Gimme input!

[Tenacity]

Weeell... I seem to remember something about Nomads being like 60-80% energy and the rest jelly, sooo... yeah.

Huh, I always looked at nomads as a crystal-based race. Sure, they look like jellyfish, but chances are their ship anatomy is more rigid.

Personally, I am entirely agaisnt adding more new races to Freelancer, simply becuase
A: Typically they do not fit into Freelancer history
B: Why the blazes do they come now, or they haven't been here/discovered before
C: Using human ships...(though I admit this is also a fault on the mod....but we can't have new ships for every alien species that gets RPed either)

A) Neither do the phantoms, or half of the other player-made factions here. Hell, the phantoms are a direct import from Warhammer that have been altered to fit. At least what I'm trying to do is a fairly original idea that fits along the same lines of development used in freelancer's creation.

B) Gaia is largely unexplored, due to the gaians trying to keep people off of the planet and perserve it's natural state. If this 'race' isnt naturally spacefaring (isnt capable of building spaceships or going into space without them like the nomads) then they would probably have not been discovered yet, as they exist on a world which is unexplored and contains large amounts of wildlife and plant life which is yet undiscovered or not researched. If they come from outside of currently occupied sirius space, then the reason they havent been discovered is simple - nobody's encountered them yet. Space is a big place, there's more borderworlds past where we can physically go in the mod so far.

C) As I mentioned in B, if from gaia (or even a borderworld), and if the race does not have the capability of building ships or travelling in space without them, then they would need human ships - or ships made by another race - in order to travel away from their planet. Exploration would probably be a huge driving factor for a curious race that's never been in space before. Since they would be able to 'assume human shapes, and make themselves blend in with other humans undetected (similar to the nomads/wild) they would be able to eventually get control of fighters, bombers, and maybe even small gunboats or transports. I would not have this group using anything larger than a gunboat for the obvious reason that they arent a large race, dont have access to their own ships, and must entirely replace a ship's crew before making off with it.

However, I find the idea of spirit things interesting. What I suggest is not making them from Gaia, but say from deep deep space, most likely Omicrons. Personally, in order to make it blend into Freelancer, I would like them to be, say some sort species originated from the Dam Ka'vosh. Say maybe a biological helper creature, species control, or a biological AI...perhaps even pets. In this manner they actually fit into Freelancer instead of being some import from another game or old mythology.

Relating them in some way to the Daam K'vosh is one of many options. We already know from both vanilla and player-made lore/history that the daam k'vosh were not (and are not) the only advanced race in this area of the galaxy/universe. There were others who the k'vosh were competing against (perhaps even waging war against) during their time in power, just because it's not something that hasnt been mentioned before doesnt mean it cant be worked in and made believable (and compatible) with freelancer history. Almost all of the RP background used by the harvesters, keepers/nomads, das wild, and a few others has been entirely player made with only a hint here or there at minor details from the SP campaign or developer commentaries - yet most of it is taken as 'canon' by the players here.

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