History Characters / SpaceRangers

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Maloqs are red, Pelengs are green, Humans are blue, Faeyans are violet and Gaalians are yellow.

* BeneficialDisease: Maloq-only disease, Great Malososus, makes the ship slower (due to your body mass increasing dramatically), but compensates for it with huge increase to trading and leadership skills.

* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: They don't respect anyone who isn't involved in war, with special disdain reserved for traders.

** If you're Gaalian with New Mulizon disease (which renders food and medicine you touch toxic), even Pelengs would ban you from trading with those; and these guys are infamously okay with selling drugs and weapons.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: They're not liked by other members of the Coalition, with everyone having at least one reason to dislike them (Maloqs for their cowardice, Humans for their piracy, Faeyans for their espionage, Gaalians for drug trading); Faeyans actually tried to push for kicking them out and even start a war against them, but it went nowhere, as the others found excuses not to go to war: Maloqs are buying stolen tech from them, Humans don't like an idea to start a war, and Gaalians claimed that they're "controlling" Pelengs and wouldn't let them go beyond petty piracy.

* BeneficialDisease: Faeyan-only disease lowers aim and tech skills, but also boosts trading, which can be of some help to trader players who rarely go to frontline.

* SpacePirates: As the name suggests, all their members are pirates. In order to join them, you have to become one, too, renouncing your ranger status (either genuinely, or to become a double agent and help to dismantle them from within). Even the military rank gets replaced with new, pirate one, which puts less value on fighting Dominators, and more on selling contraband, robbing, killing civilian and military ships, destroying the bases, etc, in other words, acting like a pirate who wants to spread chaos and who the galaxy who's boss.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: All three can be neutralized peacefully, with two -- without even fighting them.

* RedIsViolent: Blazeroids are marked with red colour, and, out of all Dominators, they're the only faction which directly states that yes, they're planning to exterminate all sapient life in the galaxy. They're also the group most reliant on brute force.

* Zerg Rush: The pirate clan lacks access to the Coalition's flagships and rangers, or the larger ships and bertors of the Dominators, [[DirtyCoward and their pilots are more cowardly than either]]. However, as every ship of theirs is a combat one, they often overwhelm the Coalition via sheer numbers.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: They readily blow up not just military bases, but also business centres, rangers' centres and even science stations. But not even pirates would touch the medical stations.

* BeneficialDisease: Maloq-only disease makes the ship slower (due to your body mass increasing dramatically), but compensates for it with huge increase to trading and leadership skills.

* DumbMuscle: They are physically strong, but are the least developed Coalition race. The game readily mocks it at every opportunity.

* EveryoneHasStandards: While Pelengs are generally fine with piracy (as is, extorting and robbing people), even they would get angry if you actually ''kill'' someone.
* FragileSpeedster: Warrior start gives you tier-3 engine right from the start, but very small and fragile ship.

* WalkingTechBane: Unique Peleng-only mental disorder, Sad Pelenosha, gives you whopping -10 to tech skill, potentially dropping it into negative and massively increasing the rate at which your equipment breaks, to the point that, before the patch, it was possible to break half your ship within one battle. It also drastically weakens your weapons. It's speculated in-universe that this disorder being so common can have something to do with Pelengs' quirkiness.

* BeneficialDisease: Faeyan-only disease lowers aim and tech skills, but also boosts trading.

* BeneficialDisease: Unique Gaalian-only disease ([[GameplayAndStoryIntegration tied to their unique biology]]) makes trading with food and medicaments count as contraband (even on Peleng planets; doesn't affect stations, however), due you essentially contaminating them with toxins... but also boosts your aim and manoeuvring skills, often making it a blessing (especially if you rarely trade anyway).

* WeCanRuleTogether: After learning about Terron's goal, it's possible to join in. This leads to a NonStandardGameOver(with several randomly-chosen variants).

* ForScience: They don't destroy the Coalition ships - they're merely disassembling them for studying. It's not Keller's fault that they cannot reassemble back!

* PurelyAestheticGender: In Space Rangers 2, you can choose a female face for your ranger, but it doesn't affect anything in the game - you're still treated as a male.

