You DO include intelligent feline space aliens in your scifi games... right?

I see someone (re)discovered the generator.

Yes

they are also exclusively female, parthogenetic/kleptogenetic, wear skimpy clothing and have a cultural aesthetic based on ancient egypt

>>95885931
The image is on topic, so it's not actually a thread from the generator.

>>95885919 (OP)
I swear theres a kind of kismet with the universe right now. Not a single mention of Space Dandy for years, then i start rewatching it recently and now I see Me-ow on my favourite indonesian basket-weaving board.

>>95885919 (OP)
Write out an idea for a scifi scenario involving highly intelligent feline aliens and highly intelligent canine aliens locked in perpetual war IN SPAAAAAACE

>>95885919 (OP)
Every game, yes.

>>95885931
>>95885980
What generator?

>>95886316
They stuck in a pocket dimension fighting for the approval of masters who have long since died off.

sci-fi and alien related question: what system would you use to simulate some X-Com like "Modern meets Sci-Fi kinda game"? The best I've found is either Patrol or Millenium's end. I've also considered
>GURPS
but im not too interested in spending 3 months in game prep.

In the before times alien cats were insanely cool. Weebs completely destroyed them as with many other things in culture.

>>95887002
Oh, I like this.
>in this dimension humans died out, leaving a "gap" in the food chain
>because nature hates a vacuum, both cats and dogs evolve to become more humanoid (because... they just do, ok?)
>both races have an ingrained (genetic?) memory of "masters" they used to serve
>these masters have become semi-mythological creatures and the justification for perpetual war between these races
>que two Japanese high school boys who are best friends and both die tragically during a ski trip, only for one of them to be reincarnated on the dog planet and the other on the cat planet
>they are both instantly recognized as "masters", the one prophesied to end the war and bring victory. As such, two best friends are unwittingly locked into war with each other
>also cat/doggirl harem shenanigans because why not?
>eventually the war is literally ended by the power of friendship

>>95886345
https://perchance.org/jvcfd2jao0
it was quite popular couple years ago but apparently hasn't been updated since

>>95887549
>Weebs completely destroyed them as with many other things in culture.
As if!

>>95885980
You can just pair your own image with the prompt from the generator, retard. Also tranine shit ISN'T on topic.

Here's your spacecats, bro

>>95885919 (OP)
Of course. Someone has to be the faction with impeccable fashion sense undergoing a religious schism over whether their hats should be red or blue. Their god wants them to be green.

>>95889656
But would he like some toast?

>>95889656

>>95885919 (OP)
Yes. But no wearing shoes: shoes make them look stupid.

>>95885919 (OP)
Sort of.
She is not either an alien, or in space, but scifi nonetheless
Nor from a game, just from my worldbuilding project. I am unfortunately a nogames pleb because irl I know nobody who gives a fuck about this nerd shit, and I was just infected by these interests by /tg/ like a decade and a half ago.

>>95900030
>Nor from a game, just from my worldbuilding project. I am unfortunately a nogames pleb because irl I know nobody who gives a fuck about this nerd shit, and I was just infected by these interests by /tg/ like a decade and a half ago.
Check out /srpgg/.

>>95900058
I don't really see the point of solo roleplaying desu. I find worldbuilding more rewarding and it works as a good outlet for my desire to draw stuff.

>>95900095
I used to feel that way. Then I decided that I wanted to run Star Trek Adventures and, having never played it before, picked up the solo game thinking "perfect intro." Damn, that worked out well and I have my adventures fleshed out, now. On the other hand I'm using it more as a prep-work exercise than actually for the purpose of playing, so it prolly doesn't count the way other people mean "solo playing."

