They don't give much information, but here's the way I generally take it.Jezebel Jinx wrote:Tried to figure this out but I'm getting confused.
How many "species" of aliens were mentioned being on Antar?
Is it the Antarians, Shapeshifters, and Skins? Or were Antarians just a general classification and the Shapeshifters and Skins were the more specific?
As you can see I'm very confused on the classification of aliens on Antar. If someone could help me I'd be so grateful. Thanks.
'Skin' is not a species so much as a contextual description... like 'person wearing a spacesuit' or 'man in a red hat.' It's the husks that made them skins, not the real alien people living inside. We don't know how many different species could wear husks and become Skins, but it appears that most of them were native Antarians of one sort or another.
Shapeshifters like Nasedo and Kal seem to be another kind of life form, especially since they can survive on earth without interference, which the Antarians apparently cannot. Given what we find out about them in 'Control', it seems just possible that shapeshifters were genetically engineered by the Antarians as servants, which might mean that they can't reproduce their own kind and don't count as a species that way. But that's heavily speculative.
Not sure if the same species live on all five planets from the Summit, but they seem to understand each other well enough that that's possible - that Antar sent out colony ships a long time ago and they found four other planets to live on, say. Or they could be intended to be all natives of their own worlds.
And then, there's Whittaker's remark to Isabel that 'your kind doesn't rule any longer' or something like that, which seemed to suggest that there were racial differences between the royal four and kivar, and not just political issues.
Basically, make it up yourself and have fun. It's hard to contradict canon here because it says so little.
