ITT, we design the most generic space opera setting possible, one post at a time

I was thinking more mollusc-like, with ridges and very small tentacles on their heads, but space elves also works. Either way, they're inexplicably humanoid and have bright blue skin.

Save the space elves for something else.

Meanwhile, a race of grotesque nomadic beings hop between star system to star system with a mysterious device that could one day save the entire galaxy.

The Skellarak, a race of ravenous beings that resemble the worst features of invertebrates and reptiles, combined with a healthy dosage of sexual imagery and heavy machinery are distinctly lowering the tone on several star systems

A matriarchal race of rainbow-skinned alien humanoids that look suspiciously like humans but without eyebrows.

Their culture has almost no taboos related to sexuality, and as a result they wear little clothing (even their spacesuits have boob windows) and are willing to have relations with anyone regardless of gender or species.
Can have empathic powers that usually require them to make physical contact with others to activate.

For the thread, suits the idea nicely.

scribd.com/doc/182908520/ Cartoon-Action-Hour-Season-3-rulebook-spreads?secret_password=1smtyfro771ck9otn081

Humanity's fashions and culture still resemble the 21st century even hundreds of years into the future.
The English language also hasn't changed in any major way aside from a handful of slang words.

A race of simple minded tree people are widespread across the many garden worlds in the galaxy. How they became so widespread is unknown since they seem to have no oral or written history. But many scientists and scholars think that they are the descendants of an aincent race that gave the galaxy life. Others think they are just the guardians of the garden worlds

Every race has only one defining characteristic. IE Violent, greedy, honourable, solemn, etc.

There is a race of spacefaring traders and merchants that are seen all the way through the galaxy, but never in an organized fashion. They appear to be very individualistic, and sees most things as opportunities to get rich.

Bioware beat you to it

Large, furry aliens live a primitive but wholesome life on secluded moon.

They make good sidekicks to space rogues

A race of weak but smart wormlike aliens that lives in armoured suits of armour

Insert blue skinned Amazon warrior space elves here.

Bonus point if they don't grasp the concept of clothing when out of combat. And they of course have to be tsundere.

A memetic virus is going around that causes people with cybernetic limbs to cause said limbs to obtain a limited form of sentience and act of their own volition.

In short, it's very possible your cyber arm could turn against you.

...that are actually really controlled by ancient evil alien AIs!

Of course, humans can bone all these races and have healthy kids.

A vast, decaying vestigial empire called the Imperium of Mankind must defend itself from endless waves of space bugs, space orks, space zombies, space elves, and space communists.

Almost goes without saying.

I want to learn more about the Lekgolo to be honest
The fact that the Prophets were drilling holes into the wall of the dreadnought and jamming Lekgolo in is hilarious to me.

Can't we rather have normal-skinned space elves?

Cybernetics and genetic engineering are seen as evil because they inevitably become space nazis.

The Republic of Sol, despite coming from a human civilization that has historically been wildly diverse in cultures, religions, races, and languages, have a monolithic, singular culture. This is true even on colony worlds. Most individual cultures and languages have been erased after the Earth Unification Wars, and Earth is a utopian paradise that's a popular tourist destination for aliens. Humans speak primarily in American English accents (or British, if they're evil or rich); only a few characters like Scottish Engineer Man or Russian Bridge Officer Man have accents, and they're regarded as bizarre, quirky people.

Space fighters.

They're also mostly white.

No human augmentation despite hundreds of years of space science. All humans are same baselines from modern earth.

I was wondering that myself.

Oh come on, not all uplifting programs are inherently evil.

Uncommonly, they will bee vaguely brown or East Asian (almost always exclusively Japanese). Characters whose ethnicity resembles Third World locations too much are virtually unknown.

>There are no black people in space
I don't want to live in this galaxy anymore.

The precursor aliens left massive mysterious structures and powerful relics hidden around the galaxy, some are secret maps to the secrets of the universe, others are impossible powerful doomsday weapons that must never be activated. Roughly 50% of bad guy plots involve one of these somehow.

The benevolent human empire is the moral inheritor of the ancient ayyys empire.

Space pirates actually board other ships

youtube.com/watch?v=twZkjKNEiLQ

Skip to 10:45, cuz I couldn't find a shorter clip from just that scene

And all superweapons have a conveniently placed exhaust vent to shoot at the unprotected reactor.

Evil Enemy Main Bad Guy has a secret base near a black hole, which makes loud vacuum sounds and sucks up anything that gets too close.

All black people are in space.
Everyone is in space.

i like this thread

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