u/SacredDirt

By the time even the quickest speed-runner ascends to space stage, the Galaxy is already populated with Maxis Empires of varying personalities. I posit that the existence of Maxis creations is from a pre-existing "playthrough" of life evolving in the Galaxy where many of those species evolved, and those that made it to space spread their diaspora before eventually collapsing into divergent, unrecognizable, offspring. Based on the Species that reach the point of evolving into space empires, vs. the species that made it to either Civilization or tribal stage, I believe it possible to speculate as to the winners and losers of these precursors evolutionary arms-race. The h/o/c (Herbivore, Omnivore, Carnivore) ratio of Maxis Starter Creatures is 35/6/23. Meanwhile, the ratio of Tribes is 12/12/18, Nations have an ratio of 14/8/18, Space Empires have an hoc of 3/1/9, and cells have a total hoc ratio that isn't really relevant to this discussion.

The Original 13:

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First up, Plushio the 3rd

Ploob > Peedl > Splonk > ploogal > ploogal > Plushio the 3rd

Since all forms have a beak, this evolutionary line clearly went herbivore in cell stage.

However, while early creature forms have high socials skills, this is eventually traded for violence until the Ploogal developed into the weakest Rogue candidate, so it's difficult to say this is a hard carnivore, but appears more like industrious behavior for creature stage.

The Tribal stage version sports mostly social and gathering gear, so this also seems like a green stage.

Finally, the Civilization stage, where despite a current lack of evidence, I'm going to have to go with a gut instinct that despite beginning as a religious nation, that the Plushio primarily spread through economics, or at least that they had economic cities as well as religious cities. So it could either be an economic or spiritual victory over the planet.

In total, that's 2 points for blue and 2 points for green, resulting in a diplomat empire.

[g-b-g-b]

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Bingfish

Konk > Proobix > Koob > Krug > Rogarti (link) > Imino > Shabbol > Bingfish

Lucky enough to climb to the top of the billion year old corpse-pile through a mix of aggression and luck but not lucky enough to become the Gnosh, more data is required to speculate as to their evolutionary History. However, what is known, is that they were carnivores with a friend/foe score of 6/5, and wear military gear in tribal and space.

In total, that's red-blue-red-red = Warrior

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Dragoozi

Gorble > Toncers > Emperor Saurus > Dragone > dragoob > Dragoozi

Description; Aggressive Carnivores with well rounded tribal and civilization gear.

Assesment; Probably guilty of crimes against sapience. I don't know why, they just seem like evil sniveling bastards. They look like they rub their hands together and go "Nyeeheehee-heehee" while plotting evil shit. They couldn't look more blatantly evil if you gave them big mustaches to twirl.

[r-r-b-b] Scientist

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Gooplet

Octilon > Noogie > Pomple > Alderbrook > Gooplet

Look into those soulless eyes and ask me if this thing fears Spode. Clear carnivores despite their high level charm, their armor is pure violence in the tribal stage, and mostly defensive with a religious streak in civil. The Gooplet use their innocent appearance and technology to get the jump on unsuspecting victims. Their sadistic and wanton destruction eventually turned whatever home world they evolved on into an irradiated inferno that required a gasmask and full-body PPE suit to survive on by the time they took to the stars. The Gooplet don't believe in Spode, they believe that they ARE Spode.

"The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife." -R.o.A. #48

[r-g-r-g] Zealot

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Gnosh

Konk > Proobix > Koob > Krug > Kronaak > Konoc > Gnosh

The Gnosh are what Bingfish thinks it is and troggle wishes it was. A successful killer and predator from the cradle to the grave, and the baddest mother-fuckers in the Galaxy. Not only does the Empire boast the highest natural potential for violence of any Empire species, but their ancestors scored the three-way tie for first place for the highest foe score of all time during their phase as a Rogue candidate.

Their "I Have A Bigger Gun"-Card never gets declined, even when buying said Bigger Guns, because all but the most OP of captains tools are useless when these juggernauts are staring you down. Clearly the people were either very spiteful, or perhaps remorseful, of their ultra-violent past, if they had a hand in the fate of the more successful of their ancestral rivals, The Brish, who were genetically engineered into leaf chewing cowards.

Don't panic if you see them. They can smell fear and it makes them hungry.

