Main colors: White/red
Official Description: The most colonizing race in the galexy, Humans have learned to adept to all terrain types and situations. Their technology is neither superior or inferior to that of the other races allowing to take on all races with equal footing. The Humans rely heavily on their Commander' descisions to bring victory.
Shuda's description: A biped race decended from primates that love urban enviroments and is ready as ever to get more power and make war. Humans love to use their brain as much as their brawn when fighting.
Darken
Colors: Orange/brown/yellow
Official Description: The Darken are an ancient race who have practiced the art of gradual plenetary conquest. Their empire is strong and trade is plentiful. With the arrival of the Messiah message, the Darken seek to maintain a balance of power by acquiring the knowledge of the power and distributing it freely or at least that's what their PR says.
The Darkens have survived so long because they heavily fortify all their conquered worlds. As a result their characteristics heavily favor defensive setups.
Shudas' Description: Biped aliens with thick, tough, orange skin. These guys are alot slower than most as they use more armor and their pysicology, when compared to oher bipeds, is compact and chunky. They are well shielded from attack to make up for their slowness. Darkens are kind and respectful [to each other atleast] and their greatest enemy is the Mercs. Thier society used to be peaceful but they still hold a high balue for honor, respect, and servitude. They are a religious society and they put high value in heir comrades. It seems that the Darken came from a desert planet with volcanoes judging by their mechs, skin, and such. Darken are well suited to hot weather it seems. Everytime I look at their logo one can only think of The Thing from the Fantastic Four.
Some enjoy smoking human cigars and one offered to them in the name of cooperation is highly valued.
Merc
Colors: Blue/White
Official Description: The Bendian Mercenaries are a nomadic race whose homeworld was long ago lost. Their technology has come a long way from the early rag-tag bands that attempted attacks on distant borders. The backbone of their force is the 'Widowmaker' which can remotely control an enemy vehicle. The Mercs have been long feared for their machines and warriors and the fact that they have tremendous firepower.
Shuda's Description: Blue skinned alien race. with two main castes; snooty, complacent Aristocrats and cold Warriors. Most have a British accent acording to most humans. The Mercs are an intelligent race that build some of the best machines in the known galexies.. Mercs may have originated from a cool, ice covered, planet. Mercs might have a good evolutionary tolerince for ice and the cold.
The Aristocrats are the rich leaders of mass mercenary armies. They have the ability to execute any of the soldiers serving under them at a seconds notice and for no good reason. Most are rather complacent and over-the-top bossy. They dine in fancy ships and have little combat experiance but are good tacticians.
Merc warriors are cold hearted and show little emotion. They serve only to kill and make those of a higher class look good. Most Merc warriors have no name, only a number, but may gain one if they climb the ranks high enough.
Scorp
Cloors: [Hunter] Green/Yellow /Yellow-Greens
Official Descripion: Ruthless and predatory, they often fight amongst themselves and have little regard for fellow comrades. They have long practiced the philosophy of strength in numbers. Many feel that it is the result of their poor engineering, which issues substandard metals. As a result, each unit is weaker but the person who takes it down will have to deal with many more. Their units are the fastest and the most responsive and fight best when in a hive [pack].
Shuda's Description:
A scorpion-like alien race with the multiple eyes, and toothy madibles and with thick green skin. Scorps have a high birth rate to make up for their not-so sharp minds. They communicate using clicking sounds. Scorp units are easier to kill but there are more of them and they use up less material. They have been known to cover entire battlefields, as far as the eye can see, and cross rivers over their own fallen comrades. Main colors are green and hunter green.
They may have come from a planet that is well vegitated, and according to what is seen on their dropship they may have lived underground before they got smart enough to use space ships. They like cold, dark, and misty places. Their ships reflect this. Their society seems to me matriarchal with a queen controlling everything but the male drones do most of the fighting. It is up to the females to be productive and make troops, this is something they do well.
Presumably only the females have the poisonous tails. Perhaps the males get them cut off or are born without one. It might also be that only higher class members have such things.
It would also be expected for the Drones and lower class females to be infertile due to their caste-like society. This would leave only the higher individuals to mate or ones that are specially 'choosen' for such purposes. The Scorp are well known for fiddling wih genes.
