ICK....I don't like Brown parinid

[narn]

I hate the parinid they are arrogant and their trade ships look like Tomas the tank engine in space with their little smiley face. I also don’t like their light fighter craft because the cockpit is elevated waaay more then it needs to be. But its like the parinid to try to have a kingly "im better then you" seat on their own fighters.

And what’s up with that one parinid that’s all nasty brown with chains all over him. ICK, what is that all about?


I kill them in most of my games.

[DrunkenPirate]

You are indeed an unholy one to not understand the holy three dimensionality.

[Terre]

I hate the parinid they are arrogant and their trade ships look like Tomas the tank engine in space

I've always thought they looked more like Tigger.

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[narn]

Yeah it kinda does but who wants ANY of their ships to have a face?? I feel like I'm in kindergarten whenever I see it. To be fair they do have a couple of cool looking ships. I still don't like their lite fighter though. Any one got a picture of the nasty brown paranid or the ugly kingly fighter they want to share?

[Starfire Commander]

The front of a mercury looks like a face.

[Paranoid66]

I can't help, but blame - this face thing - on the model designers not the races as they never seemed quite right to me although trucks, and cars often have faces - spaceships aren't trucks and cars!

I have to agree looking at the screen shot Tigger it is.

Tiggers may be wonderful things, but hardly appropriate I hate cute in this context!

I agree with jms of B5 fame cute in science fiction (be it cuddly robots or furry bears that go yub yub or whatever) should be spaced! [greatly paraphrased but the intent is I'm sure right]

[BugMeister]

Paranid Prime is a bit harsh, too - all misty and boulders suddenly appearing
I try to travel on autopilot when I'm in Paranid Prime and surrounding space..

it pays to stay on good terms with them, though (just kill pirates in their space to up your rep)
- lots of good trading opportunities later on..

The X3 Manual (v1.4) has this to say:
Despite their many historic disagreements The Paranid are
still allied to the Split and, through their membership of the
Profit Guild, the Teladi. In addition to being members of the
Profit Guild the Paranid allow all other races to trade openly
throughout their sectors of space, however relations between
the Paranid and the Argon are still very strained and trade is
the only contact the two races have with each other.
Even to this day their strange rites and religious beliefs are a
mystery to other races and it is virtually impossible to
befriend or even understand them.
These rites also forbid any member of another race settling
or living on a Paranid colony, not that many ever want to due
to the fact that the Paranid prefer to settle on planets that are
too hot for other races.

- they're a mean bunch, I've been ordered out of their sectors on several occasions..

[beyer_garratt]

Here I was thinking the Split were prickly customers.

Slave labour and corrupt ethics vs. Religious extremism and xenophobia. Hmm.

[Nanook]

Here I was thinking the Split were prickly customers.

Slave labour and corrupt ethics vs. Religious extremism and xenophobia. Hmm.

Or cute and cuddly Boron. Or greedy and avaricious Teladi. Or know-it-all, self-righteous Argon. Space 'em all, I say.

[So says the Terran Overlord]

[H.F._Mudd]

Here I was thinking the Split were prickly customers.

Slave labour and corrupt ethics vs. Religious extremism and xenophobia. Hmm.

I like the Split, they make a mean ship.

I think calling them corrupt is a bit harsh, I prefer to think of them as... morally flexible. Also, they only enslave incompetent pilots and people who don't know when to run...

Yeah, the Split are swell guys, once you get to know them.