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A collection of 21 new alien races to introduce to your sci-fi campaign. They are presented as a set of new empires in an unexplored area of your campaign's galaxy, or as a new start for a new campaign. Each race has details on their societies, politics, and physiology, including levels of technology and psionics. Many ideas are included for adventures and interactions for encounters. Suitable for any RPG system.

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Alien Quadrant: Races

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Alien Quadrant: Races

Alien Quadrant: RacesThere are hundreds of different intelligent species in the galaxy. Many have made the technological leap into space, but only a few have spread across the stars and founded vast interstellar empires.

This quadrant of the galaxy should be apart from any others in any current campaign. It is meant as a new area for exploration, and these races as new contacts. Alterntively, a new campaign can find these races as an interesting new start.

These Primary Races are the most influential and dominant of those species in this quadrant, having founded empires and alliances encompassing many sectors within the quadrant. Race Format:

Race name [sample portrait, sample starship](Sector name, Home world name)Empire NameTech LevelPsionic Level

Description and overview

Primary RacesThe Primary Races have formed interstellar empires encompassing dozens of systems spread across a significant portion of the sectors where their home world is found. Some empires are benevolent alliances, while others are military dictatorships.

Rhones Decended from humans, their alliance has spread throughout the Rhone sector.

Machines Surviving their extinct builders, the Machine Empire spreads from the Aquinlonia sector.

Zorani A reptilian race dominating the Zorani sector, and bent on dominating the galaxy.

Utherians Thriving in the Aurean sector, the Utherians are a diverse species of explorers.

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Rhones

(Rhone sector, Homeworld)Rhone AllianceTech Level: AdvancedPsionic Level: Low In this scenario, the galaxy has been populated by humans for millennia. The Rhone systems are generally believed to be the remains of human colonies which fell into ruin during some catastrophic galactic holocaust, of which little is known.

Some scientists speculate that humans came to the planet Rhone from their original home planet, called Earth, eons before some galactic holocaust. Evidence of this mythic planet is questionable, although some unique but dubious artifacts exist which may have originated there.

The Rhone humans spent their first two-thousand years rediscovering their past technologies. Over the last thousand years they have found hundreds of planets in the area suitable for colonization. They quickly spread throughout the Rhone sector, aware only through old tales that one of the neighboring stars might harbor forgotten enemies.

The Rhone Alliance was formed on Homeworld. While exploring the Aquilonia sector, an Alliance exploration vessel encountered a patrol ship from the Onn sector. The Machine Empire was governed by robots, and their military employed cyborg storm troopers. The ensuing war was eventually won by the Rhones after 29 years. While fearsome, the Machine Empire was vulnerable; it was fighting a war on three fronts. Homeworld, lying on the edge of the Rhone sector, has grown from an outpost into a major hub of commerce visited by nearly every race nearby. Its neutral politics have kept it wealthy and crowded with merchants, smugglers, bounty hunters, refugees, and all sorts of aliens.

Homeworld is also the current capitol world of the Rhone Alliance since the loss of Rhone in the Second Holocaust. The Alliance has brought many civilized worlds under its protection, and has installed a common measurement system as well as economic and military benefits for its members.

Technology remains advanced for the Rhones. Their ships are the fastest in known space, but also rather fragile. Nonetheless, a fast, cheap ship is more valuable to the economy than a hardy, expensive one, and this keeps the Rhones on top in the realm of interstellar commerce.

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Alien Quadrant: RacesMachines

(Aquilonia sector, Onn)Machine EmpireTech Level: AdvancedPsionic Level: none The Machine Empire is descended from the Virudians, an extinct humanoid race. The Virudian people died off long ago, and left behind their robots to carry on without them.

Planet Onn is the home world of the robots and cyborgs of the Machine Empire. Biologically, there is no Machine Empire species. Empire society consists of robots and cybernetic servants of the Emperor Onn, an artificial intelligence housed within a planet-sized computer. Onn was the origin of the Empire, which began as a single system inhabited by robots, over 500 years ago. The native robots built Onn as their central intelligence processing unit, so that they could combine their processing power to concentrate on expansion. This was required because their home world was poor in resources, as were most of the worlds nearby. The Empire slowly expanded as more mineral-rich worlds were conquered and their organic life-forms were transformed into cyborgs. The empire had reached its current boundaries, and found itself in military entanglements on three separate fronts, within a few decades. The Machines had come into contact with the warlike Thradesh, who advanced into the empire's borders with kamikaze attacks. On the opposite end of the empire, the Rhones had arrived at several systems on the edge of their borders at the same time. Later the Empire had lost its war against the Rhones, and Onn shut down all but primary systems to concentrate on the state of the empire. To all outward appearances, Emperor Onn is still sleeping. Onn has occasionally stirred to communicate to his servants, but generally is unresponsive. It is said that he is reconsidering the Empire's priorities and will awaken when the Empire is ready to reclaim its destiny. It has been like this for decades. This makes the Empire at present a neutral political entity, run by Onn's most trusted robots. They are programmed with explicit and complex orders that account for almost any situation. Cyborgs are considered second-class citizens, while pure biologicals are not accepted into the empire without cybernetic implants installed by the Empire.

The manufacture of a new type of ship may give the Empire an advantage. Utilizing technology from encounters with the Rhones has lead the Machines to develop new hulls. Rumors tell that Emperor Onn is awakened, and its agenda is to capture its enemies that have psionic talents, in order to make a new race of psionic cyborgs... or 'psiborgs'.

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