Thread:BlueFrackle/@comment-32730094-20200812000537/@comment-1197011-20200814225331

King Kravoka wrote: Parker's recent summary of a related edit suggests that the snowclone "Races of X" should be Stella'd into something that doesn't presume sapience.

I disagree. If we allowed non-sapients, the "Races of X" categories would become indistinguishable from the "X Inhabitants" categories, the latter of which are meant principally (thought perhaps not exclusively) for planets and worlds in general, as opposed to star systems and galaxies.

The key difference here is that a non-sapient species can't be part of an interplanetary community in the societal sense, so, I view the "Races of X" categories as being about political geography, while the "X Inhabitants" categories are simple ecology.