humanoid aliens – why should alien physical and psychological evolution mimic that of Earth?
• alien empires – that means no Klingon, Vulcan, M’mbari, and other such non-terragen alien empires equal to Terragen civilization in power. However the empires and inhabitants of the various terragen clades and phyles are often far more diverse, unusual, and “alien” than conventional science fiction aliens. In addition there are a small number of alien races, some of whom have happily joined the AI ruled terragen Galactic civilization. • Simplistic demarcation into “good” and “evil”. There are no white hats and black hats here, no demarcation into “us” and “them”. Every race and every empire has some good and bad. e.g. the AI God called GAIA saved the Earth’s biosphere (which is good) but then decided to exile all humans (except for a few million helpers) from the planet (which is bad, well, many would consider it so). This sort of seemingly irrational and capricious behavior is often found in dealings with the AI Gods and with transapient powers • Lots and lots of bad guys not one of
