I've been playing around with the idea of a new race, and brainstorming with a few members in the community. Tell me what you guys think:
This race is blood thirsty. They're a race of war criminals love to murder, torture, and kill any form of intelligent life they can find. The ships and tanks they use are industrial sort of boxy looking death machines, with oversize guns and cannons and laters of plates with rivets and bolts showing. They decortate their ships with chains, blood, and sometimes skulls. Its not their biometal technology however, they stole it from the race who controls them.
After some brainstorming between me, AHadley, and Angstromicus, we put this together as a rough beginning to the outline of this race:
Hzarzk
- Incredibly violent race of humanoid mutants, created by another race as a result of highly immoral genetic experiments on babies.
- Goal of the experiments was to combine the DNA splicing of vicious wildlife with an accelerated immune system and immunizations, to create the perfect biological warfare resistant super solider.
- Experiments declared a success, and armies of super soldiers are created.
- Their attempts to prevent the DNA spreading down bloodlines fails.
- The mentality of the many offspring of the super soldiers slowly degenerate into intelligent versions of the animals they spliced, developing incredibly violent tendencies, an unquenchable blood lust, and eventually begin to mutate into stronger faster creatures with the ability to detect pheromones from hundreds of meters away.
- These creatures are named the Hzarzk
- They eventually multiply in vast numbers, overwhelming the race who created them and violently wipe them out.
- The Hzarzk steal the biometal technology used by their creators to travel to other worlds so they can kill more.
Their discription is this. About 10 feet tall, slightly hunched over with slightly long arms and claws, small cold black eyes, a large boney jaw, and sharp teeth. As pilots, they'd carry large heavy weapons like oversized plasma rifles and rocket launchers, or maybe just attack you with their claws like jack-killers.
There's nothing very deep about this race, and thats what makes them a great enemy. The best kind of enemy is one you can HATE and kill without remorse, without any reason to try and understand them or feel sorry for them. A race of bloodthirsty creatures bent on the distruction of every form of intelligent life, who will slowly rip you limb from limb and listen to your screams if they ever get the chance.
They don't have to be named the Hzarzk, as long as thier name sounds alien to the english language, and doesn't sound like someone belching or a bodily noise. :-P
So tell me what you guys think. :)
I think its great. Although just being bloodthirsty doesn't seem to make them that evil to me.
Canabalistic and Horney. They rape and eat you. Then they cut off your skin and make a funny hat to wear when going to parties.
Hows that?
*Chokes on tongue*
How bout you name them the Leaux? Its french sounding and the french are known for being kind of bloodthristy.
Are they? Since when did the French go around ripping people limb from limb? The french are actually quite friendly!
Quote from: Clavin12 on July 03, 2009, 12:35:18 AM
french are known for being kind of bloodthristy.
Germans!
What does everybody have against the Germans? They're even more friendly than the French!
Did your History teacher ever mention that Adolf Hitler started the WWII?
Sounds like the Reavers from the firefly series.
Apparently, rape you to death, skin you, and where you skin as there clothing.
If youre lucky, they do it in that order...
Quote from: Arbystrider on July 03, 2009, 12:35:38 PM
Did your History teacher ever mention that Adolf Hitler started the WWII?
Did your history teacher ever mention that Adolf Hitler wasn't German? Did your history teacher ever mention that WWII was in the 1940s?
Quote from: Arbystrider on July 03, 2009, 12:35:38 PM
Did your History teacher ever mention that Adolf Hitler started the WWII?
Wow... Just wow... Arby, for some reason, do you think you are smarter than us or something? With some sort of need to look it? I mean really... Details like that... No hoot. <- I blame the swear filter
Everyone gets the point. NAZI Germany were the really bad guys back in the day, and some people still haven't recovered from the horror or still detest the Germans for what happened. If you want to know any more google/wikipedia is your friend. Now lets not let this devolve into flames guys - my Flame Sense is tingling.
This would be the second genetic enemy in BZ2. FS has the Swarm which were created genetically.
Quote from: Clavin12 on July 03, 2009, 12:35:18 AM
How bout you name them the Leaux? Its french sounding and the french are known for being kind of bloodthristy.
French revolution killed thousands. All killed by French
Ever heard of the Japanese?
Sop using this thread as a damn chat thread. Do you all have that little respect for me? This is the second topic I've started in the last couple weeks I've had to say this in. Either contribute to the actual topic or stay on subject, or go stick your keyboard... well you get the point. I shouldn't have to spell it out for you.
