Space Creatures

azdour

azdour
I wonder if there will be creatures who just live in space feeding off asteroid ore or gases from planet atmospheres that have grown to large sizes because space does not limit their growth?

It would be great as an explorer to be able to identify new species in space, in a planets atmosphere or on the ground. So it's not just non living things out there in the unknown.
 

Harsh

Harsh
I hope not, at least, not a great number of them.
In fact, i'm hoping for not too many alien species at all. Perhaps just one or two additions to those that already exist in-universe.
 

azdour

azdour
warbaby2 said:
Like this or this? Sure, would be really cool! ;)
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That would be cool.

I do agree somewhat with placing a limit on numbers. But I definitely think that from a sci-fi point of view this would greatly increase the unexpected things that we could find out in unexplored space.
 

warbaby2

warbaby2
azdour said:
I do agree somewhat with placing a limit on numbers.
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Sure! I, myself am not too fond of the 1000 alien species scifie like STAR TREK, STAR WARS... but having the, very slim chance to encounter some rare, deep space creatures in the middle of a dark system, or a frontier asteroid field would still be nice.

...passenger missions come to mind. ;)
 

Darren Grey

Darren Grey
azdour said:
I wonder if there will be creatures who just live in space feeding off asteroid ore or gases from planet atmospheres that have grown to large sizes because space does not limit their growth?
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They would still be resource constrained. What we're likely to find is lots of space algae. Or weird things like these:

http://www.newscientist.com/article...mal-to-survive-space-vacuum.html#.Uj3M-D_3NL4

Large, mobile creatures able to physically react to things would be immensely rare.
 

Zarkon

Z
I'm all for discovering new creatures, even space-dwelling ones. Though it would make fleeing from imperial fighters and hiding in asteroid caves much more dangerous! ;)
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
warbaby2 said:
Sure! I, myself am not too fond of the 1000 alien species scifie like STAR TREK, STAR WARS... but having the, very slim chance to encounter some rare, deep space creatures in the middle of a dark system, or a frontier asteroid field would still be nice.

...passenger missions come to mind. ;)
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Yeah, they'd have to be really rare to make their discovery something special.
 

Scorpio

Scorpio
Xenofauna

I want a giant space whale sucking up space dust like plankton.
I want a space Kraken that stuns ships with an EMP and eats them.
I want acidic space jelly fish that cling to hulls and eat through them.
 

Bromley86

Bromley86
Going against the tide here and hoping there aren't any. The "void creatures" Tinman mentions are fine with me, as they're likely to be relatively small inhabitants of asteroids, but space whales etc. don't work for me at all.

Explorers will, in theory, have terrestrial species that they can catalogue. It'd be cool if, as a money sink, you could pay credits to name species (subject to DDG/FD approval), but that might not be possible with the procedural system.
 
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