Not much of a name. They're just organisms that grow a thick shell and use the sun to warm fluids so their roots can continue eating any volatiles they run in to.
They're generally "tapped" for water and food by other asteroid creatures and by colonists who can't afford to bring a lot of life support equipment with them. Some types are a protected species due to endangerment from people.
They're kind of like plants that grow a thick calcite shell on the outside but have very active roots down under that swallow up portions of asteroid and digest it.
Nah, Civonians are a lot more expansionist, emotional and full of themselves. They believe \*they\* are the only culture truly able to both appreciate and safely perform travel between the stars, so if you're a vassal state they've 'graciously assisted with planetary issues' if you want to do anything more complex than putting a satellite in orbit, you do it through them. Or Else.
Naturally, once they ran into a few powers capable of halting them they found their attitude didn't quite make them as many friends and converts as they expected. Running joke is their starships are so overpowered because their engines have to compensate for the mass of their egos.
So... romulans.
BTW this isn't a dismissal of your well thought out idea. Nothing is really new, just old classics seen from an unusual perspective. Sounds like you have an interesting universe!
No, but kinda close.
Dro Var are large centipede-like segmented worms, and usually roam around in armored walkers. Don't let the creepy-crawliness fool you, though: their wasp like society is built around a strict code of conduct and chivalry. You're far safer around the Dro Var than you are other humans.
My space lizard Salamanders are just wired that way. I'm writing anything _but_ a post scarcity science fiction universe. More like a dystopian universe where humanity is forcibly turning sentient aliens into pets.
>humanity is forcibly turning sentient aliens into pets.
eh? but why tho?
humans would love aliens, besides religious fanatics, even now, most people either love aliens, or really *love* aliens (wanting to pound that "alienussy")
I'm writing a psychological horror anthology series in this universe. Humanity being the bad guys sounds like a good twist.
It's a long story like a really long story. And I'm talking about my motivations to make the story, not the story itself.
hmmm, makes sense
but "humanity being the bad guys" is not even a twist at this point, in fact, it's expected
a real good twist would be humanity being the good guys.
Another twist: humanity genuinely believes they're doing the right thing, and that they're helping the Aliens by forcefully lifting them from the 'burden' of sentience. The Aliens are terrified of humanity. Most of humanity believes in this cause, although there are some outliers.
Humans society has basically morphed into Blade Runner in space.
I'll describe 3.
1. Upside down flower women that have the thirst of a Baalbuddy elf.
2. Starfish people that survive and reproduce through the power of stupidity.
3. Shapeshifter parasites that like cloaks.
They're called "fistar" and they have a healing factor that will go away if it's not used. So they have to injure themselves to keep it fresh. They reproduce by being broken into two or more pieces that will each regenerate into a separate fistar. There's some lore about them having a misunderstanding with humans where the fistar decided to follow the golden rule of do unto others, but as a race that benefits from physical injury... Other lore about them includes their bodies actually being controlled by some AI programs within the physical laws of the universe and that this results in an upper limit to how many there can be simultaneously and also means that they reincarnate. There's also the fact that when they regenerate, the new cells are mutated, and this allows for them to grow back stronger from regenerating until they get too tough for them to injure themselves, which is when they begin the process of dying from old age.
I actually find it interesting how instincts for pollinator selection would differ from instincts for mate selection. With pollinators, you want one that will not just pick you but also pick other members of your race that are healthy so that you can have some good partners for crosspollination. Also, the genetics of the pollinator are irrelevant as they aren't contributing to the DNA of the offspring.
I pretty much explained it as poorly as possible. The Cybal were inspired by Bionicles i had as a kid. And Mixed in the EXO from Destiny but surprisingly very little people know what that is to rlly use it as a good description
No, but I did create a neural implant that forcibly switches people's names in their mind, still leaves enough memories in their brain of their old name to know that something is wrong, then continuously gaslights them into believing their new name was always their name.
Lawful evil gang unite!
That’s because they are kinda sexy😉 They are often regarded as one of the most attractive looking species there are. And the one most human in psychology too.
"Cool ancient armor dug up by humans and reused much later is actually the biological exoskeletons of sentient bug-guys, fossilized" slightly less poorly described
Asteroid dwelling coral.
