Craziest group/race in your story?

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  1. Necronox

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    True, But I just noted it as quite a range. makes me wonder on which page this post was before it was revived.

    Anyway, In my world I must say there a few odd ones - though none that are so odd as to be comical. There is, however, a bunch of tall, yeti-like people call the krains (not the greatest name, but coming with names is one of my flaws) that go around tending their herds of cattle (special mountain breed more similar to yaks), anyway. They very meagre diet means they seldom have any energy to spare and live very uneventful lifes. However, they will dances frivolously, jump or run around to attracts mates as it displays their ability to waste 'precious' energy that others may not be able to..

    They are semi-sentient with extremely rudimentary technology (nothing greater then stone-age level equipement, no medicine or writing and basic understanding of cattle grazing.). Whilst they do not actually factor in my story, plot or otherwise in any way shape or form, they do exists.... Still not exactly sure why they do, but anyway.

    What makes them particularly crazy is that they have never evolved any sense of fear (no natural predators or rivals in the food chain). They also have never evolved any sense of loyalty as they live entirely lonesome lives from the moment they are born - the mothers do not nurture their offspring. So therefore, they have no need for language either.

    PS: if you are wondering how they get the cattle - it is simple, they steal it. they kill the previous owner or steal part of it. The question is.... how did the first herd come to be?:superconfused:
     
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  2. SolZephyr

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    I've got a few exotic races in my WIP, but the three I think are the most foreign are the symbionts, alluvium, and sineform.

    Symbionts are plant/animal creatures that are a trypophobiac's nightmare in that their skin is a network of massive pores that hold soil for growing plants in. The symbionts obtain most of their energy from the plants that grow on them, but also some from composting plant material in their "stomachs". They reproduce by having a female deposit a seed into the male which will eventually move outside of the male's body as it grows and will at that point root itself into the male's pores until maturity.

    Alluvium are humanoid creatures with a cartilaginous skeleton and most of their bodies formed from a gel-like structure which is used to hold onto stone/wood/metal/etc. to form an armored carapace around their soft bodies. They feed purely on magical ore and reproduce asexually whenever they overeat.

    The sineform comprise a loose meta-collective of body snatchers whose physical form looks like jello that's been filled with spaghetti and a single meatball. Arbitrarily-sized groups can join together to form shared consciousnesses, and they can reproduce either through individual or group action, but it always leads to the involved parties splitting their cores (brains) apart, which divvies up the knowledge of the previous entity(ies) among the offspring.
     
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    It sounds like just a fun thing to have added to the world. Those kinds of things bring worlds to life, and something about a bunch of doofy lazy yetis running around in the background doing their own thing just rubs me the right way.
     
  4. John-Wayne

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    In my stories... there is a creature that is not mentioned... are part of the background... the characters know they are there and are use to them, they also not to mess with these creatures, as they are the agents of one of their "Arch Angel" deities. Or so they believe.

    They are tiny Mechanical Wasps, which are the eyes of an ancient Super Computer built by a long dead civilization. The Super Computer uses these wasps to watch events on the surface of the world, and record it. It can also use the wasps to have some minor interactions as well.

    Basically, I have no way to properly implement them. :p
     
  5. Simon Price

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    Oh boy.

    Allow me to describe to you the "Disciples of the Temple of the Gods of Glory and Spectacle", or "Gloryists" for short.

    Gloryism is a religion that arose in the wake of an unexplained mass-empowering event where superpowers started being given to humanity on a weekly basis.

    This is gonna require a bit of a summary: Basically, one day in 2017, everyone on earth over the age of 13 suddenly had a magical brand appear on their arm, with six circles on it. Every week from that point onward, a rune would appear on everyone's brand, which represents a superhuman ability everyone with that rune can now use. Once all six circles fill up with runes, you have to pick one of your current runes that will be deleted to make room for next week's rune. So within a few months, everyone is walking around with their own customized set of superhuman powers that's constantly evolving as everyone keeps being given new options for what to keep and what to discard.

