See, now it's not just the Yuan-ti being intergalactic dickwads, there was a legitimate military campaign that they fought in alongside other groups. They don't look like titanic assholes, and the only ones more afraid of their military than their enemies are the ones who fought alongside them as their allies and saw how effective they were. All the reputation, none of the logic loopholes, and none of the amoral genocide! Everyone wins!
Except for the warmongers who used to be in power on the other side. I imagine they lost pretty hard.
This could work well though, it would provide the large military conflict that I need for my own character's background.
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Oh, if you guys would like, I could write some lore on the Humans. Dunno if you already had plans for them, but I have some ideas.
Why do they need to effectively wipe them out? I'm just not clear on why that apparently NEEDS to happen. It's not necessary to do all that to illustrate the power of the race, it just generally feels like overkill.
If you want to establish them as being an elite fighting force when they DO go into combat, then go the route of the attempted assassination (likely a successful assassination if it was going to spark so much violence) triggering an space version of a world war. Factions on both sides, and the Yuan-ti, though perhaps not as large in number as some of the other races, generally hit like a scalpel in whatever battles they took part in- they would go in and with surgical precision eliminate their targets, take the strategic locations, and with the finesse of a surgeon carving out a tumor, they would neatly slice out any trace of opposing military activity.
Another thing to recall is that it's almost never the people who want war, it's the ones in power- and they need to get the propaganda machines up and running to make the people have any desire to go out and kill. Knowing that, if the Yuan-ti went after their enemy's ability to disseminate propaganda, they could cause them to lose the support of their population, meaning no new soldiers joining by choice, and a soldier that's been drafted won't fight as well. Effectively, turning their own population against them.
There's no need to destroy that which you can turn to your advantage. Wiping out a civilization is a needless use of energy when you can use one half of that civilization to help wipe out the half that's actually causing problems.
If you want to establish them as being an elite fighting force when they DO go into combat, then go the route of the attempted assassination (likely a successful assassination if it was going to spark so much violence) triggering an space version of a world war. Factions on both sides, and the Yuan-ti, though perhaps not as large in number as some of the other races, generally hit like a scalpel in whatever battles they took part in- they would go in and with surgical precision eliminate their targets, take the strategic locations, and with the finesse of a surgeon carving out a tumor, they would neatly slice out any trace of opposing military activity.
Another thing to recall is that it's almost never the people who want war, it's the ones in power- and they need to get the propaganda machines up and running to make the people have any desire to go out and kill. Knowing that, if the Yuan-ti went after their enemy's ability to disseminate propaganda, they could cause them to lose the support of their population, meaning no new soldiers joining by choice, and a soldier that's been drafted won't fight as well. Effectively, turning their own population against them.
There's no need to destroy that which you can turn to your advantage. Wiping out a civilization is a needless use of energy when you can use one half of that civilization to help wipe out the half that's actually causing problems.
Not wanting to conquer and only fighting when provoked is fine- it's the fact that they'll just wipe out a civilization if they ARE provoked. Massive war that economically cripples them? That's one thing. You're basically describing an ethnic cleansing on an interplanetary scale, which I don't think ANY other civilization would stand for.
As far as it being an assassination attempt on a crown prince, then depending on alliances and loyalty divisions I could see that being the spark that set off an intergalactic version of world war one, but there would be supporters on both sides and it's wouldn't just be "yeah they got wiped out". Any prolonged battle on that scale would be economically devastating for all parties involved- also, I'll remind you that with assassination attempts against politically important figures, especially ones part of one of the larger powers in the region, those have historically been far more likely to be a lone agent / splinter group, or else the work of someone who fancies themselves a "freedom fighter" of some sort and are from the same nationality / region as their target.
If this was used as the catalyst for an all-out intergalactic war, then that's fine. As a reason for why a civilization was wiped out? Still not a sufficient explanation. The only way that the galactic community would just stand aside and let them wipe out a civilization that had been on par with the rest of them was if they were doing something that was a clear and immediate threat to ALL of the other galactic civilizations, not just a threat to the governing body of one of them.
As far as it being an assassination attempt on a crown prince, then depending on alliances and loyalty divisions I could see that being the spark that set off an intergalactic version of world war one, but there would be supporters on both sides and it's wouldn't just be "yeah they got wiped out". Any prolonged battle on that scale would be economically devastating for all parties involved- also, I'll remind you that with assassination attempts against politically important figures, especially ones part of one of the larger powers in the region, those have historically been far more likely to be a lone agent / splinter group, or else the work of someone who fancies themselves a "freedom fighter" of some sort and are from the same nationality / region as their target.
