Space Rangers 2 - The Races (Page 4 of 5)

Maloqs The Maloqs are large, strongly built humanoids with immense physical strength, endurance, high resistance to natural forces but are not good at thinking. These characteristics allow the Maloqs to survive even in the most unfavourable conditions. The Maloqs worship power as a cult. Physical and mental strength, the power of word and the power of action, the power of weapon and the power of - oh well - power itself - these are the main and universal values of the Maloq civilization. The Maloqs have little liking for the weak Faeyans and the overly smart Gaalians. The Maloqs are the most technologically retarded civilization of the Coalition. This can be primarily explained by their traditional distrust towards any intellectual values which - in their opinion - all too often lead to catholicity, considered by Maloqs as the main menace to stability. A major factor which slows down the technological progress of this race is their huge expenditure on army and space fleet maintenance.

 

Pelengs The Pelengs are a race of branchio-necked amphibians, normally referred to as leprases. These creatures can live both on the land and in a liquid environment, and are capable of breathing practically any type of gas mixtures, including small amounts of nitrogen. Like other leprases the Pelengs feed off acidic plankton and calloid riff sediments. The Pelengs are pirates, saboteurs, and provocateurs. Although formally they are part of the Galaxy Commonwealth, in reality the Pelengs do not maintain any strong economic or diplomatic relations with the other races. Direct and quick profit at any cost is the sole goal of any individual Peleng and also their whole civilization. The Pelengs treat all races badly. Especially those ones who are smarter than them. The Peleng attempts at removing the lag in technological development boil down to a very complex and sophisticated system of industrial espionage. The Peleng Dzukhallag Department is the best espionage and sabotage organization in the entire Commonwealth.

 

Humans The humans are mid-height humanoids with a thin and fragile skeleton. The Humans feed off organic protein food. The difference in the climatic conditions on the majority of their planets (especially in the Solar system) results in strong differences in appearance: color of skin, features, etc. The humans are primarily psychologists, politicians and diplomats. Rhetoric, psychological games and political technologies are the main Human trump-cards. Historically the Humans have become good friends with the Faeyans, while they never have really liked the Maloqs that much because of their excessive aggressiveness. Their attitude towards the Gaalians and the Pelengs is neutral. Technology-wise, the Humans are your average Joe. All the main achievements made by the Humans have been in the sphere of Economics. It was they who many centuries ago initiated the establishments of the Galaxy-wide network of trading centres, managing to get even the conservative Gaalians and the trade-despising Maloqs to support the project. However the main achievement of the Humans in this field is the introduction of a common monetary unit - the Galactic credit! Another notable achievement is the introduction of an All-Galaxy chronological system based on the one used by the Humans.

 

Faeyans The Faeyans are humanoid-hermaphrodites with an oversized brain and faceted eyes. They are slow-moving, physically weak creatures, with the main part of their life spent thinking. A Faeyan can at his will divide his mind and facet eyesight into sectors, that would function independently from one another, thus creating a random number of autonomous mind fields, which would separately perceive the world through their own sector of facet eyesight. The Faeyan race is characteristic of the highest level of natural intellectual abilities. They are philosophers, researchers and innovators, cultivating their own technocratic culture and their own original picture of the world. The Faeyans have all the respect for the Gaalians and have a sort of a condescending attitude to their younger intellectual cousins - the Humans. As for the Maloqs, the Faeyans really consider them to be more animal than intelligent being. And as far as the Pelengs are concerned, the Faeyans get irritated by their constant attempts to send in their spies to steal the latest Faeyan technologies. The role of the Faeyans in the Commonwealth is that of leading researchers and developers in the field of science and technology.

 

Gaalians The Gaalians (the children of Gaal) - are humanoids who have spent millennia modifying their biological form, through genetic alteration. The original form of the Gaalian race has long been lost and forgotten. At present the Gaalians are the most well-developed race. The history of their people dates back to times of ancient, when the Gaalians were the only intelligent beings of all the races in the commonwealth. The Gaalians are the tycoons and the driving force of space, cultivating construction and humanism in all senses of the word. They use their military fleets only to neutralize those conflicts that are just forming and try to maintain stability in the Commonwealth. The Gaalians treat everyone equally well with no exceptions. It is their idea that no matter how badly this or that race behaves, potentially they still carry positive tendencies and qualities and have a minimum of three basic rights - the right to live, the right to determine virtues, and the right to motivation. As a result the Gaalians treat everyone as friends and partners, even when strictly speaking some partners are not that friendly at all.

 

Dominators Little is known about the Dominator robots. Who the Dominators are and why they have come to our world is unknown at this time. It is known that they are divided into three groups: Blazeroids, Kelleroids and Terronoids. Scientists think that each Dominator series has a command centre. It is thought, to find out the real reasons behind the invasion of a particular Dominator series into our Galaxy you will have to contact the command centres directly. However no one has yet managed to communicate with any of the Dominator leaders. The Dominator ships know no fear - they never enter into negotiations and never ask for mercy. The Dominator technologies are no less developed than the most advance technologies of the Commonwealth. The robots also have a powerful weapon that is unavailable to the races of the Coalition. The Coalition of five races is actively combating the Dominator forces. All efforts have been pooled to fight these machines. Scientific Bases are doing anti-Dominator research. Ranger Centers collect the so-called nodes - the remaining parts of destroyed Dominator ships (nodes are then used to produce micromodules enhancing the Coalition ships), as well as recruit new rangers - the heroes of our time. Finally military bases are giving pilots new ranks and organising combat operations to liberate the invaded star systems.

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