I'm not sure lightly armored is sensible for large Terran ships after all, unless they are constantly landing the main ship on the surface of the planets. For merchant ships and the like that makes sense... the warships it just seems odd. Drop ships, shuttles, and the like it makes sense for. The hangers mean that ship is also naturally larger.
If we take the compartmentalized view of ship design your going to drive other races nuts... half the ship is gone and it hasn't exploded yet. Combined with the gravitically sturdier frames and temperature tolerance differences your going to have a race that doesn't die when it should. Humans consider room temperature what other races take as freezing cold.
The spiders are going to take a weird slant on things. They breath methane and are cold in summer, so they are going to burn real easy unless they are build for a moist environment... which is going to require exotic compartmentalized technology. The first time they see a smoker its going to be like when the pipe seen in 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'. Cold weather creatures that breath fire, toxic fire... on purpose. That is just not right.
Perhaps the reason humans can get along with the spiders so well is that they are so alien in shape. Humans expected aliens to be well 'alien' (in shape.) Your fanatics are mostly rubber forehead alien types. Combined with the nekojin the humans sometimes decide the universe is playing mind games with them. If the fanatics keep using the 'Force' on people and are cutthroat that means the fanboys are going to be insufferable. Hence the Fanatics are constantly dealing with the confusion over why they ended up with the name Sith. Not that that is their official title to the humans, its just that they keep getting called that. It also manages to baffle them that they ended up with nonofficial name from an unbeliever race that isn't an insult to them.
Anyway, the reason I made the nekojin so 'hardcore' is that you gave me a 3-to-1 female to male ratio... of a carnivorous species that is prone to multiple births. This means massive high maintenance population. They need the die off so they aren't a massive plague to the universe. Life expectancy get longer as you live longer... its the first decade of being an adult that causes life expectancy issues. That is why they have so much time devoted to practical survival skills and then end up getting culture later. The human concept of birth control devices that provide effective temporary sterilization never occurred to them... and provide them with a new out. They go into a temporary nonblinding heat after the second puberty (physical, then sexual) that hits right about the same time they leave the grunt stage of their lives. Older warriors get bigger mechs and become less predator from the blood chemical make up changes of second puberty.
The Spiders should regenerate limbs given time. The Fanatics go for intimidating weapon limbs, the nekojin for functionality. The humans went for a combination, cloned limbs and cybernetic limbs are a personal choice on style.
The humans are exporting their cultures by osmosis. The fanatics quickly discover that gathering intelligence on human culture is mind warping. They just have so much random culture... often conflicting. On the other hand humans also do this weird thing where they understand the fanatics view point, but don't agree. That never happened before. Peoples either didn't get it and attacked or assimilated. They have a split over whether or not humans are some bizarre psychological experiment the old ones left behind. Does this mean that they are being tested? Did the gods decide the universe was stagnating and needed an influx of change? Did they get things wrong and the gods are just insane? Do the humans know something useful that they missed ? Humans certainly know a lot of useless information, so much mind scans are strangely hampered. So much that they can't figure out how this happened without purposely trying on the humans part. With most races you get 1-3 world views with humans you can get hundreds and as many world conflicting histories. It doesn't help that some humans assimilate and other don't, even human siblings with the same upbringing clash.
If humans like colder planets this changes our role here. We take over world unsuitable for anyone else world, reducing our need to compete for resources. Can take high gravity better, for spiders antigravity was a blessing they always grow as they age and pre-space they often died from collapsing under their own weight. Only the young go planetside.
Make humans able to eat a vast variety of foods others can't. On diplomatic meetings each race use to have a different buffet table. The humans pick and choose. Humans also aren't consistent. Even mated humans and siblings differ, its to the point some humans eat things that cause digestive issues for the taste.
(edited for spelling/grammar check)
If we take the compartmentalized view of ship design your going to drive other races nuts... half the ship is gone and it hasn't exploded yet. Combined with the gravitically sturdier frames and temperature tolerance differences your going to have a race that doesn't die when it should. Humans consider room temperature what other races take as freezing cold.
The spiders are going to take a weird slant on things. They breath methane and are cold in summer, so they are going to burn real easy unless they are build for a moist environment... which is going to require exotic compartmentalized technology. The first time they see a smoker its going to be like when the pipe seen in 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'. Cold weather creatures that breath fire, toxic fire... on purpose. That is just not right.
Perhaps the reason humans can get along with the spiders so well is that they are so alien in shape. Humans expected aliens to be well 'alien' (in shape.) Your fanatics are mostly rubber forehead alien types. Combined with the nekojin the humans sometimes decide the universe is playing mind games with them. If the fanatics keep using the 'Force' on people and are cutthroat that means the fanboys are going to be insufferable. Hence the Fanatics are constantly dealing with the confusion over why they ended up with the name Sith. Not that that is their official title to the humans, its just that they keep getting called that. It also manages to baffle them that they ended up with nonofficial name from an unbeliever race that isn't an insult to them.
Anyway, the reason I made the nekojin so 'hardcore' is that you gave me a 3-to-1 female to male ratio... of a carnivorous species that is prone to multiple births. This means massive high maintenance population. They need the die off so they aren't a massive plague to the universe. Life expectancy get longer as you live longer... its the first decade of being an adult that causes life expectancy issues. That is why they have so much time devoted to practical survival skills and then end up getting culture later. The human concept of birth control devices that provide effective temporary sterilization never occurred to them... and provide them with a new out. They go into a temporary nonblinding heat after the second puberty (physical, then sexual) that hits right about the same time they leave the grunt stage of their lives. Older warriors get bigger mechs and become less predator from the blood chemical make up changes of second puberty.
The Spiders should regenerate limbs given time. The Fanatics go for intimidating weapon limbs, the nekojin for functionality. The humans went for a combination, cloned limbs and cybernetic limbs are a personal choice on style.
The humans are exporting their cultures by osmosis. The fanatics quickly discover that gathering intelligence on human culture is mind warping. They just have so much random culture... often conflicting. On the other hand humans also do this weird thing where they understand the fanatics view point, but don't agree. That never happened before. Peoples either didn't get it and attacked or assimilated. They have a split over whether or not humans are some bizarre psychological experiment the old ones left behind. Does this mean that they are being tested? Did the gods decide the universe was stagnating and needed an influx of change? Did they get things wrong and the gods are just insane? Do the humans know something useful that they missed ? Humans certainly know a lot of useless information, so much mind scans are strangely hampered. So much that they can't figure out how this happened without purposely trying on the humans part. With most races you get 1-3 world views with humans you can get hundreds and as many world conflicting histories. It doesn't help that some humans assimilate and other don't, even human siblings with the same upbringing clash.
If humans like colder planets this changes our role here. We take over world unsuitable for anyone else world, reducing our need to compete for resources. Can take high gravity better, for spiders antigravity was a blessing they always grow as they age and pre-space they often died from collapsing under their own weight. Only the young go planetside.
Make humans able to eat a vast variety of foods others can't. On diplomatic meetings each race use to have a different buffet table. The humans pick and choose. Humans also aren't consistent. Even mated humans and siblings differ, its to the point some humans eat things that cause digestive issues for the taste.
(edited for spelling/grammar check)