Fred
Retired Staff
Yamataians are effectively Geshrins 2.0. They were included in the setting around 2 years back and are very available to yamataian citizens.
Children today are vaccined against diseases and when adults travelabord in other countries, they typically get vaccined against some diseases where they are going as well. From a medical point of view, the Yamataian is pretty much an equivalent to that since it also has disease resistance.
That's just one of the things the Yamataian body has along with some other special features like telepathy/digital minds which can handle data, light hemosynthetic self-healing, slightly enhanced strength, poison/toxin resistance and anti-gravity capabilities.
However, the medical aspect of the disease/poison resistance is very important for civilians. Yamatai is a multi-species starfaring Empire. Different races move back and fro and while the nodal system on a starship is regulated enough to protect from a good deal of biohazards, it actually doesn't work as well in a planet's atmosphere (for example, rain and snow really hamper the PANTHEON's capabilities). Diseases can go around which actually come from other worlds, despite attempts at decontamination. One well meaning Oharan senator could very well bring to Yamatai a really bad fever which could be very dangerous to the populace. Yamatai medicine might be good, but it might also not be fast enough if something unexpected would creep up and endanger people.
Then again, the poison resistance can also get handy considering the food some yamataians eat (fugu?) not to meantion toxic resistance should typically include a very handy resistance to indigestion.
You say there is no reason to, Doshii, but it seems quite flagrant to me that just for these two features, Geshrins should take measure to make the switch at the earliest convenience. Yamataians are not quite like humans and hold psyche/memories more dear than their body. Furthermore, historical events such as the 'Elysian Plague' (okay, we know it's is not, but popular opinion calls it that) should be all the incentive a geshrin would need to go to the hospital and get what he needs to keep living healthily.
In fact, why should modern hospitals even keep servicing geshrins when they are set up for Yamataians? It's like being given free anti-virus software to an internet user - there are viruses and spyware out there which will sink their teeth in that person's computer in no time. If he refuses to have the countermeasure and the ability to give himself treatment, it's his own fault that his computer is messing up not too long afterwards. Seriously! About any aspect of human medecine takes a big shift once you become a yamataian - everything from the common cold to broken ribs or a failing heart is dealt with considerably differently (one will have an operation and all that stuff while the other will be examined, given the support needed to make sure he'll have a quick recovery and that's about it).
Yes, Geshrins switching to the Yamataian race is pretty damn necessary for a citizen. If the player wants to play a geshrin whom either doesn't care about yamataian citizenship and the medical aid that comes with it (like, say, Nairan), that's the player's business... but new geshrin characters should not be made since Yamatai is currently most commonly populated by yamataians (just like the NH-29 nekos now occupy most of the Star Army except for a few reticent ones whom will have to be ordered to switch after all - being a NH-29 now is mandatory).
I'd argue that given the nekovalkyrja advantages, it's even more important for a geshrin to BE a Yamataian on a nekovalkyrja starship. More than one geshrin has expressed some inadequacies as armor pilots because the nekos were so much better. The people training them and accepting them in the army know that. Considering this, I seriously think that serving in the Star Army would require a character to be a yamataian.
What about Nepleslians? I admit it could look like a tough one, but it really isn't. Nepleslians colonists became geshrins... so they can just as much become Yamataians too for the very same reason - heck, it might be even more motivated in their case! Many nepleslian characters were created lately, but the thing is that most nepleslian players should really be in the Star Army of Nepleslia! Tom is there waiting for people to apply to join his plotship and people just keep flocking over to Yamatai. Well, accepting Nepleslians along with several of their traits which nekos and yamataians (often in higher ranking positions anyways) generally don't like such as the redundant cybernetics. I seriously don't see why the Star Army of Yamatai even puts up with it when they had the majority of their NH-17s switch for NH-29 bodies.
I'm getting slightly weary of the roleplaying cultural inconsistancies and the small hypocrisies some characters seem to have, so, I'm bringing this up. In YE 29, Geshrins Yamatai citizens have no business still being geshrins and not Yamataians. This holds especially true for those citizens whom enlist in the army and have to be considered able-bodied individuals to operate aboard starships designed for nekovalkyrjas. Would this also mean that nepleslians might have to switch? Probably. Nepleslians in the SAoY are really considered civilians at the YSE's sufferance because they generally don't want to go home or get there to escape their street wars. They could either really get into commiting to the switch... or stay home.
