Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

[Arioch]

Given that Loroi don't age until they fall apart, does that mean their stem cells remain active for their whole lives? Would a pre-industrial Loroi regrow teeth or even a lost finger?

Because of their longer lifespan, Loroi would need to have the ability to grow additonal sets of teeth as their adult set wears out. It wouldn't really be a case of regeneration, but rather of shedding the old teeth and growing new ones, as many animals do (and human children do). Loroi ability to naturally heal and regenerate lost tissue is only slightly better than a human's (leaving aside Loroi medical technology).

[entity2636]

It's been firmly established that the Loroi use doors as we understand them and apparently also lock them. While I have no doubts that starting with the digital age and on one can quite easily make an unpickable or unbypassable lock, but I wonder, how did the Loroi keep their doors, cars, jail cells, hand cuffs, etc. locked in the past?

I can easily see every second Perrein Loroi, not even a trained Mizol agent, being able to pick any mechanical lock with their weak but very precise telekinesis (the principle of picking locks is fascinatingly easy, the skill is getting in there while not seeing what you're doing) or trip any mechanical relay, solenoid or actuator inside an electromechanical lock, while a Teidar can just as easily twist open any mechanical lock or just force the door open if they don't want to be subtle.

[Arioch]

It's been firmly established that the Loroi use doors as we understand them and apparently also lock them. While I have no doubts that starting with the digital age and on one can quite easily make an unpickable or unbypassable lock, but I wonder, how did the Loroi keep their doors, cars, jail cells, hand cuffs, etc. locked in the past?

I can easily see every second Perrein Loroi, not even a trained Mizol agent, being able to pick any mechanical lock with their weak but very precise telekinesis (the principle of picking locks is fascinatingly easy, the skill is getting in there while not seeing what you're doing) or trip any mechanical relay, solenoid or actuator inside an electromechanical lock, while a Teidar can just as easily twist open any mechanical lock or just force the door open if they don't want to be subtle.

The limitation on telekinetic lockpicking is that psychokinesis does not provide any direct feedback from the objects being manipulated, and so unless the lockpicker can see or somehow visualize the mechanism, it is very difficult to know where to poke. So a run of the mill telekinetic Loroi probably can't defeat most common locks, in which the mechanism is hidden from view.

A skilled Mizol won't need to pick locks in most cases; she can usually use other techniques to get the key or passcode, or better yet, to trick someone else into opening the lock for her.

A Teidar whose telekinesis is strong enough to break a mechanical lock is also probably strong enough to kill, and so can't really be captured or held captive against her will. Psionic enemies generally have to be killed.

[Zorg56]

Is there any loroi food that can be dangerous for human? Or even act like a drug?

[CF2]

Is there any loroi food that can be dangerous for human? Or even act like a drug?

It would seem at least one behaves like an emetic, in that it made Alex puke it back up.

[Zorg56]

Is there any loroi food that can be dangerous for human? Or even act like a drug?

It would seem at least one behaves like an emetic, in that it made Alex puke it back up.

I am afraid that Alex can starve to death...

[GeoModder]

I'm sure the Loroi picked up rations from Bellarmine's wreck. And their technology should be good enough to synthesize the food they found.

[Zorg56]

I'm sure the Loroi picked up rations from Bellarmine's wreck. And their technology should be good enough to synthesize the food they found.

Then why they tried to feed him with their food?
How much have passed? Week or two?

[Krulle]

On a waship synhesizers might not be available, or only with limited capabilities.
So, no copied Human foods.

[boldilocks]

To be fair, isn't it standard procedure for welcoming diplomats to try to feed him your crappiests foods?

[GeoModder]

To be fair, isn't it standard procedure for welcoming diplomats to try to feed him your crappiests foods?

They might not be the crappiest foodstuff available to Loroi.
Tempest is a warship, and its CO is to say the least hostile towards Alex.
Would you expect gourmet food on a Navy missile cruiser?

[Zorg56]

I didnt tried to feed unknown specie my food even if it is best dished of our race.
Just because it can be neurotoxin or somthing like this for this specie.

