Right, back to the game.
After checking out some of the BLAINS predator study (and other sources such as "Yautja Encyclopedia") I immediately understood that my idea will sound bullcrap, but I decided to nonetheless share it with the world... So here it goes (remember that this represents only my individual fan-fantasy world and is in noway connected to the actual movie franchise):
Yautja have existed for many millions of years and not only as species, but also as "recognized" species in the galaxy.
Over the course of many millions of years Yautja have expanded and now control most of the galaxy. There are still some powerful creatures who are yet to be conquered, but the main Empire to rule the galaxy is that of Yautja. Due to the expansion there is no "homeworld" of the Yautja. Places they call "home" are usually their homeplanets or solar systems. In the same way as all humans (according to the theory of evolution) came from Africa, it is not implied that we all think of Africa as our "home".
After reaching a certain climax in evolution they stopped to evovle, as there was no point to it. Although due to different natural adjustments on different planets, different "types" of Yautja have emerged. Just as among humans there are differences in skin colour that we often interpret as "race". Same thing can be found among Yautha although it is not specifically the skin colour, it may be length, or thickness of skin, etc.
There are 3 main races (and off course a lot mixes and stuff). There is a war between two races (inspiration from RRs` "Predators") who together control about 80% of the Yautjan Empire (I will be referring to it as that because I simply have no better name for their territories) and the third race who controls about 15%-20% of the Empire that states itself neutral. The war has been going on for over a million years. No one really remembers how it all started, but it had something to do with honor and dishonesty.
The front line, consisting of about 5 solar systems in width, stretches through entire galaxy. Everything near the frontline is about the war (I`ll get back to it later).
Behind the frontline, far away from the battles the Yautjan "Kingdoms" (one for each race) consist of "nations" (similar to human term "continents"). For example the Kingdom of the first race consists of about 100 nations. Each nation consists of about 100 - 100 000 solar systems. Nations that are so far away from the "race"-war that they are not effected by it tend time to time start wars amongst each other.
Nations are devided by groups (similar to human term "contries"). A group is in control of 1 - 1000 solar systems. Groups may have fights and economic/technologic/resource conflicts, but groups within the same nation never go out in a full blown war against each other.
Nations are further disintergrated in too planets (similar to human term "city"). Planets are runned by what we (humans) would call "Maffia". Groups and nations are runned by politicians. Planets within the same group come along very fine, the only exceptions could be rare cases of industrial sabotage.
The entire Yautja society consists of four jobs/professions:
-Politicians, that change rules and laws by which nations/groups are runned;
-Soldiers, maintain order within nations/groups or fighting at the frontline of the blood feud;
-Engineers, advancing the technology;
-Teachers, passing on the knowledge, such as science, history and language.
There are no doctors, as Yautja have technology to get read of any disease. There are no craftsman as everything is been build by machines (Yautja did not create AI as they saw it as their doom, only simple-task robots) Nor are there enterpreneurs/businessmen, since Yautja value hard work and do not really understand meaning of "easy money".
"The great serpants" (Xenomorphs) are exotic animals used for hunting sports and manhood rituals. They are also used as terrorist weapons. (Humans attack cities with bombs, Yautja attack cities with thousands of face huggers. Therefore a strict law regarding their breeding prohibits anyone who is not authorized to possess xenomorphs. Violations against this law lead to death punishment.)
That is where you come in. You are a mercenary whos job is literally to found out what has happened to missing ships and convoys that are important. Sometimes it is a xenomorph infestation caused by a rival nation. Sometimes it is much, much worse. Universe is big enough to hold a lot of secrets.
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Well, this is basically my view of the Yautja EU and the idea I have for this game. So, does it sound "Predator-ish"? Or is it just a load of crap?
Also, thanks for taking your time to read all this (if you do), I appreciate.