* ForeignQueasine: One of the text quests involves a cooking contest. Quite a bit of "exotic ingredients" can be expected (Beef steak, still bloody and covered with ash, for the Maloq; Seafood decorated with live worms for Peleng, etc).

* GlobalCurrency: The Galactic Credit is the human currency, but they've managed to convince all other races to use it as well.%%Averted in some text quests.%%Averted how?
* HumanoidAliens: All races except humans.

* PlanetOfHats: All five sentient races are quite widespread across the galaxy, so you'll encounter many planets with the same hat. The Maloqs' hat is being the [[ProudWarriorRace tough and warmongering]], Gaalians are [[SpaceElves wise and patient]], Faeyans are [[ProudScholarRace awesome scientists]], and Pelengs are the [[TokenEvilTeammate slimy spies, villains and backstabbers]]. Humans are an average race in both attitudes and technology, while apparently being [[ProudMerchantRace superior businessmen]] (After all, the galactic currency is the human-originated "Galactic Credit"). Subverted in text quests where you may encounter smart Maloqs and heroic Pelengs.
* UniversalUniverseTime: One of the most notable human successes was to establish this (the other was the Galactic Credit).

* DumbMuscle: They are physically strong, but are the least developed Coalition race.

*** Maloqs despises luxury (excluding their stools); as results, luxury is both cheap (only outsiders buys it) and illegal (excluding traditionally rich monarchic planets).

** Maloqs specialises in brute strength and compensates the lack of tech (speed, subtlety, etc) with sheer size and resilience. This applies to their ships, too: Maloq ships are typically bigger, which directly contributes to more hitpoints and carrying capacity, but reduces their speed. It's also common for them to have extra weapon slot unlocked.
* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: They don't respect anyone who isn't involved in war.

* ProudWarriorRace: Trading or killing pirates might end up with you being very unpopular with Maloqs - they do not appreciate activities that don't involve war, and they think of piracy as an honorable career. The Maloqs' way of greeting is to punch the other person in the face. Maloqs despise any luxury, and ban any trading in luxurious items on their planets. In fact, the only luxury items they allow for themselves are stools.

* ComedicSociopathy: They think space pirates are good role models, don't see anything wrong with selling drugs in schools, and order hits on garbage transports just to piss off Gaalians.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Joint Human-Faeyan research of their culture came to conclusion that objective justice, moral duty or natural honesty are completely alien to their psychology. They also despises other races, [[FantasticRacism thinking them below themselves]].

* SpaceJews: Much of this race is based on Jewish stereotypes (both in their behaviour and the others' opinion on them); they even have Jewish (Yiddish) sounding names.

* HumansAreAverage: Their technology is better than Maloq and Peleng, but worse than Faeyan and Gaalian.

* CondescendingCompassion: They're not very liked by Pelengs: Gaalians looks on younger races as some sort of "younger brothers" whom they need to guide, while Pelengs thinks of themselves as superior.

* MartialPacifist: They don't like fighting, preferring peaceful approach, but they do have their own fleet, and are ready to fight if pushed.

* RousseauWasRight: They believes that any sentient beings (even Pelengs) have potential to become good, they just needs a chance to realise it.

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* AbsoluteXenophobe: Their ultimate goal is to destroy anyone who isn't one of them. When asked how it plans to do that if the galaxy is so huge, Blaer says that it's what makes the mission great: its scale and length.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Blazer is the only Dominator leader who can be spared and reprogrammed to serve the Coalition. Unfortunately, it still destroys its army instead of putting it to use against the other Dominators.

* WeCanRuleTogether: After learning about Terron's goal, it's possible to join in. This leads to a NonStandardGameOver (with several randomly-chosen variants).

* UniversalDriversLicense: Your ability to pilot a spaceship apparently translates to all other vehicles in the text quests, from foncers (future motorcycles, effectively) and automobiles (both antique and contemporary), to submarines and [[JetPack jet packs]]. The first game [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this, however, as you were trained

* BecomingTheMask: Although the Ranger program encourages you to join the Clan in order to destroy it from within, it's extremely easy for you to become more of a menace than the rest of the Clan. [[spoiler:The end of the storyline even allows you to become the Clan's baron, ultimately making it stronger than ever.]]

