The Civs
Tech icons are included in the package to serve as Era Zero prerequisites
Humans - a nuclear war becomes an excuse for Gaea to begin importing refugees as occupants. Hence the use of a ruined city as their icon.
Titanides - Centaur-like beings that were one of the first intelligent species Gaea created. Described as “flashy as a neon kaleidoscope”, their fur and skin can be any conceivable combination of colors and patterns.Placing civ-color on their units shouldn’t be problem. They further decorate themselves with more jewelry and flowers, etc. than a hippy during Mardi Gras. They are lovers of music. Their names, like the rest of their language, is expressed in song. After they first came in contact with humans they began adopting names of human musical instruments for nicknames & use modes to describe their complex reproductive arrangements. They are obsessed with soccer, playing it whenever possible.
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Puppeteers - Three legged herbivores whose society is based on a herd mentality. What looks like twin heads are really combination mouth/hands and eyestalks. Their brain is located in the hump at their shoulders. While obsessed with safety and thus skittish to the point of cowardice, when cornered they will spin around and deliver a devastating kick with their rear hoof. Called Puppeteers because they are masters at covertly manipulating entire cultures and economies. discoverers and explorers (only by the insane) of the ringworld.
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Kzinti - Cat-like features, a naked tail like a rat, membranous flexible ears, 2.4 meter tall 230 kg. of ferocity. An intensely bellicose patriarchal culture present on the Ringworld. In war they use everything from claws to swords, and futuristic weapons.
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Protectors- It turns out that there is an additional stage of life for humanoid species. When a symbiotic virus in the Tree-Of-Life plant (which looks and tastes like yams) is consumed, humans transform into Protectors. Their armored skin, superhuman stength and extreme intelligence allow them to achieve their sole purpose - survival of their genetic line no matter what. Complete control of Ringworld becomes a major goal for the Protectors.
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The Culture (Special Circumstances): A pangalactic hegemony, predominantly human, but incorporating other beings. They live in many forms of habitats as well as on planetary bodies. The Culture is so technologically advanced that it has no need for a material economy. Supposedly an anarchic utopia, Minds - a social network of AIs - plan and carry out a covert agenda that affects the Culture as a whole. Many of the AIs are instantiated as vast starships and give themselves obscurely poetic or ironic names, such as
Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival or
Funny, It Worked Last Time. Special Circumstances is the element within the Culture that handles any need to violate skirt their version of the “Prime Directive”. Often a single human agent accompanied by a decommisioned combat drone ( AI) can redirect the development of an entire planetary civilization.
Minor Cultures
Ringworld’s City Builders (occupants and maintenance engineers of floating cities), or the Coven (a feminist separatist civ living at a Lunar LaGrange point) from the Gaea series are possible civs. Others of Ringworld’s strange tribes such as the green-furred herbicorous Grass Giants or the “Ghouls” who deal with one of the more pressing public health problems are two more possibilities. Given Gaea’s obsession with Earth media, especially Hollywood, just about any SF or Fantasy race is fair game to include in a scenario. “Werewolves of London vs. the Nazis from Mars” or any other B-movie is suitable inspiration.
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Units
There are plenty of units already made that would be approrpiate -
Gaea takes most of her ideas from human news & entertainment media. She uses zombies. And Elvis could certainly make an appearance. Plotinus’ beaver worker matches the description of Gaea’s “craft trades”. Just about any of the weirder units floating around would actually make sense in a Gaea scenario - even the Kool-Aid Man by utahjazz7. Here are some screenshots of some potential interactions:
Further Suggestions -
- Blimps - think whales of the sky. Translucent fins & nacre blue bodies.
- Angels - bird-brained humanoids that Gaea set up as antagonists to the Titanides
- Buzz Bombs - a cross between an aerial shark and a kamikazi pilot. Shoots living missiles.
- Bolex - Gaea uses living cameras as scouts and spies. They’re easily disposed of and not too bright, but they’re more persistent than paparazzi.
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Titanides vary in several important respects from Centaurs. The centaur unit available is inadequate to represent them. There are free
Poser models of the Titanides available. Surprisingly (to me), a
Pierson’s Puppeteer model is also available.
). I'm not familiar with Ringworld, but this has peaked my interest to check it out.
WOW !!! 
By the way, did you ever get together those resource maps to post?
and "even expensive if the game is damaged"
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