The Orz

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>>52830075
Also general thoughts on the various races of Star Control, and how one would portray them in a Science Fantasy setting.

>>52830369
I'd kill for a black spathi veteran.

>>52830075
Ur-Quan are totally fucking radical. A race of huge predators who freed themselves from pyschic tyrants through horrid self-torture in a galactic crusade for freedom that split into genocide and tyranny? Most villains wish they had half the same backstory

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>>52830400
Spathi are quite adorable, if very dangerous.

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>>52830075
Say hello calmly and leave quickly.

DO NOT ASK ABOUT ANDROSYNTH PARTIES.

>[frumples]

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>>52830476
I'd say they're only dangerous when startled.

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>>52830459
Another interesting thing to note is that the Ur-Quan DON'T see themselves as being evil, or at least the Kzer-Za don't. they see themselves as "protecting" civilizations from the dark reaches of space by enslaving them. And considering that things like the Orz exist, they aren't exactly wrong about that.

>>52830075
I use Orz as the baseline for communing with the higher planes.

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>>52830495
But will you not try the *sauce* before you go Anon? Trust me, once you become a *Happy Camper* and the *change* begins, you won't want to leave

>>52830516
Kzer-Za barely freed themselves from D'nyarri. Orz considers the only race to escape enslavement to be amusing prey, and Arilou to be mildly annoying.
I doubt that overgrown spiders could really save anyone from Orz or his cousins.

>>52830369
What kinda system would even be good for a science fantasy setting?

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>>52830578
Yeah, but they would probably try. Before they end up joining the *party* at least.

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>>52830627
GURPS maybe? You could toss in some COC mechanics for meeting things like the Orz and company.

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>>52830685
Also bumping with the closest thing the Orz have to an actual threat to them, the Arilou.

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>>52830940

Is this game worth trying out? Is there a specific version or mod I should play?

>>52831296
It is very much worth it. Cool aliens and dialogues, great villains, okay story, weird but manageable space battles, and a grand space sandbox.

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ you could play with version or try emulating DOS. Remixes are great.

>>52830509
IDK, paranoid, cowardly, mollusc with a howitzer. I think they'd be terrifying if they could muster the gumption to have any kind of intelligence agency.

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>>52831296
And remember to play it without voices.

>>52831383
why no voices? I've seen plenty of videos of alien conversations on youtube, and the voices aren't that bad.

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>>52831383
But the voice of the Orz is the greatest thing ever Anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbVYXHnaBU

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>>52831431
Also have some VUX. Otherwise known to the Orz as *Silly Cows*

>>52831383
Fuck off, the voices are great.

>>52830516
Considering the Orz happened to one of their own slave races, they aren't exactly right about it either.

>>52830075
*INTRUDER ALERT*

>>52830940
Is it really a threat to the Orz?

I mean, a frog can jump in the pond to prevent me from catching it, but if I'm determined to catch it, I can just grab a net. Or if I'm really determined, I'll get a fucking water pump and drain the pond.

That's the terror of the Orz. It's not a race. It's a person. A single person from a higher universe poking its fingers into our universe.

>>52832311
TBF, if they weren't busy getting their shit slapped by their evil twins, they might have intervened.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WsEh7oti3U

>>52831383
Fuck off Zarla, the UQM voices are one of the best ever.

>>52831411
the artist who drew that pic had a huge hateboner for the voices.
the reasons being basically "my husbando sounds different how I imagined, die die die!"

>>52830565
You breathe pure ethanol, I don't wanna try any *sauce* you drink.

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>>52834266
Not really a 'threat' I guess, but more of an inconvenience. Whenever the Arilou start *jumping in front* they prevent the Orz from having their *parties*, which is bad news for EVERYONE. Also I wouldn't call what the Orz are the *fingers* of a "person" per se. That implies that we can understand what it truly is.

>>52837005
Word of god

><+Cap`n`Kyth> One thing I've wondered - is Orz the same as 'Them', or is Orz "competing" with 'Them' over the Androsynth (like food?), or protecting the Androsynth from 'Them' - by *pulling* the Androsynth away before 'They' can find the Androsynth again?
><+PR3> The Orz is part of Them, the projection of Them into TrueSpace.

><LordR-man> Fwiffo- What really happened to the Androsynth in sc2?
><Fwiffo> In regards to the Androsynth: They were snagged by the entity who/which projected its fingers into our dimension (which looked to us as the Orz.)

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>>52837065
Oh I know what the Orz really are. Just saying that it can't be described as a "person". It's an unfathomable demonic monstrosity from *below*, that seeks to *party* with everything in the universe. It is something that by very definition we can never comprehend.

>>52837503
Ah ok, I misunderstood. At the very least we know that the Orz are a single extra-dimensional entity that seeks to interfere with our dimension's inhabitants for some sinister reason.

The Arilou are clearly antogonistic to them but they're surprisingly ok with you bringing Orz with you to meet them.

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>>52837534
I think Orz were initially supposed to freak out and attack you if you brought them into quasispace?

>>52831296
https://sourceforge.net/projects/urquanmastershd/
Really late upd: HD mod looks nice.

>>52831296
>>52837624

I actually really dislike the HD mod. Too shiny and clean ruins some of the old school aesthetic in my opinion. Thankfully that mod lets you use the original graphics so that's pretty cool.

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>>52837590
I don think it was an "attack". It was more like "They can see you now, all is lost". Pretty much, if you went into Quasispace with the Orz, you doomed everyone as They could finally *smell* you properly, and thus invite you to the *party*.

>>52830075
Maybe I should ask what they did to Androsynths

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>>52837903
You are *frumple*! Now is time for *dancing*

>>52837890
Nah, I think it was actually just Quasispace not being *smooth* and *frumple* or something. They freaked out, it and/or Arilou caused them pain...

but I've not seen or read it in a long time, so idk senpai.

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>>52837903
Poor fool. What have you done?

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>>52838100
Also have some Sylandro, and their probe. WE COME IN PEACE.

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>>52838817

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>>52838871

>>52838871
What are those glowy bits?

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>>52841839
They're... uhmmm. You know. When the male and female do.. You know. Stuff.

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>>52842154
Have some Orz to take your minds off of Sylandro "glowy bits".

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>>52846965
Damn Kohr-Ah. Why must they hate us som much.

>>52830516
Don't forget that both Kzer-Za and Kohr-Ah are nice enough to believe in reincarnation, so when they disintergrate you it's in their best interest that you reincarnate as one of them.

I've always wanted to run a PNP game in the Star Control 2 setting, but I never figured out which one would do it best.

Also have some music from the best species: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMBxBS0tgwk

I want to use all the star control races in my game, did anyone ever give them stats for any kind of system at all?

>>52847454
Ah. The words. You spoke the words, alien.

>>52830509

But that's all the time.

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>>52851215
Yeah, but they who knows how long THAT could take, especially since we might end up reincarnating into the body of another species that they will exterminate. And we don't even know if the universe will still be there if the Orz manage to arrive full.

