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So, solarians sound like Jedi, with the Cycle being like the Force, except that solarians don't need a lightsaber -- they ARE the lightsaber...
We don't know why they have to cover their mouths, just that they do. For their lore, there's not much more than what the wiki says, but People of The Stars and Iron Gods have a bit more info.
Ok I will check those out. Thank you.
He won't be dethroning Keskodai or Quig in my affections, but Altronus is definitely a cool hombre.
So, solarians sound like Jedi, with the Cycle being like the Force, except that solarians don't need a lightsaber -- they ARE the lightsaber...
Except in this case the force is the power of the life cycles of stars, from the fire and radiance or Stars to the cold and consumption of Black Holes.
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So, solarians sound like Jedi, with the Cycle being like the Force, except that solarians don't need a lightsaber -- they ARE the lightsaber...Except in this case the force is the power of the life cycles of stars, from the fire and radiance or Stars to the cold and consumption of Black Holes.
Damn now I have the mental image of a Solarian Sailor Scout in my head... Sailorian Galaxia... I blame the personal sharing all those awesome drawings in my Facebook feed.
You know Owen said we can choose where our powers come from so force is legitimate as kala from starcraft?
Very true and I am not saying that is not the case but the Solarians design and powers specifically mention Stars and Black Holes and their abilities reflect that concept as well, such as the Starfire Burst in the Solarion wrtite up and in the first play example video when the Solarion chose to be Solar focused for the combat or the gravity manipulation power from later in that same video when the Solarion chose to got Black Hole focused.
It is also why Altronus has a stole showing a star at one end and a vortex or black hole icon at the other in the illustration.
Was merely trying to give him some more information, not say he could not call it the force.
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Damn now I have the mental image of a Solarian Sailor Scout in my head... Sailorian Galaxia... I blame the personal sharing all those awesome drawings in my Facebook feed.
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The Kasatha are an PC race and so I can answer your questions in order.
1. Nothing indicates this, no.
2. Their culture forbids them from displaying their mouths in public.
3. They are not telepathic, they are very acrobatic though.
Oh, poop. i knew they had Pathfinder stat write ups too... i get caught up thinking of them as Protoss sometimes and this image didnt really help distance that connection.
1) this write up mentions the blade manifesting on the lower right arm, i get since they have four arms it makes sense to call out the specific arm but it just made me curious. i dont know but it seems like even with four arms there would be one that was the most dominant or culturally expected. i doubt it will be anything major but its a detail that stuck out.
2. Is this stated anywhere or just inferred from the art?
2: It's from Pathfinder (from multiple sources, including distant worlds and Iron Gods AP) and has been confirmed (somewhere other than art, but I'm not sure where) as continuing in Starfinder.
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Owen K. C. Stephens, turning typing errors into gold for fun and profit! :-)Yep!Also, 'cosmonastery'
Really?
I'll take the blame for that one—I came up with "cosmonastery" while writing the Absalom Station article and begged the rest of the team to say it was cool. :D
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I'll take the blame for that one—I came up with "cosmonastery" while writing the Absalom Station article and begged the rest of the team to say it was cool. :D
Well it is cool. I am just used to seeing Owen's mispelling posts in other places so assumed this was one of the.
Nice job to you all in any case. Please release the core rules early? Please? *Insert picture of sad, begging puppy here*
We don't know why they have to cover their mouths, just that they do. For their lore, there's not much more than what the wiki says, but People of The Stars and Iron Gods have a bit more info.
Maybe their reproductive bits are on their faces, kinda like some cephalopods. That's always been my theory.
I'll take the blame for that one—I came up with "cosmonastery" while writing the Absalom Station article and begged the rest of the team to say it was cool. :DOwen K. C. Stephens, turning typing errors into gold for fun and profit! :-)Yep!Also, 'cosmonastery'
Really?
I assume next to the Cosmonastary is the starectory? Do they maintain a Red Sequence Dwarf Chapel?
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We don't know why they have to cover their mouths, just that they do. For their lore, there's not much more than what the wiki says, but People of The Stars and Iron Gods have a bit more info.Maybe their reproductive bits are on their faces, kinda like some cephalopods. That's always been my theory.
It's likely a simple case of species wide halitosis.
They're just all dark templar, that's all.
En Taro Tassadar!
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I wasn't expecting Mulder to make an appearance, but now that he has, he might be my favorite.
