New race idea

[Phoenix-D]

This is more of a tech tree really..and I suppose a good way to give a newbie a boost against an experienced player Not sure how you'd RP them in a SE4; one of their quirks if they can't bear to live in "flat" (low gravity) space- the more advanced kinds like living next to the event horizon of a black hole.

Doing a race style would be difficult, if only because they are never actually described! Voice only, well, voice one ship and a long-range hologram.

Phoenix-D

[Xandu]

Thanks for the ideas. I thought really, that the player could choose their race, and, like the 'layered space' idea for the space monsters, different orders of life existed at different levels, with very little contact. Somehow, however, you could reach them, and, below them all, on the lowest, most insrutable level, you had the transcendents, living in and around stars, black holes and other gravitic anomalies. anyway, when your race becomes transcendant, then you must leave all your colonies, and create (not exactly faithful to the book here) a portal, which brings you to the lowest space, and you create ringworld style colonies etc, and play out the grand scheme of things. I'm just throwing ideas round now, your thoughts again please.