Symphony D.

Though I haven't fleshed them out very much the X|! were a very aggressive set of Cloner-types. Started off as cheap labour for some advanced civs shittier resource extraction operations before getting into a cancerous feedback-loop in their metadata and destroying their originators. Not magic Clones but 'force grown to adulthood in 5 years' style things. They a) wanted all the life planets and b) saw all non-X|! as a threat. In addition their origin civilization was pretty high tech in a number of fields so their capabilities were a serious threat to the Orion Sector cultures.

The Sontarans basically, but the ones from the books who would drop a billion soldiers on a world at a time. Them being engineered to be unquestioning slaves also made them quite scary - they had no real mental/cultural introspection, they never asked themselves *why* they should colonize the galaxy, they just did it because they had the ethics of bacteria with spaceships.

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Also I wanted that ME3 blagpost. I am sad.

I'm aware of the Marathon thing, currently I've researched what Durandal did in the Marathon games so that I can intervene if qoou just wholesale plagiarizes. I've also proposed several different names that aren't directly ripped from other media. And I'll check out the Armageddon Empires thing.

Lol. I didn't run away from the conversation, I was going out.

I don't think the stories are all that, but it's fun cheese.

I like Final Fantasy. (._. )

Alright, thanks.

My Internet hates me.

I think that The Biologist still in Cathedral is an error, I ordered them sent back to SAF 2 space along with an emissary when the Standardites attacked.

But feel free to pick it up at your leisure. Alternatively I'll deliver them since I wouldn't be needing an emissary next turn.

Dunno. Signature has been changed however.

Jokes on you! I love that video. =)
.... I also haven't updated my signature in well over a year haha

Sure, and if you treat it as another one of the zillions of interchangeable mass-market basic anthropology books, that's reasonable. But Diamond's numerous adherents don't really treat it that way, do they?

And now I can't get on......

...for the thing in IOT? That's fine. It's just a thread I'm thinking of pulling a "retroactive deletion" on myself.

Oh man, that is so perfect. I wish I had been there to see it.

I'm fine, the update should be at least another week though

I'm currently leaning towards the Knights, honestly; their political situation at least appears much more interesting, while the Heph seem entirely too introverted in their outlook, with not much cause to change. And Dis at least seemed to believe their (Knights') lag can be overcome with outside help.

I'm very well aware of the Thlayli situation.

Hi, self! How are you?

He talked about Dardareo, Seffessians, Knights of the Vale and Heph.

I'd rather not step on anyone's toes (though I might be able to come up with something for Dardareo...). Knights of the Vale seem like they could be interesting for me to write, but their current position appears to be rather inconsequential - admittedly, though, I'm yet to study their statistics in detail. How hard do you think it'd be to pull them up by their bootstraps? Do they have serious handicaps other than their technological backwardness, as compared to other civilisations?

As for Heph, well, I am simply yet to find all that much on Heph. I'd probably have to write them more or less from the scratch either way. That's certainly an option, though.

Ah, I thought Dis told you.

I already got in touch with him and am considering the NPC options he outlined for me.

EDIT: But would probably wait for the update first.