the look like cute little squishy things with cybernetic enhancements.

I'd say their a bit influenced by the Yuuzhan Vong from Star Wars... Has someone played the Star Wars Warlords Mod for Homeworld 2? If so, there were some playable ships which remind me of those in the pictures...

On second though you definetly got a point there. A working title it is then.

Nightraid wrote:
Perhaps they choose to go by that name because their real name would be unpronounceable by other species. Since they are very much about exploration and contact with other species it would make sense for them to go by a name other species can pronounce without hurting their vocal cords. Then again, it might just be a placeholder name. Either way's fine to me.

Why would a species that has not made first-contact ever adopt a name from the species it will meet at some point in the future? It makes no sense. Especially if you think about the future--you can't assume that English will be the dominant planetary language of the Terran just like how you cannot assume that the Terrans, i.e. United Empire, would go by only ONE language. My bet is that it's a working name. I can't stand the name "Amoeba" it seems like I'm playing with a medical-experiment rather than a mysterious race.

I think they would. Perhaps they communicate by way of bio-electric impulses or chemical signals. Their senses are bound to be very different from most other species and so would their means of communication.