>>52831431
>Haha orz are cute. CUTE!
>Read the lore
>See this video
>W-well at least the music is still cu-
>Realize it's just saying DIE in various pitches
Fuck
Orz are frightening.

>>52854309
That's the best thing about Orz, and a good example of how awesome SC2 writing is. On the first glance, they're cute fish...things with funny incomprehensible speech, but upon a closer inspectiong they're some kind of eldritch monstrosity from another dimension that wiped out an entire race and whose purpose and motivation is impossible to determine.

The same game also had the Mycon, who also get freakier them more you learn of them. Although they at least have a fairly mundane orginin in artificial organism created for terraforming planets, whose original programming got corrupted over the thousands of years after the disappearance of their creators untill it became some weird religious mission to wipe out every inhabitable planet in the galaxy.

>>52855526
>untill it became some weird religious mission to wipe out every inhabitable planet in the galaxy
Nope, they're still terraforming. It's just that their/their creators' preferred environment differs from yours.

>>52841839
they are benises of gas people

>>52854309
>>Realize it's just saying DIE in various pitches
JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST

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>>52854027
This is true.

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>>52854309
>Realize it's just saying DIE in various pitches

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>>52854309
>>52858618
>>Realize it's just saying DIE in various pitches

I think that's one of the most terrifying things when first making contact with the Orz. You meet these strange fish.. things who have silly dialogue, and even more silly music. But then you listen closely to what they are saying, realizing the darker implications in their words. Then you realize the music is literally just a demonic voice saying DIE in various pitches and tones, and it quickly becomes apparent that the Orz are a demonic monstrosity from what may or may not be Hell, (if you take the whole the Orz come from *below*, and the Arilou *quick babies* from *above* to mean Hell and Heaven respectively). Doesn't help that their voice has a demonic aftertone to it that you might not hear at first due to it blending in with the -other- demonic voices in the background music. Yeah, Orz are pretty fucking terrifying.

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>>52854309
>Realize it's just saying DIE in various pitches

>>52836344
So you don't know what his opinion is but hate it anyway. Good to know.

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>>52854309
Holy fuck no

>>52853120
THE WORDS
H
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W
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R
D
S

>>52860865
1. hers
2. that was literally the reason, she wrote at length about it back in the day.

>>52854309

I never noticed that.

Holy FUCK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOE-vVuBXKE
This and Path of Now and Forever are the best tracks. Prove me wrong.

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The Orz' apparent friendliness concealing predatory motives, with a seemingly-friendly visage clearly constructed by an outer intelligence...

I think I just noticed one of their relatives from /a/.

Now I want to use this in a campaign... except I have no group to GM.

>>52830516
Compared to the Kohr-Ah, the Kzer-Za are pretty great they are pretty helpful to the races that don't make trouble like finding the Syreen a new planet, and allowing the Chenjesu and the Mmrnmhrm despite what they end up doing, all though I don't think they predicted that. They are definitely one of the best examples of grey villains in any media.

So are the Orz even a threat to humanity, I thought the Arilou made sure that humanity couldn't be *smelled*?

>>52830476
Reminder the Spathi were right all along about the great evil that can't be detected by scanners.

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>>52864705
They did, but they also stated that if Humanity was dumb or reckless enough to reveal themselves, they can, and -would- be seen. And Humanity despite all the warnings, stupidly decides to go to Androsynth space and reveal themselves to the Orz, and their *cousins*. That's why the Orz were so happy to see you. They couldn't *smell* you so they couldn't see you at first, but you just went up and delivered yourself like a nice gift-wrapped package, right at their front door.

>Orz looking for and find you!
>So much joy!!

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>>52864386
Kyubey is WAY nicer and more comprehensible than the Orz. Kyubey can at least be understood, and if you ask him questions looking for answers, he will give them to you, whilst leaving some tiny (from his perspective) details out. The Orz? You can't even talk about the original inhabitants of the star-cluster they have come to inhabit without them threatening to do the same thing to you. Kyubey may be a dick, but he won't harm you, at least not directly. He and his kind don't do anything REALLY devious or evil until Rebellion, and that's mostly due to their sheer apathy to most matters not concerning energy harvesting, and the fact that until Rebellion, something like the Law of Cycles hadn't even existed. Kyubey will fuck you over yes, but in a very indirect way, and will never usually take action himself. The Orz will fucking *dissolve* you for inquiring too much into what happened to the last group of people they murdered.

>>52864022
So it wasn't the reason, it was a simple strawman of it you made to fit your anger. Good to know.

>>52864382
True.

>>52830627
How do they build their ships? If they are just projections of a single entity from another layer of reality why was their gimmick power-armoured marines as boarding parties?

Since they are *many fingers* of a greater being if you utterly destroy enough of them will that begin to have a negative effect on said entity?

>>52865084
>screwing little girls over with contracts no one bothers to read
>not really evil

>>52871283
Not any more evil than P2W online gaming, really.

>>52831431
So the Orz are projections of... something that wants to enter reality, has no real understanding of death as we know it and really, really hated the androsynth for some reason

>>52864942
But why do they kill?

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>>52854309
>Realize it's just saying DIE in various pitches

>>52871692
>and really, really hated the androsynth for some reason

Not sure it did. It just noticed them, which seems to be pretty bad for the species in question. I mean, the entity says that it's been making sport of hunting those sentinent stones ever since the sentinent milleu fell and they had to withdraw to another dimension.

>>52871692
Not so much hated as much as it noticed the Androsynth due to them messing with some higher dimensional shit and grabbed them.

>>52874068
That seems even worse, they murder entire species just... because?

>>52875857
If a goat happens to fall asleep where a crocodile will find it, is it really murder?

>>52875857

Do the Orz even conceptualize it as murder?

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>>52871862
Because they are pretty much the embodiment of evil. I mean, when somethings BACKGROUND MUSIC literally says how much it wants you to DIE repeatedly, you know that it's nothing good.

>>52876753
Probably they seem to at least understand death.

>>52875857
The *fingers* *smelled* them, and so it was time to *party* and *squeeze* the *juice*.

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>>52830476
>Spathi are quite adorable

That's not how you spell "Supox".

any idea where the hell are the taalo?

how much of a melt down would the ur-quan have when they finaly see their friend from teh millieu are still alive?

>>52878722
They escaped to a different dimension to avoid the Orz. That's really all we know.

>>52878521
>Reproductive assistance

>>52878722

*pretty space*

>>52878722
>yfw the taalo would have been the next antagonists, driven mad in *pretty space* looking like the psychotic legions of green hell

>>52879024
arent they psy proof by the fact they are made of stone?
that would mean the any psy distorsion mean nothing to them

>>52879131
They could still go insane from hardship

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>>52878722
All we really know is that they escaped into another reality in order to escape the Orz, and now the Orz and their *cousins* are hunting them. For all we know they have set up a desperate last stand against the Legions of Hell and are just barely holding them back, 40k style.