>>95885919 (OP)
Of course.

cat sex

>>95900872

>>95885919 (OP)
Only if it's this form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zIxPUPWVq8

>>95888680
>>these masters have become semi-mythological creatures
I wish I could remember the name, but I read a short story years ago w/something like this. Post nuclear story, cats,dogs, rats, and some other animals all evolved intelligence millennia later. They found bones of humans in city ruins and thought they were the remains of angels, not unlike how old elephant skulls helped inspire myths about cyclops from the Greeks/Romans. I wish I could remember the title or author, but it was in some old book of short stories from the 60's/70's.

>>95885919 (OP)
I found that one of my aliens just kinda filled the niche anyways

>>95900030
cute kot

>>95901795
Thank you.

>ayycat
>botcat

>>95885919 (OP)
Well, we ARE playing Magical Kitties Save Al-Amaja....

>>95900964

>>95885919 (OP)
>intelligent feline
Yes, I always include fantasy in my fantasy games

>>95900030
>not from a game
We know, nogames lil cuck

>>95911549
Bump

>>95885931
It's an anime screenshot you fucking bozo

>>95885919 (OP)
>Sci fi
Lol no, I don't play pseud slop. I play fantasy games exclusively.

>>95900872

>>95885919 (OP)
Yes! In mine, they make heavy use of a living polymer that replaces most moving parts in their machinery. Think a civilization whose tech is built off of everyone having Venom or Carnage symbiotes from Marvel.

>>95885919 (OP)
Fuck no!
They're genetically engineered humans.

Remember you literally asked for this.

1/4

The kyn hail from the planet Kass, the first planet orbiting the star Zuraya, a K-type star. The Zuraya system is highly unusual for having only a single (albeit massive, much larger than Jupiter) gas giant at its outer edges and no asteroid belt; all the other worlds are terrestrial planets, although only Kass supports life. Planet Kass itself is about 80% the size of Earth, and has a proportionally smaller hydrosphere, with water covering just 60% of the planet's surface, leaving the planet comparatively dry (though it is not by any means a single-biome planet, there are forests, glaciers, mountains, etc. Still, plains, savannas, and deserts dominate). The planet also has an extremely minor axial tilt; there is little in the way of seasons.

Known Space has three species that can compete for the title of "oldest species in known space"; in terms of raw age, the kyn have the other two beat by a country mile. The kyn evolved into their present state and sapience on Kass over eight million years ago. However as obligate carnivores that swiftly rose to the level of superpredator, their population remained extremely small for a very long time, preventing the rise of sedentary civilization. They just couldn't figure out agriculture because it was a step removed from them: they would not personally benefit from growing plants, and hunting and eventually herding provided enough food that starvation was rarely an issue that needed to be circumvented. The idea of growing vast amounts of plant food for their prey just didn't click.

Eventually, some 18,000 years ago, sheer statistical luck more than anything led a particular kyn people to develop agriculture for the benefit of their prey species, allowing them to adopt a more sedentary lifestyle and build actual settlements, small towns, then eventually true cities. Writing and the arts took off, populations grew, and the kyn finally started advancing in a more "normal" way

>>95917294
2/4

Pre-FTL kyn history is largely unremarkable, with the usual spate of religious wars, competing nation-states, and so on. Colonialism was light, at least, due to all of Kass' continents being easily reached by land bridges or easy island-hopping; no kyn culture was ever truly isolated from the others and so the planet had an unusually uniform rate of development; as well, large standing armies were comparatively rare, nation-states ("freeholds") tended to prefer mercenary companies. By the time the kyn started settling their home system a loose world government (the Freeholds Congress).

Over time the kyn eventually unlocked the secrets of faster-than-light travel, though this was hampered by planet Kass and indeed the entire Zuraya system being resource-poor in materials needed to construct FTL-capable ships. Eventually it happened, and the kyn started settling nearby space. The first outsystem planet settled by the kyn, Bozkir, was swift to declare itself as an independent Freehold, and won a brief war to assert that independence. It is not coincidental that the Bozkir system was rich in FTL resources, and in spite of a low population and being outside of the Zuraya system itself Bozkir soon became the most powerful freehold in the Congress.

