Your Favourite OTU Race/Species/Whatever

[aramis]

Gunny didn't wear the neck-ribbon. Common standard is if they wear ONLY the rack-ribbon, and not the full medal, they don't usually expect to be saluted.

When they wear the full hardware, be ready to salute.

We did have to salute him when reporting. He was used to it.

 

[BlackBat242]

Regs say if you know he won it, even if he isn't wearing either the ribbon or medal & is in civvies, as long as you are in uniform, you salute. Period.

 

[aramis]

The Regs go to hell when he asks you not to unless you can see it.

 

[BlackBat242]

That's true... but you had said "Common standard"... and the only such "Common standard" I ever encountered required that individual instruction is required to suspend the regs... there was no "if ribbon only, then don't salute" convention at more than the individually-expressed level.

 

[infojunky]

Hehehe! Just as I predicted!

K'kree get the lowest % of votes.

Good.

Isolation as recreation and meat sauce, anyone? :devil:

He ask favorite species, not favorite flavor... I prefer a orange/citrus BBQ sauce with my K'Kree....

edit> why did this popup as a current thread......

 

[Marchand]

Hivers and K'kree.

How come the K'kree were sitting on 9 votes? That's ridiculous! They're one of the more imaginative and genuinely alien aliens, with a culture and set of motivations that flow from their origins in a plausible way. Fulfils the old Campbell rule, as smart as a man but different to a man.

Dog men? Pull the other one...

(I like the grumpy octopi from the MGT Solomani Rim book too.)

 

[aramis]

Hivers and K'kree.

How come the K'kree were sitting on 9 votes? That's ridiculous! They're one of the more imaginative and genuinely alien aliens, with a culture and set of motivations that flow from their origins in a plausible way. Fulfils the old Campbell rule, as smart as a man but different to a man.

Dog men? Pull the other one...

(I like the grumpy octopi from the MGT Solomani Rim book too.)

The Vargr ARE Wolf-uplifts in Canon. Not exactly Dog-men, but definitely space wolves in a very literal sense.

The Aslan are the "not uplift but would make more sense as uplifts"...

 

[Timerover51]

The Vargr ARE Wolf-uplifts in Canon. Not exactly Dog-men, but definitely space wolves in a very literal sense.

The Aslan are the "not uplift but would make more sense as uplifts"...

In MTU they are "uplifted", as you put it, lions, by the Ancients, who thought that the lion pride indicated a degree or societal development. They got a bit surprised. Also, pure carnivores do need a lot of area for food supplies.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Vargr. They're just a wild bunch. Tons of adventure material.

 

[Murphy]

I like Vargr 'cause they're more believable, being an uplifted race instead of independently-evolved-but-biologically-similar Aslan or Droyne. I like Droyne because of the mysticism, though.

I dislike Hivers. Sure they are the most alien but I just don't think they make any good adventure material.

More anagathics to this thread!

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Gotta go with My Little Ponies of Death

and well of course the Solomani.

Solomani Uber Alles!

 

[Shadowfax]

ZHODANI

Hello? Didn't you forget one?!!!

ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI-ZHODANI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Zhodane rules!

What you don't think so? Now please just sit back on the couch and let's discuss this. How long have you been having such thoughts? The man there? Oh don't worry he is here to help you. We are all here to help. We understand you haven't been feeling well lately and we would like to help you find your way back to healthy happy thoughts. You want to be healthy and happy again don't you? Of course you do."

My favorite are the Zhodani and if you don't think so now . . . you will soon and best of all you will enjoy agreeing with me, because we are all just one big friendly Consulate aren't we?

 

[maksimsmelchak]

Guess what I voted for...

Zhodani...

 

[ovka]

Space Dogs rule!

Cheers,

Baron Ovka

 

[kilemall]

2300 Aliens best aliens.

 

[The Pakkrat]

Vargr Take The Lead

Chosen of the Ancients, at the time of this post on this thread, I saw 80 votes Humaniti and 81 votes Vargr.

Why do we like Vargr as a playable race? Because as Humans we are lonely. And when Vargr come in so many flavors from Aekhu to Urzaeng, we can include a sub-species and enjoy it too. As Terragens, the Vargr are close enough to relate with and possibly identify with. As Aliens, the Vargr are individual enough to set an identity partition off from Humaniti.

Vargr are easiest of Aliens to portray, adding spice to a game of Humans First Traveller. They take easily to any Career choice and have a fitting niche in any of those Careers, especially when swept up against the Humaniti polities, allowing them to mirror us and put our shortcomings on display.

Vargr show us the mortal condition the best. We see that even aliens have to deal with the ‘human’ condition too. We can see their reactions to adversity and celebrations of victory better than most other races.

I voted Vargr.

Live from Dhillourr, this is the Pakkrat.

 

[bookwyrm]

my 3 choices

Humaniti: Solamani or Solamani/Vilani mix. Humans have so much variety that it's impossible to not like playing them.

Droyne: I like the race in general, because of the mystery of the races possible past association with the Ancients. specifically, Droyne Sports look pretty cool as a character. the reptilian vibe seem like it would be both difficult and interesting to portray.

Sydite: I left Traveler many years ago, and came back with T20. at first I wasn't interested in them, as they looked like a stupid low tech race in a high tech universe. but after I did some research on them in the Traveler Wiki, I realized there was a lot of potential to work with, and I am not talking about the fact that they have four arms.

great reading other players views on their favorite races.

 

[Condottiere]

The Vargr are plastic, and can easily be molded to whatever we want them to be, whether it's a reflection of ourselves, or a bunch of freebooting gnolls.

Or something inbetween.

And since they're basically astromutts, unconsciously we reckon we have a pretty good handle as to what feels in character.

 

[mike wightman]

Except every time someone compares them with uplifted dogs they are so far from the mark it is painful.

The Vargr were uplifted from wolves - and most of what people think they know about wolves is wrong (alpha males lol).

So start by considering what wolves were like 300,000 years ago. Then think about what uplifting them did to them and how else the Ancients may have modified them. Then consider what 300,000 years of evolution have done since then. How many Vargr cultures and civilisations would rise and fall before they made it to a technological civilisation and discovered jump.
The Vilani certainly didn't laugh at them and call them dog men - the Vilani had never encountered wolves or dogs - but they were very fearful of them, offering tribute to some, hiring others as mercenaries, and finally diverting their attention to dealing with their threat while a minor race of humans on the other edge of their empire was proving to be a bit of a nuisance...

Take off the spectacles of Imperial propaganda that wants us to see them as dog men and think about their true nature - then you have an alien race rather than a cartoon dog man.

I like the Vargr - I do not like the comedic dog men trope that has mischaracterised them over the years.

 

[Condottiere]

I guess that the Vilani were unaware that all they had to do is throw a stick, and instead just went the more complicated route of selected breeding.

You can play them anyway you choose, whether space vikings with floppy ears and a tail, or Moties, since they have trouble maintaining a unified nation state over any period of time.