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[Melagius]

It would be cool to have some sort of demons from the sky raining down on your fortress after you unearthed/activated an ancient alien/demonic beacon. Kind of like HFS but from the sky.

[truckman1]

I think people against the idea are just against having "xenomorph/H.R. Giger aliens" since they're totally out of place in the DF world (or at least that's what I and that's the vibe I'm getting fromt he opposition posts).
But at the base your just asking for slightly more depth to the current acid/syndrome blood systems and expand species life cycles, and that sounds totally awesome. New creature characteristics such as the ability to change body-shape as it ages, have different biological castes such as drones and queens, or to have a lifecycle which startes with parasitic gestation in a member of another species until the creature is ready to burst out, then devour its former host, then lay its eggs in another life-form, etc., would be cool. This could lead to some serious Fun.

If that stuff is ever put into the game, feel free to mod in the Xenomorphs.

[harborpirate]

At least for my opinion, truckman hit it exactly.

[Gazz]

I don't think people are actually "against aliens".
They are against aliens that are called aliens.

If the description summons a Giger-esque look and they move, breed, and fight like "the" aliens, they suddenly fit the world every bit as well as the other crazy demons and critters that live in it.
They just can't be called "aliens". Call them "demons" or invent another fantasyish term and everything is okay.

[Funk]

i just found an old mod for Aliens
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53070.msg1137949#msg1137949

[Rowanas]

The only thing that we can't do that this needs is the reproduction cycle.

Everything else, from the shell to the blood to the acid spit when angered can be done.

Hell, changing forms can be done with a little bit of creative modding, but the chestburster/facehugger isn't possible yet. High on the list of priorities though.