Distant Worlds: Introduction of the alien races.

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just being really pedantic but in theory there should be no reason why these aliens could not be lizards and live in cold environments. Lizards are cold blooded, but only means if its hotter they get hotter and colder leads them to be colder. It does not mean they are the same temp as their surroundings. Some sea turtles (lizard family) are quite a bit warmer than their surroundings.
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Reptiles that are cold-blooded tend to slow down dramatically metabolically when they are cold, hence why they "sun" themselves on rocks to warm up. They are getting their metabolism revved up for normal activity. Cold-blooded creatures on a cold planet would be screwed unless they were next to some geotherm vent/volcano.
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Their race "Family" and reptilian description may be based on appearence and social actions. They are alien and may have totally different bodily systems then the reptiles we know on Earth.

Also, again(see posts further up on this page), some dinosaurs lived in cold, snowy regions. Dinosaurs were/are not reptiles like lizards. Dinosaurs are still with us today in their new forms we call birds. Many birds/dinosaurs live in cold, snowy regions. An extreme example are penguins. [8D]
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Wade, if they are "cold-blooded", even if they are alien, they would be screwed on a cold world. If some fact of their alien-ness circumvented that, they would not be, in fact, cold-blooded.
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Yes, That could be true if they are cold blooded. No where that I read does it state that they are. Their alien "reptilian" descriptions could be based on appearence and social actions in order for diplomatic "Family" groupings. It might be better than calling their family "Dinosaur" or "Bird".
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From what I remember from my Biology degree, dinosaurs were possibly warm-blooded anyway...or some sort of intermediate between cold and warm blooded.

Edit: Here's a easy-to-read wikipedia entry on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology_of_dinosaurs
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http://www.currentresults.com/Environme ... pecies.php

There is only one known species that has developed the full-blown capacity for creative syntax and advanced technology: a large-brained bipedal ape called a Homo sapien sapien. That is on a planet that has given rise to millions of species and at least 60,000 different vertebrates. Those numbers would at least double if we counted all the extinct species, most likely far more than that.

For hundreds of millions of years, many many vertebrate species did just fine with a brain that was good for learning and habituation but unsuitable for creativity. It is only during the past 25 to 40 million years that animals remotely resembling "sentient" in terms of creativity and language have started to exist, and of course, only the last 4 million or so that we have been recognizably humanlike. Indeed, if we restrict ourselves to clearly human culture, only about 50,000 years.

In sum, if how long, and infrequent it has occured on Earth is any indication the evolution of byzantine intelligence like our own, which would be a requisite to developing spacefaring technology, is a great rarity.

So any arguments about any of these alien species being "unrealistic" or not adhering to realistic principles are pretty much out the window right from the word go [:D]

The designers want furry reptiles wearing a Monocle and snow skiing wearing a bikini!? Who am I to argue!? [:D]
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For a new race => Ok what about a Aquatic race who can only settle on ocean planets or continantal planets (population penalty)


The only races we have in the game who are closed are semi toads or froggs.
So... [:D] lets go for Fish or lobster ?

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A species wo evolved from the Space Scorpion ? => Who make bio ships and lives on lifeless planets without atmosphere and a wicked desire to destroy all other species ? or a duality in this species bad><good





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For a new race => Ok what about a Aquatic race who can only settle on ocean planets or continantal planets (population penalty)


The only races we have in the game who are closed are semi toads or froggs.
So... [:D] lets go for Fish or lobster ?

Next race

A species wo evolved from the Space Scorpion ? => Who make bio ships and lives on lifeless planets without atmosphere and a wicked desire to destroy all other species ? or a duality in this species bad><good






Then once we capture them we can serve them with a light garlic butter sauce... [:'(]
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[:D] Damn it sounds so delicious!!!




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