What type of alien race should we meet next?

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I guess we will probably have some info on what would the Jardaan in the next DLC/game/dunno what's next. Since the Jardaan seems to have created the Angara, my guess is that they should look a bit like the Angara/have things in common with the Angara.

Other species wise, I guess something that looks a bit like the Sanghelli/Elites in Halo universe could be cool.

A lot of people seems interrested by insectoid aliens. Personnally, it would look too much alike the Rachni and I'm not interrested by that. Seems to be already seen a lot.

I'm hoping for the opposite actually. There's no rule that says once a species is advanced enough to create another sentient species that the created has to resemble the creator in any form or fashion. Indeed, I would think that such a species would have grown out of such petty vainglories as having to create things in their own image. It's the same line of reasoning why I always roll my eyes when I see a sci-fi setting with the insect aliens flying around in insect-shaped space ships. We humans don't create human-shaped airplanes or cars to fly/drive around in, so why would a bug species?

The Elites are pretty cool, though their overall design is rather overdone in general science fiction settings, especially something like Mass Effect. A biped with digitigrade/reverse-jointed legs, with three to four fingered hands, etc. I will give Halo credit for making them feel predatory though; an Elite is certainly more distinct and intimidating than an Angaran is.

As for insectioid species, from personal preference I would say that they are popular because of their prolific abundance everywhere on this planet and their accomplishments despite being quite alien in comparison to us. I mean ants have successfully achieved continent-spanning super colonies; containing trillions of individuals with practically zero intra colony conflict; us humans can't even manage that in small countries with only millions of individuals.  As for the Rachni in particular, well they were certainly the most 'alien' alien in the setting; all subsequent additions to the species roster has gotten less and less distinct or 'alien' as the series has gone on; so bringing back one that was decidedly non-human would go along way in fixing the human-centric nature of the setting, or at least providing a break from the boring monotony of it (IMO). 

Oh yeah I forgot the legs were the same than the Angara/Quarian/Turian/Salarian/everyrace in milky way except the Asari/human...  I dunno why Bioware loves those legs sooo much. 

When I mentionned the elites it was mostly for their predatory design. I really like the four parts mouth, the wierd adavanced head on their body... the fact that they don't look like a human with wider legs or four fingers.

ROFL!!! BADA-BOOM!

Would they be sentient? Because yo... they're cute. Give him a pistol and a few grenades and I can see the little guy makin' big headaches.

They were freaky. Upright or not, freaky.

Well spoken.

I hated that the unofficial tagline for Andromeda by the devs was "Pretty Good Banging"



For a series that initially drew me in because of the distinct aliens, and interesting technology, it's sad that "Who can I sleep with?" is (apparently) more important to the creators than having a nuanced science fiction setting.

Mole people

ANYTHING that does not have two legs, arms eyes. But then I don't think that is possible, they can't even render children let alone something so different then human form all the same size.

To be fair, they were trash mooks in one area of an MMO. Read the books, they're much more interesting.


Otherwise, I was thinking of more ideas for a topic like this, I'll come back to it later.

A race of only women that look like Miranda Lawson.