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| Re: Stars! colonists . . . |
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| Hyena wrote on Thu, 26 February 2004 22:50 |
Have you ever thought about the colonists in stars? You might assume that they're loosely based off actual human beings, but there are a few weird unexplained bits of their physiologies.
For instance:
- Inner-Strength races reproduce while travelling. Since the freighter's capacity increases every year, it's fair to assume that the new additions are babies. Humans take nine months to be born, so that fits within a year easily. Now, say you popdrop them on an enemy planet. The newborn babies now function as warriors and are equally effective as their older counterparts.
- 1 kT is equal to 100 colonists. That would mean the average colonist weighs about twenty-thousand pounds.
Anyone have anything else weird to add?
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Assuming they are human or a rough equivalent did it occur to you that said colonist would require tools, seeds, initial food supplies, and whatever additional technology and equipment establishing a new colony requires?
If you want to dwell upon that level of detail then I'm sure lots of justifications can be brought up.
Then again, maybe most pop isn't human or human-like at all.
- Kurt
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| Re: Stars! colonists . . . |
Mon, 01 March 2004 19:47 |
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Colonist growth rates resemble raths more than humans. We humans are currently growing at about 2% a year, iirc, and this is more or less the highest growth rate ever for us... rats wouldn't have much difficulty maintaining 20% growth curves if you ask me.
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| Re: Stars! colonists . . . |
Tue, 02 March 2004 14:15 |
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| Hyena wrote on Tue, 02 March 2004 12:16 |
Also, male rats occasionally eat their own young.
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Don't think yourself so special, where do you think the Chronos legend in the Greek myths came from? And, there are still societies where it is considered an appropriate way to acquire the attributes of your enemy/friend.
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| Re: Stars! colonists . . . |
Tue, 02 March 2004 20:51 |
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Rats are also very hardy and adaptable. If they had the technology we humans do, they'd have an easy time with wide habitability ranges.
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| Re: Stars! colonists . . . |
Tue, 02 March 2004 22:40 |
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| Coyote wrote on Tue, 02 March 2004 18:51 |
Rats are also very hardy and adaptable. If they had the technology we humans do, they'd have an easy time with wide habitability ranges.
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Rat as Joat: Rats can be trained to do almost anything.
Rat as IS: Try and remove rats once they've infested an area.
Rat as WM: Think of the phrase, "fighting like a cornered rat".
Rat as AR: Rats are used to living in dark, enclosed spaces.
Rat as SS: Sneaky little bastards by nature.
Rat as SD: Rat turds are evil, evil things!
Rat as IT: Rats seem to pop up in the darndest places, where you wouldn't think they could get to without the aid of a Stargate.
Rat as CA: Rats will recreate their environment to suit themselves.
Rat as PP: No idea here, but it's late...
Rats as HE: You ever see just one rat?
EDog
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| Re: Stars! colonists . . . |
Tue, 02 March 2004 23:35 |
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| nash wrote on Tue, 02 March 2004 23:20 |
| EDog wrote on Wed, 03 March 2004 14:40 |
Rat as Joat: Rats can be trained to do almost anything.
Rat as IS: Try and remove rats once they've infested an area.
Rat as WM: Think of the phrase, "fighting like a cornered rat".
Rat as AR: Rats are used to living in dark, enclosed spaces.
Rat as SS: Sneaky little bastards by nature.
Rat as SD: Rat turds are evil, evil things!
Rat as IT: Rats seem to pop up in the darndest places, where you wouldn't think they could get to without the aid of a Stargate.
Rat as CA: Rats will recreate their environment to suit themselves.
Rat as PP: No idea here, but it's late...
EDog
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Rat as PP: It's amazing where you can find rat droppings - 130kt warp 16 droppings would not surprise me at all...
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And just to prove you can't keep a good feline down...
Cats as JOAT - that's why they keep human slaves about
Cats as IS - Kittens, kittens, kittens
Cats as WM - Claws, teeth, and a ATTITUDE
Cats as AR - Put one in the sun - solar powered!
Cats as SS - Sneaky and stealthy by definition
Cats as SD - Well-versed in deployment and use of small balls
Cats as IT - They're wherever they want to be - like that!
Cats as CA - They already claim everything. The human slaves adjust!
Cats as HE - Hyper is their middle name!
Cats as PP - Warp 16 Litter boxes of DOOM
- Kurt (or have his cats gotten the keyboard?) bwahahahaha!
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