Immortal implies they never die or regress. A 'vast majority' of Iradae kill themselves by age hundred, and even if they don't, they're just as susceptible to things that cause death as anyone else. That isn't quite the definition of the word. The shape shifting and telepathic part I understand however, but if you'll look at my post, I've since elucidated those aspects of them to be a thing that has to be honed after years of training to be appreciably useful over an extended period and distance of time and space. What I'd like to know is why you're taking it upon yourself to be a minimod when nobody asked for your opinion and why you have to repeatedly comment on my application. What, since your fear mongering tactics aren't working, now you're switching to something entirely different in my CS that everyone else can see too?Pat Boi you made immortal shape shifting telepaths and you're asking what's OP. Think about it for a second.
How're Elves in fantasy settings not OP then? Additionally, isn't the knowledge of the character limited to what the player behind it can think up or take from some other source? Finally, can't this be addressed when it is clearly a problem rather than something that might be a problem in the future? For the latter concern, if you've read my CS this wouldn't be a question you would have to ask, but the self-inflicted suicide of the species around the period of a hundred years is due to a mix of regulatory, traditional, and psychological, reasons. My leader, my character, is one hundred and fifty-seven orbital rotations old, not exactly the oldest one of the Iradae has ever been, but still pretty old by their standards. I don't see how that lends credence to your opinion that the leaders of my empire can have literally infinite experience when logically the most educated and wise Iradae would run a technocratic nation. Since that's the case, it means that my character, the leader of the Iradae, would be the wisest Iradae alive or the most experienced in their field. The Iradae also wouldn't suddenly become immortal and all-knowing just by stopping reproduction. Some people would still die on a daily basis due to chance or accident or war, or, in essence, to anything that is lethal to anyone else. There would still be death, so I don't really get what you're putting out there.
Societal expectations was one of three reasons given why the Iradae commit suicide. The other two are that the government regularly encourages or even facilitates it due to population control concerns, and that by that time, psychologically, the Iradae don't want to live by that point. On average anyway. You would know this if you didn't gloss over everything that doesn't support your pre-existing bias. If it takes years for them to master their skills, that would be somewhere in the region of a twentieth or a tenth (likely more) of their life of an average one hundred years to become accomplished at both shape shifting and telepathy. Then they would also have to spend time doing whatever else is relevant to their occupation, which would cost more time. Those who live longer than that, they're few and far between, but they would largely be in positions of authority rather than doing anything themselves, the likely exceptions being ambassadors, soldiers, traders, spies, ect. Since when were there other alien races? The only mostly ensured one is humanity itself, but currently I'm the only empire that exists. You can't say that by comparison I'm OP if there's nobody to compare to yet. I never said their engines or mechanics or whatever were better than anyone else's. I've actually argued the polar opposite. If they did, I replied to someone else, it wouldn't of mattered because I intended (and intend) for said knowledge to have been lost anyway. Also, even if it was advanced at the time, why couldn't it be said that now, much, much, later, it's obsolete or somehow unfeasible in terms of resources?
Same, I quit, you guys figure this out for yourselves. I thought this could be fun but then people decided to ruin it by taking advantage of my leniency and putting their own spin on things.