About one century after discovering FTL travel, the kyn made first contact with an alien species for the first time, the insectoid dethek of the Zzkon system. Zzkon was almost a reverse mirror image of Zuraya: four gas giants orbiting close to the F-type star Zzkon, two asteroid belts and a host of terrestrial worlds in the outsystem. The dehtek homeworld of Moraal, sixth from its star, is about the same size as Kass, has an even smaller hydrosphere (just 40% of the planet's surface), and is wracked with constant volcanic activity caused at least partially by its three moons, though this is a boon since the thick cloud cover allows the planet to retain heat.

>>95917303
3/4

The Zzkon system is a treasure trove of FTL resources, making Bozkir look like a barren waste in comparison. The dethek, as well, were a highly advanced people, not yet capable of FTL travel but already having explored their home system and even having settled some of the planets and moons in it. The dethek might have been willing to trade with the kyn, and that was a problem for the Bozkir Freehold, as it would wreck its FTL resource monopoly. The Bozkir sabotaged negotiations between the Freeholds Congress and the dethek (who did not yet have a united world government) and then contrived to go to war with the dethek, looking to seize control of the outer Zzkon planets and push the dethek back to Moraal, perhaps even wipe them out.

This proved to be a costly mistake. Kyn ships were better than dethek ones, to the point where 3:1 odds against was still considered favorable to the kyn...but Bozkir was outnumbered 10:1, and had much longer supply lines from the Bozkir system to Zzkon, measured in months, while the dehtek could resupply any planet in a matter of weeks at most. The war quickly became a stalemate that would, through sheer numbers and industrial capacity, eventually favor the dethek over Bozkir.

Bozkir had hired multiple mercenary groups, but after a year of war it started formally asking other Freeholds for aid in the war, which set off alarm bells back on Kass, not the least of which because the Bozkir were increasingly obviously looking to exterminate the dethek entirely. Coupled with the war being an obvious attempt by Bozkir to maintain its FTL resource monopoly, the members of the Freeholds Congress instead voted as one to declare war on Bozkir. It was stronger than any of them but it was not stronger than ALL of them. Facing a war on two fronts, Bozkir surrendered.

>>95917312
4/4

The Freeholds Congress was reorganized into the tighter Freeholds Union. Peace was negotiated with the dethek that saw the kyn giving the dethek FTL travel and seceding control of several star systems near to the Zzkon system (uninhabited by the kyn anyway, save for the odd research station) in exchange for favorable trade agreements for FTL resources, a trade that was ultimately much more favorable to the dethek than the kyn (something the Freeholds Union knew full well; they were essentially paying a weregild).

Despite its rocky, bloody start, the Accords that ended the Kyn-Dethek First Contact War became the basis of one of the longest unbroken treaties in known space. The kyn and dethek explored known space together, making contact with other species and nations. Both were minor powers in the scheme of things, with the kyn regarded as the junior partner due to lower industry and resources.

But the kyn might actually be a sleeping giant. Centuries of settling worlds and creating huge reserves of prey species have comfortably offset the downsides of being obligate carnivores; the kyn have in fact experienced a population explosion. Their close bond with the dethek means that the kyn have an essentially bottomless supply of resources, and their ships are built by the finest shipwrights in known space. Offloading industry to the dethek has allowed kyn scientists to focus on advancing their technology by surprising leaps and bounds; most notably the kyn are the ONLY species in known space who have cracked how to build an genuine "stealth" vessel that can get as lose as just a thousand kilometers to a target and still remain undetected.

They still have some societal problems holding them back. But if the kyn ever make a go at stellar imperialism, it's quite possible that they'd be able to give any of the Great Powers a serious run for their money.

>>95917294 >>95917303 >>95917312 >>95917319
But wait, there's more. I also put thought into how the kyn even got to real civilization instead of being primitives.

