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[EpicNewb]

I do believe planets with hazards will be back.

 

Anyway, I'd like to see some big carnivorous planets.  They can serve as traps.  Firing at the environment as we colonize will be lot of fun.

 

Then primitives who would love to eat you and your squad.

[Midnight Bliss]

Something like this as a new LI please

 

 

 

[Bowlcuts]

Something like this as a new LI please

 

 

 

They've already got that covered. It's called an Asari.

[Teabaggin Krogan]

Something like this as a new LI please

 

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At first I was gonna say "Have bewbs, will bang" but then I saw your reply.

[Revan Reborn]

Something like this as a new LI please

 

 

 

That looks like a constipated crab. I'll pass.

 

We should have a planet in MEA that is actually an alien in disguise and tries to swallow our entire ship.

 

We also need a water planet with exotic and nude mermaids who perform sexual acts 24/7.

[The Elcor Spectre]

With great happiness, If Andromeda holds a race of Elcor the size of dinosaurs with organic cannons on their back, I will be the happiest Elcor alive.

[Killroy]

Farscape has the character designs of a Power Rangers series.

[LightningPoodle]

A race of sapient plants. One of those could be a companion. A druid of sorts. Attuned to the natural order of things. An example of how they could differ from other companions - if you take them to a new planet, they could provide a small amount of insight into that planets ecosystem. Sort of like the Sylvari from Guild Wars

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Only less pretty. More towards Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.

[Jedi Comedian]

It's called an Asari.

Looks more like a Banshee.

[Killroy]

A race of sapient plants. One of those could be a companion. A druid of sorts. Attuned to the natural order of things. An example of how they could differ from other companions - if you take them to a new planet, they could provide a small amount of insight into that planets ecosystem. Sort of like the Sylvari from Guild Wars

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Only less pretty. More towards Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.

 

You can make a Sylvari that looks like it has bark for skin though, can't you? I think I remember making one like that.

[LightningPoodle]

You can make a Sylvari that looks like it has bark for skin though, can't you? I think I remember making one like that.

You can, and even though you can make them super fugly, they still come across as pretty elves. I wrinkle my nose at the thought of that in Mass Effect. But I like the concept, and it's not like it can't be done. Example being Groot, who exists in a sci-Fi universe.

[Killroy]

You can, and even though you can make them super fugly, they still come across as pretty elves. I wrinkle my nose at the thought of that in Mass Effect. But I like the concept, and it's not like it can't be done. Example being Groot, who exists in a sci-Fi universe.

 

The Asari are already elves so what's the big deal? Bring on the cute plant-people, I say.

[vbibbi]

Something like this as a new LI please

 

 

 

 

 

Honestly I see this and imagine the actress thinking to herself "What point in my life lead me to this g%@*% moment?"

[Revan Reborn]

Honestly I see this and imagine the actress thinking to herself "What point in my life lead me to this g%@*% moment?"

I don't find that outfit attractive at all. It looks like it came out of some reject carnival in the middle of nowhere. I think a five year old could likely design a better outfit than that.

[LightningPoodle]

The Asari are already elves so what's the big deal? Bring on the cute plant-people, I say.

I wouldn't say no to more sexy aliens, but I think I'd prefer gritty over sexy in this case. Either way, I believe we are both in agreement that plant people would be cool, no?

[Onewomanarmy]

I still say we go with male looking Asari!

[Revan Reborn]

I still say we go with male looking Asari!

No male looking asari for females who fall asleep during the day!

[Onewomanarmy]

No male looking asari for females who fall asleep during the day!

 

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

And can I please have ONE?.. ONE? PLEASE???

[Mcfly616]

Something with more than 2 legs and 2 arms. Maybe something that doesn't even have legs or arms.

[Killroy]

I wouldn't say no to more sexy aliens, but I think I'd prefer gritty over sexy in this case. Either way, I believe we are both in agreement that plant people would be cool, no?

 

I'm definitely up for plant people, but what's "gritty" about Groot? And the last time BioWare went "gritty" we got a series of dark corridors and a crew of daddy-issue-havin' betas.

[Vortex13]

Blindsight was an excellent science fiction exploration of the concepts of intelligences vs. consciousness as well as being one of the few narratives I've seen (though I will admit to not having a huge library of experience) to depict an 'alien' intelligence without resorting to the whole "Beyond our comprehension" copout either. I would like to see BioWare look towards concepts like this when creating new aliens for Mass Effect: Andromeda:

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Imagine you're a scrambler.

Imagine you have intellect but no insight, agendas but no awareness. Your circuitry hums with strategies for survival and persistence, flexible, intelligent, even technological - but no other circuitry monitors it. You can think of anything, yet are conscious of nothing.