[r-r-r-r] Warrior

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Leafel

Jergah > Skrydor > Brol > Mistuvliss > Leafel

The Leafel are cowards and hypocrits who act like they're Shamans, and constantly talk about how great veganism is, but the truth is they're actually carnivorous Traders who buy their shaman paraphernalia online and pretend to be penniless hippies whenever a more violent empire tries to extort money out of them.

The unfortunate products of a harsh upbringing, sometimes when you forge a species in fire you get Steel, sometimes you get slag. The only reason this species evolved social parts was in order to trick other races into fighting their battle for them. Once the jig was up, the only social parts they kept were the ones that help them either hide before developing tools to better kiss-ass to their betters.

They're barely tolerated by the rest of the Galactic Community and serve as the weaselly bitch-boys of whatever bully they think will distract the rest of the Galaxy from their interstellar pollution, and they've been like this since they first crawled out of the primordial ooze.

The only reason outside of pity why anyone even does business with them is because most races would rather deal with discrete cowards who pretend to be shamans rather than try to do business with blatantly aggressive warriors who would rather just rob them instead.

[r-b-b-b] "Shaman"

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Hoggiraptor

Angel Pod > Ferpu (link) > Tovine (link) > Dinoraptisaurus (link) > Hoggiraptor

A creature that learned the hard way to stay in it's lane. The Hoggiraptor, despite starting as a Herbivore, develops exclusively violent parts during it's evolution to sapience, only to quickly revert back to its more peaceful nature once it becomes intelligent.

Perhaps the victim of a more viscous environment, is is essentially the Inverse of the Troggle. The Hoggiraptor tries to escape its pigeon-hole earlier in its evolution, but is unable to do so. Eventually it embraces its position not only within the natural order, but as it's guardian as well, before ascending to the stars.

[g-r-g-g] shaman

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Kirgle

Flirgle > Tym Flee > Milail > Horatio > Tweety > Wobble D Wobble > Maj > Mughie(link) > Kirgle

"What a friendly species. Just straight up vibes and Zen." -Basically Everyone

Imagine being so peaceful and pacifist that you abandon your color alignment in civ stage just because the blue alignment is now more peaceful. There is not a malicious bone in the entire species, but they still managed to reach space-stage the same way a Capybara survives in the Amazon. Despite starting as Shamans in Space stage, they demonstrate a willingness to use technology that just makes them 10x more pleasant at diplomatic meetings than the other members of their hippie commune philosophy. These people are vegans, and they're not even preachy about it. 10/10 best Empire don't @ me.

[g-g-g-b] shaman quickly converted to diplomat once in space

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Poppero

Haroo > Nog > Popper > Poppero

Y'all know the drill at this point, carnivores with social parts and social armor, ending with economic fashion once "civilized".

[r-g-g-b] Ecologist

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Stomachio

Sketti > Spikelor > Neckless (link) > Sarbagio (link) > Stomachio

"To explore strange new restaurants. To deep-fry new foods and new appetizers. To boldly break bread where no Stomachio has gone before!"- 5-year Mission statement.

Despite crawling out of the ooze as carnivores, the Stomachio were quick to discover and embrace the ideals of friendship, team-work, and all-you-can-eat BBQ Buffets.

While the Stomachio were able to continue this philosophy into their tribal stage. Generations of peace had made the rest of the world mistake them for easy targets, and they were forced to recon with the complex political realities of running a civilization that would eventually conquer the globe.

Despite this, they have always been able to maintain at least some of their peaceful philosophies, and never skip the bill while fine-dining. Once in Space, it became the sacred duty of the Stomachio to preserve all life, especially those they find delicious.

[r-g-g-b] Ecologist

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Troggle

Froggert > RibbitRob > Froggy > Troglor > Grrrman > Troggle

The Troggel are yet another Warrior build. Their violent streak seems to be broken during the Civilization stage, or at least dressed up with a sense of civility. Either way, it was too late and the Troggle reverted back to their imperial, warlike ways once in space.

[r-r-r-b] Warrior

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Warzoleski

Werkin Sondee > Marlowe > Zinfandel > Vutton > Golgersch > Fairy-izard > Urlunch > Tailumberai > Skyles > Warzoleski

They come from the water, It weren't no easy thing. It's more than nature, it's like their destiny to be greasy slimeballs and hired goons who punk old ladies out of their security checks. Or maybe not, who knows. They just sort of remind me of Jabba the Hut so I imagine them filling a similar role to the Frog Monster Tribe, but in space.

