What are necroids?

[Brady]

What does necroids mean? like why are they called that?

[Zorlond]

'Necro' generally refers to death, or dead things. Hence, a Necroid is something that is dead, or involves death directly in it's creation.

So, basically, space vampire, space zombie, space corpse, whathaveyou.

[Brady]

dang, space zombies? neeeeeeeeat.

[mss73055]

Necrophages eat dead things, while the rest of the galaxy eats their food alive.
By the year 2200 this has become standard ethics, thus necrophages are frowned upon.

Do not kill something before eating it!

[pauloandrade224]

Originally posted by mss73055:

Necrophages eat dead things, while the rest of the galaxy eats their food alive.
By the year 2200 this has become standard ethics, thus necrophages are frowned upon.

Do not kill something before eating it!

Arent we all necrophages then in reality?

[CthuluIsSpy]

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

Originally posted by mss73055:

Necrophages eat dead things, while the rest of the galaxy eats their food alive.
By the year 2200 this has become standard ethics, thus necrophages are frowned upon.

Do not kill something before eating it!

Arent we all necrophages then in reality?

No, actually.
A necrophage refers to an organism that feeds off of decomposing animal biomass.
Vultures and maggots are necrophages.

Humans are omnivores. Humans (usually) don't eat rotting meat.

So really, Necroids should be space vultures as opposed to space zombies.

[Råb!d]

Similar to Hemorrhoids?

[Zorlond]

I'm still partial to space vampires. The game has it so Necroids exclusively reproduce by taking members of another species into a secretive temple, and some time later a bunch of new Necroids walk out. Sounds like spreading vampirism to me.

But really, this game is designed to be like 70% head-canon, so whatever works for each of us.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Well, we can use "Lithoids" as a example to figure it out, -lith comes from greek lithos meaning stone, lithoid means something resembling or sharing common qualities with stone. So stone people.

While -necro instead means "the dead, "corpse", "dead tissue" etc. So Necroids would be something resembling or sharing common qualities with the dead (corpses/dead tissue, etc). So something like zombies/undead and the like would indeed fit into "Necroids".

Originally posted by Zorlond:

I'm still partial to space vampires. The game has it so Necroids exclusively reproduce by taking members of another species into a secretive temple, and some time later a bunch of new Necroids walk out. Sounds like spreading vampirism to me.

But really, this game is designed to be like 70% head-canon, so whatever works for each of us.

Just to clarify, that would be Necrophage (the origin), not Necroids (the portrait category).

You can have a Necroid race without being a Necrophage and you can also do another none Necroid race that is a Necrophage.

[Taitlynn]

Playing Necroids is a slog though, the mechanic does not work right, they should have made it so that you could slowly take over a minor civ with an orbital lab; sort of like covert infiltration, but you can start at stone age and when finished you have the building the necro temple, that would convert pops. The new necro species would have that planet type as their preference. It would take longer though, and you could have all kind of fun events and scenarios. Like the rise of the vampire hunters, or the world uniting during the middle ages to fight off the undead plague ect. OH WELL, my imagination.

HAVE a great day!!!

[crgzero]

Necromongers from the Riddick movie is a good example. Worshipping a psuedo death.

[Brady]

the description for the dlc says "intelligent UNDEAD species" so it is basically space-zombies/vampires.

[pauloandrade224]

Originally posted by CthuluIsSpy:

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

Arent we all necrophages then in reality?

No, actually.
A necrophage refers to an organism that feeds off of decomposing animal biomass.
Vultures and maggots are necrophages.

Humans are omnivores. Humans (usually) don't eat rotting meat.

So really, Necroids should be space vultures as opposed to space zombies.

hmmmm i see!

[cinless]

"Necro-" comes from the greek word Nekros, which means corpse.
The name "Necroid" is probably meant to be more evocative of the general theme of death rather than anything specific. You can make a death cult that practices human sacrifice, parasites that live in the bodies of other species, or even straight up necromancers with undead armies.

[Zorlond]

You could also just consider them tiny robots that turn people into slowly-rotting meat-puppets.