Mod Suggestion: Synthetic, Amphibioid, Insectoid, Marine Racetypes

[Gantros]

Just a suggestion to create a few different race types. Marine racetypes are icthyoids (fish), marine mammals (dolphins and whales) and jellyfish types. Insectoid ships are unique as they are actually individual creatures and not vehicles, per se.

[Zubenelgenubi]

Twitchy님이 먼저 게시:

You know they suspect there could be marine life in our solarsytem outside of earth? I read an article awhile back in which they think The moon around jupitat (I think) named Tita has been known to be an ice planet for a long time, but they think that it could have a molten core, and with said molten core an ocean underneath the ice and suspect that there could be marine life there.

The ocean is rich in oxygen which pretty much guarantees plant life if nothing else. Dione and Rhea also have oxygen rich atmospheres. Yes, you read that right.

Paladin Danse님이 먼저 게시:

It's Europa. I suggest space agencies focus on drilling into that planet and finding out before we waste billions on look out into the galaxy.

Definitely.

[Eveian290]

Insects are part of the Arthropod race option. Arthropods are all invertibrates, so it includes insects,arachnids and crustaceans.

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Virus ♫님이 먼저 게시:

Paladin Danse님이 먼저 게시:

There is no reason not to have marine racetypes since all the races are just for cosmetic flavour, so yes, I agree they should exist. It's up to your imagination to justifying how an aquatic species brings itself out of the deep sea into the stars.

Not on board for playing as synths right off the bat, since the theme of the game just continues the progress of discovery (and I hate synths).

Not sure what you mean by insectoid ships.

Kinda Ironic cause You are a Synth

That's what a synth would say

[Gantros]

bigian12님이 먼저 게시:

Insects are part of the Arthropod race option. Arthropods are all invertibrates, so it includes insects,arachnids and crustaceans.

True, but I probably should have been more specific, with a arthropod race that has specialized portraits, so leaders are different from workers and scientists are different from the others, and they look like they evolved specifically to fill those roles.

[Oatmeal]

Paladin Danse님이 먼저 게시:

Twitchy님이 먼저 게시:

You know they suspect there could be marine life in our solarsytem outside of earth? I read an article awhile back in which they think The moon around jupitat (I think) named Tita has been known to be an ice planet for a long time, but they think that it could have a molten core, and with said molten core an ocean underneath the ice and suspect that there could be marine life there.

It's Europa. I suggest space agencies focus on drilling into that planet and finding out before we waste billions on look out into the galaxy. Before that we should make travel more efficient, even if it means discovering faster than light travel, if it is even possible, before even sending something into the nearest neighboring system, so that we don't have to deal with the issue that comes from having research take so many generations.

I believe they were able to replicate a sort of warp like travel in a simulator some where

[Ed]

Twitchy님이 먼저 게시:

Paladin Danse님이 먼저 게시:

It's Europa. I suggest space agencies focus on drilling into that planet and finding out before we waste billions on look out into the galaxy. Before that we should make travel more efficient, even if it means discovering faster than light travel, if it is even possible, before even sending something into the nearest neighboring system, so that we don't have to deal with the issue that comes from having research take so many generations.

I believe they were able to replicate a sort of warp like travel in a simulator some where

It would be better to be at a point where we can make schematics for such a device. Perhaps building it would be nearly impossible due to our tendency to be obstructed by politics.

[Oatmeal]

Paladin Danse님이 먼저 게시:

Twitchy님이 먼저 게시:

I believe they were able to replicate a sort of warp like travel in a simulator some where

It would be better to be at a point where we can make schematics for such a device. Perhaps building it would be nearly impossible due to our tendency to be obstructed by politics.

It would be better if we used worm holes, it would allow us to do alot more, we have already theoretically know the way on how to keep them open, just not how to open one or know how to open up to the right place

[Gantros]

Twitchy님이 먼저 게시:

Paladin Danse님이 먼저 게시:

It's Europa. I suggest space agencies focus on drilling into that planet and finding out before we waste billions on look out into the galaxy. Before that we should make travel more efficient, even if it means discovering faster than light travel, if it is even possible, before even sending something into the nearest neighboring system, so that we don't have to deal with the issue that comes from having research take so many generations.

I believe they were able to replicate a sort of warp like travel in a simulator some where

mathematically, warp travel is possible, but it depends on a heretofor unidentified 'exotic matter' to create the bubble. Also, warping directly to a planet can bathe it in radiation upon dropping out, best illustrated in this video about X-man Quicksilver, but with particle physics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGARbnnfM

[Fleshhunter]

Also I want to point out the biggest problem with Marine life...It isn't likely it will invent how to work metal...

[Oatmeal]

Fleshhunter님이 먼저 게시:

Also I want to point out the biggest problem with Marine life...It isn't likely it will invent how to work metal...

True but it still counts as alien life even if it can't work metal, then again you never know there could be elements that can be worked with heat underwater, theres just about an unlimited amount of possibilites in the universe, Theres planets made of diamonds, planets that rain crystals in hexagon shapes, so who knows maybe there could be a type of metal that they could use

[Ed]

Fleshhunter님이 먼저 게시:

Also I want to point out the biggest problem with Marine life...It isn't likely it will invent how to work metal...

It may not need to, at least not immediately. While we had metal weapons and tools, wood was our main resource until the industrial revolution, and we had already made huge discoveries before then. It would take longer, but metallurgy underwater is possible with appropriate pressure conditions. I am not too knowledgeable of the physics and chemistry involved, but this would mean that an aquatic race could practice metalurgy, just probably at a time of history compared to the eve of the industrial revolution rather than centuries earlier.

[avocado]

Starcraft 2 mod?

[Zubenelgenubi]

The reason glass is brittle is because it contains water from our atmosphere. Glass made in a vacuum is stronger than steel. But when refining metals in our atmosphere they don't absorb any of the water like glass does, so it might not be that hard to create ores in environments with even more water surrounding the process, like underwater.

Apparently some mining companies are now looking to geothermal vents under the oceans to find ore, so the case might be that any underwater species would have even more access to metals.

From the wiki on hydrothermal vents.

Many hydrothermal vents are rich in cobalt, gold, copper, and rare earth metals essential for electronic components.