yees. best update for that game :D


i gets to be Liir finally :D

The space dolphin glass cannon.

But god can he goes through hordes of critters with his(their? though most black swimmers tend to assume a "male" persona) psionics.

I'm still trying to figure out if Ayb is a Blackswimmer at all.

When Blackswimmers are talking in the strategy game, you only hear a male voice. When you hear those in noncombat functions (research projects) talking, you hear the compound voice. And Ayb has the compound voice.

Also, Ayb isnt wearing a full Blackswimmer suit with liquid breather, so I dont think shi is 'drowned'.

Point. Though in SOTS2 some of the more male voices also tend to be Prester Zuuls. Iirc, the "Immersion" faction even has more Prester Zuul voices as well, since they represent a subfactions of the Liir/Zuul alliance with a higher percentage of Prester Zuuls, which group is particular dedicated to hunting down the Suul'ka/False Gods.

Female? They are as I know the builders, the more dragon like ones, the "grounded". The warriors are the light feathered ones whom live there lives in space. IDK, I never played the Pit.

In SOTS1 they were known only as such.

In SOTS2, it's revealed the Sulligis who raided and massacred billions of morrigis in the past were the same Suul'ka than the Liir were hunting.... who were nothing more than than insane corrupt Liir Great Elders who enslaved their race to build themselves the "spacesuit" that would allow them to survive in the stars and thus avoid death from being crushed by gravity and their own ever growing bodymass.*

When morrigis began toying with advanced gravity weaponry the Suul'kas took notices and two of their numbers, the Bloodweaver and the Siren, decided to attempt to erradicate the morrigis. The Bloodweaver created the Zuuls which he unleashed on many planets, never expecting them to achieve sentience as they stripped planets bare of ressources.

The Siren "created" the Krogodai, or Screamers, by psychically enslaving thousands if not millions of male morrigis fleets which "she" unleashed upon the female's worlds.
With their brothers sent screaming against them to die against their planetary defenses or try to kill them when the few who were still around to defend them weren't being killed or enslaved in turn(females were psychologically more resistant to psychic enslavement than the males), groups of renegade females decided to break the taboo against the millitarization of females and took upon themselves to crew the ships they had built for their male brethren to defend their people.

For their troubles, when the Suul'kas were finally repelled by an unknown force at the time(implied to be the results of the Liir rebellion against their mad Elders), those females were brandies "Harpies" for breaking morrigis taboos and banished.

In SOTS2, one of the optional fleets skin you can choose for the morrigis is that of the "Harpies" as they still supposedly exist even after their banishment, as they are implied to have founded their own society(recruiting females from worlds which owe them a "Blood debt" as well as the occasional male rogue/pirate and other species) not unlike that of the SOTS2 Morrigi multiracial confederation though possibly with a bit more of a pirate/rogue bent.

The character in the Pit is implied to be a "Striker"(supposedly a term used for thieves/mercenaries in Morrigi society) named "Nemesis" who is going down the pit to chase rumors of untold dangers and treasures found within and is said to come from the Harpies' ranks.

She also happen to be voiced by the SOTS series' own lead writer, Arinn Dembo.

Well thanks for the info, so they not only change there anatomy, but there entire society. Great -.- , I liked Morrogi when they were more "Vorlon" like.

Actually they never changed their society. The core is pretty much still there. They still are one of the more ancient playable race.

The description for the Morrigi in SOTS1 is pretty much the same than you can find in Sword of the Stars 2's in-game encyclopedia.
The only thing SOTS2 did, is add more details about their society and history(as well as the changes to their civilization in the roughly 200 years timespan between Sword of the Stars 1 and 2, since the Fusion and cruisers era is now the starting era instead of Fission).
You can find more about there here http://sots2.rorschach.net/Morrigi
and here: http://sots2.rorschach.net/Morrigi_Confederation
The later is specifically about the Morrogi empire as a society including the bits about how groups of females formed the harpies and how the confederation came to include members of other races when a new leader replaced the old.

Also, more or less:

Basically, in the SOTSverse, "space amazons" are not scantily clad green-skinned alien babes but large 9 feet long psychic terror-inducing dragonbirds pirates.

You mean the "Orions" from ST (not to mistake with MoO) :P ?

They changed the psychic abilities too?! As I knew males were able to "charm" ppl into seeing them as "angels" and such, and to charm females, whom have "only" resistive abilities to such powers...

Actually both males and females have glamour. Males have the "charming" one, while females have the "terror" one.

In fact, in the Pit, Terror is a starting psychic power for the morrigi striker.