As a Welshman...

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Sheep may of gone extinct in those 3k years. Also, it's specifically stated there is NO alien lifeforms in the lore. There's some wacky stuff, but they are originate from earth forward. And, my colonies would be happy to waste gold and silver to genetically modify buffalo just because they can.

[SpaceDrunk]

Muffalo are blue, so in my head-canon I'm going to assume they created real life smurfs at some point and then crossed them with buffalo.

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THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS. They might of, SpaceDrunk.

[Boston]

Muffalo skin is "blue". Their wool is white.

Plenty of real-life animals right now have skin colors that differ from their hair colors, like Polar Bears (black skin, colorless fur). It isn't that outlandish.

I took the "no aliens" clause to mean "there are no INTELLIGENT aliens, like Mass Effect or Star Wars". This makes the most sense. What does not make sense, however, is suggesting that of all the planets of the galaxy, Earth was the only one to develop life.  The statistical probability of such an event is so low as to be literally absurd and laughable.

Oh, and the idea that, for some reason, humanity allowed possibly the second most important domesticated animal species to go extinct is also laughable.  Just throwing that out there.

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I'm pretty sure it's no aliens, period. And, we've only traveled as far in space as we could in 3000 years, no FTL travel, so it's very possible there's no life, and the topic of aliens itself I'm not arguing, because it would just be a silly debate.

[SpaceDrunk]

It actually says no "true" aliens in one of the universe primers, and I asked what was meant by that a while ago but couldn't get a definite answer from the dev. My impression was that it probably meant all the stranger-looking creatures, like boomrats or the new boomalopes are actually engineered from terrestrial stock. This would therefore mean that there are indeed no 'alien aliens' in this setting, though there may be lots of creatures that kinda look 'alien.'

It would be nice to get some confirmation that this is indeed what Tynan intended, or if he's planning on changing it at some point.

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I'm pretty sure it's no 'true' alien, boomrats are indeed genetically modified and were used as weapons,  there's even mention of some kind of space dwarf. So there's no aliens, but there's some pretty wacky creatures that came into existence in those 3000 years.

[Calahan]

As a fellow Welshman I'd say it makes perfect sense that there are no sheep freely roaming around in RimWorld. In fact I'd be aghast at any other state of affairs.

Since by the year 5500, it seems quite obvious to me that the Welsh, and the Welsh alone, will have advanced far beyond the physical and intellectual capacities of all mankind (and any other sentient life forms that might exist), and as such we will have taken our rightful place as rulers of the galaxy. Sheep, being as sacred to the Welsh as cats were to the Egyptians, will naturally be treated like Gods, with every sheep in the galaxy living an idyllic life grazing upon the lush green utopian pastures of Newydd Cymru, while having their every need attended to by a flock of diligent handmaidens. So speaking as a Welshman, I would be truly appalled at the thought of there being even a single sheep to be found on some random backwater planet by the year 5500. Although... it could make for a good event.

As there could be a smuggler/trader who has sheep for sale, but if you buy any then you are instantly attacked by a dozen Gareth Edwards super-cyborgs who have been dispatched to retrieve the sheep and annihilate those who stole them. Whilst at the same time another event triggers that is similar to the Psychic Drone event, but where the drone blasts out Tom Jones songs 24/7, which causes all female colonists to become mind-controlled and start assisting the Gareth Edwards super-cyborgs in their retrieval mission. Although the major downside to this sort of event is that it is completely implausible that anyone would be able to smuggle a sheep out of Newydd Cymru (so this fact would have to be overlooked, which might be asking just too much. Since realism is important, even in fantasy).

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Uh... what he said ^

[Mikhail Reign]

Wait.... Why do people keep saying muffalo are sheep+buffalo? I don't really seen a reason to draw that conclusion. Even mice+buffalo, or anything white+buffalo seems more likely. Buffalo make a wool of sorts, so they didn't get that trait from sheep - is there any other trait that is specific to sheep that I'm missing, that buffalo don't have, but muffalos do?

[cultist]

As a fellow Welshman I'd say it makes perfect sense that there are no sheep freely roaming around in RimWorld. In fact I'd be aghast at any other state of affairs.

Since by the year 5500, it seems quite obvious to me that the Welsh, and the Welsh alone, will have advanced far beyond the physical and intellectual capacities of all mankind (and any other sentient life forms that might exist), and as such we will have taken our rightful place as rulers of the galaxy. Sheep, being as sacred to the Welsh as cats were to the Egyptians, will naturally be treated like Gods, with every sheep in the galaxy living an idyllic life grazing upon the lush green utopian pastures of Newydd Cymru, while having their every need attended to by a flock of diligent handmaidens. So speaking as a Welshman, I would be truly appalled at the thought of there being even a single sheep to be found on some random backwater planet by the year 5500. Although... it could make for a good event.

As there could be a smuggler/trader who has sheep for sale, but if you buy any then you are instantly attacked by a dozen Gareth Edwards super-cyborgs who have been dispatched to retrieve the sheep and annihilate those who stole them. Whilst at the same time another event triggers that is similar to the Psychic Drone event, but where the drone blasts out Tom Jones songs 24/7, which causes all female colonists to become mind-controlled and start assisting the Gareth Edwards super-cyborgs in their retrieval mission. Although the major downside to this sort of event is that it is completely implausible that anyone would be able to smuggle a sheep out of Newydd Cymru (so this fact would have to be overlooked, which might be asking just too much. Since realism is important, even in fantasy).

Please mail that to the BBC and ask them to make a Doctor Who episode about it. I think it would be grand.

[Thane]

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All hail the Sheep!