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Aliens of Oolite

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:19 pm
by BlackWolf
I would like to know what various alien races are all in Oolite.
If there is a comprehensive list somewhere please link me.
Thanks.

Re: Aliens of Oolite

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:23 pm
by DataPacRat
BlackWolf wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:19 pm
I would like to know what various alien races are all in Oolite.
If there is a comprehensive list somewhere please link me.
Thanks.
The closest I've managed to such a list is to visit http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sector ... y_Sector_1 (and the other 7), and click the arrows at the top of the 'Inhabitants' column to sort them that way.

Re: Aliens of Oolite

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:08 am
by BlackWolf
Thanks.

Re: Aliens of Oolite

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:11 am
by phkb
Selezen has some general info about species on this page: http://daftworks.co.uk/elite/index.php/Societies

Re: Aliens of Oolite

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:13 am
by BlackWolf
Thank you I'll check it out.

Re: Aliens of Oolite

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:57 am
by BlackWolf
So the base types are these:
Birds
Felines
Frogs
Furry Humanoids
Horned Humanoids
Humans
Insects
Lizards
Lobsters

That's it, everything else is a variation of said base race, fat, color, bony, slimy and so forth.

Re: Aliens of Oolite

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 1:05 am
by Cody
Eight base types, plus human colonials - as per the species icons here.

Re: Aliens of Oolite

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 1:21 am
by BlackWolf
That's my count.
So no xenimorphs, or biomechs (other then in the stories), or lupins/canines.

Re: Aliens of Oolite

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:24 pm
by Disembodied
The species labels are pretty vague … "Insect" is a huge classification on its own, and could contain a whole mass of very different types of creatures. "Rodent" is pretty massive too. And "humanoid" could conceivably cover just about anything that has two arms and two legs and a head roughly near the top … it could be pretty much a "miscellaneous" catch-all category for things that don't fit anywhere else. A "furry humanoid" might easily describe something canine, like the Vargr from Traveller: maybe there just aren't enough canine species to justify a separate category.