* ExperiencedProtagonist: Although you're new to being a ranger and a spaceship pilot, various excerpts from the text quests make it obvious that you had quite a life before the game's start, and have a lot of knowledge and experience in all kinds of skills.

* UniversalDriversLicense: Your ability to pilot a spaceship apparently translates to all other vehicles in the text quests, from foncers (future motorcycles, effectively) and automobiles (both antique and contemporary), to submarines and [[JetPack jet packs]].

* ExperiencedProtagonist: Although they're new to being a ranger and a spaceship pilot, various excerpts from the text quests make it obvious that they had quite a life before the game's start, and have a lot of knowledge and experience in all kinds of skills.

* InstantExpert: Many of the text quests have you doing something for the first time in your life (such as managing a ski resort), only receiving a few minutes of instruction, yet you often end up performing better than experts with many years of training, at least if you understand the instructions properly.

* UltimateJobSecurity: Nobody gets kicked out of the Rangers, even if they commit crimes, attack military ships, or betray the Coalition in favor of the Pirate Clan. While joining the Clan (even as an undercover operative) does require you to renounce Coalition rank, it's easy to get reinstated.

* JackOfAllTrades: Besides potentially becoming a great pilot, trader, and leader, the text quests make it clear that you're also good at many physical skills. Many quests also have you engaging in an extremely diverse array of tasks, from editing a video game journal to hacking computers.

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* SuicideAttack: The Klings in Space Rangers HD is the lightest type of dominators, their weapons are very weak, but they are quite dangerous due to ability of ramming enemy ships, exploding themselves and thus inflicting considerable damage.

* PlanetOfHats: All five sentient races are quite widespread across the galaxy, so you'll encounter many planets with the same hat. The Maloqs' hat is being the [[ProudWarriorRace tough and warmongering]], Gaalians are [[EnlightenedMysticRace wise and patient]], Faeyans are [[ProudScholarRace awesome scientists]], and Pelengs are the [[TokenEvilTeammate slimy spies, villains and backstabbers]]. Humans are an average race in both attitudes and technology, while apparently being [[ProudMerchantRace superior businessmen]] (After all, the galactic currency is the human-originated "Galactic Credit"). Subverted in text quests where you may encounter smart Maloqs and heroic Pelengs.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Maloqs' culture and history affects what kinds of goods they buys or have on sell:
** Maloqs despises luxury (excluding their stools); as results, luxury is both cheap (only outsiders buys it) and illegal (excluding traditionally rich monarchic planets).
** Due to their SocialDarwinist values, they never bothered to develop their own medicine; now, they must import medicaments produced by the other races, which makes selling those profitable.
** As may be expected from the race with the cult of strength and war, they readily buys any weapons imported to them.
** As their technologies are underdeveloped, they readily buys tech, and sells cheap minerals (not much use for those, so may as well sell to those who need them).

* AmbiguouslyEvil: On the one hand, they're the race of {{Martial Pacifist}}s who always tries peaceful approach first, seeks the best in everyone (even Pelengs), and prefers to quietly meditate and study. But humans suspects that their philanthropy is actually a disguise for spreading the web of their influence, while their practice of kicking out any dissidents or putting them into "[[WrongfullyCommitted sanatoriums]]", from where they never returns.

** Selling them drugs is even more profitable than to other races (due to their mystics historically using them), but quickly deteriorates relationship with the planet where the deal gets done (drugs are ''never'' legal on their planets, unless they're in state of anarchy).

** Their philosophy seems peaceful, and usually it indeed is... but they considers those Gaalians who don't follow it being "pathologically sick", and either kicks them out of their society, or puts them into "[[WrongfullyCommitted sanatoriums]]" to "cure", which is pointed as being equal to death sentence. And yet, they're the ones who generally pushes for making galaxy better place for everyone (they were the only one who stated non-selfish reasons to keep Pelengs in the Coalition).

* RousseauWasRight: They believes that any sentient beings (even Pelengs) has potential to become good, they just needs a chance to realise it.

