Race Name: The Etherions

Gameplay:

Psionic Shields: All of their ships have a 25-50% chance to Block incoming physical weapons (kinetic and missiles)increased weakness to Lasers.

Ethereal Spies: Spies cannot be killed in action, when discovered they turn Etherial and escape, but they cannot be used for N-turns because they need to recover from the transition

Ethereal Diplomats: Once a certain intrigue level is reached through espionage. The race can influence the diplomatic actions of other races, (brokering peace between two races at war, gaining the research items being traded if you haven't already researched them, Forcing a war between two peaceful races (should require a extremely high intrigue level), pretty much the ability to have a hand in all diplomatic actions)

Unique Structure: Dimensional Shifter(name open for suggestions): Allows a system/colony to temporalily Phase out of this dimension For N~turns, During this Time FIDS production is disabled, after the effect has ended can not be activated for N~turns due the device needing to be recharged.

weapon weaknesses: all weapons suffer from a 50% drop in attack power

Defenses: 25-40% increases in defensive capabilities

Population: 75% slower growth rate but 100% extra population capacity

Economy: reduced economic power, some small bonuses from espionage

Culture: same as economy

Espionage: 10-25% better chances for spies

Diplomacy: 10-25% increase in diplomatic value( your stuff is worth more

Description:

Having shed their physical bodies thousands of years ago and retreated to another dimension, the Etherions have had little need to leave their won space. But the recent wars between the younger races has caused disruptions in their dimensional space, as a result the High council has decided to return a small portion of their population to the known universe. Having noticed the inconvenience of ethereal bodies, Using there Prowess in Psionic abilities they have constructed corporeal bodies out of the very atoms themselves.

genobeesrage wrote:

okay i have altered the Lore a bit and changed one of the traits. can you link me where it says they have concerns about ethereal races

... I literally did exactly that... "Here" is a clickable link in previous post.  

carolean7 wrote:

Note, some concern of the devs about the lore of "etherial" factions was brought up here. May be worth checking out... Maybe you can keep the theme but alter the lore a bit?