[Psionics] [Space] Psi Trek - Worldbuilding

[Prince Charon]

Alien Races

As noted in the OP, the more humanoid aliens in this setting are intended to be descended from humans and related species taken from Earth in ancient times. However, that still leaves room for a number of options relating to alien sophonts:

1. Just write up 'close enough' templates for the various canon races. In most cases, they'll just be humans with an odd perk or quirk. (I won't try to convert the ones from GURPS Prime Directive for 3e, and I don't have the 4e version, so any similarity is the result of trying to create a template for roughly the same species in the same system.) This is my preferred option.

2. Create new races that fill the appropriate niches. In most cases, they'll still just be humans with an odd perk or quirk.

3. Convert or recreate some of the aliens from GURPS Aliens. This is my least favorite option, but it could be made to work.

4. Something I probably haven't thought of. If you have ideas you think would work better, please suggest them.


EDIT: Apparently we're doing mostly #1, with occasional examples of #2 and #3 (likely in the form of TGLS's #3a, below).