I came up with this as I searched through the strellius system to see what id do the each worlds remastered version and stumbled upon Ona.
heres the lore for the species:
The Archaia
The archaia are an interesting species, they have no natural predators on their world, they mainly rely on water as their lifesource and means of sustainance, hence them building their subterranean cities being built near aquifers, they absorb water through their body, hence the large amount of humidifiers in their cities. with no predators to fear and no need to hunt, this made them naturally a more pacifistic species. Due to this they had more time to learn about nature and the world around them (since they neednt worry about being hunted (hence free exploration) or hunting). They analyzed naturally dead specimens to learn anatomy, often comparing injuries and making notes, seeing what part of certain creatures have to be hit in order for them to die, realizing that weak spots exist, they had then decided to learn with themselves (not by experimenting!) and ran autopsies, ranking different areas of their bodies from most important to protect, to least. Their development was quite quick, they built buildings to protect from dangers, such as the weather (another reason whyd they rank their bodies areas of importance). Over time their population grew and newer and newer materials were discovered, they realised that there were other landmasses and literally swam to them (since they could absorb water whenever they wanted to, replenishing energy, as well as having no predators) explaining how they colonized ona pretty quickly with no real issues. They discovered new minerals there too and learnt they could use the new materials for more weather resistant and durable buildings. They had learnt physics and engineering quite slowly, since they felt biology was more important and that learning how life works on the only known place where life exists is most important, since they didnt know how long itd last. They only really use physics and engineering when problems started to arise, such as inland humidification, hence their humidifiers. The Archaia had also learnt eco friendly industry (since they didnt want to hurt life and knew how not to), as long as there were humidifiers, there was no real reason for mechanized methods of movement, like cars, leading to a dense city structure. The Archaia could see only in visible spectrum light, as their populace grew, they began to take an interest in Astronomy, namely due to their moon seril, they wanted to learn what this in the sky was, how far away is it, how do they get there, if it supported life and how do get there in an eco friendly manner. It was here onwards that their passion for new exploration (now that they had explored their homeworlds surface, shallow and twilight regions of their oceans (water pressure was getting far too intense for them passed the twilight zone) that they had decided to advance on their knowledge of physics, astronomy and chemistry (chemistry to see what material is best for construction, they didnt want to build a craft out of something highly reactive causing kaboom, no archaian would want to look at a wasteland and sing "I dont want to set the world on fire...I just want to start...a flame in your heart!" (not like they knew english!). Breakthrough after breakthrough, despite it being quite a while after industrialization, they were making waves in their new scientific era, although their scientific era was underway, they still were advancing quickly in biology, scientists had prepared for the possibility of no life on seril, so they wanted to possibly answer some of of their greatest questions: How did life come about? Can life seed life and can life be engineered or made? they had then discovered biological engineering, answering one of their questions, now they wanted to also use this to replicate beauty and add more to their homeplanet, hence leading to biological tests, they first started ok, by biologically engineering a plant species which was supposed to bear fruit like growths, in order to see how different engineered life is to native life, what could go wrong? most things, the test had failed resulting in their worst possible nightmare, not a predator, but a plant that consumed the greenhouse gasses, unfortunately, they were quite impatient, they wanted it to grow quite quickly, and grow quickly it did, they didnt really know what to do, the test failed, the plant was alien from the original design, they didnt know where to strike or how to strike, or even what to strike with. The plant had also reproduced quickly, not by fruit, but by little airborne seeds which flew...and flew... This plant was spreading rapidly, panic began to set. The archaia had 2 options, either up and face the unkown with the chance of going extinct due to a lack of water, or down, where the aquifers were and subterranean cities could be built. they chose down, they stuck with what they knew hence leading to their survival. They had developed some weapons, but a bit too late...the plant had already took most of the greenhouse gasses, resulting in Ona being in an ice age (aka now) fortunately the plant species is extinct due to severe cold. The archaia colonized the underground and stuck with aquifiers for survival, fortunately they havent forgotten their breakthroughs, they worked and worked, they eventually found a way to build a space elevator, their selected method of travel (although there was almost no life to protect or to harm) the first archaic sattelite entered orbit, when they saw, they were stunned. This day was one of the most important in history, they saw the vacuum itself, seril, some other worlds, strellius and rollius. Although their homeworld wasnt anything to look proud of, some archaia still wanted to see if they could live in space, leading to hab technology and the first habs. Although the Archaia could just biologically modify themselves to be cold resistant, they choose not too since they dont want another biological experiment, gone wrong, especially with the subjects being themselves.
