Which species will you never play as ?

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I dare to remember the silhouette looked distinctivily human.

Placeholders silhouettes. They haven't created the pre-order portraits yet and they are not going to be avalible the 9th may.
 
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Humans.

I never play as humans (with some exceptions of course) because I'm one myself and I find that kind of boring.
I want to have them in my playthroughs though. :p
 

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I will never play the Blorg.

They are repugnant to me.
 
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I will never play as the Blorg.
 

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The only one I will play multiple times with are the Humans. I don't really have a huge beef with any of the xenos, but I will likely only play with each once. I'll probably play with the Fungoids the least.
 

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Anything that isn't crab people, crab people. Tastes like crab, talks like people, crab people, crab people.

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Gosh, now I want to play as them.

Anyway, thanks for the answer, that's very interesting.
 

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I guess I will play the Blorg least, or not at all, and wouldn´t like to find them in the galaxy. They, for me, are these "cute" things from the streaming, and finding them as, I don´t know, a Pacifist Spiritualist Divine Mandate, or a Xenophobic Military Dictatorship, would ruin them for me XD
 

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I'll never play with the Blorg portrait, the Power of Friendship forbids me to.

First run will be with humans, building the Terran Empire still give me much satisfaction. Then will try some arthropoid I guess. Don't like very much avians and mammalians in general. Must say that the majority of the race portraits seems ugly to me.
 

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I'm a little leary of the ones that look like an animal head on a (probably?) humanoid body, but I'm not fanatic about the position. I like either humans, or things that look -really- alien.
I'm also surprised that there are few to no "human variation aliens" that are normally a staple of every sci fi I can think of off hand. One might argue that it's unlikely that blue humans would be found on other worlds, but then, we do have fallen empires that could have done all kinds of shenanigans in the past.
I'll probably play humans the first time around. Even though I am a human, I've never been a human making first contact with hug-loving space-faring fungi, so that could be an interesting twist on being human.
 
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In my time, I expect I will play all of them. However, I expect I will play Humans the least in the long run, spiders, insects and lizards the most.