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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Driddle" data-source="post: 1618658" data-attributes="member: 3447">And the point that I clipped your excerpt is part of the problem, Henry. Because you're talking about cultures, not biologically seperate races. As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, cultural differences are to be expected, if not embraced. But the ecology of a single world populated with a dozen-plus sentient species is harder to swallow. Compounding the difficulty is the unspoken basis that those species can't interbreed (without some magic hooey intervention or unique character background). Aside from elves and orcs crossing with humans, you don't see mixed heritages.At least Star Wars gets to spread its species/races over dozens of planets. Each planet has its own legitimate ecology that supports its own version of sentience. Sci-fi in general very rarely expects us to believe more than three sentient species can rise to prominence on any one planet at a time. Fantasy refuses to set the same limit.</blockquote>