The Holy MMoid Empire Miscellaneous Information

The Origin of the MMoid Concept

    First, just in case you haven't figured it out by now, the MMoid race is based on M&Ms. Yes, the simple melt-in-your-mouth, hard shell candy now has its own place in the history of great galactic civilizations.

Plain	=	Worker		Almond	=	Warrior
Peanut	=	Administrator / Scientist		Crunchy	=	Drone
Peanut Butter	=	Artist / Technician		The Bag	=	Queen

Why?
    Because I could! [OK, OK ... that's not a good reason. Think what would happen if President Clinton had that attitude about nuclear weapons, instead of females.]
    Actually, the idea came about during one of those bull sessions after a hard day of gaming at The Keep. The first Starfire campaign had been announced that weekend, so a number of people who had signed up to play were discussing what races they would create. The discussion quickly eliminated the obvious choices which others had announced, such as; Gorms, Kzinti, humans, etc. We wanted something different and unique. A number of ideas were tossed around. Most of those based on existing creatures (upright dogs, lizards, dinosaurs, etc.) were rejected as too mundane.
    First came someone's suggestion about the Diskettes. These would be flying saucer shaped creatures who flew by violently expelling digestive gasses. No one quite wanted to be associated with that race, so the idea was dropped.
    Soon afterward, it being the middle of the evening, thoughts turned to where to have dinner, and, of course, food. Well, you can see where this is going. A number of mundane ideas were put forward; banana creatures, appleoids, pearites, etc. Then came the obvious; the Potato Head race. Of course that led to carrot, celery, and tree creatures.
    Jason Dawson then declared, based on the racial statistics he had rolled, that his race was a form of intelligent plant. Having evolved in mineral poor soil, these plants learned to hunt slow moving animals (a mobile Venus Flytrap in space). These creatures had low motivation, weren't militaristic, and would be friends with anyone.
    Well, to cut short the description of about three wasted hours; two new races emerged. One was David Farmer's Jelloids. A race of giant blob creatures whose bodies normally took on a horizontal donut shape. They usually have translucent soft body mass, and a few multicolored shapes floating around inside.
    Somewhere during all of this silliness, the MMoids emerged. The idea was simple. Take a plain M&M, give it legs somewhat like an insect, a couple of antennae, and some eyes, and you have a new race. A little more discussion brought out the different MMoid-types based on different types of M&Ms. The egg laying queen-bag now seems obvious. The only problem with the MMoids, was that a number of people wanted to claim them. Well, I got them documented first, so their mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!
    Yea, yea ... that's a lot more than your really wanted to know about the MMoids, but there it is, anyway.

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Updated 17 September 1999.