Oh, by the way, will we be sticking to aliens races which are relatively humanoid in morphology, for the sake of simplicity, or are we encouraged to go with wildly unusual [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StarfishAliens]Starfish Alien[/url] designs?

(In other words, should our species look like [url=http://www.webelieveinaliens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/humanoid_alien_440.jpg]this[/url] or [url=http://www.orionsarm.com/im_store/med_toulh.jpg]this[/url], or something in between?)