** It's known that the practice of [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs using drugs or enlightenment]] was practiced for millions of years before it was outlawed.

** Due to their SocialDarwinist values, they never bothered to develop their own medicine; now, they must import medicament produced by the other races, which makes selling those profitable.

** As their technologies are underdeveloped, they readily buys tech, and sells cheap minerals (not much use for those, so may as well sell tho those who need them).

* SocialDarwinist: They considers weak being unworthy to weak; for the long time, there was tradition to kill too old or disabled, and they never bothered to develop medicine.

* EasySexChange: Pelengs can change their biological sex at will; it's considered being amoral, but it's speculated that real reason is simply them being too lazy to change documents.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: They're not liked by other members of Coalition, with everyone having at least one reason to dislike them (Maloqs for their cowardice, Humans for their piracy, Faeyans for their espionage, Gaalians for drug trading); Faeyans actually tried to push for kicking them out and even start a war agains them, but it went nowhere, as the others found excuses not to go to war: Maloqs buying stolen tech from them, Humans don't like idea to start a war, and Gaalians claimed that they're "controlling" Pelengs and wouldn't let them go beyond petty piracy.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Joint Human-Faeyan research of their culture came to conclusion that objective justice, moral duty or natural honesty are completely alien to their psychology. They also despises other races, thinking them below themselves.
* LizardFolk: They are humanoid amphibians.

** Pelengs are infamous for spying on other Coalition races, stealing and reverse-engineering their tech, which they then produces themselves or sells ot Maloqs. It's pretty much the only way they comes up with new technologies, as they're too lazy and nearsighted to work for the perspective.

* SpaceJews: They even have Jewish (Yiddish) sounding names.

** Save for planets run by dictators, Faeyans always outlaws weapons: they're known {{Martial Pacifist}}.

* MartialPacifist: They don't like weapons and violence, and for a time lacked concept of warfare whatsoever. They only learned how to fight, and created some sort of army after making contact with the other races.

** Their philosophy seems peaceful, and usually it indeed is... but they considers those Gaalians who don't follow it being "pathologically sick", and either kicks them out, or puts them into "sanatoriums" to "cure", which is pointed as being equal to death sentence. And yet, they're the ones who generally pushes for making galaxy better place for everyone (they were the only one who stated non-selfish reasons to keep Pelengs in the Coalition).

* TooGoodToBeTrue: Humans are wary of them, suspecting some ulterior motives behind their seeming peacefulness and philanthropy.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Their ultimate goal is to destroy anyone who isn't one of them. When asked how he plans to do that if the galaxy is so huge, he says that it's what makes the mission great: its scale and length.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: He's the only Dominator leader who can be spared and reprogrammed to serve the Coalition. Unfortunately, he still destroys his army.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: With he usage of special programs, he can be contacted, and, after learning about [[AbsoluteXenophobe his goal]], convinced that he can't truly "defeat everyone" unless he kills himself, too; this makes him proceed to self-destruct, which gives the player a choice to either allow him, or reset him and order to land on the nearby Coalition planet, while destroying the rest of the Blazeroids.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: It's possible to defeat him without fighting by [[HurlItIntoTheSun tricking him into transfomring the sun]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: After learning about his goal, it's possible to join in. This leads to a NonStandardGameOver.

* ForScience: They don't destroy the Coalition ships - he's merely disassembling them for studying. It's not his fault they cannot reassemble back!
* LetsYouAndHimFight: It's possible to get rid of him by sending him to fight Klissans.
* MadScientist: Their way of researching things is to take them apart and see what they are made of. Coalition races can't reassemble themselves after the process? Not his problem!

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Maloqs despises luxury (excluding their stools); as results, luxury is considered a form of contraband on their planets. But they freely sells weaponry.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: They're not liked by other members of Coalition, with everyone having at least one reason to dislike them (Maloqs for their cowardice, Humans for their piracy, Faeyans for their espionage, Gaalians for drug trading); Faeyans actually tried to push for kicking them out, but it went nowhere.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Their respect to pirates manifests in gameplay:
** If you kill a pirate, his native planet would get mad at you, for killing "innocents".
** Whenever they give protection quests (don't let any ship die in a system X for Y days), it includes the pirate ships; any other race allows you to kill pirates at will.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Their planets almost always have alcohol illegal, due to how it affects Faeyans.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Selling them drugs is even more profitable than to other races, but quickly deteriorates relationship with the planet where the deal gets done.
* GoodIsNotNice: They give their share of assassination missions. They tend to mourn their targets though, and treat this sort of mission as very traumatic experience.

