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Armada 2526 Race Descriptions.

May we have a copy/paste from the manual or elsewhere of the race biology, social order, history, etcetera; or have it posted on the main site?

http://www.ntronium.com/Armada2526%20Home.html

I've always loved race descriptions in games and their booklets. I always hope that a game has at least one race each that have a focus in their technology and philosophy that are mostly "biological"(bugs, virus like organisms, various biological construcs with a hive mind), "technological"(robots, androids, various artificial intellgence constructs with a hive mind), "cyborg"(part biological, part technological), "under water swimmers", and "gas giant floaters".

Here's a list of some of the races and some brief descriptions of each (there are longer descriptions in-game but this is the first thing I dug up). There are a few more races too not listed but this should get you started:

• Human Monkey descendents from Earth
• Klurgu Heavy set bipeds intent on the destruction of all other races.
• Qa Qa Vaguely insectoid in appearance, but not in nature, they are unusual in that they have part of their consciousness in hyperspace.
• XSpectdrada Orphaned children of a long vanished race, their reputed mental powers make them unsettling.
• A.R.O.M. The Ancient Race Of Machines are an ultra conservative race of synthetic beings.
• Walden A symbiotic race composed of static tree like creatures with large brains, and small nimble beings who act as their gophers.
• Cryokon A race that evolved on frigid worlds of frozen methane and ammonia. Specialists in energy efficiency.
• Linkin Somewhat catlike in appearance and nature, they are descended from primitive predators but have become urbane and civilized.
• Unn A mongrel race of highly genetically modified individuals.
• Hoon Yon A machine race with semi sentient individuals controlled by a central core.

Fascinating. I think the Walden sound the most interesting to me thus far.


By the by: Do the various races get certain bonuses/penalties and/or special abilities (some are good at a certain type of research, some are especially good in ground combat, etc.)? Things like that can really help add a bit of character to the race one is playing as.

Fantastic! Thank you. This tidbit is pleasing. Please feel free to post more race information.

ORIGINAL: martok

Fascinating. I think the Walden sound the most interesting to me thus far.


By the by: Do the various races get certain bonuses/penalties and/or special abilities (some are good at a certain type of research, some are especially good in ground combat, etc.)? Things like that can really help add a bit of character to the race one is playing as.

Yes on the bonuses/penalties/special abilities.

BTW, there's 2 more races, for a total of 12. Plus splinter factions, and some special factions.

I saw the screenshot of a list of the empires. It shows race name AND a secondary title such as union, empire, assembly, federation, forest, flock.

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/39294/arm ... =mediaFull

Is there a third, unique title created for the empires? If not, then how are multiple empires of the same race named; such as several Human Unions, or The Klurgu Empires?

(One nice feature I liked about Mater of Orion 3... was how each empire had a race name and a unique, seemingly random name.)

I have said it once, and I'll say it again - these guys make me feel uncomfortable - partially because of the dirty thoughts I get from their face.

Funny, they are the ones the description says are "unsettling." I concur.

ORIGINAL: Wade1000
Is there a third, unique title created for the empires? If not, then how are multiple empires of the same race named; such as several Human Unions, or The Klurgu Empires?

Yes, if you have say three different Klurgu factions they each get their own unique game automatically.