User:Helpful Herbert/Guide to Races

During your time on station you may find yourself face to face (or face to mirror) with the not quite human. Be they aliens, mutated humans, or self aware constructs you're expected to try and coexist on this deathtrap. Learning their quirks can be key to knowing how to keep them amicable in times of peace, and easy to put down in times of strife.

Race Overview

Roundstart Races

On Yogstation, these are the races allowed to be chosen at round start. Because they are freely available, you should expect to deal with them nearly every round.

	Race	Job-Roles	Human for AI	Where to find them	Notes
	Humans	All	Yes	Everywhere	On the station humans enjoy a degree of superiority over other races, everyone you meet in a position of power will generally be a human. By default, the AI will apply the protections of its laws ONLY to humans, though they may extend that protection to other races out of preference provided doing so doesn't harm humans. Should a conflict arise between a human and another race, expect the AI to take the human's side.
	Unathi/Lizardperson	All but Command	No	Lower level work	Second class citizens, lizards are generally relegated to lower level work. Within a department a lizard staff member may enjoy anywhere from almost equal standing to obvious racism and disrespect, depending on their coworkers. They enjoy few advantages beyond their striking appearance. Ashwalkers are a subspecies who live in Lavaland.
	Phytosian/Podperson	All but Command	No	Mostly Hydroponics	Human blood, resurrected through a plant. Phytosian/Podpeople are rare to see, often only making an appearance if the cloner has been destroyed or the power is out for an extended period of time. They thrive in light and can't survive darkness for too long.
	Plasmaman	All but Command	No	Everywhere aside from any command or entertainment department	A recently discovered race that inhabits orbital bodies with high concentrations of Plasma. Plasmamen have a hard time living on oxygen based space stations as they breath pure Plasma as their air supply, thus they wear special environmental suits to protect them. They have almost no advantages mechanics wise, and must rely on their skill and respect to get by.
	Mothpeople	All but Command	No	Near a light bulb or Tesla engine	White-faced insect people with wings and antannae. Be the Mary Sue you were always meant to be with a shitload of color 'themes' to choose from.
	Ethereals	All but Command	No	Robotics or Engineering	Sentient lightbulbs. Be the natural enemy of Shadowlings. Complain you're not bright enough.
	Preternis	All but Command	No	Robotics	Humans augmented by incompetent roboticists. Have more quirks than regular augmented people but suffer greatly from a variety of drawbacks, many of which are able to kill them.
[TODO]	Felinids/Catperson	All	Yes	In the Bar, drinking catsip	Technically not a race but rather a degeneracy-based voluntary genemodification of humans. Loved by some, despised by many, tolerated by Central Command.

Jelly Races

	Race	Job-Roles	Human for AI	Where to find them	Notes
[TODO]	Jellypeople	All but Command	No	Xenobiology	Entirely alien beings that seem to be made entirely out of gel. They have three eyes and a skeleton visible within them.
	Slimepeople	All but Command	No	Xenobiology	Former humans who were converted by mutation toxin. Many scientists working in xenobiology will undergo this mutation willingly to work closer with their slimes, but others may mass produce the toxin and try to push it on others. Their bodies are composed of a toxic slime, which shouldn't be consumed by other races.
	Luminescents	All but Command	No	Xenobiology	One of the variants of the Jelly people, they are known for infusing their bodies with slime cores to unlock special abilities.
	Stargazer	All but Command	No	Xenobiology	Stargazers are the telepathic branch of jellypeople, able to project psychic messages and to link minds with willing (optional) participants.

Spooky Races

	Race	Job-Roles	Human for AI	Where to find them	Notes
	Skeletons	None	No	With wizards, on the station on Halloween	The skeleton within, unleashed! Somehow still alive, a skeleton is just a sack of stark white bones. Clattering spooks, due to their supernatural qualities they're almost always associated with wizards. Skeletons enjoy a wide selection of useful immunities, just don't expect the crew to ever enjoy looking at you ever again.
	Zombies	None	No	On the station on Halloween	Rotted remains of former humans, brought almost all the way back to life. Unlike the zombies you find in movies, these zombies don't crave your brains despite what they might be compelled to say sometimes. It's perfectly possible to coexist with these zombies, though understanding their slurring speech might drive some to wish it wasn't.
	Shadowpeople	None	No	In the darkness	Cursed beings of darkness, shadows that cannot exist for long in the light. They skulk in darkened maintenance corridors or in workplaces with intentionally destroyed lighting. They are not intrinsically evil, but still invoke an understandable level of mistrust in pretty much everyone. They share many of the passive effects with the shadowlings subspecies, but none of their innate spells or abilities. They are far less a threat.
	Vampires	All but command	Yes until discovered	Everywhere except the Chapel
[TODO]	Dullahan	???	No	On halloween	A rather light-headed species.

