Race Introducing the Seragakki

The Seragakki:

Background:
The Seragakki are a ancient space faring race, roughly about 928 Trillion Years old. Their origins are of the planet Ivokken. At first observers could not find this planet anywhere in the SB universe, however scans of their technology reviled there home world's location. The origins of the species started in another universe, coming from a planet with a composition similar to earths. They evolved on this planet for centuries eventually gaining acsess to space. However the Seragakki were a warfaring race, overpowering every other sentient creature in their universe. Eventually there reign of terror ended when the Ruler Empire (Faction of humanity) Destroyed the Seragakki. The Seragakki survived by taking Quantum Tunneling technology (Warping Tech) from jump capable craft of the Ruler Empire. A few Seragakki managed to escape the Ruler Empire and jumped to other universes. A few made it to the SB universe. The Seragakki then set up massive colonies in this new universe, spreading like a plague. Contact was first made by the Humans, and it did not go well. Keeping to their old ways, the Seragakki then unleashed their wrath on all the species of this universe. Their reign of terror was reborn here.

Age:
Very futuristic. Uses Plasma weapons and some large ships have planet destroying capabilities. Land units use hover tech to move around and are very fast. Uses special shiny alloy to build materials, Stronger than impervium.

Hostility:
Extremely aggressive to all species/factions. Will attack any sentient, or non sentient creature that is not important to them, on sight. Will not reason with any species nor take prisoners except on rare occasions. Constant conquests of entire sectors and systems. Any planet that resist heavily will be destroyed with advanced tech. Takes civilians and uses them as slaves, working them to death, or uses them as target practice or tortures for entertainment.

Historical Events:
First modern Seragakki evolves|928 Trillion Years ago
Final First Universe Government set up|927 Trillion Years ago.
First alien species annihilated|926 Trillion Years ago
Ruler Empire-Seragakki 23 Year War begins|27 years ago
Seragakki Government collapse|4 Years ago
Seragakki Mass Evacuation of universe|3.6 Years ago
First Seragakki presence in SB Universe|3.6 Years ago
Human-Seragakki Contact|2 Years ago
First star system annihilated in SB universe|1.5 Years ago
"Sekkotav" Tentacle monster deployed to Human home world "Earth"|.3 Years ago

Species Design:
Tall (50Px) and very thin, skin conforms to bones creating a starving appearance, skin is also baggy and green. Physical form is not suit for direct combat. They rely on suits of high tech armor (Smooth and silvery with glowing yellow lines like all Seragakki tech), and machinery to survive and maintain biological stability. Arms are very long, stretching to their knees with 4 elongated fingers (1 thumb and 3 main fingers). They move slower than most species even with their light armor. This along with their shiny armor gives them a god like appearance. Their heads are slightly elongated in the rear giving them a classic "Martian alien" look. Their eyes are very dark and only slight details on their eyes show. Eyelids are pulled back in a way to make it look as if they are always angry or unimpressed. Genders are very hard to tell apart due to their life support armor, though females tend to have lighter armor than the males of the species.
(PICTURE NEEDS TO BE MADE/POSTED)

Species Structures:
The Seragakki Created large cities made out of a shiny silvery material with glowing yellow lines thought the structures. Seragakki buildings and tech show very little straight corners, with the preferred method of construction is curved building and materials. Also Hover technology is huge in the Seragakki empire, with most buildings and tech showing at least 1 moving hover part. It is unknown why some structures have these as most show no purpose. Their cities have large gates that are heavily defended and are next to indestructible to the weapons in the SB universe. After the gates a large city of giant towers that reach to the clouds rise, held up by extremely tough materials. Most have hovering spherical or oval shaped objects next to them. Some towers are even held up by yellow glowing beams of hardened energy. All civilians are hostile and will attack the player or any creature inside their city. Guard are more heavily armed and more dangerous than civilians. These cities are only found the in X sector (due to the toughness of the species and power) and will provide good loot to those who can get to the first storage container. Lone Seragakki outposts and radar towers can be found everywhere, along with a rouge Seragakki merchant, a very lucky find to anyone who can get to one.

 

Sprites would be nice

 

Have 1 picture I just need to find a way to upload this stuff.

 

If I see a sprite then I'll vote. I'm a cosmetic person.

 

I have 1 sprite finished somewhat (Not good at drawing with pixels.... or drawing in general). I have a unarmored Seragakki ready I just need a way to post it. Not very good with this kind of stuff.

 

Alrighty.

 

To post your sprite just hit the upload a file button on the bottom of your quick-reply box, search for the sprite and hit open.

It's not terribly hard, I hope my instructions helped.

 

Got the MK I Early prot. image of a standard unarmored Seragakki. I am terrible at drawing, even WORSE in pixels. I'm sorry if I offend your eyes. Or burn them out. Or disintegrate them altogether.
Ugliness---->

 

You could always get someone else, no offense.

