Alien Species Generator

The SciFi Ideas Alien Species Generator has been designed to help writers and role-players come up with new ideas for alien races to include in their stories and games. It will automatically create a randomly generated name for an alien species, along with a short description of the species’ physiology and/or society. Simply refresh the page to randomly generate a new alien species.

Alien Species Generator

Species: Jurggane

Home-World: Folia IX

Description: A race of thrifty and violent bovids. They once had an empire that stretched half-way across the galaxy, but their territory is now limited to a handful of star systems. Nevertheless, their voice still carries much weight, and they have political influence over many younger species. They are obsessed with a sport called K'Tabrencus, which takes place in an enormous multi-dimensional maze.

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Tatorfart

Name: J’Saari

Home-World: Tule

Description: A race of time-travelling felines. Sex
is extremely important in their society, and is used as a form of social
ranking.

k then
- Dylan Walsh
  
  The one reason to be a hooker lol
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  Oh my gosh O.o
http://www.zazzle.com/ericthepilot Eric

Species: Xeorn

Home-World: Jurgal

Description: A race of bi-sexual lifeforms. They have a symbiotic relationship with a parasitic life-form, without which they are unable to breed. There are only a small number of these parasites, and they are allocated by a government body. The atmosphere of their planet has become toxic due to centuries of war and pollution. The rich now live inside large bio-domes, safe from the deadly effects of breathing the atmosphere, while the poor are forced to live outside.

sounds like ergo proxy
Sammy

Name: Hummanius

Homeworld: Plututh

Description: Humanlike creatures, and are basically humans except for one thing. They each have a unique superpower.
OtakuTom1992

Species: Globbians

Home-World: Ariana 4

Description: A race of humanoid aliens who have tiny heads and long tongues. Once an individual has left their home-world, they never permitted to return due to fear of contamination. Their claws are strong enough to open a can of peaches. They love canned peaches.

OMG I love canned peaches too
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  Sounds yummy
Nolan

Name:geeromie

Home World:latherus

A race of literal living fruit like creatures they are actually a carnivourus reptile camoflaged as fruit there entire body is a mouth filled with rotating teeth they eat anything and can swallow a human in a matter of seconds they are just looking for food and if left alone they will not harm humans.
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  I think that’s cool~
http://www.zazzle.com/ericthepilot Eric

Species: Tumerizi

Home-World: Tarsiss IX

Description: A race of telekinetic slugs who move about using small wheeled carts propelled by their own minds. For religious reasons, they grind their food into a fine paste They are extremely arrogant and consider most other species to be inferior forms of life. Because of this, they rarely interact with other races, and a social taboo forbids them to speak directly with members of other species.
- http://scifiideas.com/ Mark Ball
  
  The whole slug-on-wheels thing is a fav of mine
  - http://www.zazzle.com/ericthepilot Eric
http://www.zazzle.com/ericthepilot Eric

Species: Eldi

Home-World: Omia VIII

Description: A race of nocturnal insectivores who are governed by a number of tribal councils. They share their homeworld with invisible beings of pure energy, whom they worship as gods. Their culture forbids them to lie, and their gods will often punish them if they do.. Population growth is strictly controlled by their government, and individuals are not allowed to reproduce without government authorization.
- Nathan Hall
  
  Finally a race with gods that actually exist!
KeithS

Species: Mustaflons

Home-World: Naraka

Description: A race of incestuous and terrifying hypochondriacs. The species is divided into two distinct races; those with spots and those with stripes.

— Is it the incest, that they are hypochondriacs, their clashing skin patterns or all three that make the Mustaflons terrifying? Woe is the crew of the Enterprise that encounters them.
Brandon Caruth

Species: Ghigto

Home-World: Tarkia

Description: A race of parasitic worms who are governed by a council of elders. They do not like to involve themselves in the affairs of others, and prefer to remain politically neutral. A state lottery reduces population growth by killing those who win. All adult members of the species are automatically entered. Hunger games much?
- ZuZu Schmitke
  
  More like the Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Spencer Emmons

Species: Visiri

Home-World: Bellateer

Description: A race of fascist hypochondriacs with strong bones and red eyes. Their ships are enormous, with crews of several thousand individuals.