Pls tell me what you think my fingers are sore
Relation status: Archaia-human relations are good, the alliance has made the descision to terraform Ona for the Archaia, but in exchange they want the Archaia to just share their biological knowledge with them. The archaia really like humans and find us funny in a way, Archaia communicate via airpatterns and body movement, they make patterns in the air which one can decipher, in windy conditions (where it wouldnt really be clear to communicate) they use body movement. They are not humanoid nor resemblent to any creature of earth
Thanks for all you do Aludra, please give your fingers a rest before they fall off haha XD
@Aludra877 np!
@Lacker thanks brother!
Yes it's worth it!
@Tallisar The other one you guys dont know about cant really be ranked on the Kardaschev scale, not because they are some hyperadvanced superspecies or some hyper idiocrats...but because of something else...
Compared to humans: they are inconsiderate when it comes to fuel, unlike humans, they are quite [TITLE CARD] when compared to the others, not because of plot armour. They can manipulate their Redacted to make more Redacted for themselves so they can take another Redacted. Commuincate via radiowaves. Their species has Unintelligent variants and intelligent variants. They are neutral
Strengths: Their Redacted
Weaknesses: being caught in a natural disaster, like a supernova.
Ideology: ???
@Tallisar 1 of the Unknown species (unkown to you guys): 2.2 (they are old and have lots of systems) (for reference humans are beyond type 2, but slightly, since we do have quite a handful of systems under control as a species).
Compared to humans: more advanced in a lot of areas, they have experience...lots of it (yes im not being clear intentionally, hehe, so have fun guessing lol), they are masters of many sciences and make use of biological exo suits. Take things slow. Can communicate via mediums since they have experience
Stregnths: Many things
Weaknesses: Pride and thinking that less advanced species are inferior to them in any way.
Ideology: Lets play a game....
@Tallisar Archaia: (peak):0,71 (they spanned their homeworld fully and did have some sattelites, didnt control energy entirely)
Archaia: (now): 0.4-5 (due to limited area, they cant control or harvest much energy of Ona).
Compared to humans: More pacifistic, xenophilic and biology oriented, no military, isnt so reliant on technology and is quite versatile (they can go wherever there is water, for now), advanced bodily defence technology, light weapons knowledge
Strengths: Versatility limited, reliance on resources, defencive technologies (armour) and lack of subdivisions.
Weaknesses: Uni-planetary (can be wiped out in 1 sweep), weak weapons (they developed that to fight the sporadic plant, and that did fail, although it was also due to them being late in production).
Ideology: Life is rare and should be cherished, since nothing lasts forever.
@Tallisar Acellians (pre commonwealth help): 0.7: Culling occurred, had almost no resources, couldnt progress, population in 20s.
Acellians (post commonwealth help): 1: Had quickly colonized the world the commonwealth terraformed for them, made space faring vessels and cities quickly (since they had knowledge of engineering).
Compared to humans: They arent really different, since they too, want to cement their existence and secure resource income, they are xenophilic like us too and will fight only when nessecary. Communicate via radio waves
Stregnths: Human protection, multi-fronterial (have mastered combat in hydrospheric and lithospheric environments, since theyve evolved in liquid water oceans and have learnt how to biologically edit themselves to survive on surfaces without hydrogen and ground movement (they rely on hydrogen for survival)), weapons technology, will fight back when nessecary, human weapons technology (weapons tech has been shared).
Weaknesses: Reliance on resources for survival (they require hydrogen and another resource for survival, and another resource for reproduction), uni-planetary (right now they just have 1 world and can be wiped out in 1 sweep).
Ideology: Cementation of existence is priority (again they are rather similar to humans since they too, have had a near extinction period).
@Tallisar Intelleians: 1: They have control of their home moon, and a minor moonmoon city, no weapons, have gained weapons knowledge from humans.
Compared to humans: They are far more pacifistic, science oriented and slightly more intelligent than us. They are xenophilic and have a thirst for knowledge, their ships do have engines and high storage and crew capacity, no militaries. They can design weapons should the need arise.