>>52879162
rock hard, those guys
if they the ur-quan where explorers the taalo might be the muscle of the millieu then?

im sure the whole rescue the taalo from wherever space would be a great plot for a game, cant fill it out or have a imediate "we really need them back, guyses"

>>52878722
Considering that the space frog tells you they roll I'd say they look like rocks. Maybe even boulders.

>>52879302
>dnyarri
>a reliable source

>>52876753
You have to do some digging through the conversation trees, but there's pieces of dialogue that suggest they think they're doing you a *favor* somehow.

http://www.sa-matra.net/quotes/orz/

>You are so *sticky*. You cannot *slide* like Orz from *outside* to *inside* and *in between*. It is sad, but Orz can *pull* the *campers* after being *connected*. This is soon. Orz are trying to *pull* the Androsynth, but they are so *silly*, they do not want.

>Next it is the *party* and you will *become*.
It is best. After this you are so *happy* you do not ask the many questions. Do you anticipate? Yes! You do!

>>52830075
>/tg/ has a whole bunch of people bringing up Star Control 2 in appropriate threads
This makes me happy.

Wasn't there a SC oriented system floating around anyway?

>>52868774
The way I see it, they're material projections of a material entity, sorta like pushing a sphere through a 2D plane (except the sphere is a hand, and the shifting circles from a flatlander's perspective are Orz). So they need material ways to get around, and their need for "water" might say something about the greater entity's natural habitat.

>>52831296
It's great. Get the Ur-Quan Masters port, it's generally an improvement over emulating the original.
Here's some advice:
>Have a notepad handy, take lots of notes (about coordinates, plot points, visited systems, etc.) and keep them organized
>Train in Super Melee (the battle minigame accessible from the menu) until you have a good grasp on the battle system, then train some more later to understand how allied and enemy ships work
>Save often, especially before making contact with a new species, in case of unsalvageable diplomatic screw-ups. You have like 50 slots available, use them.
>Keep spare resources and the room for them.
>If there's *one* spoiler you should know before you dive in, it's this: the game progresses in real time and you will get a game over after a certain date. Grinding if you need to, but don't waste time being greedy, and always pause instead of leaving the game running.
>The "find system" command is your friend (default "/" key). Also, read the manual.
Have fun!

>>52879585

Sounds more like a rapist reassuring his victim that, no really, she's enjoying it.

Orz was giving them the *special sauce* at the playground, but so silly they do not want? Is for fun!!

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>>52854309
FUCK WHY DID I NEVER REALIZE THIS

>>52878016

I like the voices in SC3, but otherwise SC2 was better.

>>52880027
I've always wanted sc3 but with sc2 style voices and sprites

>>52880329
i know SC3 is pretty bad, but theres something about the k'tang daktaklakpak that i really like

>>52854309
I always thought they were saying "Bye"

>>52878831

And it only took me 30 years to figure out what that means. Very /soc/ in here all of a sudden.

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So just to clarify how did these things work again? When they called themselves "microbe agglomeration units" didn't they basically just mean multi-cellular organism? Or is it something like the Tyranids where their collective minds made them sentient?

>>52881391
yeah, they are monocellular organism that work thogeter like a pluricellular, but each is concious

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>>52875857
The Androsynths probably asked them what happened to the Androsynths.

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FRUNGY! FRUNGY! FRUNGY!

>>52882386
THE SPORT OF KINGS

>>52882386
So who's who in Zoq Fot Pik?

>>52883198
>In-game it is never clearly stated which one is the Zoq, the Fot, or the Pik; the characters themselves argue over who is the Fot. However, the source code names the green one "Zoq", the brown one "Fot" and the blue one "Pik".

>>52882386
What is the middle one thinking, what secrets are being kept by that silent eye.

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So any theories on what their goals in regaurds to humanity are?

>>52882386
Do you think the brown one bangs the other two or only watch?

>>52883789
They are yet another race of scary fuckers. They have little to no interest in this universe, aside from humans. This interest was intense enough for them to alter human evolution (who knows how long ago and on what species of hominid exactly), to influence various human cultures, to protect them from Orz-like beings in other ways, perhaps they even messed with some other races or events to ensure the survival of humanity. They are even willing to die for that... If they actually die in our universe. I believe their stated goal was to grow the humanity into a species resembling their own.

With this level of investment, they may be progressors, they may be grooming humans to be some sort of servant race, or this may be their bizzare way of reproduction (possibly via possession/mindmeld).

>>52883789
I think they want to groom humans to be a weapon against the Orz.

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>>52878016
>>52876753
>>52876753
>>52875857
I don't think they understand good and evil as we do. Personally I wonder if when they transitioned into real space they "re-appropriated" Androsynth biomass to manifest themselves. It would explain the lack of bodies and why having a *smell* is a bad idea.

any idea why the precusors fucked of to parts unknow of the galaxy?

>>52889060
Maybe they didn't like the gravitational pull here. Or tried to find something to make negatropy. Or they drained some resource vital to them and unnoticeable by us.

>>52889913
comes to think what do we know of the precursors apart that they where "shaggy giants" and they made stuff quite easy to understand and powerfull

>>52885725
Might be very possible.

They always talk about going inside you... so yeah.

So I picked up this game thanks to this thread and am enjoying it so far.
Am I supposed to think the green Ur-Quan are actually justified? Slave shielding honestly doesn't seem that bad and they gifted the Syreen a new planet.

>>52890561
its a reactionary thing really
they are evil, but its understandable why they do that
both sides are understandable in their evil ways

>>52890561
"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither"- George Washington

>>52890577
>>52890592
The Kzer-Za are at least savable, and would be valuable assets against whatever the next threat could be, the Kohr-Ah less so, they are just too dangerous to be left alive.

>>52890643
they ar both evil, not sure uf salvageable, but understandable

i have the theory that if an actual secuel was made, you could recruit atleast some Kzer-za to your side if you rescue/help the Taalo,
as they seem to have close friendship with them from the millieu days

>>52890561
>justified
The actions of the Ur-Quan can be explained, yes. But nothing excuses them.
>Cool motive, still murder
And to go as far as to say they're justified, you'd have to be kinda nuts.

>>52890693
A lot of the hierarchy races seem to be pretty content with life as slaves the Kzer-Za seem to generally leave them to their own lives and only call them in for combat, ultamatly I feel like they could be reasoned with and salvaged in time, the Kohr-Ah are a different story they are so zealous that it would be impossible to reason with them.

>>52890822
it would need a very serious act of goodwill and help to atleast nudge them to good-ish side

>>52890859
I never said it would be easy but one thing they understand is force.

And without the Sa-Matra they are at a massive disadvantage to the Chmmr.

