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Topic: Several varyingly inane things (Read 3337 times)
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Kizor. Blah.
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- What do we know of the size of the alien races? The Ur-Quan are large as anything and Syreen are, erm, compatible, but beyond that Orz could be two meters in diameter and Shofixti two feet tall.
- I was going to say that Orz marines appear to be varyingly effective depending on what kind of ship they enter, based on my experiences with Eluders and Terminators. Then I saw what happened to a Marauder of mine and decided not to.
However, I'm quite sure that there are fewer more embarassing ways to lose a melee than by piloting a Dreadnought that's pushed right into the planet by a DOGI swarm.
- How well is Orzese internally consistent? Completely? A bit rough around the edges?
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Chrispy
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I'm guessing that the kohr-ah are around the same size as the ur-quan, but you never know.
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Culture20
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SC1 manual:
Resembling a giant caterpillar, a fully-grown Ur-Quan is formed of a segmented body-tube ten meters long and two meters in diameter.
From SC2 manual:
Yehat: Physically, these creatures resemble a 3 meter high
hybrid between an old Earth pterosaur and a bumble-
bee.
Ariloulaleelay: Arilou (as individuals of this species are called) are pale,
about 1.5 meters tall, and have large, childlike heads with dark, soulful eyes.
Spathi: The Spathi physique is slight and soft, (no hard data, but from "slight" from a human perspective).
From conversations (grepped for meter, might be more relative measurements):
Precursors: 5 to 8 meters tall and twice as wide.
Mycon: we know Mycons range in height from .5 to 3.5 meters
Deep Child egg: our reconstruction of the whole egg case shows it to be over 25 meters high!
Dnyarri: hardly larger than one of your Earth dogs.
My speculations:
The Androsynth & Syreen are obviously human-sized.
The Shofixti are smaller than humans.
I think the Ilwrath are taller than a human (maybe bear-sized?)
I think an Orz *finger* is 1 meter in diameter at maximum. (the vacc-suits shouldn't get too big)
I think the supox are slightly taller than a shofixti.
I think the VUX are human-sized.
I think the Utwig are human-sized.
I think the druuge are human-sized.
Chenjesu, MmrnMhrm, and Chmmr all seem larger than a human.
Umgah: their love of being inside a living being (the coat their spaceship interiors with living skin) makes me think they're small & evolved from parasites, despite my long held impressions that they're hippo-sized. Of course, they could have infested some _really_ big critters on their home planet.
Thraddash: probably bigger than a human, smaller than a Chmrr.
ZFP: tiny, maybe smaller than shofixti.
Slylandro: possibly any size
Keel-vereezy: some speculate that he/she/they are minute
pkunk: smaller than a yehat, but with a bigger head than a human
Earthlings: Human sized.
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Chrispy
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I think druuge are shorter than a human. I dont know why, I just remember reading it somewhere.
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Culture20
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Which SC2 manual is this (the Drall are only mentioned in-game, and there is no physical description)?
Just realized that I left out the melnorme, but I have no idea how big they would be; could be 2 centimeters, could be 12 meters...
Orz in its entirety spans dimensions that we have no measurements for (height, width, depth, and *flavor*?)
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« Last Edit: February 18, 2004, 09:15:51 am by Culture20 »
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Culture20
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Ah, I remember that now; I think that info came from fanfiction like the MmrnMhrm info (maybe the XR project; they wanted to make a Mileu movie). The last paragraph is probably attributed to SC2, and the physical description might have been created afterwards.
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Kizor, yadayada
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A few other things have come to my attention. Since I was apparently determined to post them, it was more reasonable to do so here and start another thread.
- On SuperMelee: I've also come to the concusion that there are few more satisfying ways to win a melee than by destroying a Podship with a Shofixti Scout by having the Podship's own plasmoids run into it.
- The Wikipedia is an open-source encyclopedia. I made http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orz and extended http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control . You are welcome to improve them further.
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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While we're at it, www.everything2.com has some entries on Star Control; I wrote a few of them.
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