Which Race?

The TEC as a society.

The Advent have to follow a "Unity" that is nothing but vengful.

And the Vasari is just running, running, running.

Yeah, Defend the Humans! 

The Advent for sure. They seem like the Utopian kind of society. I wish we had more culture and information added to the game but this always appealed to me.

"At an early age, Advent children are taught to seek enlightenment in whichever way naturally suits them "

I'm going to pull the sexist card and say I'm not so sure I'd want to live in a society ran by a bunch of spiteful women...

That being said, I've always been a fan of the Advent...they're just cool, though I think there's certainly a dark side to them I'd rather not be part of....

Mostly by women there are males.. its just not as common

Not as common?  There isn't a single male voice over for anything Advent....now to be fair, there isn't a single female voice over for anything TEC, though they do at least have 1 player graphic for TEC that is female...

I would say the choice to use only male voice overs was purely for that grizzled, hard core soldier effect...but then they threw in the creepy hoshiko voice, so I'm thinking its because the TEC has no women...at all....like, anywhere...in fact, they probably did have women until they cast them off into the depths of space 1000 years ago for doing creepy woman things, whatever that is...and then those women, rightly pissed about the whole affair, came back with horrid white dresses and hairdos (pretty ships though) styling themselves as the "Advent" and "Unity" and what not...

Might also explain why the Vasari seemingly have only male voices...they probably did the same damn thing 10,000 years ago, and now the Vasari Amazonians have them on the run...

In all seriousness my guess is that the single gender choice for graphics and voice overs was for "effect"...the Advent just wouldn't have the same "feel" if some girly man tried to mimic the creepy, seething Advent voices or tout his long white man robes...and I don't even want to know what a Vasari female might sound like...

Still puzzled by the Hoshiko voice over...I mean, if there are men in Advent society (which allegedly there are), I'd bet they'd sound like that....

"Navigating, interpreting and shaping this sea of ideas are highly prized skills in Advent culture and one’s mastery in these areas forms the basis of the Unity‘s social hierarchy. Females in particular demonstrate a natural prowess and have come to dominate the higher castes, called Coalescences."

That is kind of how its explained. But I get what you mean, dont forget there are Male Portraits for the Advent as well(they are horrendous looking though).

I remember reading the whole coalescences thing and pretty much was like "Well, there's their excuse for an all female faction"...just enough lore to explain it off without too much to bring it under well-informed critique...

Okay...now I have to ask...which of the Advent portraits are male?  Seriously, I legitimately thought they were all female...now I'll admit, I had to temporarily reconfigure my psychological scheme of the feminine face and figure, but I for the life of me would not be able to tell you which of those portraits were male even now knowing some of them are....

Ok go to the portraits till you see the one that looks like my avvy. Scroll two either thats a really ugly women or thats a male im pretty sure its a male. Scroll again that is also a male. Scroll 3 more times that I also believe is a male Anima.

And for the record im looking for ISO buddies is anyone there

I really think they're all interesting in their own ways.

The writers and art guys at Stardock really earn their pay.

I am lost...I am now convinced I have lost all ability to distinguish male from female...