>>52890822
>>52890693
Well in Sc3 they are firmly in your side, it's stated that the defeated Kor-ah faction is being kept by the kzerza for psychological treatment and are basically on suicide watch, being tended to by their more sane kin

Lets do this.
God Tier: Uq-Quan, Yehat, Mycon, Thraddash, Spathi.
Ok Tier: Humans, Illwrath, Melnorme.
Shit lulzy "le 4th wall" lgbt-token tier: the rest.

>>52891208
what kind of shoddy bait is that?

>>52891253
You know it to be true. Also, Pkunks was a mistake.

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>>52891208
>chmmr not top tier
This is pretty bad even for this site.

>>52891208
you are not a *camper*

>>52891347
Orz meming is basically fishmalk/alpha-legion/scorpion-clan/deadpool - tier shit and you know it.

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>>52891394

>>52891394
>implying the orz are not just the alpha legion

>>52891394
*frumple*

>>52830075
Reminder: If allowed, the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah can fully genocide the Orz, removing them from our galaxy. So much for their "Eldritch" powers.

>>52891710
You cannot genocide the Orz you fucking retard. The Orz are not even a race. They don't have "eldritch" powers.

It's a single guy taking a look in a lower dimension.

>>52889060
Parts unknown my ass. They left a giant fucking arrow for you.

>>52892710
so they are right on the CORE OF THE GALAXY
following the law of dramatics theres gotta be something EVEN MORE ANCIENT AND POWERFULL there, they didnt manage to pull of whatever plan was there, and you complete it while geting a sweet ass precursor battleship saucer

A brief and most accurate history of the Hierarchy War to date

https://youtu.be/IJhWOzWfC2s

>>52881003

OK then you explain that to me. What precisely does that mean?

Option 1

>They choose a perfect waifu for me.
>Provide flowers and a pleasing fragrance for our date
>Plus sex pheromones
>Prepare a delicious meal
>Sing gentle music
>Whisper relationship advice

or

Option 2
>Release sex pheromones for me and my gf
>Encourage us to explore our desires.
>Helpful sexual / relationship advice.
>Provide free reproductive health

Option 3
>Release sex pheromones.
>Act as perfect alien waifu
>Doesn't care what I look like because I'm alien anyway
>Music, fragrance, delicious meal
>Jerk/suck me off, providing total release of unfathomable pleasure.
>Find girl, do the same thing
>Release my sperm into her.
>Helps raise the kids.

Which honestly isn't too different from what the pollinators do for flowering species.

Any rule 34 supox yet? Does it count as furry if it's a plantsuit? Does anyone have a flowersona?

>>52883789
>>52885238

They seem like the creepy child molester in the white van who saves you from the serial killer. Yeah, thanks and all, but... eww.

Either that or they're some far-future humans who've traveled back in time to ensure that the timeline results in their emergence.

I do miss the nivenesque sci fi where aliens are genuinely alien, non-human, but still have some internal logic and comprehensibility. It was a moment in sci fi history right between cliche rubber suited aliens and cliche "you will never understand them" aliens who are generically incomprehensible. Both extremes are lazy cliches.

Aliens in SC are irrational and weird by our standards, but if you take them on their own terms what they do makes perfect sense.

>>52879162
The hell is this?

>>52893843
project 6014

>>52891935
And suddenly a swarm of bugs come along and bite off all his fingers/penises

>>52893993
Like that ever happens unless you're a fucking retard that goes lie in the path of some flesh-eating ant swarm.

>>52894037
That's a pretty exact metaphor for what happens to the entity that is the Orz in regards to the doctrine war if the player does not intervene.

The scale of pretty much everything in Star Control II is really rather shonky.

Still its not like this was the most serious of stories, its pretty classical raygun-scifi.

Ah i love star control, i still have an original poster of the galaxy map that was used for navigating many times.

Sadly its a bit tatty now.

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I think people might appreciate this. I saved it from another SC2 thread on /tg/, and it is pretty useful if you intend to play the game.

...I really should reinstall and finish SC2. Had it on my old computer but never finished it. I'd definitely rate it as one of the best games out there, but it's also quite time-consumign and pretty much requires a guide due how obtuce some of the stuff is.

>>52894744
get the ur-quan masters remake thing
best of both worlds, i hear

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Black Spathi Squadron For Life.

Space horrors from other layers of reality can go fuck themselves.

>>52864942
The orz still don't seem to be able to perceive the captain or the human race in the full way they do androsynth. I'm thinking your protection is still working. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to associate with them of course.

>>52879162
Man, why are the three options Asshole, Asshole and Asshole? Dialog choice is like human anatomy, if there's more than one Asshole something has gone wrong.

>>52897628
Someone had clearly never played alpha protocol.

>>52897628
Wisdom.

>>52893169
Star Control is pretty accurate in terms of how aliens will be, they are weird and have different customs sure but they are not eldritch horrors(well most), and they are not a bunch of mass effect fuckable aliens that are just humans with odd looks(well most).

>>52898216
Eh, let's be honest man. Get a large enough sample of aliens and you're going to find plenty that are close enough to humans in mindset to get a long, and at least a couple that are cute enough a xenophile would fuck them.

>>52898306
Yeah and there are at least 2 in star control that are fuckable. Even more if you ask /d/.

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>Zooming around the galaxy in a supership
>Sending probes to planets to collect minerals
>Fighting off tentacled evil race trying to cleanse the universe
>Gather collection of alien races to help the fight
>Bang alien bitches along the way
Jeez guys, this is just a shitty Mass Effect 2 clone without any awesome VO and gunfights.

>>52898411
The image really does make it.

>>52898320
Trollpost, but a decent observation.

Planet surveying is more interesting than just a test of patience here, so that's something Bioware could have learned from.

Ship to ship combat rather than ground combat which ups the sense of scale, but personal combat makes sense for a Bioware game about individual characters rather than species and fleets.

The alien races are far more varied and interesting in SC2, but again, ME wants humanoid aliens for more realistic characters and readable emotions. (Not something that they've done a good job with implementing, but the intention is clear.)

>>52898442
Agreed.

>>52893993
>some 4d guy sticking bits of himself into 3d space
>sticks benis in
>"I call this one The Annihilator"

>>52891208
>Illwrath
>Not in shit lulzy tier
Get out.

>tfw no qt supox waifu

>>52902681

I looked for some Rule 34 Supox, but apart from one sexy Orz pic, came up empty.

>>52895639
Mycons are fine too.

I'm still miffed that the best ship is Vux and you have to sell your fucking crew into sexual slavery to get it along with the planet's other important goodies. Who DOES that?

