Crazy Idea

[Arkcon]

I had an idea for a mod and in it was a super race. An ancient race with abilities far beyond those that any other race has. Sorta like Space Monsters, sorta like the Rage, but with a innate level 4 cloak to their ships and planets, and not aggressive at all. They also needed a carefully tweaked AI file, so they wouldn't declare war under normal circumstances, even if they were discovered. 'Course, once you discovered them, and you went MegaEvil (TM), they'd turn on you just like everyone else. I figured their message in that case would be: "We've been watching you for some time now. We think you're ready to understand this now." Nice and creepy and cryptic.

At any rate, I was going to give them Battleship sized hulls, orgainic/crystaline armor, top level point defence, and an incinerator type beam weapon, all to start with. They wouldn't have to research anything. They'd colonize slowly, planets would just disappear when they built their cloaking facility. You'd be toast if you initiated combat with another opponent in a sector they we're hiding in. (Kinda like Babylon 5, when that Star Fury lost in hyperspace saw the first Shadow vessel, then we never saw another one untll two seasons later). Then, when you were almost technologically and economically advanced to handle them, they'd suddenly appear all over the place, angry at you.

[Atrocities]

I had a similar idea, but the opposite. A race that is strictly a pacifist in nature and their weapons, via racial trait, are all non-lethal. They target engines, weapons, shields, uses boarding to capture ships, and lands troops to capture planets.

I suggested this for a race trait in SEV and I think it’s going to be one. J (Fingers crossed.)

Image playing as a Pacifist race where your race is limited to non-lethal weapons. Of course they would have a huge boost in the diplomacy area, and have specialized Intel gather and Counter Intel abilities. Their ships would have better shielding and be faster over all with superior maneuverability.

Try playing a game where your best weapon takes out both the engines and weapons of your opponent’s ships. You board those ships and find that your racial trait won’t allow you to use their weapons. LOL. But you gain the ship and can re-arm it with non-lethal weapons. Cool.

[Urendi Maleldil]

If your pacifist race went around frying the engines and weapons on everybody's ships, their enemies would get maintenanced to death.

[douglas]

Urendi Maleldil said:
If your pacifist race went around frying the engines and weapons on everybody's ships, their enemies would get maintenanced to death.

Unless their enemies put self destruct devices on all their ships and used them on crippled ships.

[boran_blok]

but then the pacificts would have achieved the same as destroying the ship, hence they have still won.