Scenario: >Humanity is extinct. How or why does not matter.
>What does matter is that humanity once had a gigantic interstellar empire stretching across the galaxy. It has touched almost every single major star system with its hands and shaped it to its needs. Alien races that fought against it were defeated. The dangerous ones eliminated, the useful ones rebuilt into powerful allies or made subservient. Humanity uplifted primitive races and made them part of the empire. Humanity used their boundless knowledge to create races, organic or inorganic and also made them part of the empire. Whole planets were remade to suit their needs and their subjects. Gigantic metal rings built around planets, stations of immense size and power, etc
>When humanity became extinct, all the other races swallowed up their legacy. When peaceful partition was not an option, open war became the norm. The other races declared themselves the successor of Mankind while others declared Man's achievements to be the hard work sponged off others. In today's galaxy Humanity is revered across the galaxy as the perfect race. Beautiful, intelligent and creative. Some extremists worship them as the god-race.
>Thus the whole galaxy is now in a struggle of epic proportions. Armed conflict, proxy warfare, covert operations, and strife is the new normal.
Luis Lopez
cont:
So I have broken down the races into a few categories
>Usurpers: Alien races that have no relation to man nor interacted in the past. Outsiders. >Successors: Races created by man. Organic and often human-looking with significant differences. Pic related. >Manufactured: Machine races created by man to serve as intelligent workers or slaves. Machines tend to exhibit the extremes views of humans with some outright hating them or worshiping them. >Uplifted: Alien races uplifted culturally or genetically by humans >Others: Alien races that interacted with humanity in the past. Many are either allies or defeated by mankind in the past. >Guardians: organic or inorganic races that view humanity's achievements to be sacred and thus to be protected from misuse.
So Veeky Forums, what are the races that might inhabit this galaxy? Technology?
Dylan Jones
Scifi Pugmire
Nathaniel Torres
Smells like halo.
Bumping out of interest
Dylan Phillips
basically humans created the galactic order with other aliens. They maintained it and when they went bye-bye everyone moved in to get the super duper tech.
Jonathan Martin
I liked the Serious Sam setting. Humans made the best guns and quickly became the arms dealers of the galaxy.
Wyatt Harris
How is humanity extinct when their demi-human off-shoots still exist? What killed them and not the obviously very similar subspecies?
Spreading a species across a galaxy is going to cause some notable changes as they adapt to different situations. Did the core "human" template just get lost in the mix?
Dylan Garcia
"reconstructed humans" whose DNA was assembled from damaged DNA traces or from strands taken from races they inserted their own DNA into to uplift.
Jordan Nelson
>what is protheans from mass effect
Eli Thompson
>How is humanity extinct when their demi-human off-shoots still exist? What killed them and not the obviously very similar subspecies? Not OP, but I can offer some suggestions to this:
They all uploaded their minds to machines and eventually went insane when some virus infected their networks.
Cloning sickness, after progressive generatons of clones cloning clones cloning clones and so on, so their DNA was degraded to the point they could no longer survive without machine support; and eventually, not at all.
Our DNA was constructed by an even higher race and contained a hidden killswitch that was mysteriously activated one day.
