I'm not sure why you guys keep Coping there will be any Major update about Alien Crew / Named NPCs.
The writing is very clear on the wall, It's now a Human / Human-reskin focused game.
Even if the dev want to do something "Alien Focused" (Which I highly doubt He does), The high spend voters won't let it happen, with the power the dev granted them.
Heck, even a random unnamed Human NPC is high on the list now
We already missed tons of opportunity, such as chip who just become another boring 'human', or Grek, or Garth,
And you definitely won't see "Bradley, or the Penis Alien (I forgot his name), dominating the ship".
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The more I wrote, the more I get upset lol. So much possibility, and none of them would ever happen.