There was a bit of DM burnout in my old 3.5 group so I offered to run a Sci-Fi based game for them using the "Blood" in Space" OGL rules.It took some modding and streamlining to make it work of course but before you know it Ive got a fresh crop of academy students on Urnzavault waiting for their active duty to start

None of them had even heard of Star Control before either and it had hordes of note taking for all the races they had to keep track of. The most fun part was seeing how it could go off the rails and how I could mod it to fit the PCs interpretation of what they wanted to do. Big divergances included

>>4 years before the Precursorship is active
>>Finding ways to survive on limited resources stranded on a planet they were meant to be passing through
>>Players getting pissed off that the Yehat didnt instantly jump to their sides to fight the good fight
>>"Ok I dont think the Orz are gonna betray us...r...right?"
>>Once the numbers swelled a LOT of time was spent on R&D to bring down the slave shield and building a ships to defend the station while the PCs were away
>>"First officer bad ass marine guy is the first human to ever meet an Ur-Quan face to face as part of a boarding mission
>>Same boarding skills help him stop Tanaka in a Muscle Hamster vs Power armored human brawl
>>The Aqua Helix is stolen quietly when the crew throws a bitching party to celebrate Culture 20s birth that turns into a melee that was great fun for all involved
>>PCs want to combine Quasi-Space and maximum speed/Fuel on their command ship to check the "Off the map" parts of the game where the Kohr-Ah came from
>>A few months of travel leads to the ruins of a civilization and a completely original side-quest I developed just for this
>>Tech guys in party design new alternative Earthling ships that are glass cannons
>>The ending is set-up for later adventures hinting at the fate of the Precursors and the Captain getting a view of a new ship the Alliance managed to find

>>52905335
Never knew, that you can get a Vux ship.

>>52905335

You sure you aint thinking of the Druuge?

>>52905500

Oh and

>>Admiral ZEX joins the crew

admittedly I had to make him a little less murdery but the PCs thought he was awesome and save him from the beast which is used to fake his death and let him switch sides. He ends up becoming a strategic advisor and resident creepy guy

>>52905767
He probably is. Also, fuck the Druuge. Specifically, bankrupt them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKVXcw6hakU

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>>52905500
>>>"Ok I dont think the Orz are gonna betray us...r...right?"
I'd love to hear more about their reactions to the Orz. Heck, how'd you even roleplay that initial interaction? I think it'd be a nightmare to get all the *frumple* *silly cows* stuff down perfectly. Did you have a cheat sheet next to you or something?

>>52905948
why is Morpheus drinking piss?

>>52906942
It's not piss, it's jenkem

>>52905088
Mycons need to be genocided for the sake of all other life in the universe

>>52907353
>t. pkunk/orz redditor

>>52891208
Here, let me fix this for you.
God tier: Every single alien race

That's it. B)

>>52905500
You seriously need to storytime this in detail, anon.

>>52893110

Best in thread.

>>52907353

IRL, sure if they existed. In-game, they're twelve kinds of awesome.

>>52907621
Nah, Suppox and masked whiners (forgot the name) was pure garbage, that felt like it was added in the story for no reason. Umgah, pkunk, zokfot were pure buttjockes. Orz was creepy at first but felt rather shitty short time after. Chhmrmr also suck.

>>52907600
Shouldn't that be Syreen?

Its best to actually let the Death March happen just a little, since in normal circumstances its first four targets are the Druuge, Mycon, VUX & Orz, Four species the universe is certainly better off without.

Anyone else thinking it'd be cool to have a turn-based Star Control shit battle boardgame, either stand-alone or as part of a system?

>>52907989
>Druuge, Mycon
>species the universe is certainly better off without.
Sad.

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>>52908437
I never liked Syreens. Mycons should have finish`d the job.

>>52908437
You realize the Syreen are a race of Mind-Controlling puppeteers, right? That staff their crew with slaves from other races?
>>52908612
On the flip side, they probably didn't deserve the Deep Child BS.

>>52908612
>>52908415
>>52907600
>>52905088
Go fuck a manure pile myconfag.

>>52908677
And they all love The Captain, but only Tala got to have a family with him.

Asari aren't SHIT compared to the oldschool (mostly) female blue psychic race.

>>52879916
Good tips, but one thing to add:

>You aren't supposed to win the game the first time. Timelines are too tight, bad ends need too much prep to avoid. Most of your notes are there to be useful for the NEXT game.
>It's not a modern RPG where bullshit spawns in only when you get a quest for it. When you get coordinates for some treasure world, next time you can go there directly. You will need to do this to win.

>>52908677
The Syreen are a companion race for humanity modified by the Arilou Lalee'lay to fit their mysterious goals. This is why they are so close physically and genetically to mankind, who also have psionic potential, to the point the two different species can breed true.

>>52908961
Arilou was a mistake. Earth should join Kzer-Za. fuck League of Free Whiners.

>>52908677

If they had more Penetrators to wave around aggressively, then maybe the Mycon wouldn't have been able to plant a Deep Child all the way down into their crust and leave them too hot to live.

Dem ships have a promising wiggle, though.

>>52908961
>The Syreen are a companion race for humanity modified by the Arilou Lalee'lay to fit their mysterious goals.
Modified not to be a companion race?

>>52908677
They did.

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>>52908677
>>52908961
Speaking of a race of psionic blue space babes,

>tfw no Outsider Update
Also Beryl is best space elf.

>>52908961
There is really no proof of that outside of speculation the Arilou don't seem to care about the Syreen the way they do about humanity, seeing as they left them to the Ur-Quans mercy after humanity has slave shielded.

>>52909772
like 2 fucking years or something, and the "im making a game" does not fly now
game is pretty much done, i hear

>>52830075
So are those gills?

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>>52909816
>16 October 2016: I apologize for the lack of news posts recently; when there aren't new pages to post, I don't really know what to say.

>I have been in crunch mode for the last several months on other projects, and then last month I had an unrecoverable hard drive crash. I didn't lose any of my documents or art files, but I did lose all of my program data, including the 2D and 3D software and all the fonts that I use for the comic.

>I have been able to reacquire the fonts I most need (thanks to Comicraft for their assistance), and I am still in the process of reinstalling my 3D software (which is older and requires new keys from the publisher), which I hope will resolved this week.

>Thanks again for your patience.

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So any idea on their potentially ominous long range plans?

>>52909959
>Step 1:Don't die.
>Step 2: Profit.

>>52909959
FACKIN

SPESS

JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWS!

>>52909870
Apparently the 'water' they live in, that fills the hulls of their ships and their combat suits, is pure ethanol.

>>52910222
atleast they are UPFRONT with their deals, they gonna rip you off, yes but they gonna tell you that AND shit they sell IS going to work

>>52910222
You are thinking of the Druuge

>>52910296
Though the Melnorme fit the whole wandering jew thing since they were originally a member of the Sentient Milieu that legged it as the two Ur-Qu(r)an factions battled it out over their world in the name of doctrine differences.

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>>52893976
I have multiple issues with their little mod, some of them larger than other.

>>52908961
Are you so sure it's not the other way around? That the Syreen aren't the originals, and humans an experimental variation on the Syreen by the Arilou for their own purposes?

The Arilou don't seem to care about the Syreen, like they're an irrelevant dead end, rather than something they created for a purpose.

>>52910529
They were a casual side-project to preserve human numbers in an emergency situation through sexy blue-skinned alien fucctoys.

