pls pls pls design a alien race of acient robot undead machines who harvest all life in the galaxy using devastating technology that abduct humans and deal devastating attacks on humans.
like the necrones of warhammer or something like that.
could make a chain mission that a research team discovered a planet of a former intergalactic super race that was the highest evolved race at its time but vanished or destoryed.

after completing missions to find out new tech and discover what happened to them its found out that the acient race was desatroyed or turned into a horrifying race of undead and machinary call them hygras atm, the hygrass turn othe rraces into them, they have no sorrow,no pain, no emotion they have one purpose.....to destroy all organic life.

the dysons were offered to become with the hydras but denied so them and the humans are fighting them for independance and freedom.

i believe this would make a fantastic mission chain and would intorduce new tech for players to obtain, it would be something completly new to introduce to the game and can give ppl the chance to join this race species.

hope you will consider this idea and put it into effect.cheers

+1 what kind of missions and tech?

up to dan but start with new planet emitting a faint signal, cost 25 energy 60 in total completed 5 times, gives a acient cloaking emitter say worth 70 cloak size 15.

2# you find a message left behind describing the new race that wiped out the old race, it also gives the undead machinary legion the same signal to follow like you and find out theres a lot of organics need to be wiped out.
you must do a mission that you must find their harvester ships, random scouts, frigates and light frigates appear on battle tab, destroy to earn their tech pieces (reason for this later to be explained).
kill the harvester and be able to gain the rare eradication device, artifact that wipes out 70% of planets population.

3# the undead army contact you giving you the chance to join them cuz you got their attention, you obviously give them the 2 fingers up lol but then your told their main armada has already begun attacking vast worlds wiping them out so you must do a mission to find a flagship, has crap loads of attack and defence pending on lvl of your ship.
beating it allows you to be able to get schematics from the ship about a weapon they are planning to build but havnt yet so it costs say 50 tech pieces as said on part 2 to build a harbringer THAX cannon, gives more attack pending on lvl of your ship when you built it.limit 4

4#now your done with that dysons get a special mission to invade these guys planets as a mission whilst humans get to attack their collector ship, a place that converts poor living abducted humans and morph them as one of them. humans get to take this thing on and get rescued prisoners as a reward.
all other races get to fight the undead races main leviathans a ship that holds more tech parts, a lot more.


once the missions are over you get to combine say 100 tech pieces together and merge them into your ship to become one of the undead ships yourself like the zolazin for example.
thereability can be either increase in planetary invasion chances or increase hacking ability or a lot better scanning power

I like this idea. Dan, give Skaara's new race a chance.

How can robots or machines be "undead" ?

Just askin....

you know there not alive but have programmed machine parts to make them fight, that way they never sleep, no fear, no mercy so they are the ultimate killers.
imagine someone taken to a harvester, get arms, eyes, legs and chest cut out or replace by robotic parts to make them fight on for the new race, good to see that you find out the old race got turned into these things when they lost the war against these things.

look at these examples........

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h ... 66&bih=548

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellyitch/4569429001/

http://digital-kisses.deviantart.com/ar ... g-49741968


something like these, necrons first2, a borgfor the last one, where they have been like this for a lng time there bodies die out but the machine keeps them going by tapping into the nerves to make them move and fight, they are programmed to eradicate all organic life as they are seen as insects or not pure

The Zepther would have eradicated them. The Zepther view cybernetics as "replacement parts" for organisms that have lost a limb or two. However, forcibly keeping a body "alive" through machines is banned in Zepther territory.

dont careif this sounds stupid or not but whats zepther?

Im somewhat hatching another random chain mission that might be interesting :S

feel free to but im more interested atm with an undead machanic army but could combine the 2 ideas

Interesting, but you still haven't given a specific racial power for them. Over than that, it's rather interesting. Although, I do agree with Zophah, the Zepther would have eradicated them. (They eradicate everybody. Still trying to think of something to rival them. ) I would tell you what they are, but Zophah can have the honor of that. Anyways, they still sound very interesting, and so far we haven't had any player inspired races that we know of, so why not.

Got nothing to do with undead armies, its about a krionite virus spreading through the galaxy and infecting everything, anyone played "homeworld cataclysm" read it up. It's similar to that.

ah i was gonna say this undead army has changed that virus to infect planets after planets to mutate them into diseased zombieish slaves or something and to answer fralos questions give the new armies racial powers either these.....

planetary invasion + 30%
raiding ability +25%
scan power + 25%
upkeep +- 60%
energy + 25%



as for the zephar, if dan makes name and as more powerful by adding ideas to this then could make these guys be the challenge to take on the zephar after all you cant kill something thats already dead lol

wow! even inergons only get a 10% bonus to energy! to get a 25% bonus AND all that other stuff, im definitly switchin to this one!

yep thats why this game needs a fresh new race brought in and it should be hard to be able to change into this race

That is a HORRIBLE idea, thats cheap, OVERPOWERING so that is a very very big -1
Edit: Reason being if you had ALL that power that is just a bad idea because having all those bonuses is overpowering and most likely wont be put in the game because of overpower. Thats really the only way i can put it.

josh this is a rough idea, you dont like it its noted but i just want this thread to be if you agree, got any ideas or improvements you wanna give but if you dont like it then pm me tell me why not basically shoot my whole idea down so with respect can you pls delete your comment.cheers

im going to edit it to explain in detail why i did that not delete it.

as i said is a rough idea i mainly made up in the space of 30 seconds, its all rough prototype idea, if dan looks into this then theres ppl here who like the idea and i welcome dan to change the ideas of the professions its up to him. i just post an idea i believe would give this game fresh air, but i still dont appreciate you shooting it all down just say no

+1 it would be an interesting NPC faction thats for sure.