 

I will work on doing that. Or find actual software for pixel drawing. MS paint doesn't allow for recoloring of pixels.

 

I see.

 

Zoom in until the pixels are visible, use the pencil tool and lower the drawing size to one pixel.

 

Why do these terrible Mary Sue races keep getting posted? Let me first link you to this page, and then let's go over your race idea point-by-point.

Here's the first red flag. Currently, our universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old. That would mean that this race is somehow over sixty-seven thousand times older than our universe.

Second red flag. Only centuries? It's taken humanity well over five million years since diverging from our common ancestry with great apes to reach where we are right now in terms of evolution. And these guys did it in centuries?

You directly contradict yourself. If the Seragakki overpowered every other sentient creature in their universe, how did this mere faction of humanity manage to turn the tide and defeat them, and drive them out?

So we're looking at a race of pan-universal conquerors. Moving on...

Third and fourth red flags, right here. Technology superior to the Apex (Starbound's designated 'hi-tech' race) and materials unique to them that are stronger than Impervium (Starbound's designated top-tier ubermaterial)? If this were a MOBA there'd be shrill cries of NERF and I think they'd be completely justified.

So we have an uber-ancient race of pan-universal conquerors with technology greater than anything the rest of the universe is even capable of producing and they're also hostile to a fault with no driving forces beyond "I have a bigger gun, therefore you are target practice." An entire race of Villain Sues.

So... basically they're the villainous equivalent of a baby climbing out of its crib, locating a typewriter, and then writing Shakespeare - several hundred years before Shakespeare did it.

Red flag #5 - you've wrote them into the origin story of humanity's exodus from Earth, their sole reason for being out and about in the Starbound universe at all. Why is it that every time one of these terrible Mary Sue races gets written, the author want to insert them into some major lore-point of another race's history? Don't they realize that these lore points are largely planned-out already? It does not give your race legitimacy - it's a guaranteed way of ensuring your race never get accepted because it conflicts with what already exists!

I really hate to sound so mean. But in all honesty, you need to take this race back to the drawing board. Examine the existing races in Starbound, and bring this race down to their level. No better-than-Impervium materials, no better-than-Apex tech, no ancient-beyond-belief history, and maybe some personality traits beyond complete and utter hostility towards the rest of existence. Just... just as a start.

 

These were designed as a non-playable race, or playable in a future game mode (Which are planned for the future, such as a official creative mode). They are designed to be a end game enemy to add challenge and more immersive gameplay for the currently boring end game stage. They also evolved faster and gained sentience faster than humans due to their intelligence evolving quicker than most species, resulting in their weak body frame. Also they may not be from the same universe as ours, probably coming from a much older universe. Also their reign of terror ended when they finally encountered humans. They annihilated all sentient life UNTILL they hit the roadblock of humanity. Also if a race existed for a few trillion years longer than the Apex, of course their tech would be greater than the Apex's tech. Also there is no origin of the monster that took over earth. It was open to be filled in. Honestly your argument is not even CLOSE to being valid. Also this was created mainly for mod content. I never believe this will make it into the game due to the sheer amount of species being suggested. These along with most other species are mod fuel. Not game fuel. Now please go rage somewhere else.

 

You've kinda comically missed the point.

Whether as a playable race, an NPC race, or whatever-the-purpose-of-them-race, there is one simple fact about them that cannot be denied. They have no redeeming traits. They have no character beyond "absolute hostility to the rest of existence." They serve only two purposes: to hammer home how much better than you they are, and to kill you laughably easily because of how much better than you they are. There is nothing to do with them besides kill them or be killed by them. They're just as boring as the game's current endgame, which I will hasten to point out isn't even finished yet - Sector X is a placeholder for future sectors that have not yet been implemented. To put things bluntly, your race does not serve your stated purpose.

The closest comparison to this race that I can find in other games is the Grox from Spore. Yet, even the Grox were more interesting, because you could ally with the Grox. Granted, it meant becoming Enemy Number One of the entire Galaxy, and being an omnicidal maniac guilty of several counts of blowing up planets besides, but the fact remains that you could, and it was a valid route to the end of the game.

Your idea that they were defeated by humanity is pretty laughable. If this race is honestly that advanced, humanity should've been a speed bump on their road to multiversal conquest. That is unless humans from the Seragakki universe were somehow more advanced than the Seragakki, which would make them even bigger Mary Sues than the Seragakki themselves (on that subject, don't think I didn't notice your attempt at a self-insertion with the name of the human faction). Furthermore, the idea of them coming from an alternate universe adds needless complexity to Starbound, as that implies that whole 'nother universes exist, besides the one you can explore. It's convenient that all actual development of this species occurred outside the Starbound universe, because if they were actually in it from the get go (as literally everything else in Starbound is), there wouldn't be a Starbound universe. There would be "the Seragakki obliterated two races of apes, one race of amphibians, a race of birds, a race of plants and a race of robots, and added another universe to their empire. The End."

