In real life the concept of a "warrior race" is Bad, False, and Racist. Do not, under any circumstances, kidnap Samoans, Russians, Russo-Samoans, etc., and force them to breed in your secret island enclave, teaching them martial arts and culling the weak. Do not do this for many generations. It would be problematic. You would NOT become the greatest eugenicist-warlord since Yakub.
No, this generator is not about creating a race of Russo-Samoan warrior babies. It is an homage to klingons and krogans and suchlike. Please forward any and all complaints to my sensitivity reader.
perpetually-collapsing tensegrity sculptures of twirling black blades bound together by spool-wound white sinews.
2
wrinkly tardigrade-hydras, circular and toothsome throats peeking from armoured hoods.
3
mineral-streaked boulders carried by lumbering claws, irregular eyes peeking through cracks.
4
a ribcage made up of scaly fingers tipped with martini-glasses of tendrils.
5
articulated chess pieces or crenellated towers, rings
of muscle within tall segments of colourful shell topped by marvellous
crests - they've got a single wide, muscular foot at their base they can
slide around on, or produce a cushion of air beneath like a hovercraft
to "sprint".
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blimps bound and squeezed into a hexapodal form,
covered in gasping pores - their muscular and circulatory systems are
pneumatic - a hardened undercarriage houses their more vital organs.
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This alien species is often thought of as warriors
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because they co-evolved with a predator species of
aggressive mimics - as a result their in-group/out-group reactions are
amped up compared to humans, and they maintain a plethora of shibboleths
and other social tests and react poorly, often violently to those who
try to win them over improperly.
2
because they are the descendants of a group of
gladiators who fell in love with each other and fought their way off of a
precursor colosseum-planet Band of Thebes-style, stealing biotechnology
on their way out to create hybrid children with each other.
3
because their first, second, and third contacts with
other aliens species went poorly for them due to them being
overly-trusting, so they default to a more cynical, aggressive approach
nowadays.
4
because due to the vagaries of evolution they are on
average much bigger and stronger than other species they've encountered,
though this is not much of an advantage on technologically-advanced
battlefields.
5
because, in their pre-contact days, they anticipated a
galaxy under a dark forest scenario, and so modified themselves en masse
to be more capable of and inclined to violence.
6
because many of them adhere to a religion that praises conversion by the sword.
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This alien species' signature weapon
1
is a complex megaphone which amplifies and phases-up the sound of their poetic insults to lethal levels.
2
is a combined miniature chemical plant and pneumatic
launcher, which can rapidly whip up and output pellets of explosives,
incendiaries, potent corrosives, nerve agents, and suchlike.
3
is something like a sword, though with more angles and edges than is really practical. Most often used symbolically.
4
is a gun which fires a stream of magnetically-guided
nano-particles which denature proteins on contact, reducing living
things to slop.
5
is an array of lasers that coordinate to cut their enemies into neat cubes or other fun shapes.
6
is a sort of telescoping exo-frame that exponentially magnifies the force they can output.
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This alien species' greatest victory recorded in general history
1
was against their very gods in the distant past, so
they claim, though other species say this was merely a delegation sent
to uplift them.
2
was a Pyrrhic one, a fleet engagement with a far more
advanced enemy around an unstable star, which they managed to drag out
long enough for the star to explode and wipe out both sides.
3
was when a conquering warlord at last united them after a century of strife.
4
was when they were able to repel a paradoxical monster back into the darkness of intergalactic space, after all others had fled.
5
was a daring raid deep into territory controlled by an
enemy empire, which assaulted that empire's throne-world and decapitated
their leadership in an instant.
6
was of a commando unit getting trapped on an enemy
planet, and essentially re-inventing an industrial base to take over
that planet.
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Others might say of this alien species: "Perhaps some of us could learn from these so-called barbarians" because
1
they abhor lying and the breaking of oaths - both capital offences in their society.
2
they avoid decadence - drugs, luxuries, indolence, and suchlike.
3
many of them are willing to die in defense of the weak, and give their lives in service to the poor.
4
their delicious cuisine is broadly appealing to many species.
5
they're dedicated environmentalists, and take pains to preserve wilderness and animal lives on planets they've invaded.
6
they take aesthetics seriously, and can express beauty even in violence.
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This alien species practices the funeral ritual
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if the dead has been killed by another of making their remains into weapons with which a blood feud will be pursued.
2
of exchanging the remains of their dead with other
families to be consumed and so cement bonds, performing a similar
function to marriage.
3
of freeze-drying the dead, crumbling them to dust, then incorporating this dust into the foundations of buildings.
4
of interring their mummified dead in grand barges in
orbit around their homeworld's sun - when a barge's catacombs are filled
it spreads its solar sails and descends into the sun to be immolated.
5
of a process like plastination, only using metal to preserve the dead as sculptures.
6
of public dissection and making art out of the causes of death.
I really like the idea of a warrior species being considered a good thing. I've liked the posts that think of humans as a warrior species. I mean if there are horrible monsters in the black reaches of the cosmos, you gotta have knights willing to stand strong against the oncoming night
I really like the idea of a warrior species being considered a good thing. I've liked the posts that think of humans as a warrior species. I mean if there are horrible monsters in the black reaches of the cosmos, you gotta have knights willing to stand strong against the oncoming night
ReplyDeleteYour alien designs are always so fucking good, man.
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