[Aliens]"...solitary giant predator caterpillars. Civilization wasn't easy for us"

[Kissamies]

'Kill the interloper! Rip out its life!' They are fiercely territorial and xenophobic, all right. I agree most of what you have done. Remember that in the game they have captain names like Master 36 or Death 111, which could imply a strict hierarchy, which would fit their territorial nature.

It's hard to ascertain the actual shape and size of the creature because there is no canonical full picture of it. The best I can tell from pictures it should probably be 1:5 ratio at least and ratio at least. A in a manual picture the face is larger than a Spathi, but we don't know how large a Spathi is, probably small. Personally I'd go for +2 or +3 from what is implied, but it's very subjective.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Kissamies

'Kill the interloper! Rip out its life!' They are fiercely territorial and xenophobic, all right. I agree most of what you have done. Remember that in the game they have captain names like Master 36 or Death 111, which could imply a strict hierarchy, which would fit their territorial nature.

They have names as shown in SC3. Those numbers are their numbers in the line of succession for the (I think) topmost military officer in their fleet (probably only the current fleet, since having #3 of the whole race on an important yet extremely small expedition is weird). Of course, the game only has up to 1000 'Masters', which is silly with the size of their sphere of influence.

Originally Posted by Kissamies

It's hard to ascertain the actual shape and size of the creature because there is no canonical full picture of it. The best I can tell from pictures it should probably be 1:5 ratio at least and ratio at least. A in a manual picture the face is larger than a Spathi, but we don't know how large a Spathi is, probably small. Personally I'd go for +2 or +3 from what is implied, but it's very subjective.

As I mentioned, humans say they're 10 yards long, but that's what they say. At this rate they would do better sending space marines, Orz-style, than piloting those silly fighters who die in one hit (unlike marines).

[Mark Skarr]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

As I mentioned, humans say they're 10 yards long, but that's what they say. At this rate they would do better sending space marines, Orz-style, than piloting those silly fighters who die in one hit (unlike marines).

Ur-Quan do not pilot the fighters. There's only one Kzer-Za per dreadnaught. They use talking pets to fly their fighters. They couldn't care less about them.

[Kissamies]

Yes, there is just one Ur-Quan per Dreadnought, rest of the crew is slaves, including the fighter pilots. Of course, in SC3 they'd all have to be Ur-Quan, but SC3 is not canon for the most.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Mark Skarr

Ur-Quan do not pilot the fighters. There's only one Kzer-Za per dreadnaught. They use talking pets to fly their fighters. They couldn't care less about them.

I heard the story that they use their Battle Thralls for pilots, but Dnyarri? Don't remember them being used for anything except translation. In fact, I don't think talking pets were any good for anything other than translation. (And wonder why there aren't any in SC3.)
Anyway, not only is there the somewhat disliked canon of SC3*, there's the issue that they had space flight long before the doctrinal wars. Do you really believe they were all one-man (err, one-Quan) ships?
The Dyarri idea certainly explains how they could exterminate the Sentient Milleu with one-Quan ships, though.

* == My campaign took some of the major ideas of SC3, so I'll have to at least give it a nod. In fact, I don't see the story told through SC3 to be all that bad - it's just that it's less interactive and the Syreen puppets are ugly. :)