The Human Aliens as the Good Guys
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2022 1:42 pm
I might not be making any friends with this. But I feel like, so far, we've followed the easy path of having two alien races: one that looks human, with so far cosmetic differences, and one that looks very alien.
We've followed Jardin - a very inexperienced officer - as he is made representative to the Human race by a set of unfortunate circumstances. He starts the story already slightly favoring the Loroi (for understandable, if arguable, reasons), and then being captured by said Loroi. And aside from one disturbing scene, he's generally been treated very well.
Then the current 'Shuttle Arc' happens, greatly humanizing the already human-looking aliens. Now Jardin is being armed by the Loroi, and going to fully participate in a military action with the Loroi. He's pretty much chosen a 'side'. And it was an easy choice, since they looked human and acted with several human characteristics while talking to each other. The Umiak have been shown to be much more alien in many ways, and now are boarding a shuttle (standard military action), being attackers and thus naturally making Jardin even more biased against them.
It's gonna be very hard to side with the Umiak at this point. We've seen too much of the Loroi, have been around them too long, and have connected with their human looks and mannerisms. The alien Umiak stand very little chance of being dislodged out of the 'bad guy' spot, even if later events show they're no worse - or maybe better - than the Loroi as people.
I hope its not the Umiak that destroyed the Bellarmine, at least. They've been set up as 'villains' enough.
We've followed Jardin - a very inexperienced officer - as he is made representative to the Human race by a set of unfortunate circumstances. He starts the story already slightly favoring the Loroi (for understandable, if arguable, reasons), and then being captured by said Loroi. And aside from one disturbing scene, he's generally been treated very well.
Then the current 'Shuttle Arc' happens, greatly humanizing the already human-looking aliens. Now Jardin is being armed by the Loroi, and going to fully participate in a military action with the Loroi. He's pretty much chosen a 'side'. And it was an easy choice, since they looked human and acted with several human characteristics while talking to each other. The Umiak have been shown to be much more alien in many ways, and now are boarding a shuttle (standard military action), being attackers and thus naturally making Jardin even more biased against them.
It's gonna be very hard to side with the Umiak at this point. We've seen too much of the Loroi, have been around them too long, and have connected with their human looks and mannerisms. The alien Umiak stand very little chance of being dislodged out of the 'bad guy' spot, even if later events show they're no worse - or maybe better - than the Loroi as people.
I hope its not the Umiak that destroyed the Bellarmine, at least. They've been set up as 'villains' enough.