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* PlanetOfHats: All five sentient races are quite widespread across the galaxy, so you'll encounter many planets with the same hat. The Maloqs' hat is being the ProudWarriorRace, Gaalians are [[EnlightenedMysticRace wise and patient]], Faeyans are [[ProudScholarRace awesome scientists]], and Pelengs are the [[ChaoticNeutral slimy spies, villains and backstabbers]]. Humans are an average race in both attitudes and technology, while apparently being [[ProudMerchantRace superior businessmen]] (After all, the galactic currency is the human-originated "Galactic Credit"). Subverted in text quests where you may encounter smart Maloqs and heroic Pelengs.

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%%* ProudScholarRace

%%* EnlightenedMysticRace

%%* LivingShip

* AIIsACrapshoot: They have different reasons for war, however.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: The player can choose to do this to one of the 3 main bosses.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Their ultimate goal is to destroy anyone who isn't one of them.

* HurlItIntoTheSun: One of the ways of dealing with Terron is to give him a program of transforming the star. Scientists say that he will probably melt within a year.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Mugged a couple of traders for their cargo and money? Four months in prison! Sold too much drugs at once? Four months in prison! Attacked and destroyed an entire military fleet, leaving a planet defenseless against killer robots? Four months in prison!
** That is, of course, if you manage to reach a planet in order to be arrested at all. Otherwise the system military will simply blast you of the sky.
* ChromosomeCasting: All the Space Rangers are male, and so are all the ship captains and government officials you encounter. Female characters only appear in text adventures, and only in minor roles. Technically the Faeyans are {{Hermaphrodite}}s, but in practice they are all treated as men.
** Space Rangers: A War Apart, however, introduces Special Agents, which are all female (and all human).

* GlobalCurrency[=/=]WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture: The Galactic Credit is the human currency, but they've managed to convince all other races to use it as well. Averted in some text quests.

* LawOfAlienNames: The Maloqs have a lot of R and voiced stops (b, d, g) in their names (and their planet names etc.), Pelengs have a lot of 'ts', 'ch', 'sh' sounds, Faeyans have a lot of l, m, n, f, p and y sounds and Gaalians have a lot of doubled vowels (such as 'Gaaldok', 'Raalito' etc.).

* PlanetOfHats: All five sentient races are quite widespread across the galaxy, so you'll encounter many planets with the same hat. The Maloqs' hat is being the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race]] (see below), Gaalians are [[EnlightenedMysticRace wise and patient]], Faeyans are [[ProudScholarRaceGuy awesome scientists]], and Pelengs are the [[ChaoticNeutral slimy spies, villains and backstabbers]]. Humans are an average race in both attitudes and technology, while apparently being [[ProudMerchantRace superior businessmen]] (After all, the galactic currency is the human-originated "Galactic Credit").
** Subverted in text quests where you may encounter smart Maloqs and heroic Pelengs.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Trading or killing pirates might end up with you being very unpopular with Maloqs - they do not appreciate activities that don't involve war, and they think of piracy as an honorable career. The Maloqs' way of greeting is to punch the other person in the face. Maloqs despise any luxury, and ban any trading in luxurious items on their planets. In fact, the only luxury items they allow for themselves are stools.

* ChaoticNeutral

* HornedHumanoid

* ProudScholarRaceGuy

* EnlightenedMysticRace

* ThirdEye

* LivingShip

* StarfishAliens

* ScaryDogmaticAliens

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* ChromosomeCasting: All the Space Rangers are male, and so are all the ship captains and government officials you encounter. Female characters only appear in text adventures, and only in minor roles. Technically the Faeyans are hermaphrodites, but in practice they are all treated as men.

* OneGenderRace: They are hermaphrodites, although usually treated as male.

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