Stregnths: Advanced scientific knowledge (can design own weapons contraptions should the need arise), weapons knowledge from humans (can modify our weapons), memory sharing (should something bad like an attaco happen, one can transfer its memory of that event to several others to analyze different aspects of it, e.g, damage done, enemy tactics, enemy weaponary, etc.) Communicate by creating visuals and images, as well as memories
Weaknesses: Pascifism (they wont attack first, their limited expansion can make a hostile species wipe them out easily), uni-planetary (threat can launch strike on homeworld and moonmoon, causing extinction), no current weapons (weapons take time to produce, and to supply weapons for conflict is costly, especially starting from 0)
Ideology: The intelleian believe that science is priority for any species in order to evolve and advance.
@Tallisar Inhosterrans: 1.2-1.3: They have full control of Inhosta, they are expanding and do have planetary grade weapons.
Compared to humans:
Militaristically: They are a high level threat due to their planet mounted cannons and FTL propelled vessels, with no engines to worry about, they have more space for kinetic ammo storage and weapon systems. Land vehicles primarily use ranged scorch attacks and eradication. Land Army: Trained to fight savagely, whatever kills the enemy works, they believe: "If the enemy is undignified, we shall kill them in the most undignified or painful way". Compared to humans they are far more violent, xenophobic and war oriented, due to them believing they should purge life like how they did on their homeplanet and moon, although they have a more stronger sense of unity (built around war and hatred). Communicate with board and stick (did mention how that works on alien lore note)
Stregnths: Advanced weaponary, war centered culture, strong space navy, land army and infantry.
Weaknesses: Pride (they may decide to make uncalculated decisions out of pride, which could land them in a bad situation or bad losses, or even to waste resources, e.g, using a new, advanced heavy planet mounted cannon to destroy an enemy stronghold, which your fleet couldve done instead), Savage nature (may prompt enemies to be more angry at them, potentially causing a spike in weapons development out of revenge for the fallen, which could end badly for them),
Ideology: They believe that most life is inferior to them, especially those who didnt fight to earn their place on their homeplanet, they would respect other species who have done the same as them, or something similar.
So, on the Kardashev Scale, how would you rank them? How are they compared to Humans? If you can, what are their weaknesses and strengths? @Aludra877
@Tallisar Advanced ones (post space age and spacefaring): Inhosterrans (militiristically, scientifically and technologically) Intelleians (scientifically and technologically), later the Acellians (after commonwealth help) and the other 2 which you guys dont know of yet (1 is advanced biologically (they make use of biological engineering), scientifically and technologically, they are also very old. The other is extremely ancient and are advanced biologically and scientifically, they dont really need technology).
Non advanced (pre space age): Archaia (they havent really set foot on another
celestial body yet but are advanced biologically, not rlly technologically) and the pre commonwealth aided Acellians
judging by the random aliens I left on random worlds, Id say most of those may be pre space age so theyd be un advanced,
Which ones are powerful and which ones are not (i.e., which one is advanced and which isn't), @Aludra877?
@Tallisar when it comes to checking random.planets and their descriptions I'd see if I could palm these "alien" proof as a natural phenomenon or I could make a new species, it's mood and energy dependent
@Tallisar Well that's quite a question for me too, since when I was younger I'd randomly pop an alien species on one world, then another, here there anywhere. Yet there are 6 now which do have lore, some still incomplete, only 4 you guys know of, the inhosterrans, archaia, intelleians and Acellians
I'm curious about your universe, @Aludra877. How many alien species are there?
@Tallisar no offence or hurt taken, those are some neat suggestions you got there, and I do like constructive criticism, thanks man!
My problem with this is that the trope of a near-perfect civilization with little to no drawbacks and whatnot is overused and boring. Take the Viltrumites, for example. According to the lore, they had a perfect society, they were powerful, yada-yada. It just makes everything look and feel bland. Sure, they're unique in a way, but at the same time, they do not have enough spice. Perhaps you can spice things up by introducing different types of Archaia, perhaps some that photosynthesize, or some with wildly different beliefs and way of life. Sometimes, to make them stand out and be cool. This is my constructive criticism, @Aludra877; it is not my intent to hurt your feelings. Apologies if I did.