If this was used as the catalyst for an all-out intergalactic war, then that's fine. As a reason for why a civilization was wiped out? Still not a sufficient explanation. The only way that the galactic community would just stand aside and let them wipe out a civilization that had been on par with the rest of them was if they were doing something that was a clear and immediate threat to ALL of the other galactic civilizations, not just a threat to the governing body of one of them.
I'm inclined to think that they sound a bit on the overpowered side- also, it sounds like they had only been involved in a single space war, so how they could go from that to being able to exterminate a civilization while the other galactic civilizations just watched is totally beyond me. Some other factions would have told them to back down- you don't wipe out a civilization because one cargo ship got attacked. After all, if they were willing to do that, then every galactic civilization would be at risk, since all it would take is one pirate crew attacking one ship and suddenly their entire species is trying to exterminate yours.
If they were that quick to rise to that level of violence, there is no way they wouldn't be involved in an ongoing war with every other spacefaring race.
If they were that quick to rise to that level of violence, there is no way they wouldn't be involved in an ongoing war with every other spacefaring race.
The way that I built my character, it allows us to, down the road if you feel it would help the storyline, raid a military storehouse or some such (a dangerous mission in and of itself!) to get a proper MEC suit and some MEC weapons. This would only really be justified if there was some really massive battle coming up that they needed to fight and for whatever reason couldn't avoid.
Sorry, I guess I've dealt with too many people who talk like that and AREN'T being sarcastic that I have a hard time telling anymore. Anytime I do use sarcasm online anymore, I generally overload it with emoticons to really get across the "I'm not serious" part.
Anyway!
I'm thinking my character is gonna be ex-military then, which would explain how she came to have the MEC suit in the first place. A really bad war injury, like a photon mine or something, basically horribly crippled her, so they wound up just amputating her ruined limbs, giving her the cybernetic hookups, and slapping her into a MEC suit for the remainder of the war.
After the war, she had to get by with the cut-rate military surplus prosthetics (aka defective rejects) to try to live a normal life. By that point though, she was military through and through, had spent long enough in a MEC suit that it felt natural to her, and was getting real sick of her crappy replacement limbs not working right.
So, one black-market refurbished MEC suit later, she wound up trying to get into mercenary work. I figure she met the crew while she was on a job (bonus points if it was at a production for one of the military manufacturing plants that made her reject prosthetics) and realized that she was really sick of playing rent-a -cop, so she wound up joining up with them. Sure, her current MEC suit is about two decades out of date and has gradually been repaired using everything from car parts to assembly line crane components, but it still works. Admittedly, she's the only one who understands HOW it works at this point and is the only one who has any hope of modifying / repairing it, but it works!
The scrapped together construction is also what prevents her from using ranged weapons like the military MECs do- the suit has absolutely no target assist systems and isn't a very stable firing platform. She could pull the trigger on a gun, sure, but she has no hope of really aiming it beyond 'face it in that general direction and hope for the best'.
If she ever were to get her hands on a proper, new, military MEC, she'd become a pretty devastating powerhouse for the pirates to use.
Anyway!
I'm thinking my character is gonna be ex-military then, which would explain how she came to have the MEC suit in the first place. A really bad war injury, like a photon mine or something, basically horribly crippled her, so they wound up just amputating her ruined limbs, giving her the cybernetic hookups, and slapping her into a MEC suit for the remainder of the war.
After the war, she had to get by with the cut-rate military surplus prosthetics (aka defective rejects) to try to live a normal life. By that point though, she was military through and through, had spent long enough in a MEC suit that it felt natural to her, and was getting real sick of her crappy replacement limbs not working right.
So, one black-market refurbished MEC suit later, she wound up trying to get into mercenary work. I figure she met the crew while she was on a job (bonus points if it was at a production for one of the military manufacturing plants that made her reject prosthetics) and realized that she was really sick of playing rent-a -cop, so she wound up joining up with them. Sure, her current MEC suit is about two decades out of date and has gradually been repaired using everything from car parts to assembly line crane components, but it still works. Admittedly, she's the only one who understands HOW it works at this point and is the only one who has any hope of modifying / repairing it, but it works!
The scrapped together construction is also what prevents her from using ranged weapons like the military MECs do- the suit has absolutely no target assist systems and isn't a very stable firing platform. She could pull the trigger on a gun, sure, but she has no hope of really aiming it beyond 'face it in that general direction and hope for the best'.
If she ever were to get her hands on a proper, new, military MEC, she'd become a pretty devastating powerhouse for the pirates to use.
If Gnolls are a playable race, I'd be interested. There magic in this setting or no?
Humans can be amazing and they can be horrible. It's the generalization of "humans are bastards" that I dislike- "humans can be bastards" is correct, no question, but saying humans ARE bastards implies that all of us are, and I disagree with that.
What is it with you insisting humans are bastards? Anyway, big wars recently? Yes? No?
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