Another playable race revealed since DAY ONE, but somehow unnoticed? CONSPIRACY!?

*This thread is also an improvised petition thread to see the "Rhos" implemented since there's no need for 2 threads for that. Leave a comment about the conspiracy or the race. *

I just had this thought I wanted to share with you guys (and I THINK nobody else posted on this topic yet): what if the devs have shown us another playable race since DAY ONE? Have a look at this well-known dev-sprite:



... I just thought: "Hey, maybe Rho, since the really beginning, has been showing us a playable race with her dev-sprite..." Of course, it might just be an artistic fun the spriting artist had while drawing something to represent her. Or Rho could possibly be a blue-eyed black woman with purple hair. That too would be awesome. At least, to me, this sprite doesn't look MUCH human. I'd also like if an entire race would be called the "Rhos". Ya know, just saying. Wanted to share this thought with you guys. Here hoping you'll develop the conspiracy theory with me.

Update #1: New image of Rho revealed! Drew by fetalstar herself. Doesn't look perfectly human either... Hmm... Dark space elf, anyone?

Update #2: A short interview I made with Rho regarding the thought of an eventual race being based on her developer avatar.

What were your first thoughts when you first read about the “conspiracy” of the Rhos?
Rho: Really surprised that anyone thought to read that much into my picture, and at how creative the theories were!

As of today, what do you feel/think about the more serious fan discussions talking about the creation of a race based on your developer avatar?
Rho: I think they're interesting and fine to have, but at the end of the day even if I wanted to be a race, it would be really narcissistic and self serving to do so. I think maybe the devs should have cameos to varying degrees (if we wanted), but putting ourselves too prominently in our own game is a bit too selfish. The game isn't about us, it's about you!

Why is it that your developer avatar looks so different from the other ones who represent more casual clothing? Do you actually have a similar look in real life?
Rho: It was a thing I'd doodled months before while designing armors, except I just gave myself glowy eyes and purple hair. I really like Taarna from the movie Heavy Metal, so I just doodled something shamelessly taking off that. When it came time to make dev pictures, everyone was hastily making adaptations of themselves, so rather than draw a new one I just used that, if not to be a bit contrarian. My hair does looks like that in real life, except it's black. I dress pretty fabulously in person, but I'm not crazy enough to go out in a purple bodysuit. Sorry!

If a race based on your developer avatar would indeed appear in the official release of Starbound, how would you personally name that race? Or would you keep the names “Rhos” or “Rhoans” a part of the community already uses?
Rho: I've no idea. There's so many things I've seen people stick "Rho" onto that they'd probably be much better prepared to answer that.

What would you prefer to be the main traits/characteristics/background of a race based on your developer avatar?
Rho: I'm not very original. Probably something like the Daedric Princes from The Elder Scrolls. But more fabulous. Fabulous mystical beings from another dimension.

Would you actually play as the very race based on your developer avatar if such a race ever makes it to Starbound?
Rho: I think from the start I intended to put in the Rho outfit as an easter egg and use it whenever I played. So maybe?

What do you feel when you see you possibly have at least the beginning of your very own fanbase?
Rho: Really humbled - even seeing that word used in relation to me is something I don't have a concept of, so it's really surprising and humbling that people apparently think I'm interesting enough to talk about. I'm still not used to it!

What's the Starbound secret you can reveal to us without Tiy being angry at you? Does it have a link with an eventual "Rho" race?
Rho: No comment

Update #3: An AWESOME image drew by fetalstar once again! This time, we see some Rho about to enter SERIOUS action... Whatever it may be. fetalstar's deviantart is right here -> http://ursanova.deviantart.com/

Fan-made stuff!

A short fan-made video made by TriangularSatellite showing potential psychic powers of some sort to the Rhos. What if these glowing eyes had some link with some psychic power?

Of course, since player characters won't have special race skills according to Chucklefish, it could still be possible to have race items specific to the Rhos/Rhoans that each could allow the use of one particular "psychic power" that could require the use of your energy meter, simply, like regular energy-needing items/skills confirmed this far in the game! Floating, telekinesis, lasers eyes, etc. Anyway, enough speculations and here comes the video.

And here is a little text (and a sprite!!!!) made by some cool member (Phyrex) about a possible race based on Rho's avatar:

Oh, and here you go, a male FAN-MADE member of the Rho race by Lotus Eater...

 

OMG It's so obvious to me now. I have not thought about this but they all make sense now!

They're going to give us X men!

 

Another revealed race is some sort of "Ape" race from one of the screenshots they released.

 

I can see where this thread is going....

 

The thread is going to the beach? : D

 

You know too much... lol jk. I like your style brah.

 

The final scene in the "planet of the Apes". It just so happens that the Apes' planet is actually our planet, but in the future.

 

Idk if you're joking or not. That's the scene at the end of "The Planet of the Apes".

 

rho needs to confirm this.
also it might be a fun race xD

 

If it's an ingame sprite:
The eyes look like goggles to me.
The hair could easily be made that color. Same as skin.
What she is wearing is just a type of armor/clothes.
The tail she has would most likely be a vanity thing, because having a whole different race that just adds a tail would be pointless.

 

I'm an expert at this type of stuff... I'll add it to the list. This will NOT go unnoticed!

 

She doesn't have a tail.

It won't be a new race from any of the features OP listed as strange.

 

What tail? Although I agree with everything else you've said.

 

She looks rather human to me. What aspect is alien?

Also, I don't think that's a tail. I think it's the hair.

 

Doesn't really look like her hair to me, lol.

 

Since when are black people aliens?

 

To me it looks like there's a large black eye on the side of the head, which gives me the impression of a frog person..

 

Maybe that's just what Rho looks like in real life

 

It's the exact same color as the hair.

 

The sprite looks like Rho, and since when is Rho human? With only three announced races, there's plenty of room for "The Rhos".