Derelict Delvers has begun forming more solidly in my mind. So I've decided to make base races in line with what we find in science fiction classics.

The basic ones follow certain standard patterns, but are many and varied: Humanoid, Insectoid, Reptiloid, and Felinoid.

I'll post more on specific for them later. For right now the basic idea is that the vast stellar landscape is teaming with life--most of it along fairly similar lines, either born from common stock that splintered across the growing and shrinking of empires, or just the environments needed to support intelligent lifeforms create a few common patterns. Each "group" may be varied. Humanoids might be different colore, or have environmental adaptions (like being amphibious) that common humans don't have--this easily fills the ranks of the humanlike-races found in Star Trek and Star Wars. While the less human usually fall into unique species, or another common grouping. This doesn't mean their might not be cephalopodic aliens on some distant world, no, it just means that such a life form is uncommon.

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