Advanced Save Game Six Empires Huge Map and Minor Races

[UesugiKenshin]

The eyes are farther apart on a Khaoran so while they may have binocular peripheral vision, they may actually have a blind spot facing forward, and may have to routinely swivel their heads to scan forward and get a complete picture. While human can see fine straight ahead, but have to swivel their heads to see blindspots on their sides.

Human ears likely are less likely to hear distant sounds due to the way our ears gather auditory sensory data. Human hunters will cup their ears to get the same information, while Khaorans likely can discern this naturally, and it might be they are less likely to be surprised as they may hear someone approach before seeing them.

Linguistically, they may have developed rituals where they speak at a further distance that humans do as a result of this biological difference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobe
In human beings, the maturation of the frontal lobe coupled with the insulating effects of oligodendrocytes to axons prevents short circuiting, and these two factors lead to delayed maturation in teens.

What if the frontal lobes mature faster due to larger mass so their young teens are more disciplined and prone to following historical traditions and parenting, thus while they still may act rashly due to delayed oligodendrocyte insulation, just like us, they actually are younger soldiers? Maybe they are soldiers at 14 not 18?

[UesugiKenshin]

Certain anatomical differences may then be avenues to explore for story elements as those no doubt then impact on their society and culture. This is how you "flesh out details" for all the sentient species.

[UesugiKenshin]

Now run with that idea on Khaoran soldiers. Maybe by the time human soldiers encounter Khaoran soldiers, they already just to start have four years of experience versus Terran raw recruits? While Terrans have teenagers, no such parallel society exists among Khaorans. They are either children or adults. They might lack ideas like goofing off and courtship rituals in youth and delinquency issues and gangs. They have no high schools and sports. Maybe they have no underage drinking or marijuana use?

This is how plausible storylines develop by combining science and illustrations and filling in the gaps.

[UesugiKenshin]

Those kinds of things then explain why Khaorans are different. Maybe early onset maturity results in the same phenomena of child soldiers in Africa? You give a lot of military responsibility to a teenager before they have good judgement due to short-circuiting neurons.

Maybe this is why the Khaorans have rigid thinking on war and are militaristic? Maybe this is why they lack mercy as they did not rebel or went through an iconoclastic phase that is common in humans? There was no age related indulgence.

Khaorans went straight from being dutiful children to adulthood, thus do not question orders.

[UesugiKenshin]

Humans based on anatomical differences have expressions like being afraid of so-called friends who backstab you as they lack good peripheral vision.

Khaorans, since they have a blind spot due to wide set eyes, fear open treachery by dishonorable enemies who use subterfuge to pretend friendship. They cannot trust what they see straight in front of them.

A human might say, " I see you, and it just means acknowledgement of presence.

A Khaoran might say, "I see you", and it might mean, " I have studied you and see your intent".

Linguistically that sort of miscommunication is problematic in diplomacy.

And when trust is established, and a Khaoran trusts a Terran as both are cognizant of cultural differences, that Khaoran may be a superior friend. He or she really trusts you as they lack guile. Guile is largely absent from their culture. Maybe they are brutally honest, yet it is refreshing.

[UesugiKenshin]

In bodybuilders, those who take performance enhancing steroids gain muscle mass faster but also get frontal bossing. This is a malformation causing a thickening of the skull and typically something labeled "roid rage" due to hypermasculinity and a preponderance to violence.

Now what if the reason for the cranial formation in Khaorans is similar as their male sex hormone is much higher and analogous to testosterone. Their females would have a higher overt sexuality, but likely diminished fertility.

Maybe this results in government mandated military service and problems in adequate population and affects income and construction rates?

[UesugiKenshin]

You can reduce a game like BotE to just waging galactic war, but actually it opens up age old philosophical questions.

Humans presume through religion that the Earth is unique. As such, then human know by holy words that directives by spiritual systems convery truth. In this way, good versus evil and right versus wrong are known. That then becomes internal through moral choices and imposed externally by human groups as ethics.

Then philosophers argue about the validity of this. Is morality subjective (determined and chosen by experiences) or objective (a universal truth imposed through spirituality)?.

What happens then when life is abundant throughout the galaxy with trillions and trillions of individual morals and diverse ethics on all of those inhabited worlds?

War is justified by governance to protect sentient species. Is it moral and or ethical? Does honor actually exist? Does truth exist? Does beauty exist? What does citizenship mean? Does justice exist?

Philosophical thought strikes at the heart of science fiction because it challenges human uniqueness in a galactic setting.

[UesugiKenshin]

Approach these question from a scientific vantage point. There is zero chance that complex sentient life exists from random events. Mathematically it is impossible that nothing created every bit of matter in a galaxy. It is ludicrous to think life arose randomly as the smallest protein chain of amino acids is impossible under idealized conditions to have formed on the Earth by random assortment.

Now compound this by a galaxy full of species. This means life did not arise randomly, but through a process by a genetic engineer existing outside the galaxy. What does that imply? Is that grand genetic engineer who possesses greater power and knowledge the only way we can know the answers to all of these philosophical and scientific questions?

[UesugiKenshin]

Given an overabundance of life that obviously was created not formed by random events in a galaxy and being sentient and diverse, how could anyone accept nihilism?

Wouldn't one have to accept the implication of existentialism?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

We would have to struggle with the implications of being individuals with free will existing in a galaxy full of countless individuals. What does this search for meaning then imply juxtaposed against their lives?

[UesugiKenshin]

If there is no meaning and all the sentient individuals in a galaxy are just biological robots, then that random galaxy is just chaos then the worst serial killers would just roam, not by choice, and bring destruction. Total anarchy by galactic nihilism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

[UesugiKenshin]

The typical ploy use by those in authority is to justify war through the scarcity of resources, which is absurd against a galactic scale. Then the second ploy is based on security which is utterly meaningless until turn #300 as the distance is so vast.

The third ploy is philosophically derived by ethics. "The enemy is unjust and immoral and the ethics of the enemy's people are dangerous and might infect our people". Aha! That can be sold to muster soldiers.