You can't imagine such a being can you? The term being doesn't even seem to apply, in some fundamental way you can't quite put your finger on.

Try.

Imagine that you encounter a signal. It is structured, and dense with information. It meets all the criteria of an intelligent transmission. Evolution and experience offer a variety of paths to follow, branch-points in the flowcharts that handle such input. Sometimes these signals come from conspecifics who have useful information to share, whose lives you'll defend according to the rules of kin selection. Sometimes they come from competitors or predators or other inimical entities that must be avoided or destroyed; in those cases, the information may prove of significant tactical value. Some signals may even arise from entities which, while not kin, can still serve as allies or symbionts in mutually beneficial pursuits. You can derive appropriate responses for any of these eventualities, and many others.

You decode the signals, and stumble:

I had a great time. I really enjoyed him. Even if he cost twice as much as any other hooker in the dome-

To fully appreciate Kesey's Quartet-

They hate us for our freedom-

Pay attention now-

Understand.

There are no meaningful translations for these terms. They are needlessly recursive. They contain no usable intelligence, yet they are structured intelligently; there is no chance they could have arisen by chance.

The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception become apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.

Viruses do not arise from kin, symbionts, or other allies.

The signal is an attack.

And it's coming from right about there.

*

"Now you get it," Sascha said.

I shook my head, trying to wrap it around that insane, impossible conclusion. "They're not even hostile." Not even capable of hostility. Just so profoundly alien that they couldn't help but treat human language itself as a form of combat.

How do you say We come in peace when the very words are an act of war?

[Killroy]

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Imagine you're a scrambler.

Imagine you have intellect but no insight, agendas but no awareness. Your circuitry hums with strategies for survival and persistence, flexible, intelligent, even technological - but no other circuitry monitors it. You can think of anything, yet are conscious of nothing.

You can't imagine such a being can you? The term being doesn't even seem to apply, in some fundamental way you can't quite put your finger on.

Try.

Imagine that you encounter a signal. It is structured, and dense with information. It meets all the criteria of an intelligent transmission. Evolution and experience offer a variety of paths to follow, branch-points in the flowcharts that handle such input. Sometimes these signals come from conspecifics who have useful information to share, whose lives you'll defend according to the rules of kin selection. Sometimes they come from competitors or predators or other inimical entities that must be avoided or destroyed; in those cases, the information may prove of significant tactical value. Some signals may even arise from entities which, while not kin, can still serve as allies or symbionts in mutually beneficial pursuits. You can derive appropriate responses for any of these eventualities, and many others.

You decode the signals, and stumble:

I had a great time. I really enjoyed him. Even if he cost twice as much as any other hooker in the dome-

To fully appreciate Kesey's Quartet-

They hate us for our freedom-

Pay attention now-

Understand.

There are no meaningful translations for these terms. They are needlessly recursive. They contain no usable intelligence, yet they are structured intelligently; there is no chance they could have arisen by chance.

The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception become apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.

Viruses do not arise from kin, symbionts, or other allies.

The signal is an attack.

And it's coming from right about there.

*

"Now you get it," Sascha said.

I shook my head, trying to wrap it around that insane, impossible conclusion. "They're not even hostile." Not even capable of hostility. Just so profoundly alien that they couldn't help but treat human language itself as a form of combat.

How do you say We come in peace when the very words are an act of war?

 

[Giantdeathrobot]

It's very hard to do properly, but I'd like an alien species with a completely different moral spectrum from humans, that isn't played for laughs or used as an excuse to blow them up because they aren't like humans.

 

Like say a species that has a mind hive of sorts and honestly views individuality as a curse of sorts. But in the usual way where it makes them freedom-hating bad guys that the heroes (modeled after red-blooded americans, of course) can exterminate with impunity. A species that puts little to no stock in individual life but values community and a greater good (with all the good and bad things that this implies) above all as a general rule, and is genuinely puzzled as to how humans and other aliens can feel good when they are so lonely all the time, without the guiding hand of their community. Kinda like the Tau in Warhammer 40K, just with less anime influences.

 

And no, by that I don't mean an insufferably morally superior species of people who are oh so self-righteously wise at everything like the N'Avi in Avatar. That species would have its own set of moral baggage and perhaps dissidents that we can agree with or not.

 

Another possibility is just, well, something akin to the Protheans. Ruthless conquerors who nonetheless value order and discipline even if they must impose it the hard way. I don't think the Turians count as this, those aliens wouldn't play nice with a Council. Nor do the Batarians, they are more like Space North Korea or Space Pirates.

[Vortex13]

 

 

A perfect example of how to have an alien species be intrinsically 'alien' to us without out resorting to the whole "We are beyond your comprehension." gibberish for one thing.

[Atomkick]

Anybody?

 

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