The alien race responsible for the creation of the starmen had a major issue to resolve. Though they had reached a level of mental and psychic powers beyond anyone's imaginations, their physical strength was the equivalent of a snake: they could squeeze the life out of you, but they couldn't lift a stone even if their very life depended on it. In order to work around this problem, their researchers began to look for a solution. Their researches brought them to field of robotics.
The first starmen were built in their creators' image save for a very obvious muscular buff. Made to be resistant and yet flexible, they were build with a very special alloy that made the metal moldable like clay, but resistant like titanium. Back then, the only trait distinguishing the variants were the color of the alloy used. Very few had seen the first starmen in action. However, records of such a sight had been left behind on Earth somewhere in the previous century. One of those records was then found by James Cameron who inspired him to create the T-1000 for the upcoming sequel of Terminator.
However, as advanced as the starmen' bodies could be, they had no mind and AI was not reliable enough. The alien race had once again hit a snag. After what seemed an eternity, they had finally come with a plan: they picked one of their own whose genetic material was optimal to become a genetic template and they created partial clones using it. The alien race knew how to manipulate cloning to obtain only what they needed. In this very case, all they needed was a fonctional brain. With the process finally stable, clones of the very same brain were mass produced and integrated within each single starmen unit. This resulted into a serving machine not only capable of physical strength, but with the ability to use the race's secret weapon: PSI. You would think that such a messed up idea would never see the light of day from a human's mind. Sadly, it seemed that later on, without any knowledge of the starmen, a movie producer thought of a similar idea for a Star Wars movie...
Of course, cloning is not a fully reliable process. Some of the brains were shown to have a deficient mind. Others, on the other hand, were shown to possess better caracteristics of the original. Nevertheless, none of the cloned brains could go to waste. The inferior ones were mounted into a more basic model of the starmen. Those models were made less resistant since they were likely to get destroyed anyway. However, the superior ones were graced with a better body who could benefit their abilities and allow them to become more resistant to attacks. This created the ranks of the starmen: the simple units, the super units who contained the average brains, the deluxe units, superior units given officer ranks, and the final units, the cream of the metal who will later on become private guards for assigned VIPs of the alien race. As for the brains who were considered beyond hope, they were put inside artificial bodies and shipped across enemy planets to make them pose as politicians. Their creators were hoping that they could ruin those planets for them.
Later on, the alien race discovered something that they had not anticipated. Some of the superior starmen, once destroyed, were able to keep their mind alive. Through sheer will of their cloned brains, they would regain a new physical form which would create the new special units: the Ghosts. During the invasion of Earth in 199X, some people had noticed the effectiveness of the Ghosts. They would later on inspire game designers at Blizzard to create the ghost and dragoon units for StarCraft.
With a robotic army of faithful soldiers at their disposal, the alien race had become a major force within the universe. At that time, they firmly believed that they were now invincible. Working hard to expand the starmen technology, they began working on a new model that required less brain power while keeping their effectiveness. Somewhere near the year 200X, the Juniors were finally in mass production.
The first starmen were built in their creators' image save for a very obvious muscular buff. Made to be resistant and yet flexible, they were build with a very special alloy that made the metal moldable like clay, but resistant like titanium. Back then, the only trait distinguishing the variants were the color of the alloy used. Very few had seen the first starmen in action. However, records of such a sight had been left behind on Earth somewhere in the previous century. One of those records was then found by James Cameron who inspired him to create the T-1000 for the upcoming sequel of Terminator.
However, as advanced as the starmen' bodies could be, they had no mind and AI was not reliable enough. The alien race had once again hit a snag. After what seemed an eternity, they had finally come with a plan: they picked one of their own whose genetic material was optimal to become a genetic template and they created partial clones using it. The alien race knew how to manipulate cloning to obtain only what they needed. In this very case, all they needed was a fonctional brain. With the process finally stable, clones of the very same brain were mass produced and integrated within each single starmen unit. This resulted into a serving machine not only capable of physical strength, but with the ability to use the race's secret weapon: PSI. You would think that such a messed up idea would never see the light of day from a human's mind. Sadly, it seemed that later on, without any knowledge of the starmen, a movie producer thought of a similar idea for a Star Wars movie...
Of course, cloning is not a fully reliable process. Some of the brains were shown to have a deficient mind. Others, on the other hand, were shown to possess better caracteristics of the original. Nevertheless, none of the cloned brains could go to waste. The inferior ones were mounted into a more basic model of the starmen. Those models were made less resistant since they were likely to get destroyed anyway. However, the superior ones were graced with a better body who could benefit their abilities and allow them to become more resistant to attacks. This created the ranks of the starmen: the simple units, the super units who contained the average brains, the deluxe units, superior units given officer ranks, and the final units, the cream of the metal who will later on become private guards for assigned VIPs of the alien race. As for the brains who were considered beyond hope, they were put inside artificial bodies and shipped across enemy planets to make them pose as politicians. Their creators were hoping that they could ruin those planets for them.
Later on, the alien race discovered something that they had not anticipated. Some of the superior starmen, once destroyed, were able to keep their mind alive. Through sheer will of their cloned brains, they would regain a new physical form which would create the new special units: the Ghosts. During the invasion of Earth in 199X, some people had noticed the effectiveness of the Ghosts. They would later on inspire game designers at Blizzard to create the ghost and dragoon units for StarCraft.
With a robotic army of faithful soldiers at their disposal, the alien race had become a major force within the universe. At that time, they firmly believed that they were now invincible. Working hard to expand the starmen technology, they began working on a new model that required less brain power while keeping their effectiveness. Somewhere near the year 200X, the Juniors were finally in mass production.