Hypochondriac Nazis. Run, run for your lives!!!!!
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  Dat is crazy, my friend.
Voyager

Species: Stratarians

Homeworld: Stratus

Description: The Stratarians are a humanoid apelike species (somewhat similar to brutes) They live in large clans on separate islands, the largest holding the strongest clan, despite this, they have a stupendously high tech rate, to the point where it is possible to simply mass produce most space ships. They have a strong military standing in their galaxy, fighting a long bloody war for revenge against their once-friends the Drakomodians.
bob

Species: Yeocnar

Home-World: Uzopeon 5

Description: A race of reptiles with binocular vision. They have a highly evolved sense of smell. Their culture is similar to that of ancient Greece. They are ruled by a creature known as ‘K’Taregorf’, which originated in a distant galaxy.
Anthony Reznov Cooke

Name: N’Taiak
Home-World: Velvenir
Description: They are a super-intelligent, telepathic race. They prefer to find a diplomatic solution to every conflict. They are also very capable fighters. They have little in the way of agriculture, instead, preferring for the food to grow wild.
This is the best one I’ve gotten
- Nathan Hall
  
  Sounds like one of the most notable members of the race was Paul. Paul is intelligent and telepathic (also kind of rude to religious people).
Nathan Hall

Name: Novii’Shurik (Novii for short(Means Star Children in their language.)

Homeworld: Tau Sagittarius D (Called Novii’Kretho(Means home of the Star Children)

Description: A race of super intelligent beings that gave themselves powerful telekinetic upgrades (healing, invisibility, thought transfer). They are twice as tall as a human and have black eyes with grey irises and long necks. Nearly 160 years ago, they sent a radio transmission to Earth that became known as “The Wow Signal”. They have also been exploring Earth and some images of them have drip-fed into human pop culture items (lunch boxes, coffee mugs, T-shirts, etc.), though the size of their heads and bodies were messed up in the images.
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  I like it!
Katie

Species: Azgnyar

Home-World: Entirass

Description: A race of humanoid aliens with four eyes. They wear chain mail and use crystalline weapons.

perfect for a creative writing assignment. Thanks!
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  Mine are aslo humanoids!
http://metatronisadouchebag.tumblr.com/ Annie Error

Species: Belletani

Home-World: Qed VII

Description: A race of humanoid aliens with yellow eyes and purple skin. They occasionally eat their own young and express their emotions through the excretion of variously colored bodily fluids.

Well.. they sure sound lovely!
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  How lovely indeed!
anonymous

Chromians
Home World: Chrome

Description: The oldest living race in the universe, they unlocked their full brain capacity and have managed to create technology that grants them immortality and telekinesis.
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  Amazing!!
Jason Kab

Species: Azaorn

Home-World: Grenushania

Description: An asexual species with no visible
genitalia, they reproduce by spawning. They are a peaceful civilization,
dedicated to creative and leisure pursuits, such as art, music, dance
and topiary. They have advanced scientific knowledge and an evolved
sense of morality.
Evan McKay

Groot, is that you?

Species: Teegafane

Home-World: Eden

Description: A race of serene, tree-like organisms. They feel no pain. They evolved in another galaxy.
Elliott Canada

Species: Crazerons

Home-World: Algerion

Description: A race of telepathic pinnipeds. They believe that only money can buy them a place in the afterlife. They are governed by a council of elders which makes important decisions based on a game of chance.

So clearly they are superstitious, and they purchase indulgences. They are semiaquatic marine fin-footed mammals like seals or walruses and telepathetic. Might be a somewhat open society where bad things happening are attributed to poor luck rather than malicious thoughts because thoughts can be heard. Age likely indicates ability, hence their power.
http://www.fanfiction.net ArtiMekai

Name: Emberiians

Home-World: Estheon

Description: A huge planet that is telekinetic and technologically advanced. Though they are always afraid of a invasion they had a entire galactic armada. The whole entire planet is under one planetary rule by a fair royal family. They have special soldiers known only as Guardians the most powerful people in the universe. They look like humans but are stronger and telekinetic.
Anthony Drummond

Species: Tulassathi

Home-World: Taulub

Description: A race of humanoid aliens with trunk-like noses and super-human strength. They reproduce only once in their lives and seek to destroy all life in the universe.