1/3

Cats are obligate carnivores, so a feline sapient species is going to run into some problems growing a large population. They will have to live as hunter-herders at first rather than hunter-gatherers, which will produce a lot less food and thus demand much smaller populations. It will probably take them a proportionately much longer time to develop agriculture since they don't benefit from it directly. The basis of their diet will have to be some kind of small, fast-breeding animal like rodents and chickens. It's also a LOT harder to store meat over time, especially if you aren't working with modern refrigeration technology. Food surpluses will be hard to attain for a long time.

I've been putting a lot of thought into this. My personal sci-fi setting has a full assortment of aliens I've made for it, and the one I like the most are called kyn, and they're felinoid, meant to be based on housecats moreso than anything else. I've been trying to figure out a logical way to get them from being primitive hunter-herders to the space age.

It's not completely impossible to imagine; there's some evidence that the people of the Caral-Supe civilization in South America may have been able to have had a completely meat-based diet (in this case, fish like anchovies and other marine life). But it's definitely a major hurdle to overcome.

>>95917294 >>95917303 >>95917312 >>95917319
But wait, there's more. I also put thought into how the kyn even got to real civilization instead of being primitives.

1/3

Cats are obligate carnivores, so a feline sapient species is going to run into some problems growing a large population. They will have to live as hunter-herders at first rather than hunter-gatherers, which will produce a lot less food and thus demand much smaller populations. It will probably take them a proportionately much longer time to develop agriculture since they don't benefit from it directly. The basis of their diet will have to be some kind of small, fast-breeding animal like rodents and chickens. It's also a LOT harder to store meat over time, especially if you aren't working with modern refrigeration technology. Food surpluses will be hard to attain for a long time.

I've been putting a lot of thought into this. My personal sci-fi setting has a full assortment of aliens I've made for it, and the one I like the most are called kyn, and they're felinoid, meant to be based on housecats moreso than anything else. I've been trying to figure out a logical way to get them from being primitive hunter-herders to the space age.

It's not completely impossible to imagine; there's some evidence that the people of the Caral-Supe civilization in South America may have been able to have had a completely meat-based diet (in this case, fish like anchovies and other marine life). But it's definitely a major hurdle to overcome.

>>95917488
2/3
Since they're based on housecats, my thought process is that like cats, kyn societal organization was along sex lines. Male cats have large territories that may or may not overlap; females have smaller territories and will nest together with other (usually related) females and their kittens (of both sexes).

In kyn, the major change is that unlike cats, kyn practiced group hunting. Males work together to bring down large game, which could then feed them for some time (especially once the art of meat preservation was invented), as well as be traded with female kyn.

Females instead clustered together, but like the males would hunt in groups. While male kyn focused on large game, female kyn instead were the ones to develop agriculture and start domesticating small but fast-breeding animals, allowing them to hunt less and less and begin to develop a food surplus, which allowed actual civilization to (painstakingly slowly by human standards) develop, eventually creating writing, art, mathematics, etc..

Male kyn weren't completely useless, though; they developed herding, taming and domesticating large animals and following them rather than hunting them, making food more reliable. But they were still leading very mobile existences with comparatively few companions, while the females developed villages and eventually cities that would trade with the males.

Young kyn were raised by their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and older sisters. When they became adults, male kyn were expected to go out and join the hunter-herder bands, while the female stayed in the cities, tending to the fast-breeding prey and developing their society. Each city had several hunter-herder bands associated with it. The bands would occasionally fight each other for the right to enter the city and take wives, but all the bands would close ranks and work together in the face of outside invasion. The territory controlled by kyn city-states tended to be very large in comparison to Earth.

>>95917493
3/3

Like any species there'd be exceptions, of course. In coastal villages with plentiful fishing options you'd probably see male and female kyn living together to maximize food intake, though overfishing would potentially be a problem that would keep their population down compared to the more traditional city-state arrangement mentioned above.