Children today are vaccined against diseases and when adults travelabord in other countries, they typically get vaccined against some diseases where they are going as well. From a medical point of view, the Yamataian is pretty much an equivalent to that since it also has disease resistance.
That's just one of the things the Yamataian body has along with some other special features like telepathy/digital minds which can handle data, light hemosynthetic self-healing, slightly enhanced strength, poison/toxin resistance and anti-gravity capabilities.
However, the medical aspect of the disease/poison resistance is very important for civilians. Yamatai is a multi-species starfaring Empire. Different races move back and fro and while the nodal system on a starship is regulated enough to protect from a good deal of biohazards, it actually doesn't work as well in a planet's atmosphere (for example, rain and snow really hamper the PANTHEON's capabilities). Diseases can go around which actually come from other worlds, despite attempts at decontamination. One well meaning Oharan senator could very well bring to Yamatai a really bad fever which could be very dangerous to the populace. Yamatai medicine might be good, but it might also not be fast enough if something unexpected would creep up and endanger people.
Then again, the poison resistance can also get handy considering the food some yamataians eat (fugu?) not to meantion toxic resistance should typically include a very handy resistance to indigestion.
You say there is no reason to, Doshii, but it seems quite flagrant to me that just for these two features, Geshrins should take measure to make the switch at the earliest convenience. Yamataians are not quite like humans and hold psyche/memories more dear than their body. Furthermore, historical events such as the 'Elysian Plague' (okay, we know it's is not, but popular opinion calls it that) should be all the incentive a geshrin would need to go to the hospital and get what he needs to keep living healthily.
In fact, why should modern hospitals even keep servicing geshrins when they are set up for Yamataians? It's like being given free anti-virus software to an internet user - there are viruses and spyware out there which will sink their teeth in that person's computer in no time. If he refuses to have the countermeasure and the ability to give himself treatment, it's his own fault that his computer is messing up not too long afterwards. Seriously! About any aspect of human medecine takes a big shift once you become a yamataian - everything from the common cold to broken ribs or a failing heart is dealt with considerably differently (one will have an operation and all that stuff while the other will be examined, given the support needed to make sure he'll have a quick recovery and that's about it).
Yes, Geshrins switching to the Yamataian race is pretty damn necessary for a citizen. If the player wants to play a geshrin whom either doesn't care about yamataian citizenship and the medical aid that comes with it (like, say, Nairan), that's the player's business... but new geshrin characters should not be made since Yamatai is currently most commonly populated by yamataians (just like the NH-29 nekos now occupy most of the Star Army except for a few reticent ones whom will have to be ordered to switch after all - being a NH-29 now is mandatory).
I'd argue that given the nekovalkyrja advantages, it's even more important for a geshrin to BE a Yamataian on a nekovalkyrja starship. More than one geshrin has expressed some inadequacies as armor pilots because the nekos were so much better. The people training them and accepting them in the army know that. Considering this, I seriously think that serving in the Star Army would require a character to be a yamataian.
What about Nepleslians? I admit it could look like a tough one, but it really isn't. Nepleslians colonists became geshrins... so they can just as much become Yamataians too for the very same reason - heck, it might be even more motivated in their case! Many nepleslian characters were created lately, but the thing is that most nepleslian players should really be in the Star Army of Nepleslia! Tom is there waiting for people to apply to join his plotship and people just keep flocking over to Yamatai. Well, accepting Nepleslians along with several of their traits which nekos and yamataians (often in higher ranking positions anyways) generally don't like such as the redundant cybernetics. I seriously don't see why the Star Army of Yamatai even puts up with it when they had the majority of their NH-17s switch for NH-29 bodies.
I'm getting slightly weary of the roleplaying cultural inconsistancies and the small hypocrisies some characters seem to have, so, I'm bringing this up. In YE 29, Geshrins Yamatai citizens have no business still being geshrins and not Yamataians. This holds especially true for those citizens whom enlist in the army and have to be considered able-bodied individuals to operate aboard starships designed for nekovalkyrjas. Would this also mean that nepleslians might have to switch? Probably. Nepleslians in the SAoY are really considered civilians at the YSE's sufferance because they generally don't want to go home or get there to escape their street wars. They could either really get into commiting to the switch... or stay home.
Sometimes, the best way to learn about a culture is to go completely against it. However, future characters, to Fred's relief, will be far less rebellious.