Well, I guess when you look like an elephant and only get to do it once, that would pretty much piss anyone off.
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  Funny XD
- ZuZu Schmitke
  
  Daleks (except not)
TheDubstepNerd 101

Species: Lorkgans

Home-World: K’Gopis IV

Description: A race of predatory plants with bushy mustaches. They live for over two hundred years.
TheDubstepNerd 101

Species: Qeesassgans

Home-World: Impav IV

Description: A race of colour-blind arachnids with bushy mustaches. They consider eating in public to be impolite. Their government believes that all members of society should be equal, and they actively redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. Once an individual has left their home-world, they never permitted to return due to fear of contamination.

How many of these aliens have bushy mushtaches? XD
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  Mine have fatty lumps under their eyes.
TheDubstepNerd 101

Species: Dilgarians

Home-World: Minav IX

Description: A race of slow-moving plants who are governed by a council of scientists. For some strange reason, they find death to be outrageously funny. Several of their most famous comedians have died on stage. They have been at war with a neighbouring species for over a century.

I would think dying scientist plants are funny.

JK.
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  dying scientist plants? Hilarious.
Kevin

Species: Turliak

Home-World: Blackfoot

Description: A race of optimistic molluscs with extraordinary physical strength. They drink a wine fermented from their own droppings. The drink is a powerful intoxicant. While originally used for ceremonial purposes, it has since become a popular recreational drug
so they drink there own crap?
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  Ew two girls and a cup X(
I am Fluffeh

Species: Lizogar

Home-World: Rhelomer VII

Description: A race of nocturnal bovids. For some unknown reason, they find death to be outrageously funny. Perhaps it is a coping mechanism. A social taboo forbids them to speak directly with members of other species.

wonder what if there was just like a mass murder or war, omg since theyre bovids imagin a slaughter house xD hear laughter for miiillles….
jeez thatd be the saddest but most disturbingly funny race
R.J. Hadden

Name: Hasko

Home World: Hashil-Prime

Description:Hasko-technologically behind, this
species is slow, dimwitted and lacks a lot of natural social grace.
Often they are slaves or servants with special purposes. They are
generally hominid in appearance, with silicate hair that never grows
after birth(born with full head of hair, colors run the color
spectrum). Physically, they are slightly denser than humans and
generally have exaggerated figures. Males are typically body builder
build and women are very curvaceous. These traits have been
cultivated by thousands of generations of selective breeding.

Hasko males range in size from 5’6 to
6’6, they typically way between 220 and 500 lbs. Males generally
have shorter life spans(even after you eliminate combat deaths) they
live to 60 or 70 years old, they rarely die of disease as all Hasko
have highly effective immune systems. Males, generally, deteriorate
after they leave military service or their chosen profession.

Female Hasko range in size from 5’ to
6’, they typically way between 130lbs and 170lbs. Females
generally live to 90 or 100 years old. Hasko females are generally
more socially aware than males, but haven’t had the opportunity to
develop a sophisticated society, but would adjust more quickly
socially.

Culturally, Hasko are divided into
“clans” and each clan is run by a married couple, some clans such
as the Hrivo have this couple be heredity based, while others such as
the Hosha are performance based. The male leader, called the Hoo(an
honorary title like, King or Lord) runs the military and the
judiciary. The female leader, called the Hush(like Queen)runs the
domestic markets and is in charge of labor distribution. On their
home planet Hasko fight over resources and are extremely militant and
territorial.
Jokemaster

Name: Sun’Tzu

Home-World: Tzuthael

Description: A race of gray skinned humanoids whose appearance is similar to our own, with the exception of golden glowing eyes and silver hair and very attractive by both sexes of human standards. They live in a utopia and utilize a primitive form of light technology. Their warriors follow a very honorable code, like that of a disciplined samurai or knight. Their weapons are also light based and strong but they have rarely used them for centuries, until they were attacked by a genocidal aquatic galactic empire.
- xXSnaple.dragonzXx
  
  I bet they look nice
Ethan Lastnaim

I love this generator and was wondering if there is a place where I could create a similar one, choosing from multiple options and creating sentences. Thanks!
- http://scifiideas.com/ Mark Ball
  
  All our generators use a simple 3rd party wordpress plugin called Random Text. It displays random items from various lists, but I’ve been a bit clever and added lists within lists within lists.

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