[r-b-r-r] Warrior

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Wub

Bean > Dweebeeble > Doodle > Dooble > Bobble > Wub

A naïve species, they are blissfully unaware of how unlucky they are to have suffered the worst lovecraftian horrors and casual brutalities that exist in this Galaxy. The Wub were the "benefactors" of a spacefaring intelligence, who in exchange for salvation from their grossly irradiated home world, granted them the pitiful mercy of being the only slave-race to keep their limbs rather than be reduced to,... whatever these abominations have become once they become spacefaring.

[b-g-g-?] ????

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STAGNATION

Planets that never unify their world or spread across the stars are not destined to be destroyed. This can be observed in Space stage where City Stage worlds that aren't destroyed never become Space faring empires without the players intervention. They are not required to be destroyed either, by Eco Disasters resulting from man-made climate change among peaceful nations or the fallout of nuclear warfare among military nations. It is possible they simply stagnated until destroyed externally by another species that succeeded in conquering their own world.

Planetary Climate Disaster

Kotomondo

Military Assumed Destruction

EXTINCTION

For every Species that makes it to the Stars, there are in theory, 5 other species that were either assimilated or destroyed during that space-faring empires Tribal stage. In reality however, there are 7, meaning that despite the wide variety of life to develop across several worlds, convergent evolution ensured that every species that became the sole sapience of their world, faced the near same competition with themselves being the unique exception.

Species that Evolved from their Home world and went extinct in Tribal Stage;

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FrogMonster

Lewee > Ballboy > Frog Boy > Treefrog > Hornytoad > Frog Monster

[b-g-g-x] Friendly

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Dudley

Joobel > Larry > One Horned Rat > Nugget > Salamug > Wurbles > Whoopsies > Handwalker > Shemp (link) > Dudley

[g-g-g-x] Friendly

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Nekky

Nookie > Ferpu > Doobery > Monkeydoob > Goulash > Keigh > Frobbit > Pigglevitch > Raboon > Nekky

[g-g-b-x] Industrious

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Grumpo

Krinkut > Meridienze > fishballgirl > chirp chirp > Meestor > Punpun > Momonke > Fanfan > Paco > Pachee > Grumpo

[b-g-b-x] Industrious

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Okabeh

Osgolt, Orco, Chimpo, Ookguh

[b-g-r-x] Aggressive

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Totuuk

Hivehat > Tubbler > Partles > Levy > Rakolam > Lirrozaur > Totuuk

[b-g-r-x] Aggressive

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Mukusa

Leonus > Mukusa

[g-g-r-x] Aggressive

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ARTIFICAL UPLIFTING

The other 42 empire species provided by Maxis have no yet recognizable path to ascension and would require uplifting from preexisting animals via the Monolith, or are completely artificial species that require creation by a spacefaring Empire. (This is when you unlock Create Creature)

Brish32 / Brish12

Qabart / Quabert

Tuunk

Chibby

Demetrius

Flitt

Gibolobs

Goldump

Ixplix

Jarzo

Lilo

Mada

Mosel

Murglbrg

Oscae

Quidee

Quinals

Shaell

Shaggles

Sir Beakenstein

Sir Stabbalot

Turtok

Urglbrgl

Wortgon

Factory Constructs

Less people, and more flesh molded into the shape of people with nothing more than arms, legs, and a mouth. The last one on the list has the maximum singing Omnivore head. (possibly designed as a source of music) and the rest have a simple D'Orca Mouth. The imposters are the cheapest units that can be mass produced, optimized for combat and efficient movement. Is it possible that Mamons is a visitor from another Galaxy?

Ghoulgan

Jigoku

Oobergrowb

Mamons

TL;DR

Space was colonized by; 4 warriors, 1 scientist guilty of war-crimes, a crazy Zealot, 2 real shamans, 1 trader posing as a shaman, 2 fat ecologists, and a diplomatic duck preceding the Bard and Knight philosophies.

Most planets evolved the same microbial cells and early life via panspermia. Despite immense diversity of sentient life during creature stage, intelligent life evolved 6 times via game mechanics and converged on 5 of the same 7 Tribes with 1 exception.

19 cultures failed to leave their solar system despite being that one exception.

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Another new account, another repost. Evolution of the Original 13