When the humans got slave-shielded the greens saw their purpose of keeping the human species alive complete and bailed on the war and a race that held little direct importance to their goal (they already lost a hefty amount of their people and resources fighting until this point as they mention in the second game, warfare is clearly not the creepy fuckers bailiwick)

The Syreen are like the human's Androsynth slave race, expendable creations

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>>52909612
>"Hey baby, wanna pilot MY Penetrator?"
>"Its got an extended energy bar for lengthy combat situations~~"

>>52894134
Eh, that's kinda wonky. As is with Arilou - do you really think they go extinct?

>>52911250
Not so much extinct, just that all of ORZ's punctures into realspace get pushed back into *below*.

>>52910469
What...

>>52910657
I really hate humans being special, especially from intervention, it means we lack agency

>>52911706
In this case we're not special apart from a race of dirty old alien sociopaths that literally touch you in your sleep in-game are grooming us, like a child molester grooms a preschooler. Though in this case the preschooler is also a herd of cows, or puppies.

>>52871491
P2W online gaming does not turn you into a lich, to my knowledge.

>>52911806
People are a bit too mean to the Arilou desu. You don't know that what they're planning won't ultimately be beneficial for mankind.

>>52911250
IIRC the Orz flat out state that they're not "really" here yet. They're just dipping their *fingers* into our *heavy space*, but are seeking to fully enter it so that they can *party* with all the *happy campers*. Which would probably be a bad thing for everybody else. Kzer-za obliterating their projections is pretty much the equivalent of slamming the door shut on your fingers. Hurts like hell, and might sever your fingers, but probably won't be fatal.

>>52912825
Do the Orz even understand that what they are doing is harmfule? Even with all the ominous elements theirs avstraneg innocence to their manner

>>52830627
Dungeons the Dragoning 40k: 7th Edition

>>52912867
Hrad to tell. Personally I think they just prefer *heavy space* to *below* and want to live here, but on the other hand they seem to be aware that what they did to Androsynth was a bad thing, given how insistent they are about nobody finding out what happened to them. Although could be less them being scheming villains and more like a child breakign something, insisting he didn't do it, and getting mad when you point out he clearly did.

>>52913167
>>52912867
It wouldn't be the only species to doesn't get that what its doing is harmful, though I assume that a couple of millions of years of conflict with those other aliens would've taught it that its mucking around isn't welcome by most?

>>52907621

Tonight ill write a synopsis as best as I can remember

>>52905948

I sounded like the edited for TV version of Pulp Fiction with my voice fluctuating with every semi-translated word I spoke.. The players thought it was just a quirk and were glad not to be fighting the Androsynth I spent all that time hyping up as an enemy with a grudge against humanity. They got more unnerved after they finally found the Arilou and when investigating the Taalo mind shield and learning of a science team member commiting suicide and destroying a lot of the scavenged research. In the end the Captain decided they needed them as allies now and that any danger they posed could be addressed later

Man the future humans in this series were cunts. Creating a slave-race of artificially born neutered clone-men to lord over and do all their work (apparently it started off religiously-motivated but it grew beyond the cult until all of human civilization was down with it?).

And made them smarter and stronger than regular men to boot then were somehow surprised when they managed to escape their unjust slavery... and then ended up joining with the massive empire the humans later ended up fighting, not even minding so much since the role of battle thrall gave them a chance to use their superior scientific and combat abilities to strike back against Earth.

Ah-DUUURRRRRRR!

>>52915310
It seemed like a good idea at the time.

>>52916888
>heavy combat armor
>entire lower half exposed
really?

REALLY?

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>>52916949
Yes really.

What the representative of their race you encounter in-game wears is the standard-issue uniform of their space force.

This would be a continuation of that joke.

>>52916949
No remarks about her rifle being a huge throbbing pink sex toy?

>>52917218
rayguns gonna raygun.

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>>52883789
It's kind of implied that they are full blown Angels, as the hinted with the Orz's statement of them coming from *below*, whilst the Arilou come from *above*. One of their names was even Enochian Angels. They seem to be protecting us at least and seem to be trying to uplift us to their level, but who knows what we might lose in the process.

>>52918110
I never got how people are hostile to the Arilou. Sure, learning you've been watched/have less agency is offputting, but they go to every degree to help humanity survive and have protected them from foul dimensional horrors. I'm willing to at least admit they might be good, after that.

>>52918431
I mean, a farmer protects his turkeys from foxes....

>>52918464
But where's the implication they want to eat humans? I think it's spurious to jump to the idea that their purposes are foul.

>>52918523
don't be retarded, the implication wasn't that they want to eat anyone
fucking cuckchan faggots

>>52918555
That's what I'm saying.

>>52918431
In Star Control III they admitted to treating humans like slaves and beasts in the past.

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>>52918722
>Star Control III
>Canon

>>52917218
It looks like one of their ships - and the shape of their ship is explained in-game as being due to their mind-control device that makes enemy crew abandon ship to join the Syreen as mind-controlled slaves.

Ergo, that is a mind-control gun, which is why it looks like their ships. Which look like huge throbbing orange sex toys, not pink!

>>52918769
>I don't like thing therefore it doesn't count
grow up

>>52918983
Thing contradicts lore of previous entries, it is thus in a different continuity

>>52918983
>>I don't like thing therefore it doesn't count
>grow up

The creators have said that its non cannon, and if they get the rights to make a sequel it will take place after SC2.

>>52919287
>Thing contradicts lore of previous entries
Such as?

>>52890915
Their whole philsophy only exists becaise Ur-Quan are biologically incapable of coexusting with ither apecies without freaking out. The only reason they were bffs woth the Taalo is that theu could be in the same room as them without going into crazed predator mode.

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>>52909772
>not fireblade

>>52920113
The Ur-Quan were antisocial, but they weren't so genocidal and controlling until traumatized by the Dynarri.

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Why not just shoot them? That works pretty well in the game

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>>52918722
>Star Control III
>Canon in any way shape or form

That game disregards so many previous lore entries, and changes so many things, it might as well be an alternate universe. It also removed many of the cool features from the previous game, such as the unique music for each race, and a lot of the previous voicework from SC2 was either recycled, or straight up butchered to fit into the game.

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>>52920771
There are enough Orz in Androsynth space that you would drown in their numbers before you could even start to make the slightest dent in tide. They would also ALL be gunning for your ass, and trying to *dissolve* you. You would be very unlikely to survive.

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>>52918869

Aw.

So the orz is basically the Mi-Go?

>>52923446

No. In a way, ignorance is your armor, your best protection. If I tell you more, you will look where you could never look before and while you are looking you can and will be seen. You do not want to be seen.

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>>52915310
To be fair it seems the Androsynth didn't exactly volunteer to join up with the Kzer-Za.

>>52920920

it works for the Ur-Quan

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>>52923831
That's because the Ur-Quan are fucking bullshit, and have ridiculous tech, as well as the numbers necessary to fight a war of that size. Humanity does not. We do not possess a Sa-Matra capable of blasting Orz into oblivion wholesale. At best you could destroy a few Orz ships, before you end up being made into *special sauce*.