    On top of this, 24 people all over the planet were secretly given their own, one-of-a-kind rune that nobody else on the planet got, and one of these people gained the power to know what runes do, and when they arrive. He immediately decides to use this power of prophecy to become a prophet of his own religion, teaching that the true gods are a pantheon of old-school, greek-and-norse, psychotic, incestuous, fiery dickbags who created us for their entertainment, and have brought magic back into the world in a last-ditch effort to give us a chance to stop being mediocre boring little losers before they wipe the slate clean and replace us with something better.

    Gloryism teaches that the gods spit upon the "empty spineless flattery" that is our concept of worship, that there is no right and wrong, that we are all merely puppets meant to dance before the almighty ones, and that our highest virtue and purpose in life is to be entertaining. Thus they range from "live life to the fullest" yolo types, to people who act like they're walking reality show ratings stunts, to giggling psychotic lunatics doing the most insane and violent things they can think of in a desperate ploy to get the gods to notice them.

    And that's before all these superpowers eventually cause the total collapse of civilization.
     
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    Okay, then.
     
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    Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
     
  8. J.T. Woody

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    My alien race wanted to build a wall before Trump made it "cool"......
    (note the sarcasm)

    They wanted to keep the humans out.
    They aren't crazy, per se. They value logic/reason, obedience, and and family above all else. They are pretty closed minded but pretty gentle and passive. They see humans as dangerous, irrational, parasitic, violent, and destroyers (for good reason.... they welcomed the first human to their planet with opened armed curiosity, and they basically colonized one of the few habitable areas on the planet and barred aliens from entering their city)
    Anyways, they stay in their territory and the humans stay in their own city.
    The aliens elect their leader. One of them is an extremist who wants his people to see just how dangerous humans are to "jolt them out of their passiveness" and to scare them in to defending their world.
    ironically, he enlists the help of a mercenary to stir shit up in both the human and alien cities. He massacres an entire nomadic clan and blames it on the humans. Any alien caught fraternizing with the humans is killed. Eventually, to "preserve their way of life" he begans to build a wall around city and his people and rules with paranoia that "the humans are always watching." But, of course, being a passive, non-violent race, he never really does harm to anyone. He has the humans do his dirty work. In exchange, he gives the human mercenaries access to the rejected women (women who were exiled by their families for various reasons)..... which goes very badly, but reinforces his rants that humans are violent and dangerous.

    So, my alien race isnt "crazy"...... its just run by a crazy.
     
  9. 18-Till-I-Die

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    Well...several, but three stand out:

    The Faithless, the Unbound and the Iar (pronounced like "I-Or").

    The Iar are basically a race of self-aware bacterial colonies who spawned this kind of fungal stuff with tendrils who learned to manipulate their environment, and over centuries they created these artificial exoskeletons for themselves, cybernetic "Encounter Suits" grown from artificially embryos. So they look kinda like metal skeletons but covered in this pulsating fungus with tendrils, like if the Thing and a Terminator had a baby, and about seven or eight feet tall. On average...they get bigger the older and more powerful they become so the REALLY important Iar are like thirty stories tall. Their warrior caste wear "War Suits" that have all kind of extra armor and weapons in addition, some of which involve multiple Iar "colonies" acting together to pilot gigantic War Suits that look like cyborg squids and their ships are gigantic shards of rock from "shattered worlds". Like a huge, inverted, cone-shaped piece of rock with cities and fortresses springing out from it at various points, some of which are like 60-100 miles in size--they like to strip mine a planet then literally blast it apart with nukes (radiation does nothing to them, it actually makes them grow faster so they kinda like it) and take the broken shards and make new ships, and the largest Iar ships are big enough to have their own gravity, like if someone took the moon and strapped an engine and some giant guns on it. So their nomadic civilization the Iar Republic is this constantly expanding, ever growing cancer made of the radioactive leftovers of planets they wiped out. And yes they're a "republic", an actual democracy, with elections and everything. They're actually in a lot of ways what humans would call Libertarians in terms of political views, small government and free speech and such...they just only think THEY should have these rights, everyone else is irrelevant to them. So when they attacked our civilization we never got a "reason" for the war, like a goal or a reason why they would attempt genocide against us, but it appears that in their minds this is just how you do things: you travel around, you take resources, and if you find a race weaker than you then you kill most of them and conquer their remnants to be slaves and serfs and turn their planets into broken shards so they can continue on doing it again and again. Now thankfully they finally got in a real fight against us but yeah, kinda unlikeable sorts.

