Are Terrakin supposed to be Human?

[WalrusMan]

If so... whats with the appearence. The lore text mentions nothing about them changing appearence.

[Firgof]

Well, you are reading a personal log from one of them and he's much more interested in the colony's survival than waxing prose about the history of Terra's kin. He probably feels there's nothing weird or odd about his appearance, given that all Terrakin look similar to him as we humans are similar to another.

They've undergone some 27,000 years of cybernetic and genetic augmentation/mutation to help them survive extended periods of travel in space, have suffered numerous mutations as a result of cosmic rays in their younger expanding years, and then there's a small amount of actual genetic drift in there (and, who knows, maybe also some alien DNA mixed in).

Their prospective re-art shows off that they are still vaguely human - but as a species have undergone some significant changes. It doesn't quite fit the art style of the game, but I feel it better describes them visually than my prior art: http://i.imgur.com/ohRngmX.png

[Thy Reaper]

They are very distant decendents of humans. They're the survivors of early pioneer efforts that went not quite right.

[Slashimus]

Reminds me of those Advent soldiers from XCOM 2.

[Astasia]

I like that new art better. The current one is just too alien looking. It may make sense along with the lore, but it's just, not "human" at all.

[WalrusMan]

Originally posted by Firgof Umbra:

Well, you are reading a personal log from one of them and he's much more interested in the colony's survival than waxing prose about the history of Terra's kin. He probably feels there's nothing weird or odd about his appearance, given that all Terrakin look similar to him as we humans are similar to another.

They've undergone some 27,000 years of cybernetic and genetic augmentation/mutation to help them survive extended periods of travel in space, have suffered numerous mutations as a result of cosmic rays in their younger expanding years, and then there's a small amount of actual genetic drift in there (and, who knows, maybe also some alien DNA mixed in).

Their prospective re-art shows off that they are still vaguely human - but as a species have undergone some significant changes. It doesn't quite fit the art style of the game, but I feel it better describes them visually than my prior art: http://i.imgur.com/ohRngmX.png

Alright. I didn't notice how distant into the future this is. The only thing that was really throwing me off was the eyes.

I like post-humanism, but I was just wondering about the circumstance. I do think perhaps giving them that slightly more human look would better portray their origins.

Thanks for replying BTW.

[Slashimus]

Of course we can always have long discussions on what makes humans human. Just note that throughout history there have been several less-than-pleasant attempts to frame humans based only on their appearance and that never ended well.

[WalrusMan]

Originally posted by Slashimus:

Of course we can always have long discussions on what makes humans human. Just note that throughout history there have been several less-than-pleasant attempts to frame humans based only on their appearance and that never ended well.

Human is the name of our species.

We are human because we are genetically similar enough to breed with eachother. There isn't a whole lot of argument their.

[Slashimus]

I was actually replying to Astasia but what you said isn't wrong and neither was what I said.

[mmille14]

Originally posted by HungryWalrus:

Originally posted by Slashimus:

Of course we can always have long discussions on what makes humans human. Just note that throughout history there have been several less-than-pleasant attempts to frame humans based only on their appearance and that never ended well.

Human is the name of our species.

We are human because we are genetically similar enough to breed with eachother. There isn't a whole lot of argument their.

I would say they are still human(clad) but not ♥♥♥♥ sapiens (species).

[WalrusMan]

Originally posted by mmille14:

Originally posted by HungryWalrus:

Human is the name of our species.

We are human because we are genetically similar enough to breed with eachother. There isn't a whole lot of argument their.

I would say they are still human(clad) but not ♥♥♥♥ sapiens (species).

Human is simply the common name for ♥♥♥♥ Sapien.

You can't be human but not be ♥♥♥♥ sapien.

[clop1000]

I think it's really interesting idea - that they are descendant of contemporary humans. It's unique and i have never encountered something similar in computer games (it's really rare even in sc-fi books). And most important it really makes sense, since - we are now just current state of our kind. And who knows how how we will be look in the long run. there are uncountable amount of possibilities in front of us...

[Anteronoid]

We will transcend, to a dreaming void. In the real world we will be just a big puddle of fat with ingrown VR googles. Then we will die and the machines will take over. We will maybe still exist as a memory floating in the void.. in 42 giant super computers controlled by the machines.

[Lucas]

Hey, the Dreaming Void was specifically not virtual reality, but virtual actual reality. The "Oh you want to travel back in time? Impossible you say? Nah, we'll just disintegrate the entire star system around you and rematerialize it atom for atom to the exact state it was a week ago. There. Time travel." kind.

[IllyiaSvara]

Forgot the second part lucas

"Then consume another star system just so you can and piss of the Raiel somemore as they watch their inability to do more than slow the advance"