[boldilocks]

I didnt tried to feed unknown specie my food even if it is best dished of our race.
Just because it can be neurotoxin or somthing like this for this specie.

I expect the loroi, being one species among several in a union, would have some level of competence in this regard already.

[CF2]

I didnt tried to feed unknown specie my food even if it is best dished of our race.
Just because it can be neurotoxin or somthing like this for this specie.

I expect the loroi, being one species among several in a union, would have some level of competence in this regard already.

Bear in mind the majority of the spacefaring members of the Loroi Union are Soia-Liron bio-engineered species, so they may share a great deal more biology than Loroi and Humans.

[Arioch]

Loroi medical knowledge will include a lot of experience in dealing with alien species (which is evidenced by their ability to crack Alex out of his suit and treat his wounds without killing him), but Loroi military vessels do not usually carry alien crewmembers, and so their facilities for handling aliens will be limited. Unless they were expecting passengers, they won't carry special rations designed for aliens, or portable food fabricators (if such things even exist at this tech level). They would stock the shuttle with additional medical and survival supplies and such available foodstuffs as they think might be appropriate; they have some knowledge of which Loroi foods are less likely to be tolerated by various aliens, so they can offer the safest known options, but it's all guesswork until Alex actually tries them.

[cacambo43]

Loroi medical knowledge will include a lot of experience in dealing with alien species (which is evidenced by their ability to crack Alex out of his suit and treat his wounds without killing him), but Loroi military vessels do not usually carry alien crewmembers, and so their facilities for handling aliens will be limited. Unless they were expecting passengers, they won't carry special rations designed for aliens, or portable food fabricators (if such things even exist at this tech level). They would stock the shuttle with additional medical and survival supplies and such available foodstuffs as they think might be appropriate; they have some knowledge of which Loroi foods are less likely to be tolerated by various aliens, so they can offer the safest known options, but it's all guesswork until Alex actually tries them.

I've lost track and the pace of updates has made it harder; how long has it been since Alex has eaten anything, and how much sleep has he actually gotten? I have to wonder what his state of health is at this point.

CJSF

[entity2636]

In some of the discussions it has been implied or assumed, and "extended universe" stories stated, that loroi can sense the minds/presence of some higher animals and give some of them commands telepathically, not quite mind control, but, for example, telling a bird to fly away now and stop singing.

Since higher animals do have minds and personalities and display a certain degree of thought and decision making, and the loroi sense the presence of minds, can they thus "in canon" sense animals and communicate with them to some extent? I think they should be able to....

[boldilocks]

It's been at least a week since he was confined to his cell.
I'm wondering, has Beryl been pestering Reed with questions about details of his behavior during that time?

[Werra]

Do the Loroi have design elements that only make sense in a high-tech environment? In addition to immunity from jump sickness, of course.

[Arioch]

Questions with answers that are not common knowledge (such as regarding the origins of the Loroi) or about what characters do and say offscreen are generally ones that I can't answer.

I've lost track and the pace of updates has made it harder; how long has it been since Alex has eaten anything, and how much sleep has he actually gotten? I have to wonder what his state of health is at this point.

It has been about 6 hours since Alex was wakened. The last time he attempted to eat was shortly before he fell asleep. It has been at least a week since he left the Bellarmine. How well he has slept and how much nutrition he has absorbed are hard to quantify, but this is a subject that will be addressed in the comic.

In some of the discussions it has been implied or assumed, and "extended universe" stories stated, that loroi can sense the minds/presence of some higher animals and give some of them commands telepathically, not quite mind control, but, for example, telling a bird to fly away now and stop singing.

Since higher animals do have minds and personalities and display a certain degree of thought and decision making, and the loroi sense the presence of minds, can they thus "in canon" sense animals and communicate with them to some extent? I think they should be able to....

Yes, most higher animals do generate a telepathic signature that Loroi can detect, though the strength of the signature varies by species. In general, the more sophisticated the mind of the organism, the stronger the signature.