Lately I stumbled upon a thread about whether we need Egypt-like race and what should it look like. I thought a bit about it and here's my idea:


LONG-NEEDED EGYPTIANS-IN-SPACE FOR ENDLESS SPACE 2


 Almost each sci-fi or fantasy game has someone Egyptian-looking, and I think ES2 needs one too. One might say that it is too cliche now, but isn't a cliche a cliche because it damn works? We just have to make it unique enough AND recognizable. Vampiric Egyptians, Undead Egyptians or Robo-Egyptians ('crons) won't go, but why not parodic ones?


 The first thing about my EGYPTIANS-IN-SPACE is that they have low tech, like, REALLY low - just enough to send probes, not even piloted ships, but they are very good at scavenging. This comes from their main reason to explore the galaxy - they seek for gods to worship, and they try to copy divine technologies, because gods can't have blasphemous or just bad tech. They also build tombs in systems with major battlesites, as not only the dead, but the tech should also find rest. 


 If EGYPTIANS-IN-SPACE manage to find a race worthy of their worship (read: has more points than they), they claim that race as gods, pledge their loyalty and start copying that race's tech - that means that Spacegyptians can resarch ONLY the tech their masters have researched, but quite fast (each tomb gives a +1% buff to the copying speed, with +1 tech per pop and some influence ) . They also trade with that race more gladly and have better relationship with them. Overall that race becomes Spacegyptians' Overlords (buffs to influence and Dust, maybe some quests). It's basically an alliance with gas into asphalt.


 They also can and must go crusading against their Overlords' enemies with huge movement and military buffs, and they start an XBAWKS HUEG CRUSADE if their Overlords' system is taken, be it peace now or war between 'Lords and the invaders. An XBAWKS HUEG CRUSADE means that not only they get normal crusade buffs, but also a LOT of free ships and manpower. However, they have to declare their targets galaxywide, so that every little foul xeno knows that our Stardust Crusaders Space-Egyptian servants of star gods are going full-out to take that Jerusalem.


 However, shall our Egyptians-in-Endless-Space find a race with more points, with some polytical crysis  they can change their Pantheon, immediately starting a war with the previous Overlords, dragging into it the new ones. On the other side, the Overlords can't throw their servants and vassals away, so they're really stuck with Spacegyptians.


 They are theocratic (eternally only Religious), and their pop gives +2% happyness +3 influence on Desert. talking about the Dust and the Endless, they see the Endless as Over-Overlords, Supergods etc, and they can't choose between the Concrete and the Virtual, and the Dust is a holy thing for them, so they use it only in interracial deals. Their heroes should be good ad getting influence and MAKING REPENT.


 It would be cool to if they were introduced with improved ground combat.


So, here's my idea about Knight-Egyptian-Ufologist-Leech-Fanatics-IN-ENDLESS-SPESS.