Like a Borg or a Necrons, a Cybermen if you will.
Anacites and cybernetic zombies can easily fill this role.
There are already factions among the anacites, why not a 'Those who Assimilate' too?
We just need more robot races, period.
Hey, you know what would fix this? A race builder like Pathfinder 1 got.
I'm all for this. I think it's a major gap in the enemy roster that there isn't a monolithic mechanical army bent on exterminating organic life from the galaxy. We've got the bugs, we've got the evil empire. We need a galactic Skynet.
Don't we already have the Anacites?
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And they made a dreadnought called 'Those Who Are', which is also the name of a very sketchy splinter faction of anacites if I remember right.
Actually, I kinda like the idea of a trope subversion, where that group is trying to become the monolithic mechanical army bent on extermination, but are still in the early stages.
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Adventure Idea
Drones and robots are going crazy and attacking people (Maximum Overdrive, Bubblegum Crisis) on Absalom Station. Cosmetology droids attack! Vending machines attack! Automated taxi-vehicles attacked! Babysister droids attack!
Lobbyists interested in removing android political rights blame the attacks on the Android Abolitionist Front. The PCs are hired as freelance troubleshooters to investigate by friendly patron organization. PCs learn that there is a hacker involved (Ghost in the Shell) and the trail leads them to Aballon. AAF could be allies or enemies depending on PC actions.
PCs learn about Aballon's current political situation and culture. PCs get caught up in more shades of grey scenarios.
They fight bad guy anacites! Ally with good guy anacites! Get confused by weird anacites.
Introduce big bad (a sentient computer virus). Go into the virtual world and fight the big bad.
I like it!
Wait, we're not talking about player races?
Wait, we're not talking about player races? Because I was talking about player races.
You mean like the entire appendix of Alien Archive 1? :p
That's not rules for player races, the ones in Alien Archive are for npcs and creatures.
Wait, we're not talking about player races? Because I was talking about player races.
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You mean like the entire appendix of Alien Archive 1? :pThat's not rules for player races, the ones in Alien Archive are for npcs and creatures.
Nah, I believe this was more in discussion of a categorization of enemies/enemy faction, similar to the Swarm, but for explicitly hostile robots united in common purpose to destroy or assimilate organic life.
We have the swarm which is a hostile plague of alien bugs wanting to eat all of us; ala Star Ship Troopers, Tyranids, Zerg.
We have the Azlanti Star Empire, an expansionistic, oppressive human-supremacist state, ala the Imperium of Man or the Galactic Empire.
We have the Veskarium which are basically the Klingons.
We have the Dominion of the Black which is all the hostile lovecraftian nightmares.
What we don't have is an explicitly hostile force of robots/artificial intelligence, ala the Borg, Necrons, Skynet, Reapers. All robot enemies in the game so far are just either purpose built robots doing their job or malfucntioning/hacked robots we have to contend with. There is no one faction of robots that is driven by a singular will to purge or convert organic life.
Now if they wanted to add that faction as an offshoot/splinter group of the anacites, that'd be fine by me.
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I would like to point that Dominion of the Black isn't "all hostile lovecraftian nightmares". NONE of Dominion of the Black members are from cthulhu mythos actually and they are portrayed as rival factions to all of them.
Dominion of the Black is "Scifi alien invasion horror" faction, with anything from 60s brain snatcher style aliens, brain in jar computers, to more modern stuff such as creepy organic technology in general :p
I would like to point that Dominion of the Black isn't "all hostile lovecraftian nightmares". NONE of Dominion of the Black members are from cthulhu mythos actually and they are portrayed as rival factions to all of them.
Dominion of the Black is "Scifi alien invasion horror" faction, with anything from 60s brain snatcher style aliens, brain in jar computers, to more modern stuff such as creepy organic technology in general :p
Well I was more using "lovecraftian" in the "unknowable, tentacled monstrosities" sense than in the, literally from the mythos, sense.
I'd also point more to the Unseen as the "scifi alien invasion horror" faction.
I'd rather see something a la the Geth, a not-necessarily-evil society of artificials that won the war against their murderous/oppressive creators, and now harbor a grudge against organics.
Could work with the idea of them being an offshoot of the anacites.
So from what I'm seeing from this thread, in terms of just potential major antagonists we've seen so far, these are the options available:
Swarm: Zerg/Tyrannid/Aliens style bio horror monsters
Dominion of the Black: Lovecraftian in tone but not in origin style Cosmic horror.
Vesk: Klingon Warrior style alien race
Azlanti: Imperialistic fascists like the Empire, the Peacekeepers, and the Alliance.
The Unseen: X-Files style living mysteries
Velstrac: Hellraiser style negative energy monsters
Free Captains: Space Pirates
Shadari Confederacy: Hutts/Ferengi
The Children of The Devourer: Reavers
The Corpse Fleet: Undead Nazis
Malikah's Fire Empire (I forget the name of what they called her army): Fire jerks.
Aspis Consortium: Evil Mega Corporation
Here's my thing, I still say there's a potential for a Vex/Necron/Borg type situation here. I know there are illustrations of the Iconics fighting a kind of robot looking race so why not introduce them?
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If they're going to introduce cool robot baddies, Replicators from Star Gate is a awesome villain design.
Replicators were advanced robots capable of reproducing themselves indefinitely, consuming all available resources in an area to create more of themselves.
So from what I'm seeing from this thread, in terms of just potential major antagonists we've seen so far, these are the options available:
Swarm: Zerg/Tyrannid/Aliens style bio horror monsters
Dominion of the Black: Lovecraftian in tone but not in origin style Cosmic horror.
Vesk: Klingon Warrior style alien race
Azlanti: Imperialistic fascists like the Empire, the Peacekeepers, and the Alliance.
The Unseen: X-Files style living mysteries
Velstrac: Hellraiser style negative energy monsters
Free Captains: Space Pirates
Shadari Confederacy: Hutts/Ferengi
The Children of The Devourer: Reavers
The Corpse Fleet: Undead Nazis
Malikah's Fire Empire (I forget the name of what they called her army): Fire jerks.
Aspis Consortium: Evil Mega CorporationHere's my thing, I still say there's a potential for a Vex/Necron/Borg type situation here. I know there are illustrations of the Iconics fighting a kind of robot looking race so why not introduce them?
Don't forget Starfinder Society stuff:
Jinsul - Sociopathic god-murdering bugs
Girdeon Authority - Space Fascist Hobgoblins
Datch - Datch
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Damn it! I keep forgetting the Girdeon AUthority and the Jinsul are like my favorite out of all of them.
Yes, Datch is the first Minnesota nice villain in all of pop culture.
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Side note, I'm still salty about the jinsul being statted but not given a playable race block in AA3. They gave the greys and the reptoids, two races that most people believe don't exist & who do everything they can to cover that existence up, player stats, but jinsul, nah.
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Side note, I'm still salty about the jinsul being statted but not given a playable race block in AA3. They gave the greys and the reptoids, two races that most people believe don't exist & who do everything they can to cover that existence up, player stats, but jinsul, nah.
eh. i was fine with that.
maybe in season 4 or 5 of society if you do a module you can play a jinsul. i wouldn't want it to be in the alien archives, if just because of society.
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Yeah I'm adamantly opposed to participating in organized play of any kind.