

Precursors: Aptly-named Remnants are the robotic remainders of an ancient alien race.Point Build System: You can build your own race in such a manner.Narcissist: Cordrazine are obsessed with beauty, and consider themselves the epitome of it.Possibly played straight with Drayloks (who hail from Drellok). Named After Their Planet: Played straight with Cordrazine, Kulrathi, Opteris and Vulfen.More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Drayloks' true forms.With being able to design your own ships, this can occur. More Dakka: You've a nice variety of guns, ranging from your simple point defense cannon all the way up to your triple barreled BFG.Mechanical Lifeforms: Opteris, race of intelligent, cybernetic insects.Since you design the ships, you could have a ship that lays down massacre after massacre. Macross Missile Massacre: A wide variety including Rocket Launchers, Missile Turrets and Torpedo Tubes.Insectoid Aliens: : Opteris, race of intelligent, cybernetic insects.Unlike those two, however, that appearance isn't their true form, but merely A Form You Are Comfortable With, determined through mind-reading and created via holo-chairs. Humanoid Aliens: Draylok, who have the appearance of Sireen clones, much like Mass Effect'''s asari.Humans Are Diplomats: Averted, along with Humans Are Warriors - if anything, Star Drive's humans are production-oriented race, with bonuses to industry, income and research.Humans Are Average: At least, they have no glaring weaknesses.Hive Mind: The Opteris are linked into one.Green-Skinned Space Babe: Subverted with Drayloks - a combination of mind-reading and holo-chairs help them look like this for humans, but their real form is that of an emaciated lizard-like humanoid.The second game looks to improve on this by adding a tutorial / help feature and a metric ton of tooltips. It's designed to be easy to learn, but it still throws you straight into it without much help. Guide Dang It!: The "tutorial" is pretty much nonexistent, forcing players to learn as they go.


Beast Man: Several races, like the obviously named Vulfen or the bear-like Kulrathi.Beam Spam: There's a large variety of beam weapons, and since you can design your own ships.There are uncolonizable Gas Giants, Barren planets with no atmosphere which you need special domes to colonize, and in the second game: asteroid colonies. For example, Pollops hail from the planet Sporl. A Planet Named Zok: Both averted and played straight.Watch them long enough, however, and the hologram generated by their chair will occasionally slip, revealing something quite different. A Form You Are Comfortable With: Draylok envoy appear to you as the busty purple-skinned humanoids you see on the cover, similar to Sireen or Asari.
