Believing Ancient beings existed before Starbound's Timeline?

It's too bad the art and armour for glitch is so human looking, but what can ya do.

 

Er, let's not forget the lovecraftian horror that destroyed earth.

 

By that logic, Avians are based of a combination of Antiquity Egypt and Mesoamerican cultures. Human
Hylotl are based on romanticized feudal Japan/far-east. Human.
Apex are based on the human soviet block and fictional hyper-Left totalitarian governments a la 1984.
Florans are based on primitive, hunter-gatherer societies and tribal societies reminiscent of African, Caribbean and Pacific tribes.
Cowboys. Actually, seeing as Cowboys never really existed, that's probably the most tolerably inaccurate.

Let's face it, they're all based on Human culture.

 

Anyways, as I've stated before in this thread before it was revived, there is very little to no lore on any of the ancient races of the galaxy. Anyone claiming to carry said knowledge would be considered to be godmodding, as even with said knowledge around, it would be impossible to know. Stuff like that is considered to be completely lost to time, really.

 

Pretty much!

In their defense, having races that mimic the given traits of humanity but have very different lore/history/customs and the like keeps them as easily identifiable and as relatable as possible. That's proven true for any form of entity within science-fiction that's been created over the years: Any protagonist in a story has to have identifiable human features, even if they're purely emotional in form. Since all the playable races are protagonists in a sense (since you can play them all), they provide traits which a person can identify and project upon the character when playing.

This is reinforced with why the Agaran are non-playable: They're completely alien. Their language is undecipherable (I've tried), their actions inexplicable, their motivations still a mystery, and to expect a person to adopt that and play it will result in plain detachment. It wouldn't be because the Agarans lack a personality, but rather that their personality is completely foreign to us, the player.

This is why I'm not that critical about the directions of the choices taken with the races in the game, save for the Hylotl, but only because there's literally no content about them yet. I have some qualms about the Glitch, but it's less about how their culture mirrors ours and more about some plot-holes that irritate me.

Either that or the character they're playing is mentally ill (schizophrenic), or just trying to gain ground for a cult when they know full well it doesn't exist, and just want to be a demagogue.

 

The Novakids might be the gods of Avian's past eras that came.. This is from a codex in the game.
"Aeons ago, before Kluex, there
were many Sunborn - kind,
benevolend gods who ruled over
the Avians. There gods were
not simply ascended, chosen
Avians. They were born from the
sun itself; celestial entities who
shone with the brightest fire
and flew through the skies like
angels. They gave our species
life, and in return we gave them
our unending devotion. But like
all lights, the Sunborn
eventually went out..."

 

Well, seeing as the Avians were planned far before the Novakid, I doubt this was the intent. But, in addition to that, assuming the Devs keep the current personality of the Novakid, they'll be a chaotic people. Not the kind who would uplift the Avians as the 'Sunborn' did. Either way, I can't imagine we'll be flat-out told WHO uplifted the Avians. Or who created the Glitch. Or the Novakid. In the end, it will probably be something that lingers as an eternal enigma.

 

It's honestly too bad we can't use the Novakid, I'd love to be able to play one.

 

You know, I never thought of it as a Lovecraft kind of thing, but it does sound a lot like it: a mysterious tentacle monster appearing to decimate the human population and level Earth, without any prior warning. Pretty spooky.

 

It's actually in nightly updates now, it still counts right.

 

I noticed all the updates, I'm really excited that they might be coming out next patch.

 

Yeah who's not, they're star people suited like characters from western movie- totally cool.
But how they will be introduced to RP?
Big event or something, i dunno

 

Big star explosion?

 

Only downside to when the novakids are finally put in is that I can see everyone and their mother playing one. I do want to play one, myself, but I think it might be a while before I do, after they are put in. LOL

 

This will be my greatest fear. Don't get me wrong, Novakids are cool (Avian still master race), but 'everyone and their mother [will be] playing one.' Gonna be ALL over the place.

 

We'll have to wait for developer lore to really answer that. Based off what the original contest winner, Bietol, says though, they'd likely suddenly appear when a colony or race redevelops FTL travel again.

 

Actually, the intro and lore for ALL the races were only finalized AFTER the Nova Kids were created by their top tier benefactor in their Kick-Starter Campaign. Because the game devs and the benefactor worked hand in hand on the development of the Nova Kid concept, it is easy to assume the lore was simply altered slightly to create consistency.

That said, Thank you for the lore quote TheNextGuy, I hadn't taken the idea seriously until you reminded me of it.

 

Technically speaking, no lore is finalized at all yet. Everything is subject to change. However, the Avian PDF and the 'Meet the x's all came out long before the Novakid.