Pink Dudes - Nepleslia's Forgotten Little Buddies

[Wes]

I've said in the past that GI Joes were a big inspiration in making the action-packed Nepleslian species, who, at their core, are a race of mostly-male military-oriented guys with a gun obsession. But that ancient toy world that was later used for SARP inspiration didn't just have GI Joes living in it. There were a lot of smaller action figures that were also around, who often got used as pilots for small spaceships and mecha. These little guys were part of the reason the Nekovalkyrja have a miniature model.

Today I was looking at this article: A Brief History of M.U.S.C.L.E. and I realized two things:

1. These little pink action figures I had in were based on a manga
2. SARP has basically no mention of these guys.

So I was thinking maybe I should develop a species based on them, who could appear in the "main factions" as another species that lives in them. I don't want to develop a new faction, though -- we already have plenty of those. These guys would just live in Nepleslia and Yamatai as regular citizens in the same way that there are some elves who live in Yamatai but there's no elf faction. Maybe they're clones or something? Maybe they're nanomachine colonies (might explain their diverse shapes)? Your ideas are welcome.

They were probably more common in the past than in "modern times" of SARP. As I get into developing SARP's history more, it might be fun to include these guys as part of that.

Tagging @Koenig808 since this affects Nepleslia.

 

[Rhysis]

I'm going to call them things like "commoners" and "workers" here. I get that they're not exlusively used for that purpose, but I'm factoring in that it would have been normal for them to fill those type of roles.

If they're going to be a basic race of, effectively, workers and commoners, there's a lot of room for genetic diversity, anyway. Worker races or, in the case of real Earth history, worker classes, almost always outbreed the 'higher' class citizens. The Jews in Egypt, the peasants of medieval Europe, even the lower class citizens of Western civilization today. They all outbreed those in the higher tiers of society. So, a wide range of shapes and even colors wouldn't be unusual without them being nanomachines.

As far as the numbers go, if it got to the point where they weren't needed any more? Then yeah, maybe they were more common. They could have recolonized somewhere else when they weren't needed or gone underground for the bulk of their society, or something to that effect.

 

[Doshii Jun]

Muscle! I remember those guys; I had a few.

@Koenig808 was considering if the data trade between Nepleslia and Yamatai years ago could produce smaller ID-SOL. That data could go into these guys somehow, perhaps helping their population recover, in a sense?

 

[Moogle]

n-no cattle women?

 

[Wes]

n-no cattle women?

Those were my sister's barbies. They weren't actually cattle in any way except for how badly the GI Joe invaders treated them. I wish we had a better name for them. Maybe we should just call them Hanyans after their nationality.

 

[Eistheid]

Will all the mention of little known, long existing races today (elves, trolls, these pink entities that have no name, cattlewomen/Hanyan), might as well make a project to flesh them all out.

 

[paladinrpg]

Oh wow, I remember the MUSCLE figures back in the day from the 25c machines! Makes me feel old...

Hanyans actually remind me a bit of Laine from Grandia.

Hanyan at least has a location page listed, but nothing for our pink dudes that I can see...

 

[Wes]

Using the internet archive, I have recovered our old Elf species page and put it on the wiki.

 

[Wes]

Tonight I was also thinking about how Creepy Crawlers were also used as vehicle operators in much the same way.

 

[Frankly]

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