In the other half of humanity, human protagonists often find their advantage, along with their hope of victory. Generally, in the half of humanity that the new scifi creature takes the features of, it vastly exceeds human capability. The most memorable entities in scifi fiction tend to take one of these two halves of the human, throw it like a football, and see where it lands. The spiritual, or “soul” half, are things that set us outside of nature and make us distinctly different than other life around us: our technology, our concepts of morality and honor, and our complex methods of verbal and written communication. The physical, or “body” half, are things that mark us as a part of nature and make us the same as other life around us: our ability to breed, to be social, to cooperate, to specialize, to grow, to consume, and to self-repair. When deconstructing the human as a character, one comes up with two main descriptions to draw from. Once again, Zoroastrianism comes into play. How can one design something that can believably fight, live, and have a society as complex as humanity does, while being far away as possible from humanity itself?
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An easy choice is to design something with a more-or-less human shape, maybe with some altered proportions, fur, scales, or a color swap, like in the movie Avatar, but that, in my opinion, limits the potential use of one’s full creativity. When one designs a type of creature in scifi, there is an entire universe (literally) of possibilities to draw from. In the genre of scifi, I think the key reoccurring factions are reflection of the things that make us human. In the fantasy post, I note how the factions are reflections of specific existential threats that face us as humans. Click here for a list of other gaming subreddits.A while ago I wrote about what I called The Neapolitan Flavors of Fantasy Villain Factions, (a great read if you haven’t read it yet), and there’s a mirrored set of three flavors in scifi that I couldn’t help but notice while growing up. Posts and comments, whether in jest or with malice, that contain racist, sexist, homophobic content, threats, or other forms of toxicity will be removed, regardless of popularity or relevance.įor a more detailed explanation of these rules, click here. No Kickstarter, crowdfunding, et al project "reminder" posts. No referral, affiliate, livestream, and/or survey links. This is not the place to spam your channel or stream. No screenshots of websites or Twitter.įollow the rules of promotion. No general URL shorteners (bitly, tinyurl, etc). Submit only the original source of the content. No Giveaways / Trades / Contests / Items for sale / Donation Requests Mark your spoilers and NSFW submissions, comments and links. No bandwagon/raid/"pass it on" or direct reply posts. Note that we do not allow non-gaming meme templates as submissions. Submissions must be directly gaming-related, not just a "forced" connection via the title or a caption added to the content.
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