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yeah umm no star elves...... them, thar are the ip of wotc unless of course they are something else other than a race of elves.....
If you're thinking of the Star elves which turned up in the 3.x Forgotten Realms supplement "The Unapproachable East", then there should be no worries about Starfinder having Star elves.
FR's Star elves lived in some sort of demi-plane (which was being taken over by aberrations), and had nothing to do with outer space. They were more a mystical "under the mound" (i.e., how to get to their demi-plane) race.
The following refers to my own home-brew take on "Elves in Space!" ...
My own home-brew variation on published settings - including Path-/Starfinder - has an elven home-world in a star system which is far away from all the other settings (and their star systems). All the other races have their own home-worlds too. The one for humans is Earth, and if humans have turned up earlier on other planets/settings, then the reason is "time-travel by interfering deities who kidnap whole sections of a promising race of worshippers".
The elves did the whole colonization thing ages ago. Many colonies lost contact with the home-world and its space fleet, resulting in loss of lore (which just goes to show how long ago this was, considering the elves' normal life-spans).
The fleet itself has two main sections, one meant to operation in magic-rich areas and another meant to operate in magic-poor areas. Even the "magic" fleet ships are ready to employ tech-based means to survive on board (and call for help) if a spelljammer gets stuck in a magic-poor region of space.
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In an old D&D 3E setting of mine, the PCs discovered that their "flat earth" universe was actually the interior surface of a vast ocean which held thousands of continental archipelagos. For example you might encounter one or more continents floating on an ocean like enormous islands. For example, the entire Eurasian-African landmass might be considered one archipelago. Distances within one archipelago might be at most ten thousand miles between the furthest points on land (and a little more for the continental shelves beneath the water), but the distances between archipelagos could be anywhere from a hundred thousand to millions of miles of ocean.
Furthermore, each archipelago had its own set of races. For the homelands of the PCs, it was the standard races of D&D. But the PCs also encountered a crashed airship that had originated from another archipelago where one of that realm's "core races" included Goliaths (Races of Stone).
If there are many core races it would seem logical that different galaxies, or different arms or regions of the same galaxy, would have their own unique racial demographics. Humans might originate only from the Orion arm of the Milky Way; the halflings from the Perseus [hero's] arm; the elves from the Carina-Sagittarius [archer's] arm; the dwarves from the Centaurus-Scutum [shield] arm; and so on. Other galaxies may have different collections of core races, parallel-developed races following Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development...
As long as we can play scro, I'm happy.
In an old D&D 3E setting of mine, the PCs discovered that their "flat earth" universe was actually the interior surface of a vast ocean which held thousands of continental archipelagos. For example you might encounter one or more continents floating on an ocean like enormous islands. For example, the entire Eurasian-African landmass might be considered one archipelago. Distances within one archipelago might be at most ten thousand miles between the furthest points on land (and a little more for the continental shelves beneath the water), but the distances between archipelagos could be anywhere from a hundred thousand to millions of miles of ocean.
Sounds a lot like the Ringworld from Larry Niven. Part of the ringworld had an oceanic area of titanic size in which were continental duplicates of many alien races homeworlds including Earth (Humans) and the Kzinti homeworld seperated by celestial sized distances.
At one point the Kzinti struck out to sea on a absolutely colossal 'generation ship' in an attempt to sail to and conquer another 'archipelago' but IIRC it ran aground somewhere between Earth and Kzin.
In an old D&D 3E setting of mine, the PCs discovered that their "flat earth" universe was actually the interior surface of a vast ocean which held thousands of continental archipelagos. For example you might encounter one or more continents floating on an ocean like enormous islands. For example, the entire Eurasian-African landmass might be considered one archipelago. Distances within one archipelago might be at most ten thousand miles between the furthest points on land (and a little more for the continental shelves beneath the water), but the distances between archipelagos could be anywhere from a hundred thousand to millions of miles of ocean.Sounds a lot like the Ringworld from Larry Niven. Part of the ringworld had an oceanic area of titanic size in which were continental duplicates of many alien races homeworlds including Earth (Humans) and the Kzinti homeworld seperated by celestial sized distances.
At one point the Kzinti struck out to sea on a absolutely colossal 'generation ship' in an attempt to sail to and conquer another 'archipelago' but IIRC it ran aground somewhere betweenthe map of Earth and the map of Kzin.
Minor correction there.
