The Borei

[sovereign]

Er...

Slow down?

For something as major as a fully new alien race, get Igiss to give a go-ahead on the idea at least, to be examined the RP of such later. I have no doubts of the quality of said RP, but between the various concerns presented here and all the new stuff Igiss is working on, it seems like the first step is to get an "alright, start writing and we'll see where this goes" before you spend all the time and effort of making the epic required to install such a thing in Sirius.

Please, while it might not be fun to have a remarkable idea floating around relatively unusable, consider how much worse it would be for you to write all of it and have Igiss say "Wait what the hell? No thanks."

Still applies.

If you want to cause terror, a whole slew of terrorists have cropped up (especially in Bretonia) and special ops/terrorist IDs are not nearly as rare as they used to be. I've also got something that's been in the works for a long time, although they're not really the "crash through the windows and paralyze everyone with fear" type.

I'm still not sure than a new set of aliens is what we need. We've already got the Nomads, C'tan, and then there's the Consortium (not... exactly... alien... sort of...). The Taus aren't as boring as they used to be now that mining works (by contrast, the Sigmas could use more activity- imagine that a year ago). While you have a lot of material, I'm not sure it will fit with Discovery. Kill-everyone types don't work, really... the Keepers and Das Wilde manipulate others to do their bidding and can draw support from the Outcasts (not to mention Spectre... which, er, doesn't exist, *uses MIB device*), the Consortium has tied themselves to the Kusari revolutionaries, the Phantoms are on good terms with the Outcasts and allowed harbor most anywhere, the Gallic Royal Navy have the Junkers (note: they are not aliens, but they are YAACS, Yet Another Army Conquering Sirius), the SCRA are friends with the entire Rheinland unlawful alliance, Mon'Star can dock on places that either respect his work or don't want to incur his wrath (which he doesn't inflict on them if they help him), Salazar Kithe even has those who will help him now and then. I could go on, but you get the idea. As evil and terrifying as these groups/people may be, there are places they can go for safe haven. There are people the can call on for support. Not just single people, but entire organizations that will harbor them.

The Bor'ei can't do that. They're more blunt than the Nomads. They're made to be an army, not a subtle force that destroys its enemies through coercion and support. Freelancer, and especially Discovery is all about that- without teamwork, you have nothing. If the Bor'ei will not negotiate with anyone, they don't fit into anywhere. They just kill everyone.

See were I'm going with this?

Terror is okay. A group that doesn't talk to people is not.

I'm more opposed to a group where the only interaction is "DIE" than I am to another group of aliens... although I'm not too keen on that either. If there was some clearer goal that they had here, or at least a method of communication they could use that some humans might negotiate with them, or even something that made them think that certain humans "weren't worth their time" that might be used to spur interaction that wasn't entirely gun-related, that'd be better. As it stands, however much RP there is behind them, there is only gunfire in front of them.

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