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What theories do you have about the Grox? They're so mysterious and unexplained, they somehow survived with little evolutionary advantage and evolved before you were even sapient. How do you think this happened? I think they were most likely scavengers in creature stage. The Flora in their environment was colored similarly to the Grox's which allowed them to blend in to avoid conflict (It's like sneaking, but less efficient)

They might've also evolved to where they didn't require as much food as most creatures. (eating a large sum of food from a dead corpse, wait 5 days to eat another) They may have also relied on allies (they had little social skills so they probably socialized with the smaller, earlier creatures that just emerged out of the ocean.) for food and protection, and threw them at neighboring nests to evolve faster until they gained sapience 2,000,000,000 years earlier than your species did, and repeated the same strategy (Throwing their tribe members at other tribes repeatedly until they got it right, and conquered them, stealing their tools for later raids.) The Grox was already a superpower on the planet, so it's not hard to assume that they captured all the other cities with ease (due to mass labor in factories providing funds for the government, this also provided them with their signature cybernetic implants, probably originally given to soldiers before becoming toxic and adapting to live on T0 planets)

We don't really know if the Grox we see on the communications device has the same power as another Grox citizen. Remember; That is a higher class of citizen that involves with tele-communications that would most likely have more cybernetic implants then a lower class one. For all we know, whoever rules them (they most likely have a person in charge of every city, similar to a mayor) may have more (expensive) implants on their body then an average class citizen.

The Grox Archetype is weird, but we know that the first card there would be Carnivore for the cell stage. The Grox don't necessarily make sense in any of the Archetype terms, but we can scale their aggressiveness to friendliness scale on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 is entirely xenophobic everybody hates you go die in a hole) and 10 is (friendly give you sporebucks yayayyaya xdd)

Creature Stage, we can infer that the Grox used allies to attack neighboring nests for food and territory (they also may have made use of the raging roar ability to scare off creatures and running away) So judging by this, it would be a 4 on the aggressive to friendly scale. In the creature stage they were aggressive adaptive. Tribal stage, as far as we know, was most likely a 3 on the aggressive scale (occasionally taming a wild animal for more food) and in between of Industrious and Aggressive

Civilization Stage is pretty easy, from their xenophobic attitude and treating of other species it's almost impossible to deny that they were a strong military (they may have formed alliances but they were most likely cut off due to an issue or trade route) so they were most likely a 4 on the aggressive scale, similar to the creature stage.

1 (cell stage creatures don't socialize, they survive, and carnivores are heavy predators), 4, 3, and 4. Predator, Aggressive Adaptive, Industrial Aggressive, Military. Red, red blue, blue red, and red. They're a bit of a mix of some archetype alone. 75% is warrior, 10% scientist (a different form of scientist philosophy which to explore and conquer the galaxy) and 15% Zealot (they believe that their beliefs are the only thing that matter, and the Grox's beliefs are that they are the supreme being of the universe) That's all I have. I'd like to see your theories here. 