@ Puck:
Yes, you have a point there - in a Star Wars-like space opera I would pro-
bably prefer the Trogod to one of those races who look completely different
from humans, but act and talk like the people next door.
If you think of space opera, it should not be too difficult to adapt the Tro-
god. In the end you would only have to replace their magic (they could
still believe that it works, so it could become their religion ?) with techno-
logy and "modernize" their culture, I think.
@ soltakss:
The idea of the Seeder races ... it would be a possibility, but I have to ad-
mit that I do not like it. Our DNA and our entire biochemistry are closely lin-
ked to all the other parts of our planet's biosphere. The Seeding could only
work if the Seeders would seed entire biospheres, because otherwise the
"humans" on other worlds could not even eat native plants and animals, be-
cause a different biochemistry would either prevent them from deriving nou-
rishment from them, or would kill them off immediately. And if the Seeders
would indeed seed entire biospheres, all the inhabited worlds would look mo-
re or less the same ...
However, I am one of those "Hard SF" guys (at least most of the time) and
therefore have a sad tendency to spoil space opera fun - you may just as
well ignore my "grunts" in such cases.
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