    Now the Faithless are easier to explain in a lot of ways. They're a race of bio-mechanical lifeforms, basically self-aware computer programs who downloaded themselves into computer systems and when they come out they "wear" bodies which are these polymorphic cyborg shells. Their history is a lot weirder. A long, long time ago they came to the conclusion that somehow religious belief was inherently evil, believing that it was somehow "tied" to imperialism or expansionist beliefs, and so they decided the best way to prevent genocidal fanatical cults who annihilate anyone who doesn't believe what they do from springing up...was to become a genocidal fanatical cult who basically want to annihilate any race capable of feeling faith. The irony of them forming their own fanatical religion around atheism seemed to escape them, or maybe they were too busy reducing entire worlds to debris fields with relativistic projectiles to note the similarity between their beliefs and what they claimed to be fighting against (and yes they're meant as sociopolitical commentary). Their actual name is unknown, the humans call them "the Faithless", whatever they call themselves is unknown to us. We stopped asking the first time we lost an entire star system to a bristling storm of 3000 ton chunks of rock fired from "Dyson Cannons" at 50% of lightspeed. Oh and their most elite warriors are also their "ships" since they're basically just personalities downloaded into moon-sized warships powered by miniature suns with railguns that shoot chunks of shattered planets at people...cause overcompensation is almost a political movement for these people.

    Now the polar opposite of that is the Unbound. They're an offshoot of humanity, genetically engineered to have a kind of anti-sociopathy. Basically they can feel no real anger or despair, and are mentally incapable of lies. They only care about helping others, doing the right thing or making people feel good, and do whatever they can to advance and protect others. So they're basically as ind and as nice as humanly possibly, literally. They're engineered and bred from birth to literally be like some kind of Disney Princesses, except they're both male and female, so Disney Princesses and Princes. Unbound were originally created by a religious group of the same name, and they're said to have "everlasting" faith, and they now comprise this religious group, an offshoot of Catholicism. They're also the PERFECT judicial caste since they are mentally incapable of deceit, dishonesty and are driven by inner emotions to do the right thing for others no matter the cost, so even if it breaks their heart they'll say "guilty" if the evidence is there (since they can't lie, they actually don't know how). So we made them our judges, no need for actual juries or anything since we all know the Unbound are, well, unbound by normal human foibles and weaknesses. Now obviously if they existed in the world without protection then NORMAL humans or actual sociopaths would eat them alive--probably literally eat them alive in the latter case, google Ed Gein--so each one of the Unbound is given a protector called a "Guardsman" who are a kind of order of warriors, like Templar or Samurai, who are bred from childhood to basically fight like animals, kill without mercy and give their lives to defend the Unbound they're assigned to. In that particular setting the Unbound girl, basically Elsa but without ice powers, loses her Guardsman to an assassination attempt gone wrong by a megacorporation afraid of her decision in an upcoming fraud case, so she's assigned a new Guardsman who lost his previous Unbound in a similar assassination attempt. And naturally the two fall for each other. So imagine that Whitney Houston movie "The Bodyguard" but set in space and with a Hispanic Jon Snow and trying to save Queen Elsa, and they're both teens, and he's trying to save her from being killed by a band of cyborg mercenaries. And yes it's a steamy romance cause I like that, sue me. :D
     

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