Even then I imagine that kyn society would lack much of a concept of monogamy; they would definitely be matrilineal more often than not: a kyn traces their family through their mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, etc.. Also, while male kyn are larger and stronger than females like with humans, the fact of the matter is that female kyn have sharp teeth and claws, and so even a naked female kyn is way more capable of badly injuring or even killing a male than a female human is when dealing with a male human. So between the females being more concentrated (and thus having a numbers advantage over any given band of hunter-herders), controlling the cities, and being very capable of defending themselves, their societies probably tend towards genuine matriarchies (not that the females can mistreat the males either - again, sharp teeth and claws).

I imagine sexual integration starts happening eventually as technology advances and the food surplus continues to grow and cities become gradually more pleasant places to live. In keeping with cats being fairly fastidious, the kyn would probably be big into things like plumbing, sewers, and public baths, so mass diseases might be less common in kyn history. In any event, eventually you end up with a significant number of male kyn who don't want to leave the cities to become ranchers. In some places this might be gradual shift, in others it's a major societal upheaval.

>>95917497
A couple other major points forced by being obligate carnivores.

1. Long campaigns and sieges are a nightmare and a half. You can't keep enough meat fresh enough and you can't hunt enough game. Even if the kyn don't have a cultural taboo against cannibalism, they still just aren't going to be able to sustain long periods of campaigning in a foreign field where you can't rely on finding food. Though on the other hand kyn cities also can't possibly provision a lot of food either, even with salted meats/jerky/etc., so if some clever kyn general can figure out the logistics of supplying their troops, then the cities will fold practically instantly by Earth standards. No Siege of Ceuta here.

2. The concentration of females in cities and their effective numbers advantage might mean that any large standing armies that DID develop in kyn history might actually be female-based and led. One can imagine a female city-army enforcing its will on male hunter-herders, or going to war against another city for all the usual reasons. "Warrior" could be a male tradition (battles between hunter-herders), but actual soldiery is a female tradition.

This pic is someone's fetish, I just know it.

3. The lack of ability to store food for a long time also means that kyn can't do long voyages of exploration unless they're also doubling as fishing/whaling trips. Again, an inability to store enough food for an extended period means that much of the kyn homeworld (Kass) probably remained unexplored for a very long time. Months-long sea voyages on ships carrying dozens of crew are right out.

>>95917554
And finally...

For the record the kyn aren't supposed to be straight-up anthros. Their arms and legs are supposed to be proportionately longer than humans' when compared to the torso, with only four fingers (thumb plus three others) and four toes. Their faces are also supposed to be more alien-looking, and if you shaved off their fur their flesh would actually look a little more like scales than skin. The ears are supposed to be more swept back then sticking up. They're mammal-analogues but not true mammals since, obviously, they come from a completely different evolutionary chain. Bing, though, absolutely isn't up to making that, so we get furries instead.

They are shorter than humans on average, too, despite coming from a world with lower gravity. Normally the idea in sci-fi is lower gravity = bigger creatures, but I figure that Earth has land animals that range in size from as small as a tardigrade to as large as a bull elephant, so I expect Kass would also have a range and the species that evolved to sapience aren't necessarily going to be the giants.

Interestingly despite the glacial pace of their species' societal development, the lower gravity on their homeworld would mean that inventing heavier-than-air flight, and rockets to escape Kass' surface, would be easier, so you could theoretically see the first rocket ships in their equivalent of the 1910s or even 1920s using kerosene or gasoline foe fuel. Though communications with the ground would be a bitch, and "computer" would be a job description rather than a device...

Pic: Traditional kyn queen outfit from around their iron age. Feathers are a symbol of war among the kyn due to that lower gravity also giving "terror bird" a whole new meaning. Also swords never took off on Kass; spears remained the weapon of choice.

>>95886316
You're getting close to independently inventing Dog Catcher Inutaro

>>95887002
You stole that from Morbius

>>95917488
>>95917493
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>>95917576
Literally no one cares AI sloppa. Go back.

>>95917722
I am back. Stop ruining my home.