A new space lane...

Pics first...

A Ular


A Turzig


A Shigat


A Qulack


A Malatriani


A Gorushan


A Derkosian


A Chiropti


An Aglian

that would actually be pretty fun. we know there are the unknown regions and the dwarf galaxies that are begging for exploration

By the sounds of it, pretty far off canon - although everything would be based off the Star Wars mythos (I'd hope). As much as I'd love Gideon here to go toe to toe with a Xenomorph, Predator, and various other characters from different universes, that's more for the Journal rather than the boards.

Never the less, I can see myself being apart of this in one way or another. The prospect of encountering new species, and bringing the civilised enlightenment of the Imperial Truth - is too tantalizing an offer to refute.

Should you require help in reforming these xenos beasts to fit the mythos, feel free to send me a PM.

An article I am aware of and have read. Same with all the cross over cameos by various fictions. Your point?

What I believe the intent here to be, is we are boldly going where no one in the Star Wars universe has ever gone before. Pardon the momentary sacrilege.

That to me, means new undiscovered planets and cultures. Not something that had shown up once in a comic panel decades ago, and hasn't been back since. Besides, if the Xenomorphs were included in this, what's stopping the Covenant from showing up, or aliens from the warhammer 40k universe, or star trek? It's a can of worms that it seems, and my hopes, that we'll be avoiding in this new setting.

This site is based off the already established EU canon, now named SW Legends. So whatever changes in Canon won't really be an issue for JvS as a whole.

Also, I did mention that I read the article, why did you waste your time quoting more of it for the boards? Kinda missed the whole point of my previous post.

P.S; its Taung, not Taug.

This isn't my first rodeo here, nor is the first time people have mistaken ill intent in my words where there was none.

I was merely pointing out that it seems the idea Fel proposed was to create something new here on the boards. Something we veterans could use as an additional selling point to draw new, and possibly old blood back onto JvS. As well as mentioning said point, I was putting forth my two cents on mixing fictional universes.

As for answering your question, the species/ mythos that I have listed have not, to my knowledge, appeared anywhere in Canon/Legends. That being said, many times in the past since the previous site we've used, the Covenant have shown up along with various species/Factions from other fictional universes, that haven't been a part or co-mingled with Star Wars at any point before then.

However, as you've said that I've upset you, I'll offer my apologies and be done with it. That includes my nitpicking of your typos and not answering your question.

Should this idea come to pass having something that really doesn't fit in the Star Wars mythos, I'll carry on my merry way.

OK, I'll do my best to tread cautiously in this regard, as befits my new station on the site -- but you guys should both take it down a notch.

My initial post does indeed seek to do something new here. The species and planets listed are as far from Canon as can be, yet in my humble opinion, certainly work within the Star Wars ethos / machine. I wouldn't have suggested it otherwise. The selected items come from an old sourcebook for a tabletop RPG, this particular sourcebook was not published by the original makers, and fell into obscurity almost immediately. However, I always saw some potential, not necessarily in the pre-planned stories included in the sourcebook, or even the universe it proposed, but in races, and character classes / occupations. Really imaginative stuff.

I will add to this thread in a short while with larger explanations of the races sketched above.

To be clear, Mr. Yates -- The Gorushan are not Taung. They are not relatives, nor are they (aside from an obvious artists' licence in their representation pictorially, related to the Predators' race either. This thread was created to bring something new, and not so obviously pulled from another universe of fiction. I cringe at the Canon inclusions of E.T.'s race, and the Firefly-class ships in SW fiction. I'd like to think that if I'm going to pull from another source, it won't be something so easily traced, so popular and so ubiquitous as 'Alien,' or 'Predator.'

If you look closely at the Gorushan, the protrusions on their face are tusks, not mandibles. And their hands and feet are nothing like the Predators, nor Taung. You will see more as I post up the species histories.

Posts in this thread quickly became about Taung, Xenomorphs, Predators etc... That was not the reason I started this. These are new species, which will, or will not make a home here on JvS. That is to be determined by interest level. If someone takes it upon themselves to play a Malatriani, so be it! And if the Whills decide that we should expand into the Unknown Regions with a few of these planets, so be it.

I welcome all discussion on these creatures and the RP possibilities for the site, but let's keep it on track, mmmkay?

Plu, I like the cut of your jib.

I would imagine much of this would play out IC, but it'll also depend on the level of interest from the site, re. how many writers we have to portray these new races, if at all. I'll be good for at least one or two new alts, and as to your question, I'd love to see several interested parties head out to explore the unknown, for a variety of reasons.

The space lanes become widely known / charted. A bunch of settlers "go West" for colonization / a fresh start. A government or three make a play for new territory. Some people on the run decide to go where nobody will ever find them...

The possibilities are endless.