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1. The Boogy Men
2. Little Green Men
3. Gamara's
4. The Lost Race
5. Dinasours
6. Space Born Races (non planet)
7. Ceptors (Evil changlings)
8. Plauge Race (Comes to your world, you die)

etc. any other ideas?

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New Age Ship Yards

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Beavers in Space (i.e. Angry Beavers space episode)

Pigs in Space (i.e. muppets)

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Not so much a race as a whole mod... "1950s visions of the future" - Dan Dare etc... Kind of like the "grit tech" but 30 years previous - valves and rockets rather than semiconductors and radioactives...

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The Day The Earth Stood Still
Forbidden Planet (The movie that spawned Star Trek http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif (yes, I need professional help with my trek addiction. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif )

Actually, I was wondering if there were any meshes or ship images out there based upon Tim Burtons movie Mar's Attacks.

I thought the movie was funnier than ****, and would love to have the LGM and their ships for a race.

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The 50's would make a really cool mod.

Destructor rays, death rays.

WOuld be neat seeing Buck Rogers vs Flash Gordon.

ANd for troops you could use the giant ants from Them.

Ahhh 50's scifi movies and shows.

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Galaxy Quest
Alien

H.R. Giger's style would be perfect for an organic race's shipset.

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human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

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Giger - hooo, scary.

Check out the Crauw and the Sharlon on Universal Shipyards - they're not far off.

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Alien Vs Preditor Vs Space Marines

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Mystery Science Theater 3000
Zentraedi
Gundam
Space Rednecks
Space Mafia
Sentient forms of the color Blue
Wing Commander
Dune
Ringworld
Flying Hats
Punk Rock Anarchists
Space Nazis
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

uh...

Space Samurai
StarCraft
Martians (War of the Worlds)
Space Rabbits
Space Tikis

That's it for now.

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Oh yeah,

Godzilla
1930's stylin
Space Vampires

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For those of you interested (sounds like some), there was a Flash Gordon/Ming shipset released a bit back. A search might turn it up.(can't remember who did it though...memory fading...age enroaching...ugh....).

Ones I would like to see:

SPACEBALLS!!!!!!! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif
Robotech/Battletech
L.E.G.I.O.N (DC Comic)
South Park style set (REALLY badly drawn http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif)
Lego shipset (I gave up trying to piece one together ages ago, no artistic ability in this blood http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon9.gif).
StarBlazers (EDF/Gamilion/Comet Empire, I know there are shipsets out there, but I want an updated Version, not copied cartoon images but 3d drawn computer images)(holding breath........ http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif)
and finally, the Yuzan Vong(sp?) from the new Star Wars book series (living coral ships, cool).

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Anybody over 30 out there? How about a "Hardware Wars" shipset. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon10.gif

frigate = Iron
small fighter = Hand mixer
Baseship = Waffle iron

Anybody else remember this? It was a hoot.

Geo

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LOL! Welding masked Vader. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

Any of you ever see the TROOPS series?

Your on location with the men and women of the Imperial Navy.

It was a spin off of cops but with stormtroopers on Tatoonie instead. "Stop or I'm gonna have ta shoocha!"

Explains what happend to the Jaws, and to Lukes Aunt and Uncle.

Very funny.

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Here's the URL
http://www.swfanfilms.com/FinishedMo...ops/troops.htm

The video http://download.theforce.net/troops/troops.mov

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ROFLMAO! Atrocities. I had not seen that. Too funny!

Geo

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Or how about a 'Pop Stars' shipset???
(who would'nt want to shoot at ships that are headshots of N'SYNC or the Backstreet Boys?? http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif).....(Kill em' ALL!!! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif)

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by geoschmo:
Anybody over 30 out there? How about a "Hardware Wars" shipset. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon10.gif

frigate = Iron
small fighter = Hand mixer
Baseship = Waffle iron

Anybody else remember this? It was a hoot.

Geo<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Geo, I'm not quite 30, but I remember it. LOL'ed when you reminded me of it.

Atrocities, I friend at work showed me TROOPS. Also a LOL!

Back to the original question....
-Daleks and other stuff from "Dr. Who"
-Space Wolves
-Space Vampires/Undead
-Chthulhu
-D&D in space (there was an expansion like this for D&D called Spacejammer or something like that)
-cartoons (old school and new)
-something plant-like
-sentient viruses/bacteria
-Amazons (mmm... chicks who kick butt!)

Whoops, sorry about the testosterone surge there!