>>52923945
t. orz

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>>52878317
"Do you want to *squirt*? If you want to, then you do. It is best, I know it."

>>52919521
They did get the rights the next game is set for release this year.

>>52925425
Scratch that not the original creators and not a sequel.

>>52879916
>>52908890

What happens if you run out of time, plot-wise?

>>52925605
everyone dies

>>52907621

Storytime and hoping I finish before falling asleep

Ok my group was getting burned out on a D&D campaign that was great but we had been invoked in for too long and we got it into our heads to try a sci-fi game which is when I thought up running this as a whole campaign. Heres a player rundown

>>The Captain-A huge Star Trek fan and the best roleplayer in the group.Pretty bright guy and all around boy scout who knows all the knots and everything. He has all the leader feats
>>Space Marine badass-Stereotypical REAL MAN player. Fairly good role player for a guy playing Brock Hardcheese or Chip Beefsteak. Loves boarding missions and drop ships in his power armor
>>Hotshot pilot. The Captains little bro IRL. Kinda spazzy but tries really hard. He is built to fly small ships but necessity forces him to run the Flagship
>>Autismo the engineer-Hotshots friend ride to the game and sack of protoplasm. Hes a little lazy but shows up every game. He likes SciFi enough to relish playing the Engineer. Basically a b/tard sitting in the engineering room. Loses a foot later on in hilarious fashion

I explain how the game is going to go. The PCs will be eager young space cadets straight out of the academy and into the great war thats been raging for a while. They actually want it to have a good Star trek style mix of action diplomacy Science exploration etc. and not just a whole lot of fighting. They make a characters with a good mix of skills and I give a full intro to the universe. They are staggered by the amount of alien races to have to remember but are excited by such a detailed backstory.

Of course ship they are supposed to serve on doesnt arrive.By the end of the week they are worried by the end of the first month they are freaked out. We then roleplay for a little while in the first session living on the Precursor facility with limited supplies no way of knowing what has happened or if they will be attacked at any point or die because they something broke down

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>>52911994
>P2W online gaming does not turn you into a lich, to my knowledge.
Get a load of this casual.

>>52925961
Perfect setup. Please tell me none of them played star control

>>52925961

The session was awesome because it was out of the regular game AND it swerved their expectations. We slowly RP various problems on the station and Autismos engineering skills end up coming up alot keeping things running while also looking for ways to salvage the only way off the planet which is with the Precursor ship.They end up spending 4 years on this rock [another difference from the game] but its more than enough to freak them out. When they finally get the ship operational they are stepping into the unknown in a way none of our other games had ever done. They figure that the battlefront has shifted and they are merely cut off from the alliance. The deafening silence that greets them when reaching Earth is even worse and the idea that the war is actually over and they lost left them dumbstruck

It goes pretty by the book for a while after that. They wanted to stop the probe alerting the Ur-Quan expecting a death sentence if it escaped but everything falls in line pretty quick after that. They beat the IllWrath ship gather resources and eventually meet Fwiffo.Its the first real encounter with an alien and they actually feel pretty bad for Fwiffo Getting him to join was easy

The Captain is eager to start rebuilding the "Free Star Alliance" and the first thing they wanna do is head straight to the Yehat, Now we are dealing with Star Trek fans here so they fully expect awesome Klingons that will still be fighting the good fight and are eager to join them.When they find out they are battle thralls they actually are pretty pissed. The Captain is usually cool headed the rest of the campaign but he completely loses his shit and he damn near insults the first ship they find into a full on fight. I felt like giving them a little bit of help so an officer on the Yehat ship sets up early "Shore leave" and ends up hopping over to their ship becoming a ally. I guess it helped me too since it let me hand a little more info their way and another NPC to play off

>>52925605
The doctrinal wars end, somebody spiders the precursor battleship and does whatever they want. Either way you're getting pasted.

>>52926089

Thats the best part they knew nothing and figured I was just pulling all this stuff from some RPG resource or pre-written OGL adventure

>>52926149

Finding the Melnome was fun too.Once again outside of vidya context they can set-up other kind of deals and negotiation and essentially they end up brokering a trade agreement where Melnome will occasionally visit the station itself. I had to make them a little more merchanty since grinding for lifeforms wasent gonna fit and this worked great

The Crew wanted info on the enemies that surrounded them in space.Meeting the Phkunk was worth a laugh or two mostly talking with the Yehat officer about "What they hell is wrong with these guys?" and finding all the new age retro hippy stuff hilarious. They knew the swerve where they offer all the help they can was gonna be bullshit but are pretty happy they got a few ships and a funny shapred precursor thingie. The trip Spathi space went by the books up until the "Evil ones" when Chip Beefsteak decides to go on a hunting expidition. He had survival skills and damn it he was gonna use it. The Captain is interested by the Spathi because of the story of the rise of their tech and thinks they would be the super-scientists they need to break the slave shield over Earth. I chuckle inside with that part as the Spathi are MORE then happy to do that for the alliance they just joined after Big McLargeHuge just Ramboed the evil ones

>>52926298
>thinks they would be the super-scientists they need to break the slave shield over Earth
Oh man you need to continue this.

What the fuck are the Orz?

>>52926298

Next was searching Androsynth space. I gave them the backstory in session 1 and they were fully expecting that this was gonna end badly.Recon could be good though after all it paided off in Spathi space right? It was either that or the VUX and they thought maybe they could diplomacy things and make it better.Appeal to their somewhat related humanity and mend fences and such. Well then a strange obviously non-Androsyth ship appears

So the Translation systems note that they cant properly decipher these creatures language and will use approximations. I was prepped for this hard and memorized as many Orz-isms as I could delivering the lines like a badly censored Tv movie. They arent too freaked out at first since its just silly fish aliens and they figure because they are so different from the rubber forehead or muppet type things they are used too they figure thats why they cant properly translate what they are saying. They seem so friendly and diplomacy goes well though. The crew has a lot of fun approximating the translation too. Brock Punchface in particular absolutely fucking LOVES them because the space capable power armor raids are too cool and the Howitzar is manly as fuck. Even pointing out how crazy it seems compared to conventional boarding tactics and how it seems like they dont care about the individual risk doesnt faze him

Then they ask about the Androsynth and the Orz get "Frumple" and warn to not talk about them. The collective "Oh shit" as they start putting the pieces together was fucking fantastic. The Captain knows theres more going on here but damn it they need help and a couple Hippybirds and Spathi scientists wont hold out if the base gets attacked before things get running. So he makes the deal while the rest of the crew just thinks we should bugger off and pretend we never met them. The Taalo mind shield goes off like the game but the PCs figure the shield might be something to help them deal with the Orz if things go south

>>52926419
An extra-dimensional entity trying to push through into our universe, but most of their motives/methods can't be understood by communicating and to witness it would mean you're fuckin' next. It's one entity whose incomplete presence takes the form of an entire "race".

