Need help with concept of new aliens

Um, what is this?

Anyway, if there's one science fiction cliche that deserves to die, it's the idea of humans being special. I really don't know what the issue with this is - do writers really think we need all that ego-stroking? - but I honestly never want to see it again in my life. So... yeah.

The other cliche that needs to die is idea of humanity sucking at everything . I only wanted to create some custom aliens that I would feel confortable to play with.

Well, for what it's worth, I do like the Space Jellyfishes.

I just got an idea for those religious fanatics. Why not, in great stroke of irony, make Imperium of Man (from WH40k) an aliens? Homeworld 2 had an faction that was inspired by Imperium: Taiidan Empire. They would be led by "God-Emperor" and instead of armies they would have "chapters" of that carry out "crusades" instead of wars. Throw in "inquisition" that is everywhere (and whom nobody expects ;)) and you have pretty nice enemy faction.

Inspiring, I have been thinking of customazing new civilizations too. For example creating the Darth Vaders empire and the New Republic (Star Wars).

You rang, We are the Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas, that are female warriors of the Ecclesiarchy, a religious inquisitors that bear a resemblance to several Knightly Orders from Medieval Europe, and have a strong Gothic appearance of the Imperium to the extreme feel. Many of their heroines have the personae and attitude of Joan of Arc (especially in Martyrdom and Sainthood). Being an elite army of female zealots, they also bear some resemblance to the Fish Speakers from Frank Herbert's Dune universe.



We are looking for players to join to be aggressive Admirals to lead my fleets across the Galaxy. 

Saint Mina of Ophelia VII ofOrderof the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant ofAdepta Sororitas

When our Enemies win a battle, they called a Victory, 

but when Saint Mina, Our Living Saint wins a battle, our Emenies called a Massacre. 

No Mercy!  No Respite!

As I said before the "Taiidan Empire" (I think I will keep this name) will be very close to Imperium in most aspects. Fanatical followers, oppressive system, fighting the change, strong military, utterly xenophobic etc. It will be Imperium, only without the magic warp stuff (whole my setting is devoid of supernatural stuff). Obviously they wont be humans, maybe something humanoid though.

Now for faction with completely rigid social system. I think they are pretty interesting as well. Maybe something that would give feel of Tau caste sytem: Workers, Warriors, Commanders and many more. All citizens are required to focus on one task, aspect of life and perfect it till death. Their warriors also perfect only one aspect of combat. All of this makes them extremely inflexible, however everyone there is content as everyone knows their place. While their military is inflexible they cover this with extreme coherency, their battle plans are carefully crafted, and they learned to use "best tools for the job", ie. they managed to master technique of using their warriors.

I personally like to use the "back from the future" theme, no not the movie, i.e. Something happens that has to be changed, and they send them back in time to change it. Obviously using Tholian or is it Thalian tech, which ever race is from the future.

One idea is to come back and stop one or more races from enslaving the galaxy, which ushered in thousands of years of slavery and torment.  Or some race nearly wiped out your species and as a last ditch effort to save yourselves, you send back some colony ships and some advanced tech to try to stop it from occuring.  Or many similar ideas.

Just another idea for you.

Nah that is too far fetched . I mainly want alien raaces that can pose danger to humanity if humans wont put much effort to destroy them.  I just prefer situations where whole galaxy sits on powder keg with lit fuse, one mistake and everybody wants to murder one another.

In my current game I have human factions 6 total, and one alien. I have "Galactic Enterprises" in control of Earth, and they are Evil, what corporation isnt, and the rest rebelled at various times from the evil corps. The alien faction I used is an ancient neutral race, similar to Arceans. FYI

The biggest problem I have found with this game is the A.I.'s reliance on stats. I wanted to play something similar to what you described, a good "powder keg" situation.  but....

The A.I. hates you and frequently declares war on you and almost refuses to make peace if they are "stronger" stat wise.  As soon as you get a few good ships, they love you forever. 

They employ this same "mentality" to the other A.I. as well.  Galactic CIv does have a few things which affect this formula, like random events and good neutral and evil alignment.  But more frequently then not, your worst enemy is your allies best friend, and everyone gangs up on the weaker civs till there are just a few powerful ones who love eachother good or evil.

Nobody wants to declare war or be at war unless they are stronger stat wise, I have quit several games that 5 or so civs were left and nobdy had any interest in fighting, and the only victory condition is conquest.  they all have alliances, so if I decide to stir things up with war, I end up fighting everyone, even my allies.

The other situation I run ito alot is one civ becomes way to powerful way to fast and the game just isnt the funnest when one civ has 40+ planets and you and everyone else have 10, and they just declare war on everyone.  I can usually put up a good fight in this situation, but the other A.I. cant, and unless I defend everyone they lose.

But occasionally things work out interesting, but the problem is you have to put hours into a game sometimes to tell how its going to play out. I am rambling so I'll quit now, but thought I'd share my insight from hundreds of hours of playing.

Is this thread necromancy?

If not, I have a further suggestion for your religious freaks: 

How about their religion is exactly the same as some Terran one?  One story floating around in my head has humanity discovering an alien race, and then being utterly astonished that the aliens are Muslim.  Granted, that story took a heavily philosophical bent about God starting three separate monotheistic religions (sorta 'retrying') and just took the third try on multiple worlds all at once.  But it could add some flavour. 

Oh, and also, your rigid society - if you've read Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series, you might take the aliens as an inspiration:  In addition to what you outlined above, they would start incredibly advanced, but advance slowly and have limited numbers and limited resources. 

Hang on, that sounds like the Dread Lords.

I've been working with the idea of a race of Energy Beings, I call them The Supremacy and I created a custom tech tree for them (its only three techs) They receive right off the bat full access to all world types as well as speed, weapon and defense bonuses. However the third tech (the only one they have to research) gives them a wopping 1000% increase to both population growth and repair rate. They generally colonize 80% of the galaxy then get stuck because they have no access to translators or weapons. The idea behind them is that they were a race that won a tech victory then became energy but they have no idea how to truly use their powers.