This sort of bad guys would be interesting in a "end game" scenario - where each and every pilot in the Pilot Federation and NPC faction of galaxy are fighting together side by side in gigantic space battles.
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Alien Species in Elite
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This sort of bad guys would be interesting in a "end game" scenario - where each and every pilot in the Pilot Federation and NPC faction of galaxy are fighting together side by side in gigantic space battles.
Dark Wheel mentions hundreds of sentient alien races. I'd like to see some of their starship designs and their station architecture someday.
As I recall, you could get one in Frontier- you had to do a quest to save the Thargoids from a plastic-eating bug or somesuch. It was a few years ago..
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How could there be Aliens in the previous games, but all record and memory of them being gone in the current game?
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Been scouring the Cat's Paw Nebula, but no luck so far...
"Macros"??? :S
EDIT: forget about. I read the synopses of that books and now I know what a Macro is.
EDIT: forget about. I read the synopses of that books and now I know what a Macro is.
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I for one, like that at present, Humanity is the only Space faring race.
Procedurally generating the carbon and ammonia based animal life on the worlds we discover would be awesome, but I dislike, to a great degree, how Sci Fi games use the "planet of hats" approach to alien civilizations.
Not only do Alien civilizations come across as monolithic stereotypes, except for a few story line characters maybe, but they are always human stereo-types.
It is the staple of the 4X games; the noble warrior race, the plutocrates, the theocrats, the Hippies, The communists.
Which makes a odd comparison to the Humans in Elite, where we have 3 Major Factions, Thousands of minor Independents, and within the Major Factions dozens minor interests within each.
If we want Aliens, they need to be firstly; truly alien and secondly; not Planet of the Hats
Hence I am happy any Thargoids, or anything else that might be out beyond, is not being rushed
Procedurally generating the carbon and ammonia based animal life on the worlds we discover would be awesome, but I dislike, to a great degree, how Sci Fi games use the "planet of hats" approach to alien civilizations.
Not only do Alien civilizations come across as monolithic stereotypes, except for a few story line characters maybe, but they are always human stereo-types.
It is the staple of the 4X games; the noble warrior race, the plutocrates, the theocrats, the Hippies, The communists.
Which makes a odd comparison to the Humans in Elite, where we have 3 Major Factions, Thousands of minor Independents, and within the Major Factions dozens minor interests within each.
If we want Aliens, they need to be firstly; truly alien and secondly; not Planet of the Hats
Hence I am happy any Thargoids, or anything else that might be out beyond, is not being rushed
THIS!
Star Trek, when it came out in the 60s, was restricted to humanoid characters because actors are human. There's no such restriction in a videogame, yet all the space games I've seen adhere to the same limitations.
Thargoids are all I really _need_ to see. The other aliens, in the lore, seem to be restricted to their planets and only show up in the planetary descriptions. Only the Thargoids make their own ships and are baddies - even the Orrervians referred to (not sure i got that right) are human allies and get very tetchy if mistaken for Thargoids. The general and unbroken theme is that the main alliance is with humans, which itself is split, and then the real bstards of the universe are Thargoids.
Aliens for aliens sake is ridiculous. Two advanced sentient species is plenty for a galaxy. The timescale to achieve interstellar presence for us has been 100000 years since the first caveman and 3 bn years since the first life, if we allow that transmissions make us interstellar. If we go the extra 1300 years required for ED, that makes no difference to these numbers in real terms. 100k years is the blink of an eye. The important number is 3bn years, which is 1/5 the age of the universe. Even if life developed on the other side of the galaxy, 80000 ly from us, 80000 as a proportion of 3bn is really very small. Therefore, it's incredibly strange that we appear to be the first transmitters, unless there's something that makes the whole thing much more improbable. An obvious one is the meteor strike that wiped out the dinosaurs. Without that we would never have had the chance to evolve as we currently are. There's nothing to suggest that (all) life elsewhere in the (finite) galaxy has been that lucky.
TL;DR there's guaranteed to be life elsewhere in the galaxy. It's unknown (and unlikely from current evidence) that there exist other species at our level of development.
Found a few Earth-like worlds some 14k ly away from Sol, and I had to look at the dark side for lights. One of these days, I'll find one. Hope they're friendly and have a shower.
Personally, I would prefer to see the civilizations in the galaxy divided by age: we would have the Elder Civilizations - that travel the galaxy like giants in a playground and whose technology seems like magic; we would have the Old Civilizations - that are too new to be regarded as elder but also too old the be regarded as young and whose technology is far superior to that from the Neophyte Civs; we would have the Neophyte Civilizations - that achieve FTL flight a few hundreds or even thousands of years ago (the Thargoids and us) and we would have the Infant civilizations - pre- FTL civilizations whose technology level varies from Tribal/Stone Age to Interplanetary Age.
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There was a story i read years ago about Commander who used a time machine to send cat dna, which he encoded with the compulsion to save him form an alien race as the aliens attacked him, to a habitable moon's past. Then in the nick of time the cat people flew up from the moon and wiped out the aliens. Upon his return home he was court marshaled for creating a superior race of beings.
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