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Scoodians, horse races....what?

Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
edited April 2011 in Ten Forward
While I was running around B'Tran, ran across a planet that had a hidden base. So, I beam down with my away team, and find out that it belonged to a race called the "Scoodian". WTF is a Scoodian? Frans and I deduced that it was a race of aliens that scoot around carpets like dogs rubbing their butts. But after we checked out the last computer, it becomes even more odd when my Reman science officer mentions something about a horse race as well. Whatever, by that point I had a headache and beamed back to the ship, and we warped out of there.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Yeah, some of these names for the minior ally/enemy races are really... strange.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Archanubis wrote:
    Yeah, some of these names for the minior ally/enemy races are really... strange.

    And why wouldnt they be? They're aliens


    Embrace the strange :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    tryulis wrote: »
    And why wouldnt they be? They're aliens


    Embrace the strange :p

    I dunno, I prefer the Kirk "Shoot first, ask later" style of diplomatics.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Yeah, alien BOs using human idioms gets weird. And I'll admit that some of the original alien names are a little hard to hear with a straight face.

    When I first heard the name Scoodian, I was like "Scoody-doody-doooooo!" Lol!

    I imagine that after awhile the Devs got a little punch-drunk trying to come up with new alien names or who knows? At 3am with a 2-liter of Mt. Dew and some Kung-Pao chicken under your belt, all kinds of things sound pretty cool.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    I'm still trying to figure why I had to do a First Contact Mission in the Rolor nebula, which according to the FDC guys was in the Khazan Cluster. WTF???
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    tryulis wrote: »
    And why wouldnt they be? They're aliens


    Embrace the strange :p

    Meh, maybe that's what the Universal Translator managed to spit out. For all we know, their true name is thousands of characters long and unpronouncable. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Archanubis wrote:
    Meh, maybe that's what the Universal Translator managed to spit out. For all we know, their true name is thousands of characters long and unpronouncable. ;)

    Welsh???????? :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Welsh???????? :D
    ARAF! :eek:

    ....that's "slow" in Welsh.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    the Vito'd are on that list too.

    Then there are the Baktians... fought them on Elite with two of my buddies and it was like beaming into Oakland after the Raiders lost a Superbowl because of a bad Ref. call. Yeah, that bad.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Then there are the Baktians... fought them on Elite with two of my buddies and it was like beaming into Oakland after the Raiders lost a Superbowl because of a bad Ref. call. Yeah, that bad.
    I've come across Boktains....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Yeah, they're not particularly.... talking train?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Yeah, they're not particularly....
    I've come across 3 seperate Boktian ships os far: just a 'ship', a 'cruiser' and a 'science' ship that looks extremely suspicious.....
    talking train?
    You mean the avatar? :D

    Yes, it was inspired when Vrano created the 80's thread.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Yeah, alien BOs using human idioms gets weird. And I'll admit that some of the original alien names are a little hard to hear with a straight face.

    When I first heard the name Scoodian, I was like "Scoody-doody-doooooo!" Lol!

    I imagine that after awhile the Devs got a little punch-drunk trying to come up with new alien names or who knows? At 3am with a 2-liter of Mt. Dew and some Kung-Pao chicken under your belt, all kinds of things sound pretty cool.


    Next up The Supercallifregilans of the Expealidotia System
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    tryulis wrote: »
    Next up The Supercallifregilans of the Expealidotia System

    Sounds like a First Contact Mission.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    tryulis wrote: »
    Next up The Supercallifregilans of the Expealidotia System

    LOL, you just probably gave a dev something to do for the day.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I got it! The Scoodians were planning to take over the planet by fixing horse races. Those sneaky aliens...

    Wait...how could they take over a planet by fixing horse races?

    1. Fix horse races
    2. ?
    3. Take over planet
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Ravenstein wrote: »
    I got it! The Scoodians were planning to take over the planet by fixing horse races. Those sneaky aliens...

    Wait...how could they take over a planet by fixing horse races?

    1. Fix horse races
    2. ?
    3. Take over planet
    4. Profit!

    Fixed that for you ;)
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