Every one is so focused on choosing a different name for the Hzarzk. It isn't necessarily a bad thing to discuss a new name for the race, but perhaps there are more productive ways of discussing the topic right now. Such as:
How much of this will make it into gameplay? It's a lot more work animating raping/flesh tearing/barbaric practices than it is creating a gun that has the same end reseult: killing the target and advancing your advantage on the battlefield.
What would you like added, taken out, or changed about the race (voice your thoughts on having a race like this in the cp)?
etc. etc. Just a couple of suggestions. I'm really sleepy right now, but I hope I helped getting some creative juices flowing :-).
One suggestion, I'm rather tired of... please don't take this the wrong way... is making this race more 3 dimentional. Making them simple and more 1 dimentional was the entire point. The best enemy has always been an enemy you can kill with no remourse. I don't want to get all touchy feely about an enemy and try to "understand them". I want to blow their head off. Forget the world, blast away my aggression, and relax. I don't want to get wrapped up into trying to help an enemy or read some huge bio about them. I play video games with bad guys because I want to blow them up into tiny peices... like the lint you find at the bottom of your wallet.
Bloodthirsty, murderous, violent aliens who live to cause pain and suffering, and its my job to blow away every single one of them... Thats my kind of enemy! Who's with me on that?
Quote from: General_Hoohah on July 04, 2009, 06:39:37 AM
One suggestion, I'm rather tired of... please don't take this the wrong way... is making this race more 3 dimentional. Making them simple and more 1 dimentional was the entire point. The best enemy has always been an enemy you can kill with no remourse.
Wasn't that the issue with the ISDF in stock BZ2? They viewed the Scions as simply an enemy to destroy, and never really tried to learn about the people they were destroying. And thus we have the ISDF ending of BZ2. With the condemnation of a peaceful race.
QuoteBloodthirsty, murderous, violent aliens who live to cause pain and suffering, and its my job to blow away every single one of them... Thats my kind of enemy! Who's with me on that?
Personally, not me. I'd rather have an enemy with two sides, like the Hadeans in FE. There were those that were just out for the blood of Humanity, but there were also those that were willing to work with both the Humans and Scions for the betterment of all three races. This is what made me like the Hadeans, they weren't just kill, kill, destroy, destroy.
You could make them sneaky and shrewd as well as murderous, so that their more interesting and "evil".
GH you need to chill out. Forums have banter. This is nothing more. Its got nothing to do with respect if people fo off topic...
On a thread note, personally i really dont like the name Hzarzk... just sounds like someones been trying TOO hard to make an 'alien' sounding name. Need something that flows better (and definately DOESNT start with H, C, S, I or E)
Nemenul
I just remembered about GHH's old topic on the race, so I figured I'd move it here.
Since they weren't really supposed to escape they could have a name that sounds like it came from a lab and a name that they gave themselves. for example the E.S.H.P or Experimental Super-Human Prototype, and A more artistic name like Hzarzk, or Numenards (just an idea)
I like the idea of a lab name except personally i think it should be an acronym. the species lab name makes up a word that they call themselves.
Quote from: General_Hoohah on July 04, 2009, 06:39:37 AM
One suggestion, I'm rather tired of... please don't take this the wrong way... is making this race more 3 dimentional. Making them simple and more 1 dimentional was the entire point.
Everything submitted is subject to change. We can try our best to make it what you want, but in order to fit them into a story they may have to change.
Thats fine I guess Feared.
The one thing I don't want to change about this race, is the way their technology looks. The whole industrial boxy look with layers of plates, oversized canons, bolts and rivets sticking out is more threatening. Theres more of a "I'll kick your a$$" quality about it.
"Oh, but they're really just misunderstood."
PETA member runs in front of Hzark and EDF troops.
"Can you really look into those eyes and..."
Hzark eats PETA member.
But in all seriousness, look at the description. They are intelligent, and they escape their creators. This sounds like your standard Frankenstein story. They are hunted so they attack. Perhaps if they were not they would not? But some things cannot be for seen or if they are dealt with before it is too late.
one thing, when creating these evil units, FIRST create what they used to look like before they stole them, THEN add on the chains and bodies and blood. :)
Quote from: Nielk1 on July 04, 2009, 07:34:47 PM
But in all seriousness, look at the description. They are intelligent, and they escape their creators. This sounds like your standard Frankenstein story. They are hunted so they attack. Perhaps if they were not they would not? But some things cannot be for seen or if they are dealt with before it is too late.
I've just realised how similar they are to the scions in that regard...
I was just telling that to N1 yesterday. (not very smoothly though as he will testify to)