Do you not see the problem with trying to introduce a race where all meaningful events in their history have already been played out, where there's no real possibility for future development because the race is a bunch of amoral murderers with no redeeming personality features?

All of your justifications for why the Seragakki are so advanced fail to address the biggest problem of being so advanced - it makes them boring. We already have an oppressive regime of propaganda-controlled monkeyfolk ruled by a dictatorial autocrat and his inner circle of scientist flunkies. We already have a race of primal savages that are responsible for driving another race off of its homeworld. We already have some horrid cosmic creature that infests planets and turns them into tentacle-festooned hell-worlds, and what's frightening is Apex might know what it is and might even be responsible for it - read the Diary of a Lab Assistant logs found in Apex labs, and the Personnel Log series found in human bunkers. There's three important named characters that might be in cahoots in some nefarious conspiracy - Thornwing, Greenfinger, and Big Ape. Starbound is not lacking for villains or villainy, and all of its existing villains are far more interesting and far more approachable than your suggestion for a race of extra-universal omnicidal conquerors.

Finally, if this race was intended as a mod, why did you even bother posting it in the Suggestions board? This is for suggestions for additions or changes to the base game - if you're developing a mod, post it in the Mods section. If you're not developing a mod, and expecting someone else to develop a mod based on this for you, then there's one important fact you need to realize. Nobody will put forth effort towards making a mod for someone else, unless that person is willing to put forth their own effort to make it happen. At any rate, even if there's someone willing to do so, making this race 1). more interesting beyond a bunch of gleefully violent maniacs and 2). less of a bunch of broken Mary Sues will only help your chances of finding someone.

Right now, this idea is toxic to good game design, and I know I sure as heck wouldn't want to be associated with it until you can make some substantial improvements.

 

Game is not real life. Real life not need these complications.

 

Ultimate rage commenter argument ender.
I thank you for that.

 

I think having a "Mass Effect destroyer of world life form of destroying other technologically advanced life forms" in Starbound is an alright concept but if they were so powerful and ancient then why haven't they conquered the entire universe? This could be some great lore for why there are tentacle planets; this race could be a dorment, powerful but almost extint race that could be intergrated into a side-quest that dooms a planet in order to find out more about this ancient race and how to destroy it. The "humans somehow defeating this technologically superior race" is quite cheesy and is quite unrealistic and I wouldn't set them a real history in the current universes' timescale unless you've completely revised this race and everything that could happen but it's a good concept nonetheless but may not find itself in the ending game depending on if the developers want a Mass Effect gimmic in Starbound.

 

What the hell do you mean? Are you saying that a game can make no sense and have the logic of a three year old just because it's not real life?!
No.
You clearly can't tell the difference between someone attacking you and someone just not liking your idea.

 

Look, anything can happen in the development of Starbound and there are many reasons for that:

1. This is a sci-fi game.
2. As it is a fictional game it doesn't have to abide by every rule of science.
3. It's a beta...there's a reason why they have put a suggestions page in their forums as they are looking to put new features (sometimes from the community) in Starbound.

I looked up your extremely sad Mary Sue connatation and found that it had nothing to do with the race that is being discussed in this thread as this is not a completely perfect or idealistic race and could have a plausible origins from being in a different universe as it will be different from our own. The author of the thread told us that this race is not perfect by stating that they were defeated by humans, this may sound crazy if the humans defeated them with weapons but they could have been defeated by the natural enemy of everyone (the common cold); there are so many possibilities to the defeat of this race such as a rebellion from the mixing of human culture, the common cold which I stated before or being destroyed in a decisive fashion by the humans (similar to how the "immortal" Persian Empire was defeated the small Greek States) etc.
You need to remember that this is a beta and you are not the developer; you can think like the Starbound developer but you can't think for them as they can change anything they want to as nothing is set in stone during this beta stage and certainly don't need someone going out of their way to ridicule and bury someone's idea. Instead of being a jerk to them and disproving it allyou should help improve their idea like I'm trying to do and add your ideas that can make one great idea.
I know that this idea of an all-powerful race is quite silly in your mind but isn't the human idea of a God a Mary Sue in itself? Maybe this could be a race of god-like creatures?

On a side note, I've only been on this forum for almost a week now and have enjoyed making suggestions, looking at other people's ideas, putting my ideas that may help other people's ideas and looking for cool things that can be implemented into Starbound and I have found that the Starbound community is so pashionate about the game and have a great deal of respect from the developers and show a lot of respect for the developers and themselves but you've just seemed to be the odd one out in this. You may be a good person real life, a good critic, a good idealist and may have followed this game since this was pre-alpha but everyone here is a consumer and wants their product (Starbound) to be the best darn Sci-Fi adventure game on the market and I should hope that you are to but you shouldn't slander the rest of the community in the attempt to be an "elitist".