Alignment/tone of non-SC2 races

[Cedric6014]

Well, I posted this over at UQM forum but didn’t get a satisfactory response. So I’l try here


Survey question

Here’s a bit of a matrix which shows where alien races from Star Control II fit in terms of alignment and how funny/serious they are.

                       Funny             Neutral              Serious
Good             Supox              Arilou            Utwig
                    Pkunk             Shofixti          Chmmr
                    Zoq-Fot-Pik                          Syreen
                    Slylandro                             Yehat

Neutral          Thraddash       
                    Orz       
                    Spathi       
                    Melnorme       

Evil                Ilwrath            Druuge          Ur-Quan
                    Umgah            VUX              Mycon
                                                             Kohr-Ah


Where do you think the following SC1 raceswould slide into this matrix, and why?


Androsynth
Mmnrhrm
Chenjesu

[Alen]

Id say shofixi should be funny since you have a pretty funny banter with him at the start. I think that chenjesu and M:bots should be on the serious side. And androsynth should be neutral.

[Eth]

  I don't recall the Supox being particularly funny. 

[Scott_Irving]

Id say Chenjasu be either neutral:neutral or neutral:serious, androsynth mmm neutral/evil?:serious, and mmnrhrm neutral:neutral

[Eth]

  Aren't the 'Synths described as "gay hairdressers in outer space" in the SC1 manual?  That's not very serious, if you ask me.

[Nuclear]

Androsynth would probably be neutral/neutral, whatever humans are. Chenjesu are good/serious and M:bots are neutral/serious (both seem pretty robotic....)

[Rider]

The Melnorme can be in the 'neutral' spectrum as far as I'm concerned. The Utwig are probably more funny than not.

[Alen]

I dont know, the Utwig are fairly depressed.

[Eth]

  They're like sad clowns: depressed, but funny to others.

[Lukipela]

I agree that Synth are Neutral/Neutral and that both Chenjesu and M:botsshould be good/serious although it's hard to tell. The M:bots could also be good/funny if they are written wackily enough. I wonder about the SLylandro though, they are friendly but they don't seem like pure good to me. Maybe neutral funny? Same goes fro the ZFP really, the blue one is a vicious little thing and they have committed genocide in the past.

EDIT: Love the new avatar as well.

[Cedric6014]

Same goes fro the ZFP really, the blue one is a vicious little thing and they have committed genocide in the past.

The blue one is just bluffing

[Lukipela]

The blue one is just bluffing

What about the genocide? Seriously, I can see the Pkunk and the Chenjesu as true good one funny and one serious. While we know very little about the M:bots, they could fit in any good or possibly any neutral spot depending on how they are written. But the ZFP and Slylandro don't seem inherently good, just like friendly neutrals.

[Alen]

Yes but the ZFP had to kill the Zebranky or they would die, its a kill or be killed scenario.

[Rider]

We've had scenarios where it was "us or them" and they (mostly) don't turn into genocide.

[Draxas]

Then again, in our stone ages, we almost certainly didn't think twice about it. The only difference is, we as a species don't remember that era of our history, and somehow the ZFP do.