Non-Humanoid races would be a welcome addition to the game, either as minor or major races.  I think you could have some fun with that and give them some unique technologies as a result of their different body style.

Random insults show only that you have no real logical argument to support your position.

It's harder than just sticking a wrinkley forehead on someone certainly but many sci-fi writters have indeed come up with alternative morphologies, life cycles, etc. You are concluding form this that if you find something hard to imagine it can't exist, belive it or not there was a time when people found it very hard to imagine that the world was not flat because common sense and their limited experience made it obvious that it was. Your failure of imagination does not necassarily set limits on the universe nor on other peoples imagination.

This is an oddity in your thinking, you consider it more creative only to think about humanoids than to consider other life forms. As to your other point here please tell me which earth life form the primes from the common wealth saga resemble? Also extrapolation of a feature of a kingdom, phyllum or genuis does not make an alien a direct copy.

Apparently only impossoble for you I'm afraid it's been done many times in science fiction.

You also still haven't told me what your definition of humanoid by the way.

Or how you extrapolate that evolution will always produce ~ the same results on any and all planets capable of supporting life, which is your argument that since only humanoids have technology on earth (not 100% true since some members of the crow familly can and do make tools), is a conculsive argument that only humanoids could ever do this.

What industry do you work in DARCA?

Everyones got to have a hobby, in my case trying to reason with DARCA , besides until we get that demo or the first beta or something else to talk about there isn't much else to do on these forums.

Really I hadn't looked yet today. Ok consider me gone to the vault.

You can't read, can you econundrum1? You like trolling and its because your bored you can instigate and bend words to your will.

Before it inevitably happens I would like to talk to econundrum1 through steam. Would you kindly PM me your dream id or friend me on steam so we can discuss this...topic.

DARCA

I didn't have to relate to the yor to enjoy playing them, and it's not like glaciv doesn't already copy everything else from star control

You can screw yourself Tergon. I made my points very clear. Points that everyone I know who has a background in fiction of any kind agrees with.

Look up the definition. Naw you love your ignorance too much, so here.

1The development of events beyond a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power:

1.1The course of someone’s life, or the outcome of a particular situation for someone or something, seen as beyond their control:

the part of fate people over look alot is the past. You can't change the events in the past leading up to our present time. One outcome, all leading to the present. Unchanging because it is everything that does anything.

To be even clearer. Everything is the way it was fucking meant to be. That's Fate.

DARCA

Then why do you eat and breathe trough the same hole!? this just means some percentage will choke to death. there is a whole slew of design flaws in evolved beings, due to the way evolution works. And that's before even addressing the fact that we can't interact with many "advanced" things such as radiation, or truly understand/imagine "advanced" things like time, distance and physics on scales just a few orders of magnitude larger or smaller then everyday life. 

A humanoid shape is not the only form that can achieve a technological society.

More senses then the human ones have evolved on earth alone and much more often then just once. Eyesight has evolved like 7 different times independently of each other on earth, some animals can see more then 3 colors, bats use echolocation instead of light. Bugs use pheromones with their senses. Octopus are very dextrous while they don't have opposable thumbs. Cats have whiskers they use as a sense. Dogs can navigate by smell. There are plenty of examples of creatures that do not use sight as their primary sense but that function just fine, and there are also many specialized appendages to interact with things.

All these things are happening just on earth alone. How hard is it to imagine one of these other creatures evolved to become sapient instead of our ancestor?  Sure if it was a mammal it would probably have ended up with a humanoid shape, but it might aswell have been a bird or water based creature. 

Now imagine all of this happening with DNA that has 3 base pairs instead of 2.

Now imagine all of this happening with something that does the same as DNA but isn't DNA.

Now imagine all of this happening based on silicon or a even more exotic element instead of carbon.

Now imagine all of this happening on another planet, with different gravity, solar radiation, atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, season length, etc. 

Is it really that hard to imagine something that doesn't have 2 arms 2 legs and a head  that walks up right and grows its children inside a internal womb comes out of it?

there i replied now give me the cookies you promised.

am i the only one to make a parallel between existing GC2 aliens and classical heroic fantasy races?

Dregin? orcs from space

Korath? meaner orcs from space (who like Torture Magazine)

Altarians? elves from space (elve babes more accurately)

Yor? undead from space

Torian? aquatic gnomes from space

Iconian? illithids from space

Arcean? nice elder guys from space (well... mostly)

Krynn? lizardmen thieves from space

Drath? draconian from space

Thalan? eeh... this one not sure... freaks from space??

Well, more seriously, i think any race design with an ability to manipulate tools qualifies for space conquest. This ability being physical (hands), mental (psionics) or historically acquired (imagine humans provide dolphins with cybernetics to control machines, then dolphins create their own machines to provides cybernetics to all dolphins in the world, declare war to humans, annihilate the pretentious apes and become a major threat to galactic peace => we must kill dolphins before it's too late!!!)

This because i can't really believe in a organic creature able to channel the energy, navigation capability and thoughness necessary for space travel.

That said, even if a race doesn't use tools, it doesn't really matter since as Wintersong said, the only real thing that matter is that they fit well in the story (see the Zergs for example as someone suggest already).

For example, the cruel Muppetshowers led by Supreme General Kermit and the Evil Empress Piggy DO NOT fit well in the quite serious background of GC

Dude, screw off. There is bigger shit in life right now I have to worry about and all this is meaningless. If I could go back in time I wouldn't have spent hours on this but spent more time with my family.

You are. It is an interesting and fun thread to read.  If it upsets you then you can simply stop reading it.