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OakTea
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I thought the Umgah joke was hilarious. I first encountered it by the time I had exhausted all the dialogue options for the Kohr-Ah, so there was really no point in conversing...I do it out of habit, in case destroying a dozen of their ships gets them to speak differently to me. Most players would jump straight into combat, I'd assume.
I do like the idea of changing the combat styles of those Marauders however, but I think it should be subtle...I think a decent solution would be to have those encounters be piloted by Weak Cyborgs...if that isn't done already. 
I do like the idea of a returning Mmrnmhrm (I hope I remember how to spell that)...remember that they were created by the Mother Ark, which was never officially destroyed if I recall. The Mmrnmhrm could definitely be reborn in canon.
I really like the discussion going on in here, and I hope the great team that brought us this mod likes it too!
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OakTea
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Ah! I never knew that. Those are great touches to add.
It would be interesting if the captain screen was blank in combat, and the player could question the Kohr-Ah about some of their ships fleeing combat....perhaps continued questioning could lead to the demise of the Slylandro. 
There's always more secrets hidden in this mod.
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Stardrake
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To the third point, i agree.I would trust the Umgah of all races would have the ability to reconfigure the vessels to be able to take the Slyandro off their world. As per it be just for a joke...we are talking about a race that starts wars between species that result in wide spread genocide for laughs. I imagine they would find the situation Hilarious.........why did we let that race live again?
I can think of a few possibilities, actually. One is that there is a certain child-like naivety in their humour - they really seem to genuinely think that a laugh is more important than life (look at their ships, for instance - it's been observed before that they could be made so much more effective by making the zip forwards, but combat efficiency just isn't as important as a laugh for the Umgah). They play some really, really cruel jokes, but there doesn't seem to be any malice or hatred in it as there are for races like the Ilwrath and VUX, they aren't as dangerous as the Mycon, and they didn't seem to have a lot of loyalty towards the Hierarchy. The other races probably felt that as long as they kept an eye on the Umgah, they couldn't get up to mischief - but clearly didn't think of the possibility of the Umgah giving Marauder hulls to a race without spaceflight so they'd get attacked on sight by the Alliance.
Another possibility is that the Umgah are the second best known race for biological knowledge (with the possible exception of the Melnorme) and despite their warped humour are still easier to deal with than the Mycon. It might be a case of being tolerated because they're useful ("but we're watching you").
When it comes to reengineering ships - it struck me as silly too, but it's a call they made for the story. It could be that it's one thing to make a direct copy of a ship given the requisite technical data, but reeingineering the control systems takes time that wasn't available in SC2's timeframe. It might also be something that can be regarded as a gameplay simplification of the fact that different species might have different forms of life support required - while SC2 only talks about captains, for some ships realistically you're probably looking at the entire crew being of that species (Orz marines probably have to be Orz, for instance, and there aren't likely to be many non-Mycon that can even survive on a Mycon ship, let alone be regenerated by it) while others have featured that require the unique capabilities of at least one member of the originating species, possibly the entire crew, to function (psychic races such as the Pkunk and Syreen come to mind - and I think I remember reading somewhere that the Yehat shield is an extension of Yehat psychokinetics and thus that the whole race is psychic with the Yehat and Pkunk developing in different ways, but I can't find the reference now).
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Stardrake
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Hrrrmn. Maybe I need to chase up my combined SC1/SC2 CD again. I did find an online reference ("Their odd quirk of polarizing magnetic fields to their defense found its start early in Yehat culture; those who were best able to hone their strange powers were best able to survive nest-hood.", here) which is, of course, less reliable being a secondary source.
Mind you, it does make sense - the Pkunk are one of the most psychic races in the quadrant, so it makes sense that the race they split off from would also be psychic... but more concerned about powers that are of obvious use in combat rather than seeking to become one with the universe.
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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They also don't necessarily have their SoI right there... and they also look like they know how to hide.
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Zeroarmy
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I think it depends on how much of a threat Lurg and co. end up being. The Alliance isn't in the best shape after fighting two wars in recent memory and if their borders are immediately pounded by superior numbers, they could not only have much bigger problems to deal with, but they could find that this area you're in is now the heart of new Lurg space. So sending ships to search for you may be incredibly problematic and, while you're a super great guy and all, diverting a massive fleet to break through their numbers and go to a planet that is probably heavily defended in and of itself is not a very good strategic move as it's a high risk, low reward scenario that leaves their defenses weakened. Thus, while the Alliance is diverting ships to this attack, the Lurg could be making serious inroads into Alliance territory.
But regardless, you could always add a plot point that makes it seem more likely that you died - The Lurg could collect some of the space debris from your ship and dump it somewhere else as a decoy, they could tow the Precursor ship out of there and force you to work on it elsewhere so when the Alliance sends ships to look for you all they find is the debris of your ship, etc.
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Stardrake
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psychic races such as the Pkunk and Syreen come to mind I just feel a need to nit pick on this issue. Pkunk are Psychic, Syreen are not and neither are the Yehat based on what is being said. The Pkunk are Psychic. Capable off seeing glimpses of the future, dreams that allow them to see past and future events though possibly out of original context, and so forth. There statements about knowing what you are going to say before you say it is a result of them seeing the conversation before it happens. The Syreen are Telepathic. They can read minds and even manipulate them with enough effort. The Yehat are Psychokinetic if we trust the original manual explanation. They ability to manipulate objects (In there case, magnetic fields) with their mind. While I agree it is likely part of their being an offshoot of the Pkunk, the powers these three have are quite different from each other. |
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CelticMinstrel
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I just feel a need to nit pick on this issue. As Stardrake noted, all three of those count as psychic.
Think about it, the single greatest hero, the literal savior of EVERY race in this sector of the galaxy goes missing while on a mission of search and rescue. They know approximately where he was because they know the general area of the search. I would give in about 30 seconds after he disappears before every race in the alliance sends their entire fleet to go searching for him. If they found he was captured by the Lurg,I would expect them not only to get him back almost immediately, but to crush the Lurg into the dust so far that their race is exterminated for the insult.
Okay I am dramatizing a bit. However, the man saved Billions of lives, brought the Shofitix back from extinction, freed the alliance from slavery and single handedly brought down both the Ur-Quan and Kor-ah fleets before they could extinguish all life in the galaxy. Do you really think there is any chance the alliance would not marshal ever last ship to get him back?
Yes, I think there's a very good chance they wouldn't. For starters, they may not even know he's missing, or they may have evidence that he's dead. Furthermore, as much of a hero as he is, he's still only one person. If they're facing a war with the Lurg, they probably won't have the resources to search for him.
And it would take a lot more than 30 seconds for them to realize he's missing, unless he happens to be in the middle of a hyperwave conversation with them when he disappears. (Hint: He wasn't.)
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