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What race do you consider the most original (DON'T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT Voices AND Music AND Ships)
| Arilou |
| Umgah |
| Thraddash |
| Supox |
| Utwig |
| Ilwrath |
| Taalo |
| Mmrnmhrm |
| Chmmr |
| Spathi |
| ZoqFotPik |
| Ur-Quan Kzer-Za |
| Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah |
| Druuge |
| Burvixese |
| Melnorme |
| Mycon |
| Yehat |
| Shofixti |
| VUX |
| Syreen |
| Earthling |
| Pkunk |
| Slylandro (the gasbags) |
| Orz |
| Androsynth |
| Keel-Verezy |
| Precursors |
| Chenjesu |
| Dnyarri |
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Topic: Most Original Star Control 1&2 Race (Read 10347 times)
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Arne
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I don't know what to vote for.
The most characteristic to SC is Spathi and Kzer-Za, imo. My personal fav is the ZFP blue battery thing.
But original, as in ... out of the blue? It would seem a lot of SC races are translations of StarFlight designs. Makes me wonder where the StarFlight designs came from...
Ok, the Syreen were not SF, they're clearly from greek mythology.
Orz and Androsynth (Kraftwerk in space) are somewhat original to SC I think. Maybe the Ilwrath too, I didn't like their visual design but their character was... memorable, clacking of mandibles etc. Slylandro are an interesting take on gas giant life. Melnorme... I'm not sure, I thought they were kinda dull.
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Galactic
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You know, in Pringles crisps there's the 'original' taste, in Finland it's as 'perinteinen'. 
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Valaggar
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Yeap... if we look at the alien design section of Influences and References, we can see that, amongst the non-stereotypical races, the most original ones are:
1) Zoq-Fot-Pik (who would have made such cartoonish characters into alien races, if not TFB?)
2) Slylandro (a well exploited idea)
3) Pkunk (parodies of mediums and other "paranormal" people)
4) Thraddash (a bit like cavemen, though)
5) Druuge (though they're inspired by Accolade)
in that order.
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Arne
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Only the name? The Sirens in greek mythology lures crew from their ships by hypnotising them with a lovely song (a sound). I would say that it's exactly what the syreen does aswell. Ok, so they're bird-anthros, but people have been painting them as nude pretty women for ages.
I can see the skincolor coming from either Orion Slave Girls (Trek) or maybe Twi'leks (SW), or possibly Drow elfs.
ZFP are probably an elaboration of SF's "Natracch" (a pic of 3 fungoid creatures).
Some of the Thraddash behaviour would come from SF's G'Nunk (fight them to earn respect).
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