Forum:Puny Earthlings

Just as the title says, that's how humanity is seen in the Milky Way. But lately, there's been talk of making them more important. This forum is for clarifying the status of humanity to make sure everyone is on the same page.

Original reasoning
The way humanity is treated is a remnant from our time as Spore Fan Fiction. Their fate was mainly decided based on what Suppy and I wrote down. In the original incarnation, humans were long dead and the stories were set into an unspecified time into the future. When Suppy wrote a story where the EIT invaded Earth, we eventually did some math to figure out what the present date would be, coming up with 2142 AD as the final result. We then wrote off that humans were an endangered species that evacuated when we needed a reason to explain why Earth was abandoned. Ultimately, no one had access to humans, because they never had time to build a noteworthy empire.

Since that time, the demand to use humans has increased and we had to make some adjustments to allow more leeway. With these new adjustments, they are now large enough to form at least several small factions.

Using humanity
Should we decide to use them more, we should take precautions to make sure that they are a fresh take on it. We should steer clear of making humans the Mary Sue of civilizations, or making Earth the center of all galactic government. If anything, we should treat them like any other alien species.

Lastly, humans should be treated as a "public" creation similar to the Kklxin, Ghorax and the Harbingers are.

The general idea
Humans will emerge from being a background race to establishing their own factions during the events of Chaos Crisis Phase II, when the Galactic Senate begins to fall apart. Seeing an opportunity to expand, some entrepreneurs seek to take what was once part of fallen civilizations such as the FMASN.

Blogs

 * User_blog:IceBite/After_the_Chaos_Crisis - Mention of human dominant factions