious oligarchy.

Lightly inspired by the Tau. Although, nearly every race could probably be lightly inspired by 40k.

I'd like to see what sort of peaceful options there are for aggressively bringing people under my banner.

 

[Baro]

Impossible to say until the game is out and the options are in front of us.

 

[Nelfe]

My first race will be human (classical), more or less like in Starship Trooper, aka militaristic oligarchic power.
Then I'll switch to a race based on the Tyranids, a huge insectoid race living in hive ruled by a Queen who control everything and where population is divided into caste.

 

[King Travis]

Blue space sirens, whom for some reason are biologically similar to ideal body image for adult human females.

 

[Rioting Soul]

Superstrong monkeyman. Very strong ground forces with psionic abilities but poor ship building. Rely heavily on reverse engineering.

 

[Kollatius]

Mine? A Bunch of Materialist lizards... with laser weapons ready fire if you refuse to trade... not a nice bunch...

 

[Noobus_Maximus]

Space commies

 

[King Travis]

Superstrong monkeyman. Very strong ground forces with psionic abilities but poor ship building. Rely heavily on reverse engineering.

how would a race suck at building things but great at reverse engineering? Chinese monkey men?

 

[Aleks S. I]

I'm not too sure on race, probably something avian or reptilian unless I can find a space octopus race that I like the look of. Basically the first non-mammalian non-arthropoid species that I see that looks cool. I'll be putting a point into each of collectivist, xenophile, and spiritualist. Government will likely be either an "enlightened (or ideally, an elective) monarchy" or a "direct democracy" (assuming I'm reading the icons right, and depending on the stats of those options). I'll be using the wormhole drive. Since that's all we know for sure about game mechanics, the rest is what I'd like to do as closely as possible based on what the game allows us to do.

This will be a species with a strong technological history. They advanced science rapidly by combining science with spirituality. The nation which embraced technology first/best took over the world both diplomatically and militarily and launched the species into space. Traits are entirely dependent on what's available, but overall whatever results in above average intellect and the longest possible lifespans. In terms of goals, the species is ultimately aiming at ascension beyond mortality and physical existence through science. Ideally they would build a "tall" empire, just large enough to provide sufficient resources for their scientific research. Ship design would be entirely dependent on the technology and resources available, and largely built for effective self-defense with the minimum risk to life possible.

 

[Zupanicarr]

Awesome Kosmos-Prussia, duh...

Or the Imperium of Man, or the New Interplanetary Commonwealth, or the UNSC or something...