>>52926361
>>52926448

The Spathi and Orz success really make the PCs feel like they are getting somewhere. Finding a Rainbow world along the way helped pay for more information and everyone really feels like the FSA is taking its first steps. The Rainbow worlds being full of valuable resources AND something the Space Jews want make the characters interested in finding more and possible finding some way to start harvesting all the resources past their little lander excursions They are able to make a few upgrades to the ship along with the info and are also feeling a lot more combat capable

Now ive avoided telling them all about the ship combat mechanics. They have the book info but ive heavily modded it because frankly a LOT of it is clunky as fuck and also doesnt work well with the ships in game. I work out the Speed/Turning ability with a simple system recharge rate based on engine power and roughly convert the "Crew" units to a combination or DR based shield and HP and a "Class" system for ships going Fighter>Scout>Small>Medium>Large>Dreadnaught. Anything Fighter based cant enter Hyperspace and anything less than Medium would need to fly in the Hyperspace bubble of a larger ship

This becomes relevant because they get a distress signal from an unknown race that they need to travel past Spathi space to investigate and apparently towards where the Ur-Quan are supposed to be. They are about to meet the Zot-Fot-Pik and have their first encounter with the BBEG race

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>>52926448
dude wtf, did you forget to tell them about the mysterious broadcast from Rigel or they simply chose to ignore it? I practically bee-lined for that shit on my first playthrough

>>52926419
>>52926520
It also might appear into realspace by *smelling you* and *going inside*, turning you into a part of itself.

>>52926635

One thing at a time/Im trying to remember a campaign of a few months at 4am and trying to keep it all in line from game to game. Im also having computer problems like crazy tonight and probably gonna have to finish it tomorrow because of this BS. Ive left out a few details too like meeting the Sylandro probes wanting to investigate Precursor tech and some of the more outlandish plans they had

>>52926633

So meeting the Zot-Fot-Pik was cool because it got them a little background on a new race not in the intro that had contact with the Chenjesu.. Its a small ally but it struck the PCs as cool because they were kinda small and obviously new to the Hyperspace age.They felt they had a responsibility to protect these guys. Of course hearing about a whole new species fighting toe to toe with the big bads is kind of amazing.After all their whole alliance lost to the Ur-Quan and the super-weapon so how amazing are these guys that they can stand up too them? I can tell they are imagining a meta-game scenario where the new player in the game is going to be key, The alliance is set but before they can exit Ur-Quan space they are intercepted by a huge Green ship

Ffirst contact with the Ur-Quan was wicked. I dropped my voice to near James Earl Jones levels gave the full "We are the Ur-Quan etc etc" bit communicated directly to their minds from the talking pets. They had heard about how dangerous the Dreadnaughts were and while they had upgraded the ship pretty well after a few sessions they still didnt know how they would fare against them. They get some info on the war that they wanted during the attempt at negotiation but when they refuse to surrender it turns into the first really meaningful battle of the game. Its fortunate that I made this battle happen on the edge because the fight is brutal.They win but lose some side ships and the Flagship is nearly crippled before they limp away. This leads to some fun RP stuff for a little while where theypatch the shipup

>>52927055

Im deader than the ship now.Ill try and finish this tomorrow if the topic is still up. I hope its been entertaining

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>>52927064
like a spathi council party

>>52925605
It's kind of nice, since the Kzer-ah no longer attack you and tell you that it is in your best interest to save yourselves and hide so that your race doesn't go extinct.

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>>52926448

Fav ship from game?
Mine were both Ur-Quan ships.

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>>52927807
Tough question! I loved the Supox Blade for its strafing ability

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>>52879977
Sounds to me like they are doing you the *favor* of dragging you to *hell* where you can enjoy their *hospitality*.

>>52885238
You are assuming that they have individuality in any way resembling humans.

Their method of reproduction could be purely memetic. So if they manage to groom a race into their own image it is as good as reproducing.

>>52923945
That's why you let the Ur-Quan slam the door on the Orz's *fingers*. The little shits arent welcome.

>>52928010

>Orz are an extra-dimensional waifufag.
>Arilou are constantly hiding camper waifus from them

Androsynth were bad *campers*. Bad *campers* can't be *waifus*, so they go into the *trash*. *Happy campers* are good for *parties*. If you come to our *house* we can have a *special party* and you can become *waifus*! Then it will be time for *shipping*!

>>52928548
>*Happy campers* are good for *parties*. If you come to our *house* we can have a *special party* and you can become *waifus*! Then it will be time for *shipping*!
Exactly.
Hell.

>>52910953

When the space babes fly their Penetrators aggressively, 10% of men actually like it.

>Guys jumping out of the airlock
>"Hey wait, she hasn't even used her special power yet!"

>>52912141

That's why I voted for Bernie Sanders.

>>52927807
Hmmm, Torch, maybe.

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>>52929203
that's a banned ship get out cheater REEEEEEEEEEEE

>>52928916
>party hat and crabstick

>>52929365
Another assblasted member of New Alliance of """"Free""" Stars.

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What do you think /tg/, how good will be the Origins story compared to the originals? Any hope that it will live up to the potential of its predecessors?

>>52930356
it really depends, the combat basics is simple, hard to fuck up, but the alien races and time frame make me nervous
im cautinously optimistic though

>>52930356
They seem to be working with the community and that can go either way but they seem to have more respect for the source than SC3 did so I hope it will be at least better than that.

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>>52927807

I liked the stealthy one. I once did a cloaked gravitational slingshot playing against a friend of mine. Kicked his ass with a single sweet maneuver; he usually beat me but we both talked about that move for months afterwards.

I liked both Ur Quan ships. The Chmmr Avatar is very good as well.

I was into Transformers when I was a kid in the 80s, so I really wanted to like the transformer. And the Orz rock, of course, but neither of those ships really worked out for me when I actually played them.

In SC3, the mycon ship was fun but my all-time favorite ship to fly was the Doog Constructor. Basically easy mode. You'd charge in, fly by with guns blazing, and then stay away jamming the repair button until you were fully repaired again. Sometimes I'd skirmish with easy ships just to top off my ships.

>>52931129

Need another Star Control general thread. Now I want to play the tabletop rpg. *frumple*

>>52931380

It has a TTRPG?

>>52931380
either that or some good questing / pbp

>>52927055
>>52926633
>>52926448
>>52926298
>>52926149
>>52925961

Need new thread and rpg notes so this guy can continue his storytime. That game sounds epic.

Also need more rule 34 jokes

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>*where* are Supox?
>Supox are not *here*

fuck this should be a running joke.

Where are androsynth?
Androsynth are not here.

*Where* are the Arilou?
Arilou are not *here*.

*Where* are the Korh-ah?
Kohr-ah are not *here*.

*Where* are the Precursors?
Precursors are not *here*.

*Where* are the Orz?
Orz are not *here*