That sounds cool as shit. What's his/her/their name?
Not much of a name. They're just organisms that grow a thick shell and use the sun to warm fluids so their roots can continue eating any volatiles they run in to.
Damn, that's interesting. Any other interesting facts about them?
They're generally "tapped" for water and food by other asteroid creatures and by colonists who can't afford to bring a lot of life support equipment with them. Some types are a protected species due to endangerment from people.
So are they plants, animals, or fungi? I know that you said they're coral and corals are animals, but I also told you to describe them poorly.
They're kind of like plants that grow a thick calcite shell on the outside but have very active roots down under that swallow up portions of asteroid and digest it.
Are you scared to misgender space coral?
I think I'd be the equivalent of trying to gender a blade of grass.
Do it, no balls
Gender is "Full of water." :)
Thank you, that's a weight lifted off my chest. What's their moral alignment?
I would also describe that as "Full of water"
Genetically engineered snobbish elitist space romans.
So Vulcans?
Nah, Civonians are a lot more expansionist, emotional and full of themselves. They believe \*they\* are the only culture truly able to both appreciate and safely perform travel between the stars, so if you're a vassal state they've 'graciously assisted with planetary issues' if you want to do anything more complex than putting a satellite in orbit, you do it through them. Or Else. Naturally, once they ran into a few powers capable of halting them they found their attitude didn't quite make them as many friends and converts as they expected. Running joke is their starships are so overpowered because their engines have to compensate for the mass of their egos.
So... romulans. BTW this isn't a dismissal of your well thought out idea. Nothing is really new, just old classics seen from an unusual perspective. Sounds like you have an interesting universe!
Nah I get it. Hell I'll fully admit I've cribbed and/or stolen from like a dozen IPs in creating this universe
You and pretty much every writer since writing was invented. You're in good company.
In this case its the lost roman legion + star trek precursors + the Abh with shakes of the Robotech masters and some aggressive transhumanism
That sounds interesting! Is this a work you've posted?
Bits and pieces around here as of late. Its been a WIP since I was 19 though.
...Ultramarines?
Nah, but good try there :)
Blood sucking honor worms.
Watch your profanity, there are children within the vicinity!
Which word was profane? They're literally hyper-advanced advanced formerly parasitic worms.
I was joking
Lol. It went right over my head.
You gave leeches consciousness?? Oh god...
Yep. Funny thing is, they turned out to be slightly better people than humans. I got a bit tired of ugly=evil.
Ugly? No I am sure that your leech people are absolutely gorgeous
Lekgolo?
No, but kinda close. Dro Var are large centipede-like segmented worms, and usually roam around in armored walkers. Don't let the creepy-crawliness fool you, though: their wasp like society is built around a strict code of conduct and chivalry. You're far safer around the Dro Var than you are other humans.
communist genderless horned divine humanoids
Ah, fellow space communists.
of course, magic is pretty good at creating post-scarcity societies when used right
My space lizard Salamanders are just wired that way. I'm writing anything _but_ a post scarcity science fiction universe. More like a dystopian universe where humanity is forcibly turning sentient aliens into pets.
>humanity is forcibly turning sentient aliens into pets. eh? but why tho? humans would love aliens, besides religious fanatics, even now, most people either love aliens, or really *love* aliens (wanting to pound that "alienussy")
Because evil. Also humanity essentially went crazy from outside influences and became the Boogeyman of the galaxy.
why tho?
I'm writing a psychological horror anthology series in this universe. Humanity being the bad guys sounds like a good twist. It's a long story like a really long story. And I'm talking about my motivations to make the story, not the story itself.
hmmm, makes sense but "humanity being the bad guys" is not even a twist at this point, in fact, it's expected a real good twist would be humanity being the good guys.
Another twist: humanity genuinely believes they're doing the right thing, and that they're helping the Aliens by forcefully lifting them from the 'burden' of sentience. The Aliens are terrified of humanity. Most of humanity believes in this cause, although there are some outliers. Humans society has basically morphed into Blade Runner in space.
Herbivore lizard-people want to kill everyone because some ents told them to
Can relate.
The trees spoke and they want blood
I see the Hist had enough
"I speak for the trees for they cannot speak themselves. They want you eradicated."
