Alien Races of the CoX Universe
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Posted on: 2011-09-29 16:54 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Great bit of info on the various CoH races.
What this really gets me thinking is that CoH really needs some sort of "Cosmic" expansion that explores this universe a bit more.
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The Hydra are from another Earth, IIRC. They were dragged to our Earth by the Rikti in an attempt to use them as fodder/distraction/what-have-you.
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Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
for the hydra though, i believe it is said they are from a separate planet and the rikti enslaved them as a race of cannon fodder.
ok, looked at the mish on wiki, technically they are only shown to be extradimensional, but its not stated if the portals go to the same place in each dimesion, so i still say they are possibly aliens. |
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Sounds rather... Devouring Earth-ish.
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Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
Hydra (at least according to their boss info) have DNA similar to many viruses and plants common on earth.
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As a note, Nictus are also notable in that they steal the essence of others, especially other Kheldians, in order to increase their lifespan. Essentially, they've become sort of like energy vampires. This actually leads to my next point.|
Originally Posted by Inazuma
Nictus are evil Khledians who have used advanced science to transform themselves and their powers. Black-purple in color, they now manipulate gravity and dark matter in a fashion similar to standard Kheldians. The lifespan of an unjoined Nictus (and Warshades) is about 5 years. Joined Nictus are, like Kheldians, unaging while in a host.
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| The Nictus once ruled their race with an iron fist (metaphorically-speaking), until the normal Kheldians rose up and cast them down. The Nictus fled, and those that hunted them became known as the Peacebringers. What resulted was a running war across the universe, with the Nictus forcefully possessing various alien races to hide in, and the Peacebringers finding them and driving them out. The war has now come to Earth, with the Nictus having been here for centuries, if not millennia, and the Peacebringers just recently arriving. The Nictus have joined forces with the Council as part of their plans to conquer Earth. |
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| The Nictus scientists developed a powerful energy transfer device that could rip away a Kheldian's life force, even at a distance of light years. This terrible weapon is the reason we Peacebringers have resolved to destroy all Nictus, wherever they may be. |
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interestingly, the Hydra lieutenants are described as having DNA "unlike anything seen in this world."|
Originally Posted by Scythus
Sounds rather... Devouring Earth-ish.
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Talk about continuity issues.
On the note of Mekkanos' post, the lore parts specifically, the Kheldian war lore, reminds me vaguely of Transformers.
Mostly in the fact that: Two factions of a race of transforming aliens and have been warring for centuries now bring their battle to earth but may have been involved with earth for much longer than we think.
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My impression was that the Hydra came from a version of Earth that followed a radically different evolutionary path than our own, and these large, ambulatory colonies of bacteria/micro-organisms became the dominant life form. They're even more alien than the Rikti.
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Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
interestingly, the Hydra lieutenants are described as having DNA "unlike anything seen in this world."
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Weren't the Shivan meteors originally sent to Earth by a destroyer of worlds called galact... er, Shiva, by Earthlings? I haven't seen anything directly connecting Shiva to the Battalion / Coming Storm, so for the moment Shiva ought to be considered at least potentially a seperate space race.
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Play the Ouroboros initiation arc. The Battalion uses Shivan meteors as scouts.|
Originally Posted by Crazy1van
Weren't the Shivan meteors originally sent to Earth by a destroyer of worlds called galact... er, Shiva, by Earthlings? I haven't seen anything directly connecting Shiva to the Battalion / Coming Storm, so for the moment Shiva ought to be considered at least potentially a seperate space race.
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I have done this. I have also read the Background from the City of Villains official website:|
Originally Posted by Scythus
Play the Ouroboros initiation arc. The Battalion uses Shivan meteors as scouts.
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As their world collapsed around them, desperate scientists fired thousands of probes into space warning of a massive entity poised to devour their very world. The Arcosians knew that this scourge would eventually reach other solar systems and hoped the tiny blue planet called Earth could avoid the same catastrophic fate. Hundreds of years later, Australian Kurrin Wirake set out on a traditional pilgrimage along his ancestral songline, a dreaming trek connecting the landscape of his aboriginal people to the mythic episodes that occurred at specific locations during the ancient dreamtime. According to his people, the Earth retains a memory of its own origin. This memory echoes across the modern world and often manifests as a guruwari, or seed of life. It was during his search for this vibratory echo of the Earths creation that Kurrin instead found warning of its possible destruction. In the shadow of the famous rock, Ularu, Kurrin uncovered one of the pods launched over 800 hundred years before by the doomed Arcosians. The pod might have remained in Kurrins remote village forever if an Australian AWACS plane had not flown directly over it. Performing a simple test flight, the Airborne Warning and Control System surveillance equipment picked up an unusual signal emanating from Kurrins village. The Australian military investigated and confiscated the pod from the angry villagers, then called on allies from NASA to help decode its alien signal. The lead cryptologist, an Indian woman named Seetha Neremanu, deciphered the code in a matter of hours. Dr. Neremanu immediately alerted the UN Security Council that a gigantic planetary devourer was heading our way. The things name was unpronounceable in human speech, so Dr. Neremanu named it Shiva, after the Hindu deity Destroyer of Worlds. Shiva, Seetha added, would reach earth within a year. With the help of secret alien technology owned by the Russian government, the UN gathered a multi-national force of superheroes to confront this imminent danger. Dr. Neremanu called this band of heroes Operation Vishnu, the Preservers, which consisted of Russian, American, Chinese, and French volunteers. Set to annihilate Shiva with a nuclear strike, Operation Vishnu launched late in the summer of 1989. A blast was detected and Shiva disappeared from deep space detection system, but the heroes who guided the rocket to its final target were never heard from again. That same summer, the infamous meteor shower of Bloody Bay began. It wreaked havoc on the island, causing not only direct damage but radiation sickness and other, more sinister maladies as well. Perhaps strangest of all, weird energy from the meteor formed around the corpses of the dead and created protoplasmic entities filled with Shivas destructive rage. Those few who know of Shiva wonder if these new creatures, the Shivans, are somehow trying to reassemble the pieces and resurrect the Destroyer of Worlds. |
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Humans dubbed the thing Shiva, without really knowing what it was. We now know that it is the Battalion. It would take some seriously fancy footwork to explain Shiva being a separate race somehow.
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Originally Posted by Crazy1van
Weren't the Shivan meteors originally sent to Earth by a destroyer of worlds called galact... er, Shiva, by Earthlings? I haven't seen anything directly connecting Shiva to the Battalion / Coming Storm, so for the moment Shiva ought to be considered at least potentially a seperate space race.
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There's also nothing in that back history that contradicts that Shivans are used by the Battalion to scout worlds. The Arcosian planet is probably a Battalion colony now, the Shivans having served their purpose there.
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Originally Posted by Crazy1van
I have done this. I have also read the Background from the City of Villains official website:
While newer content appears to retcon this background, the Arcosians and Shiva have never been specifically designated as no longer in-continuity, to my knowledge. |
Essentially, the Void Hunters are created by altering a number of Nictus fragments and implanting them into a willing host. It's similar to how Galaxies are created except the fragments the Galaxies use are unaltered. It's noted that Requiem purposely picks men that are loyal to him (Former 5th Column members, mostly) for the program so that, if he needs to, he'll have them on his side.
Anyway, great overview of the various alien races in City of Heroes!
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