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Uso Tasuki said:At least he isn't disgracing himself by using magic in a sci-fi RP.
What the fuck do you think Nodel is? It's science based magic you dumbass.
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Uso Tasuki said:At least he isn't disgracing himself by using magic in a sci-fi RP.
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Doshii Jun said:Do Uso and Cora always fight this much? Just curious; it's tempting to just write it off as two players who are too different to ever get along.
Tom said:Now, what I think that Wes is trying to do here with the NEW Neko model is tone down the weapon aspect of the neko and give it a bit more of a human feel (which I think is great). He's trying to give them a society, a way of life, etc.
Tom said:And what better way to do that than have male and female neko who can procreate? Doesn't that form the basic societal foundations of every form of human-level intelligent life? Heck, even animals have a limited sense of family. ...
I think taking away that second half of the relationship would be rather sad. Neko families would be such a wonderful thing to see RPed out.
Tom said:Neko cloning Neko out of themselves seems too artificial, too close to machine.
I've actually thought about that! O,oZakalwe said:Make them green so they can be solar powered!
Nope. There are many cases in nature where thoughts can trigger physical reactions (production of stress hormones, example).Now I know they're your creations Wes, but, doesn't this kinda fly in the face of basic biology of multi celluler beings? From this, you're saying an NH-17 can reproduce via mitosis just by thinking about having a child...
They don't use or need sperm. They produce asexually, sort of like Wasmannia auropunctata, the little fire ant (which actually has seperate male and female populations who both clone themselves* Only sterile workers get genes from both parents) but with only females.And really, how can they get pregnent by thinking of having children? Do they have some kinda spermsack somewhere inside their bodies? Are they always "In Heat?" This makes absloutly no sense.
That's the way it works for the NH-17. See: ParthenogenesisThe best scenario I could imagine is her being able to make a clone of herself out of her own genetic material. It'd kind of be the same concept behind being able to regenerate limbs. But then that's kinda lame anyway, because the child would be a copy of the adult.
Nanomachines are cool molecular constuctions.Then again, if I'm to believe Wes, they're made of lots of cool molecules, not nanomachines. I'm lost.
There's no need and it's dangerous.Not as strong . . . because of power armors? If there are not excessive costs associated with producing such strong Nekos, why cut back
Yes, there is...just look at the NH-28 NIWS. It's one direction the neko's development can take. The other is to delegate the tougher stuff like generation of large amounts of energy to power armors, which is where the NH-29 is going.Is there anyway to simply make the Neko tougher by herself, instead of relying on power armor?
Now, what I think that Wes is trying to do here with the NEW Neko model is tone down the weapon aspect of the neko and give it a bit more of a human feel (which I think is great). He's trying to give them a society, a way of life, etc.
Yeah, that's a major part of it.I get the idea of making these Nekos "different." But a lot of these changes seem like things that would prevent a newbie player from abusing the Nekos. This makes sense to me; I just don't know if that's what you have in mind.
Still, nekos could still have familes that were formed by friendships, political affiliation, by relationships through cloning, or could even consider themselves one giant family. Realistically, there's currently no point in adding a male with the current genetic setup. Even if we did want nekos to fertilize one another, wouldn't it be easier just to make nekos have fingers that could fertilize their sisters through masturbation (practiced on either themselves or another neko)?And what better way to do that than have male and female neko who can procreate? Doesn't that form the basic societal foundations of every form of human-level intelligent life? Heck, even animals have a limited sense of family.
I think taking away that second half of the relationship would be rather sad. Neko families would be such a wonderful thing to see RPed out.
Yes. Isn't science fiction's primarily purpose the imagination of how technology will put us in new situations?But doesn't this take Nekos in really uncharted territory?
It's entirely possible, I suppose.And what's to say someone doesn't arise as a leader of these new Neko families and start incredible racial strife between humans, who are inferior anyway?
It wouldn't be adding a feature, it'd be continuing one already in use (Yui's identical daughter, Chiaki, was born like this, for instance). I do see a large growth of neko population, but of course many neko species are limited to the military at the moment.While the self-cloning does have it's ups, at the same time, it can be BADLY abused. A single neko can make a small army all on her own, simply through cloning once, then those two clone, then those four clone, till they keep going on and on. Also, how much strain would this be on the neko? Just a little bit of a bother? Or would it be life-threatening? Or somewhere in the middle. And one other thing, Why add a feature to a race you are trying to humanize, when the feature will only make it closer to a machine?
The point of the NH-29 is to make a neko species that can prosper with zero external support. Even on a medieval type world, these nekos would be just as at home as humans or other natural species and thus they can't be dependant on being made by PNUgen or on hormones.And on to my idea, Why not use common day technology to help out. Introduce Hormones into the race...I guess give them certain hormonal injections, or make a Hormone injection unit built into the NH-29 model, so at times she will become fertile just like a real woman...But thats just my idea of course
Wes said:Chris's increasingly negative and condescending attitude and the posts he made are clear and available for all to see. Banning him was justified and helps the community more than hurting it. Do not discuss the ban further in this thread, since that's off topic and I don't want to see the discussion derailed.