Quikngruvn

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Terrible Thunderlizards from the Eekstravaganza cartoon. Or maybe it should be called Dinosaur Society

Leader Portrait: General Galapagos ["We dinosaurs are doomed. I just know it."]

Of course, the Terrans might have to be modified with Bill as the leader portrait... ["When does the hurting stop?!"]


Ooo... there's potential for ANOTHER shipset: the Thuggasaurs, with Thuggo as the leader portrait. ["Biff, go destroy those foolish Thunderlizards. The rest of you come with me... my evil lair needs new wallpaper."]

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I thought about MUPETS in space too. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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C.H.U.D.


The 50's Flash Gordon would make a really cool looking ship set.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Chthulhu<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I'd love to see a Lovecraft Mythos shipset. I'm playing the Mi-Go in one of my PBW games. I gave them Natural Merchants, since they technically don't even need ships for interplanetary flight.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> Robotech <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> Zentraedi <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm almost done with both!

There is some clean up work left, but I'll get on it right away. Besides the two sets, there will be an add on pack with almost all the vehicles/mecha seen in the show so you can have what you like, or do what I do and add them all.

There also *might* be enough for a pure Macross (Macross, Macross Plus, Macross7, etc) set. There is some material for the Varatua and Meltrandi, although not enough for a full set for either of them.

I’d like to see:
Aliens
Colonial Marines
Dune
Gundam
A 50’s scifi set would be really cool, of course you’d need tech for it too!

Its just a shame there isn’t enough readily available source material for them (except the 50’s set) to get a whole set done. Maybe someone who has 3d skills could help out there.

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How about stuff from Dexter's Lab. He's got lots of cool spaceships and stuff.

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QUOTE:
South Park style set (REALLY badly drawn )
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A while back I thought of doing a Terrance and Phillip shipset. (inspired by the excellent Neo Canadian shipset on USy)

Badly drawn 2D pics with ES, FG, DS on the side in huge letters. Atmos type? Gas/ methane of course.

General message: "Hey, did you hear that? I just farted! Hahahahaha!"
Refuse tribute demand: "Here's a tribute for you: *Ppppbbbt*"
General message: "Pull my finger!"


QUOTE:
Lego shipset (I gave up trying to piece one together ages ago, no artistic ability in this blood ).
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Well, just buy some lego, make some ships, then take photos of them and scan them in=-)


Oh, and someone mentioned a plant-like race: Check out the United Flora on USy.
A "Little shop of Horrors" race/ shipset could be good though.
General message: "Feed me!"
Demand gift: "Feed me now!"
Declaration of war: "FEEEEED ME!"


Other scifi images:
Hitch-hikers Guide (Anyone watching the repeats on UK TV at the moment?)
General message: "I think you ought to know I'm feeling rather depresseed at the moment."
General message: "1:289,591 against and falling..."

Red Dwarf
Offer Tribute: "Would anybody like any toast?"
&lt;Sci fi cast crossover trivia&gt;
Danny John Jules (The Cat in Red Dwarf UK) had a small part in Little Shop of Horrors - he's a dancer in the "Total Eclipse of the sun: It got very Dark" song.
&lt;/Sci fi cast crossover trivia&gt;

Damn, I'll be humming Little Shop tunes for the rest of the day now....
"When I was young, just a little kid,
My Momma noticed funny things I did,
Like shootin' puppies with a BB gun,
And poison guppies, and when I was done,
I'd find a kitty cat and bash it's head,
And then one day, my Momma said...

(What did she say?)

She said "my boy some day,
You'll find a way,
to make your natural tendencies pay:
You'll be a dentist"
(you'll be a dentist)
"You've a talent for causing things PAIN!"
(Ooooh!)
"Son be a dentist"
(Son be a dentist)
People pay you to be... inhumane"...

...Can't remember the rest.

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Trilobites.

There are lots of images available on the web (sadly I don't have the skill to process them).

Race would have organic and crystaline techs (there was a thread a few days ago showing how to generate the ".emp" for two techs).

Come to think of it, they should be ancient too.

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Bucky O'Hare shipset

The Toads would have their mothership for a Baseship, and Double Bubbles for fighters.

S.P.A.C.E. only had 3 frigates in their navy, but one could extrapolate other designs.

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I had an idea for an empire called the Bubba Confederacy.