Other Races

	Race	Job-Roles	Human for AI	Where to find them	Notes
	Flypeople	All but command	No	Near a teleporter. The theatre.	Walking abominations of mishmatched DNA caused by teleporter malfunctions. Careful calibration of the teleporter can assure those that dabble with it don't end up in this sorry state.
	Synths	Same as disguised race	Same as disguised race until revealed	Only if the admins gods spawn them	It is all fun until you notice that your wife has been replaced with a synth. Humanoid robots, disguised as an organic race. When damaged enough, their fake flesh will fall off and has to be repaired with synthflesh. Usually incite lynch-mobs when revealed.
	Androids	All but command	No	Xenobiology	Humanlike robots, distant cousins of synths. A similar result can be achieved by fully augmenting a human.
	Abductors	None - enemy of Nanotransen	No	Abductor ships	Alien beings sent here to probe the station's crew. They cannot speak normally, but instead use a special frequency tuned to their mothership: different abductor teams have separate channels. Abductors created in different ways share a common abductor channel instead, and cannot hear natural abductors. Feared for their intense for for science. They will however try not to harm anyone directly.
File:Iron golem.png	Golems	None - either free or bound servant	No	Lavaland, Xenobiology	Golems exist in all kinds of materials and shapes, all with their unique quirks. They are either constructed on the station or made in Free Golem ships by completing printed golem shells. In general Golems are very slow and very tough.
[TODO]	Eggpeople	???	No	???	Egghead humanoids composed of eggs and stale memes. Will get hunted and bleed out / slaughtered for eggyolk and omlette. Surprisingly eggpeople prefer eating meat.

How to pick a race

To play one of the mentioned races, there are many overlapping options:

• Roundstart races can be selected in the character-settings (where you would specify your haircolor, job-preferences etc.). Some might be restricted though.
• Admins, so consider the in-character praying or the out of character ahelp if you want to request a race. Provided you have a worthy reason of course.
• Mutation toxins change your race and randomise your appearance. Ask xenobiology for some:
  • Stable Mutation Toxin (Human)
  • Mutation Toxin (Slimepeople)
  • Imperfect Mutation Toxin (Jellypeople)
  • Shadow Mutation Toxin (Shadowpeople)
  • Abductor Mutation Toxin
  • Android Mutation Toxin
  • Ash Mutation Toxin
  • Felinid Mutation Toxin
  • Fly Mutation Toxin
  • Golem Mutation Toxin
  • Lizard Mutation Toxin
  • Moth Mutation Toxin
  • Plasma Mutation Toxin
  • Podperson Mutation Toxin
  • Skeleton Mutation Toxin
  • Zombie Mutation Toxin
• Some special effects, including zombification by transmission

Make sure to consult the race-articles for specific information.

Collateral Racism

The world isn't perfect and so isn't Nanotransen. Where there are races, there will be racism. Despise great controversy, Nanotransen considers only Humans to be capable of performing command-related duties, and the AI will only consider those 'human enough' to be worthy of special treatment. This inevitably leads to a systematic discrimination of all alien species. While this might seem inacceptable at first glance, it is a key-parameter for both lore-consistency and race-balancing.

What is inacceptable however is active use of harassing racist slurs, most notably the use of the L-word (Which is the N-word with a changed first letter). Though minor remarks and jokes can be considered harmless in most cases, great care should be taken to not activly harass other players. If the roleplaying-situation requires some sort of an insult, it is often better to opt for a non-race-specific one.

Remember: You and others are here to have fun. Don't be a dick. And if you are going to be a dick, you better be funny.