{squints:}
Altronus Barasul Dovenayan was born into House Holdare...
So Altrononus is...
...Fox Holdar(e)?
Oh, poop. i knew they had Pathfinder stat write ups too... i get caught up thinking of them as Protoss sometimes and this image didnt really help distance that connection.
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Protoss would be Large, have only 2 arms, and 3 fingers on each hand; they would also have really long feet that appear to be part of the leg (like on many animals). And, last time I checked, they wouldn't have a visible mouth at all, even if they didn't wear any covering in the spot corresponding to our mouths.
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Whats up with the energy blade phasing through the gray? i would like to know more.
I would guess either a Displacement spell or some new way to use the Gray's phase ability to work against weapons. It wasn't described as flickering in out out of sight so it probably wasn't their constant blink SLA (depending on how the ethereal plane interacts with moving ships it might not be wisest thing to use during space travel.) This is all assuming Grays and the mentioned spells work the same in starfinder as in pathfinder.
Amazing write-up! I'm not a kasatha-fan, but this actually made them sound intersting.
(I'm amused by the fact that the Solarian class sounds "Monk-like", while the art of Altronus makes him look like he's wearing a bishop's mitre.)
And now I really want to find out more about Solarians. Anything that can be re-flavoured as an alternative Force tradition is most definitely my cup of tea.
GLORIOUS
We don't know why they have to cover their mouths, just that they do. For their lore, there's not much more than what the wiki says, but People of The Stars and Iron Gods have a bit more info.Maybe their reproductive bits are on their faces, kinda like some cephalopods. That's always been my theory.
Well, from what I understand, they come from a desert planet. They probably started covering their mouth/nose to keep dust out of their lungs, and it stuck due to their traditionalist culture.
That's what I was thinking too.
We don't know why they have to cover their mouths, just that they do. For their lore, there's not much more than what the wiki says, but People of The Stars and Iron Gods have a bit more info.
They all want to look like Vash the Stampede.
Kasatha culture sounds very interesting!
I'm curious about their usage of genships though, seeing as the Drift is a thing. Did they just not have access to that technology?
I believe a god told them that their planet was dying and they needed to GTFO.
I wonder if that is a heavy or light armor he is wearing...Light.
Is Heavy Armor proficiency something a Solarian can take? Or does it mess with their cosmic connection to the universe, like druids wearing too much metal?
I think anyone can take heavy armor proficiency.
Altronus appears to be wearing something like lamellar or maybe scale; lots of small plates. Perhaps some sort of lightweight Kevlar or plastic? The dwarf appears to have more large, solid plates.
Altronus appears to be wearing something like lamellar or maybe scale; lots of small plates. Perhaps some sort of lightweight Kevlar or plastic? The dwarf appears to have more large, solid plates.We cant see the dwarf's upper legs or abdomen but both have rigid plates over their upper torso, lower legs and forearms with what looks like the same style or padded/scaled/lumpy under layer around their faces and biceps. the dwarf might have more rigid plates surrounding his legs while with Altronus we can see the rigid plates cover the legs without full encasing them. Altronus might have less rigid plates over his lower torso as well though this might be due to his physiology requiring more soft coverage around his extra limb protrusions. In the real world the two armors might be considered different and maybe even in the game world they would be marketed by different names but to me they are both perfectly fine representations of Space-Breastplates (Or Star-Breastplates if you prefer) as far as a game term would go, they would both give the same ACs and DEX mods, basically the same entry in the equipment section.
We may have to agree to disagree here. Aside from Altronus' upper legs, all of his armor is made of overlapping smaller plates. That's basically the definition of lamellar. If it's made of some high-tech plastic or Kevlar, that fits pretty readily alongside leather lamellar as light armor. On the other hand, the dwarf's entire torso appears to be covered by a single solid plate, with similar one-piece plates covering the shoulders and forearms. His feet seem to have some sort of segmented armored boot, but there's obviously a need for flexibility there. The padded head covering is a little weird, though. Overall, I'd call it full plate or field plate.
That might be the definition of lamellar, but the definition refers to small, 2 inch tall, 1 inch wide plates. Altronus' armor is NOT lamellar, it's "banded armor", which did not exist historically outside of roman lorica segmentata.
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Besides, the in game zealot is a similar size to a terran marine (armoured, obviously).
For transport purposes, they're twice as big (like a Hydralisk), a comparison one can run using Dark Archons and mind control with some handy transports...