New race idea

[Phoenix-D]

"Ah, so how would they work in the game?"

Not exactly. The sentient machine part, sure (though that can be done other ways)

minor spoilers below

The "Trancendants" and "Retired Races" in Brin's Uplift stuff were really, really powerful. Dyson spheres as standard low-end habitats, blowing up stars so their flashes could act like morse code pulses, weapons capable of carving ships apart and then putting the remains back together as new ships..

EDIT: as to what they were, that universe had a few main classes of life- oxygen breathers, hydrogen breathers, and machine. Also a few others like "quantum" life. Anyway, the trancendants were a combination of all those. SE4 terms, built in MC, immune to computer viruses and plagues, and any atmosphere acts like the "home" atmosphere.

Phoenix-D

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]