Frigate is a primer-colored old Corvette with racing stripes.
Cruisers could be rusted pick-up trucks.
Battleships would be 4x4's with full gun racks and deer-spotting lights.
Space Stations are trailers. Starbases are doublewides.
Transports could be trailers still on wheels.
Carriers would be fishin' boats.
Weapons platforms would be shotguns.
Troops would be coon dogs and/or professional wrestlers.
And, of course, colony ships would be the Clampett's car from "The Beverly Hillbillies"!

'Course, I think only an American Southerner could do it justice. I've already got a racial history in mind, tho.

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Forgot the troops!
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Quikngruvn

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I would love to see a system shock/system shock 2 Shodan shipset, with the queen of malavolent AI herself in charge and a whole lot of cyberneticaly augmented/enslaved human drones such as this one: http://sshock2.com/fanworks/artwork/waitingshodan.jpg , for use as troops and pop_portraits. Computer tech would be researched early and be on every ship. Could be cool. You could go really nuts and also create a shipset based on The Many (the organic bad guys from SS2). The shipset would just be a bunch of assorted ships from the stock SEIV races with a huge organic mass growing all over them. Fun.
Also cool would be to make a few more shipsets based on the moo races. The Darlock are a very cool shipset with great AI, but I want more, dammit, more!
Anyway, I'm already amazed at some of the great shipsets which have already come out for SEIV. What a great game and what a great community supporting it.


P.S. I would definately want to play as the "Bubba Confederacy."

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Am I ill, or does any one else find her slightly attractive. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif

And instead of the Bubba Ship Set, you could always call it The Space Trailer Park Red Neck Set.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mad_Lear:
I would love to see a system shock/system shock 2 Shodan shipset<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I recall seeing two ships and a shuttle. But I bet I know where you could get an image for the starbase http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Atrocities:
Am I ill, or does any one else find her slightly attractive. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

slightly? I mean, NO! you sick monster of a man, NO! sheeze, never say something like that on a public forum.

on a serious note though, much of the system shock art is very Gieger-esque. My favorite imagery is probably the cortex-reavers from the first game.


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Dr. Who
Red Dwarf
Kilrathi (old school WC1)
Buck Rogers
Submarines in space
old sailing ships (images of galleons & dreadnoughts & things)
Tron
Jawas (always fun)
Transformers
GI Joe
Space Quest
Stoners
Unarmed race with really fast ships
Purely defensive race
Purely offensive race (either all weapons or the smell bad)
Dragonball Z (ships are guys who have just trained reeeeely hard)
Space Cowboys (NOT movie related, real cowboys.)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
007 (debonair space spies)
1880's (new adventures in steam and electricity)
Kung Fu (NOT tv show related, just Chinese guys who can kick some tail)
Bill & Ted's Righteous Race Style
Arthurian style
Space Eskimos
Pigs in Space
Space Werewolves
X-men
Flying Food
Flying Feces
Man-eating plants
Magnetic Race (highly attractive)
Extremely ugly race (they have nice personalities)
Overpopulated race (no sense of personal space)
Telepathic rocks
Pyromeniacal Race (loves explosions; the bigger the better)
Fast food (burgers with many engines)
Unseen race (ship images are completely blank)

etc. more later.

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What about some cool new COMPONENT and FACILITY pictures? Sure, it's great to have new races, even some 'joke' races like the "Bubba" idea or the Coneheads (the cruiser from the movie would be a good start for a shipset). But if every ship contains the exact same components it's less fun than having some really different technologies. SOmeone made that "warp core" component that appears in several mods now. It's a really nice component picture. There must be some more good images for components and even facilities that could be added to the existing set?

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Several people have thought the idea of a ship set based on Aliens would be cool if it had enough ships.

The solution is to mix similar looking ship styles from three different sources. This should give enough ships for a set.

They are SAAB, Aliens, and Starship Troopers (Both movie and cgi series).

The Saratoga, Nostromo, Sulaco, Rodger Young, Hammerheads, Cheyenne Dropships, ISSCVs, Various groundtroops, and many others.

Someone has already posted the Saratoga and Hammerhead. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

Lots of Online sources.
I for one would love to see it.

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Well I am just back from a week up in Northern Ontario. If some one did a race on insects like Deer flys and Black flys. I would surrender all my planets to them with out a fight. Unless I had some sticky stuff on my hat. Off, well that just atracks them.

I think there was even Moose Flies http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

An Insect race that kicks Klaxions butts.

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dogscoff, thanks for pointing me to the Crauw and Sharlon shipsets. The Sharlon Versions are perfect for my Mi-Go.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"