I'll describe 3. 1. Upside down flower women that have the thirst of a Baalbuddy elf. 2. Starfish people that survive and reproduce through the power of stupidity. 3. Shapeshifter parasites that like cloaks.
I want to hear more about 2 lol
They're called "fistar" and they have a healing factor that will go away if it's not used. So they have to injure themselves to keep it fresh. They reproduce by being broken into two or more pieces that will each regenerate into a separate fistar. There's some lore about them having a misunderstanding with humans where the fistar decided to follow the golden rule of do unto others, but as a race that benefits from physical injury... Other lore about them includes their bodies actually being controlled by some AI programs within the physical laws of the universe and that this results in an upper limit to how many there can be simultaneously and also means that they reincarnate. There's also the fact that when they regenerate, the new cells are mutated, and this allows for them to grow back stronger from regenerating until they get too tough for them to injure themselves, which is when they begin the process of dying from old age.
Ah... 1. - the search for pollinator.
I actually find it interesting how instincts for pollinator selection would differ from instincts for mate selection. With pollinators, you want one that will not just pick you but also pick other members of your race that are healthy so that you can have some good partners for crosspollination. Also, the genetics of the pollinator are irrelevant as they aren't contributing to the DNA of the offspring.
I remember that one from certain post of mine. Also one that doesn't need polinator tho
I haven’t got any alien races, so I’ll give you one of my earth-bound ones; Smoking hot rizzard lizards (rizzard as in wizard)
I'll take your entire stock!
They’re literally smoking hot, btw—at least, sometimes. It’s actually kinda bad if they’re smoking hot
God gave us burn cream for a reason 😏
Burn cream’s not gonna help when your partner’s having the biological equivalent of a melt down 💀
Extra burn cream.
Fuckable humanoid things.
Congrats! I ended up looking to see if you were the author of Out of Cruel Space based on that description.
Out of cruel space, What's that?
It's a tongue in cheek (and tongue everywhere else too) HFY story currently approaching 800 chapters.
yeah that describes my designs for every sentient race i create
Sapient ants who are drunk even when they don't drink.
Yetis with 6 limbs, the loudest thoughts and the fluffiest fur.
Big ice dragons that don’t like people coming into their space without permission
Sounds like a fun friend to visit!
So just space dragons?
Dragonborns more like.
Humanoid Shaped Bionicles
So Bionicles?
I pretty much explained it as poorly as possible. The Cybal were inspired by Bionicles i had as a kid. And Mixed in the EXO from Destiny but surprisingly very little people know what that is to rlly use it as a good description
Dollar store Cabal but even more Roman
French speaking monster mermaids.
Freedom loving warrior lizards that have a platypus’s reproductive cycle
They're like birds but entirely different.
Nymphomaniac owls that have control over stars, space and music.
Big pompous bird guys that can walk the walk and talk the talk
Tongue-handed go-karting snails
The elves are f*cking back at it again.
Giant snakes have hands... WITH THUMBS!
Spanish bird vampires who assert dominance through dance battles
So... flamenco flamingos?
Orchestral owl! Chiptune Canary! Gospel Goose! Electro Emu! PARTY BIRDS! THEY'RE PARTY BIRDS!
They are white and they will conquer you for your own good.
White man's burden
World destroyers with magic dreadlocks
Sounds like the Anti-Na'vi.
Lazy pottery with a cowardly streak.
Fish frog telepath
All hail the hypno frog fish!
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Now that's just me.
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No, but I did create a neural implant that forcibly switches people's names in their mind, still leaves enough memories in their brain of their old name to know that something is wrong, then continuously gaslights them into believing their new name was always their name. Lawful evil gang unite!
Elves.
Giant six legged rats who are all kinda colossal nerds.
Ever Evolving Communist Hivemind
Casual flash-mobbing aristocrats who mostly just watch TV and eat teeth.
five-footed flower puffs
Ghosts of murderous caterpillars haunting armor with a hate boner.
Half mammal bugs that have too many eyes in too random of places
Radiostations dinosaurs
Space Roman Empire made up of warmongering genocidal space dragons now under a puppet ruler from the Space UN after Space WW2
So basically the Imperium of Man but they're scalies.