@Tallisar I hope this does make sense and explains things for you man, I really do appreciate your feedback! This will help me write out future alien lore, thanks again brother! Live long and prosper
@Tallisar
Pascification: The reason they are pascifists is because they dont really have natural predators, no reason to fight anything else for survival, they dont need to hunt anything, they dont need to kill for survival, they dont have large disputes or large ideological disagreements, so there is no intraspecies violence due to idealogy, ofcourse, there is some violence since there are the few psychos as mentioned earlier, again, no species would likely be perfect. Even micro organisms dont really feast on them, namely since the microorganisms of Ona look for a host to see if it has the resources it needs, and the Archaia dont really have anything any microorganism would need unlike a few other creatures, they do know of these microorganisms after running autopsies on other lifeforms. In modern day they are the type of pascifists who do prefer peace, they run with the: "Dont harm me, and I wont harm you" philosophy, in their prime itd be "Whyd you harm me? I will harm you back but I want to find out why you harmed me first". They also dont really have any reasons for any conflicts really, no real subdivisions. They may be pascifists now, but they wont be forever
@Tallisar
Unification: The reason they are unified is due to them realising that nothing isnt going to last forever (because they have analyzed lots of corpses in the past, their own and other creatures) and have realised that they are the same species, where they do share most common interests, like their bio-curiousity, which made them essentially worked together to learn more about it hence leading to a spike in their knowledge, even in other sectors very much later, like physics and astronomy, essentially did bring them together, there werent really any subdivisions or anything stopping them from seeing eachother (since they could quite literally swim accross the ocean whenever they felt like it) so they dont really see subdivisions worth it, and they dont have anything to really dispute over (they do have issues like the minor crime as explained earlier, problems still do exist, they arent the perfect society). I shouldve rather said that they dont have subidivisions instead of unified, so forgive my wording there, (since unified could come accross as: "wE dA perFecT sPecIes aNd We HaD dA dOpE UnIfItCaTiOn TrEaTy YeSteRdAy aNd NoW eVeRyOnE FrEnS!" some cheesy happy dance here)
@Tallisar Its not that they have a buttload of things worth stealing and they are like "oH nO wE pErFeCt, wE dOnT sTeAl" its just that you cant commit crime if you dont have reason (like fulfilling a psycopathic urge (im not saying fulfilling psychopathic urges is the right thing to do) or stealing for survival), if you dont know how to, or if there is nothing to commit a crime for, (you cant steal, if theres nothing to steal)
@Tallisar ok, well, I wouldnt mind you asking, although I can give you reasons.
Little-No crime: Its not just because they are pacifists, the Archaia dont really have anything to steal either (look at us humans, theres loads to steal, like nessecities for example: Food, water, medicine, housing (ik you cant steal a house but you can stay in an abandoned building or just bunk with someone without them knowing and steal their food and stuff) this is for survival, the archaia just need water, and they have large humidifiers in their city, so they can survive, they dont need to steal for survival. they do have armour plates for their "most important" body areas and this armour isnt bought, it is pretty much standard issued among them since they did realise they have enough materials for the populace, so they dont need to steal for protection, although should there have been shortages of this, then I can see crime starting out of desperation. In terms of entertainment and recreational products, id say they dont have much, since they are aliens who have realised their own fragility and how easy it is to die (especially after analyzing corpses, and learning how easy things are in educational content and simulations), so they would be entertained easily by nature and views since theyd want to cherish things while they last and appreciate things, some can even just choose to swim across to another continent should they please, or even try discover and learn things about the aquatic biosphere, their entertainment and recreational products would likely be bio simulators, hypothetical seril simulators and even immersive fiction simulations. would these be stolen? likely (I didnt say no crime iirc, I think I said little to none), by a few bored ones (they can get bored), although its not on that big of a scale, since again, most can be entertained by view appreciation, exploration and travel. As for killings, those would happen, no alien species would be perfect, there would likely be a few who grew desperate and decided to put the "most important" body areas theory to the test. Arson, they dont commit arson since they dont need to start fires for anything (like how our ancestors needed fire for food) although they have seen fire, but its not widely known as how one can start it. The reason crime is low is because theres not really anything to commit crime for and most of them do appreciate life and their lives too, since Ona is the only place where they knew life in their prime. They also dont have a currency or exchange medium, mainly because they judge things based on use, so there would be bartering taking place, advanced body armour would be given to those who do have a weaker body, or to those who want to do something risky (for example, try climbing a really high mountain, in cases like this, the item would be given temporarily, whilst for the weak bodied, permanently) Simulaions are dependent on how knowledgable and commited you are to its content, e.g something like biology, youd have to take a questionairre to see if you can get it or not, since youd have to know such stuff in order to take it), if its a work of fiction, youd also have to take a questionairre in order to see how knowledgable you are.
Of course they're unified.
Of course they have no crime.
Of course they're pacifists.
Who would've known?
I have so many questions.