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Chii:
Okay, getting back to the idea of races and not making this into a thread strictly on AI, I'd like to say a few things on my opinions on race (since I'm the one that started Chris along this track to begin with)

My original thought was if they have been exploring space for all this time, then they would have come across SOMETHING. Not much certainly, but a race or two at the very least...more than likely more. The Sooni are cool and all, but I think of them as kind of an offshoot of humans in a lot of ways. I think there needs to be something that was just there. It wasn't created by something/someone else (unless you count God, but that's another can of worms). It just came to be through good old evolution and was discovered by the humans of this world. It just seems a bit far fetched to me that they still think they're alone. If nothing else, I highly doubt it would be a surprise that there's someone else out there.

Morgul:
Yeah. she's got a point. I will update my thing on races when I get a chance.

(There are 3 other races, not including humans, Sooni, Grey, and Overseers.)

--Chris

whitelynx:
I think we're guilty of intelligence discrimination here. :-P Think about it... not every new race is going to have the same or even comparable intelligence compared to humans.  Look at the myriad of different life forms on earth... some planets will have more. (and some decidedly less... vacuum is hard to live in.)

Not to say that all other races have to be the same or less intelligent than humans... there should definitely be some (the overseers maybe) who are far more intelligent than humans could ever be... but intelligence isn't the end-all... Even humans, as "smart" as we are, sometimes lack wisdom or strength compared to other lifeforms on this earth. (bear attacks) The Overseers may be insanely smart, but that doesn't mean they are invincible.

I think it's going to be important to diversify all the stats of the different races... not just intelligence, but everything else about them... and keep an open mind about things. ;-)

Dave

Morgul:
Yes, exactly. The GikDaa are a lizard race, who evolved on the same planet as the NorAel, (NorAellians, or 'Drags' as the slang term for them is... since people compare tham the mythological dragons... They're fucking huge, strong, and about humanly intelligent.) are small, and not so bright. Now, 'not so bright' is a poor description... they're wizards with technology (and frequently tamper with it, 'Just to see what happens') but they're pack rats, have little of thier own culture (that isn't borrowed), and have no comon sense.... and while they also have impressive laguage skills, sometimes basic counting gets away from them, and never to teach one math... impossible... unless it releates to computers, or technology. (I bet they can do power of 2 stuff without thinking about it... but they don't *understand* the math ebhind it. It's more instinct than anything else.)

Also, there's the *Unnammed Race* (I can't think of a good sounding name :-() who are going to be more intelligent that humans, on average. The Overseers really don't count as a race, they're more of a legend, and since no one's seen one, who the hell knows if a given alien really is an overseer, or someone pretending to be...

So, is that diverse enough?

topher:
I like the idea of more caveman like races that can't even get it up...erm, space fllight.  Maybe allowing the players to help them reach that goal is a plot arch we can use.  

Image this:

A player who likes to explore (we need to make sure we suppor this) finds a planet with no space defenses.  He  enters the planets atmosphere (speaking of which i have an awesome idea for this) and touches down on planet.  He is presented with an alien race that is in awe of his godness and space ship.  The player then can help them gain a spqace program, equipment, so forth and some day make it into space.

A little twist would be that their are a really greedy, warfaring nation and once in space they start an aggressive compain against other planets.

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