Well, the keyword here is "more civilized", not "as civilized as the other races".
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Why, for the love of The Cultivator, would a Floran PC (who is presumably more civilized than the ones you find in villages) see an empty Apex life support pod and have the same reaction as the other races' PCs, but see a occupied one and think, "Ssoup!"?.Of course, it doesn't explain why you as the player character need an EPP for those worlds even when playing as that race. The six species each evolved and adapted to live on the various worlds they can be found on, so they're perfectly fine: the Hylotl can live underwater (well, they are fish people) and the Avians aren't troubled by high amounts of radiation.But how can Avian village exist on irradiated world or Glitch castle on Volcanic one? They just walk there without even commenting hazard they live in, not seeming to use EPP or any kind of environment shielding (like Hylotl do in their underwater cities). That's pretty logical and good for gameplay. To operate in more dangerous worlds, EPP is required. Only lowest tier worlds, as Lush, Forest or Desert can be visited comfortably without EPP.And if you consider the fact that the player's graduation day also served as a ceremony which a lot of protectors attended, along with the lack of any protector NPCs, you're left wondering if the player(s) and Esther are the last protectors alive. The "Off-Earth Human Census" mentions that the total amount of humans who dwell off Earth (not counting nomads) gives a total of 15,802,433. Rather than expanding outisde Earth, they focused on their homeworld. The various codec entries suggest that humans of starbound did what humans of other franchises didn't.Some, by the looks of them, were abandoned quite recently, some, due to the fact that Astro furniture is really Protectorate furniture, are still inhabited, and some (the Abandoned Protectorate Storage Facility) are in fact secret facilities holding prototype mech blueprints that not even SAIL knows about. In the Starbound 1.3 update, you can find abandoned Protectorate space stations. So how exactly can the destruction of a single planet (even if it's their HQ) destroy an entire organisation of Space Police?.Sorry." "Florans once kill millions of Hylotl? Oops, sorry.")
Hylotl NPCs understandably seem wary at best towards Florans, but Floran NPCs don't seem to hold nearly as much of a grudge toward Hylotls, with a lot of them apparently barely knowing about the conflict in the first place and being apologetic for what they've heard of it (Literal quotes: "Greenfinger told Floran that a Hylotl told greenfinger that Florans kill Hylotl ancestors. The ensuing war was not the result of any particular ill-will on their part. The Hylotl were simply the first race the Floran encountered, and having not yet discovered the concept of other races being as sapient as they are, saw them only as prey. And in response, the stupid fishman makes weird faces and runs off to throw up in a bush. To the Floran, this is both a show of great accomplishment and pride, and a way to honor the beast for being a worthy challenge by making something useful and memorable from its remains.
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For example, a Floran might proudly show off his couch made from the bone, skin and sinews of a great beast, to his new Hylotl friend.