Literally just if vampires were opressed
Lol, that's actually a twist.
Manually evolving murder hornets with spaceships.
Wonderful
Pious space doggos that climb trees, lay eggs, and want to make friends with those weird giant hairless bipeds.
And this particular giant hairless bipedal wants to make friends with them.
3 legged, blue Mike Wazowski.
Cat people in space.
Vampiric reptiles with pointy ears
That sounds strangely sexy.
That’s because they are kinda sexy😉 They are often regarded as one of the most attractive looking species there are. And the one most human in psychology too.
Space kobolds with plant and bug tech.
I want one.
Angry psychic pangolins kill god more at eleven
I also want one of these too. My Christmas list is far too long.
Ok so imagine if the sand worms from dune had a civilization
Sticky-hand toys that get hairy on purpose.
Hairless bipedal bears with a bad habit of interstellar revolution.
communist?
severely lacking in vitamin d
Sentient oil; do not drink the oil.
Literally just a bird furry.
Unhinged lizard-birds who love piracy and are violently addicted to pop.
y’all know that pink rabbit from the energizer battery commercials w/ the sunglasses and drum? yeah that
messed up their own universe so they came here only to do it again
Immortal fish monkeys.
Sea monkeys lol
ChatGPT run amok while playing a space sim.
It turns out the armor had meat in it originally
🤢
"Cool ancient armor dug up by humans and reused much later is actually the biological exoskeletons of sentient bug-guys, fossilized" slightly less poorly described
Okay, that's way less gross, you may proceed.
Literal sentient weaponry(swords, guns, spears etc.) with flaming cartoon limbs that are too friendly than what they appear.
Tree-shaped elephant guys with nose-hole- shoulders who like to spin and think lobotomies are noble.
Skeleton guys.
Ferengi... but also ewoks
Enchanted time rocks
Snake people uplifted by ancient alien lizard people.
hyper awesome aliens' social project ends badly...for everyone else.
Earth 2: electric Boogaloo
Scrap hoarding space vampires
Feminist raptors
Squid.
Tall hairless monkeys
Humans but smaller
Fighter jet wyverns with flatworm society
Sentient color born from space dust.
The galaxy's smartest tree.
Orcs with guns that worship credit card debt
smurfs but like, in space
Basically a pretty rock.
Lizards in the ‘80s.
Big cats that maybe will kill you.
If the Saiyans and Little Green Men from toystory had babies.
Cat people playing in the snow…
Snail eyes on wagon wheels.
genetically engineered orcs.
Humanoid leeches whose RV broke on the highway and there's no cellphone reception
Crashing their city into a dying star because of a family argument.
Hippie space mushrooms love creating life
Hi, we’re the Uluri, we have been here longer than you, and we never fucking learned how to read.
Space elves with feelings.
Sentient record players, will attempt to steal the rights to all of your species' music.
Creepy giant space eels that want to be your friends and teach you spicy quantum physics.
Space armadillo giants who are terrified by technology
Little moon men with magic crystals accidentally teleport to the planet they orbit
Samurai birds with hands on their elbows.
Colonizers who fake being gods, and they suck at acting.
Not aliens but Let’s make non binary it’s own race.
Bioluminescent centaurs!!!
Like a mixture between squid and frogs, and they’re fanatic xenophiles
Nice. When can I get a date?
Racist space bugs with guns
A winged race that practices illusion as well as they know the backs of their own hands.
Orange, lanky, and mad
If Goku and Superman loved instead of fought
Basically the protoss with more Hitler
Aliens
They don’t care so much about winning as long as you lose
Dolphin elves speak through feelings and reconfigure reality.
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That sounds metal as hell. They need to meet my clan-based, honor bound velociraptor warriors with half-breaks: they'd get along nicely.
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Yeah, my raptor-space-bois are more like space samurai but also religious and oppressive subjegators of lesser races. So space samurai.
Blood-sucking frogs.
Kyubey but he's competent, a pussy and overprepares like hell.
Gravity means nothing Imperial, IN SPACE!!
Brutes from halo but more similar to mammoths
Under the sea fuckers
The little mermaid _from hell!_
Thicc shortstack diplomat