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Approved Submission Deceivers (Yulips)

Lijosu

Inactive Member
Submission URL
https://stararmy.com/wiki/doku.php?id=species:deceiver
Submission Faction(s)
  1. Non-Playable Factions
  2. None (nebulas, etc.)
Submission Terms
  1. I agree
Deceivers (or Yulips) are a species I've been working on for a while that are based around the concept of a pseudo-human species that has the ability to make itself strongly resemble other pseudo humans.

The idea itself requires cooperation with many other FMs because a part of the idea is the use of other species in yulip culture due to their blatant xenophilic attitude.

The plan for this species is to keep it as non-playable for the time being until I know that other people are definitely interested in playing as them. I may make an example character and use it in the future to show off and advertise but until then the idea will just be sitting on the shelves. Once I am confident people are interested in the species they are planned to be discovered in-character, at which point they will side with a large faction (such as Yamatai or USO) and become playable. For this reason, the two pages I have written are intended to serve the purpose of adequate summary until I can rightly create more pages to more accurately represent information about yulips. Know that despite this, none of the information I am giving you is nonfactual or over simplified.

I believe this species will make a welcome addition to the Star Army setting due to their complexity in character and the relative lack of species that use the same subtlety in design that I feel I have achieved with this species. Subtlety being of key importance to a species based entirely around stealth.

The relevant FMs (who I have already contacted personally for convenience) are: @Kai (Origin) @Jack Pine (USO) @FrostJaeger @META_mahn (Elysians) @Soresu (Iroma and the Astral Commonwealth) @Wes (Yamatai & Everything else of relevance)

May the reviewing begin!
 
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I think the idea is cool for some far-off plot, but the NDC doesn't need it right now. If we want to let it go and reintroduce the idea of some sort of background race of shapeshifters in the future for plot purposes, then I don't mind doing the legwork to put that together when the time comes.

As it stands I don't think that we're getting any significant value out of them that we couldn't accomplish with a simple 'so-and-so aliens first encountered' on a timeline somewhere.

I also don't think we need to include them into the NDC as a species right now. I agree with Wes that we're juggling a lot right now, story wise, and don't need to add more to our plate until we've resolved our current major beats.
 
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