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Old 10-06-2016, 09:44 AM   #181
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A sufficiently advanced alien that is not evil and just minds it's own business.
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Old 10-06-2016, 01:23 PM   #182
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They had one like that in Master of Orion, I forget their name. They were vicious and bloodthirsty but that's par for the course in that game. But they bargain with the Player just like any other race.
If you mean the Klackons, they're hive-insectoid, but otherwise have the same technological approach to civilization as other species, nor do they get anything resembling ultra-evolution. If you mean the Harvesters, then they're pretty much everyone's enemy . . . and seem to use the same tech as everyone else.
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Old 10-06-2016, 01:27 PM   #183
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The Rachni are a deliberate subversion of this trope, one which I am sure you are familiar with.
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Old 10-06-2016, 01:31 PM   #184
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The Rachni are a deliberate subversion of this trope, one which I am sure you are familiar with.
Hmm. Indeed. Alas, they don't seem to have a lot of spotlight time even as they fight the Reapers with the rest of the Citadel civilizations (I've chosen the Paragon path).
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Old 10-06-2016, 01:32 PM   #185
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Hmm. Indeed. Alas, they don't seem to have a lot of spotlight time even as they fight the Reapers with the rest of the Citadel civilizations (I've chosen the Paragon path).
Aren't they supposed to be in Andromeda?
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Old 10-06-2016, 01:33 PM   #186
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On that note the Zerg themselves are are ultimately a subversion of the trope.
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Old 10-06-2016, 02:42 PM   #187
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Aren't they supposed to be in Andromeda?
That'd be nice, but I haven't been exposed to Andromeda yet.
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Old 10-06-2016, 10:37 PM   #188
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A sufficiently advanced alien that is not evil and just minds it's own business.
That's actually kind of hard to portray, though. Just by being in contact, the alien has effects, and if it's a sufficiently advanced alien, when it just passes through, the side-effects are likely to be 'interesting'.
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Old 10-07-2016, 02:24 AM   #189
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A devastating plague with a mortality rate that's between 20% and 30%. All the fictional ones seem to be over 90%.
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Old 10-07-2016, 02:53 AM   #190
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A devastating plague with a mortality rate that's between 20% and 30%. All the fictional ones seem to be over 90%.
The black death? It killed around those percentages, by most estimates. It didn't really endanger the species, but it royally screwed up infrastructure, society, and radically changed the direction of culture in countless ways.

I dislike how zombie plagues are always 100% effective and only if an infected bites you, never fluid misting from close proximity. I think much more drama could happen if it were much lower rate. That at least makes the cliched character that hides his wound not completely insanely stupid.
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