Which race do you like the most?

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Stellaris allows us to choose one of the 6 "phenotypes", or types of races. Those are:
Avian - birdlike races.
Fungoid - races of fungus.
Mammalian - mammals. Also, humans are part of them.
Reptilian - reptiloid races.
Molluscoid - mollusc races.
Insectoid - the one we haven't been shown yet, bugs/insects

So, which race do you prefer the most? I personally, like fungoid, for their unique structure and shape. Insectoid are as well sound quite fun to play.
 
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Molluscoid to be specific, that way I can say I'm the descendant of the Great Old Ones and spread their righteousness across the sector.
 
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I feel like the first species I make will either be fungoid or molluscoid in nature, though I'm leaning toward a fungoid type because of how different they should be/Mycon nostalgia from Star Control 2.
 
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I hope the fungoids apparent arachnid faces aren't just a coincidence. I want to decimate the insectoids with my army of fungal spiders.

Failing that, molluscoids.
 
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Now you made me wanting a crystalline species.

Yes! I'm hoping that we'll see something like that in future phenotypes, all will bow before the superior intellect of the crystalline philosophers. I'd also be a big fan of some exotic aquatic types so I can spread the light of the Enkindlers as a Hanar lookalike.
 
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What about machine and other manufactured factions? Robots, clones, AIs? What of guys who take up a form of a mist, a stone, a lake or a bush or whatever. How about a faction where citizens can have any form they want to so it's a chaos of different forms rather than one specific form. Be creative, Paradox. :p
 
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Fungoid sounds very cool and interesting.
 
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My first choice will be plain old humans. I really look forward to let my human empire fight those pesky insectoids.
However, I'm also intrigued by avians.

I just hope, that not all the races will be humanoid/bipedal. There are great examples of more "alien" species to be found in many science fiction books.
 
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I love aquatic invertebrates. I remember a scientist discovering an octopus who crawled outside its lab vat at night just for the pleasure of murdering the fishes in the other vats. They should dominate this galaxy, I say.
 

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Glorious Human master species. To conquer all/most of the aliens. Genocide may or may not be included.

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