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Strategy games which encourage users to eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate.
Extraterrestrials appear in many video games in a variety of styles. Sometimes they're evil, sometimes they're benevolent, and sometimes they're very similar to humans.
Abductions are events in which people, animals, or things are taken by aliens and UFOs for various purposes including experimentation and other unknown reasons.
One of the original founders of the Citadel Council, the Asari are natural biotics who are among the smartest and most diplomatic species in the galaxy.
A person who travels into space.
A derivative form of Cyberpunk which heavily revolves around biological technology.
Blastronauts are cute astronauts that must be rescued in the Super Mega Space Blaster series of games.
Space Marines chapter featured in Relic Entertainment's Warhammer 40,000 series Dawn of War.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
This shows you how long you have until you start wishing you had gills. When your breath runs out, you may take damage, or you may expire right there, depending on how sadistic the game designers were!
The Jiralhanae are called Brutes by the UNSC. As a result of the expulsion of the elites from the Covenant, they serve as the primary antagonists during the events of Halo 2 and 3.
The Bydo are the alien race that form your enemy in the R-Type series of games.
In the Star Trek Universe, a race of aliens originating on the planet Cardassia Prime. Completely paranoid, both of outsiders and their own people, the Cardassians are a race that has pushed itself to military efficiency.
A corporate conglomeration acts as a legitimate front and source of funds for the shadowy organization known as Cerberus in the Mass Effect universe. In its quest to ensure human supremacy in the universe, Cerberus has conducted kidnappings, genetic tampering and scientific experimentation bordering on torture.
The ultimate enemy and primordial source of all evil. In Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy universe.
The Chozo are a race of bird people that exist in the Metroid universe. The series canon states that members of this race raised Samus Aran to become a strong warrior after she was orphaned.
A Chryssalid is an alien race from the XCOM series of games. It's known for it's ability to "impregnate" it's foes with an egg which will then hatch a new Chryssalid after a few turns.
Chryssalid Zombies are what spawn after a Chryssalid has impregnated someone in a previous turn. They are from the XCOM series of games.
A Boss fight that can only be won by climbing onto the enemy.
The Core-X is what emerges from bosses in Metroid Fusion. When defeated, they provide Samus with suit upgrades.
An advanced zerg flyer in StarCraft II that specializes in anti-air attacking. They use a corruption ability that disables an enemy building from producing anything.
Elites, also known as Sangheili are a Covenant race in the Halo series. During Halo: Combat Evolved and the bulk of Halo 2 they are the primary antagonists. They became semi allied with the humans in Halo 3, and are in a political crisis during Halo 4, some still at war with Humanity.
Grunts are part of the Covenant Army. Due to their sheer number and low standing, they are often used as cannon fodder.
The Covenant Loyalists are a faction of the former Covenant Empire who still believe in the Empire's original goal of activating the Halo rings.
The Covenant Separatists is a group comprised of Elites, Hunters, and Grunts who learned the Truth about halo and have rebelled from the Covenant Empire.
A Cyberdisc is an enemy unit from the XCOM franchise. The seemingly harmless looking Cyberdisc is actually capable of inflicting quite a bit of damage, as well as exploding upon death.
The Cylons are a fictional synthetic race created by humans featured in the Battlestar Galactica television franchise.
The Dark Eldar are a Kindred of the Eldar, an ancient and advanced race of elf-like humanoids. They were introduced to the Dawn of War franchise with the most recent release (besides the pending Dawn of War 2) with Dawn of War: Soulstorm
Decontamination is the process of removing hazardous materials from a person or object. In games, this is usually achieved by lasers, rather than water as in the real world.
The concept of seemingly religious phenomena being explained as the work of alien civilizations.
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