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So...what would have happened on Tempest if Alex had been an employee of Waylant-Yutani which the Loroi rescued?
I mean, after the chestburster scene.

Arioch wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:01 am

Bamax wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:15 am

If so... how does hyperspace look?

It's black.

You can't see anything in hyperspace, since you're moving faster than light.

Wouldn't your eyes still "run" into light then?

The first question is how they became immortal (or specifically "unaging") in the first place. Extreme longevity is unlikely to evolve naturally, except perhaps as an adaptation to extremely low birth rates (rather than the other way around). So the challenge there is to imagine a reason why a spec...

Bamax wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 21, 2021 5:17 pm

Supply and demand would be a problem immortals would face sooner or later. Homeworld is only so big.

At some point you either start population enforcement or start shipping off the next generation to the stars.y

That problem is faced by all species that grow their numbers.

@Bamax Why do you buy things that you don't plan to pass down to your kids? A species that doesn't age can still consume just as well as a species like ours. Immortality would have two very powerful benefits for the economy. One, everybody would remain in their most productive years indefinitely. Tw...

Ask yourselves what would change about a story if all of the characters were immortal in this way. For Outsider, very, very little would change. Most stories that do not directly deal with old age could work just fine. Similarly, the changes immortality would cause are mostly background ones. We can...

Morally revolting. The peasant slob of the future. The next protein fed conquerors can't ride soon enough out from their harsh environment.

Orions are not complicated they are both simple in production and function... with the most complicated high tech systems actually being sensors/computer systems which even a current mobile phone has enough processing power to run... Even the radar could be vaccuum tube based... Primitive to an ext...

I didn't know tanks/aircraft/vehicles were LOW tech arms that any workshop could make? The point is that back then what a simple workshop was able to produce wasn't that far off in battlefield potential than what then state of the art arms were capable off. 100 men equipped with basic arms were sti...

Why would Beryl be on the basketball team? She's short and nerdy. Why did you think that shes nerdy? Shes a listel because she was practically born into it, she didnt choose it. Maybe she is berserker inside, her spiritual animal is bear protecting its offspring, and only thing she want in life is ...

I wonder if a technique could be 'stolen' that way. Imagine a Mizol out to get to known a certain technique (for the greater caste good of course), and 'infiltrating' into the mind of one who knows how to use said technique. Or are how such techniques are used too different of how data/info is 'sto...

As for human tech rate Humans develop jump drive independently in 2086 and field ships on par with the Loroi in their first interstellar war and have developed blasters something the Loroi had to take from their enemy at this point. Time from Jump drive to Terran current fleet: 74 years. Loroi reve...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE

While this is true, it merely produces very skilled workers in a certain field. But how far can you improve your skills over a couple of millennia? Someone with a lifespan of 400 or even 1000 years may be enough for the task. Besides, once they perfect their craft, what's there to aspire to? Such a...

For an ageless being, its biggest advantage would be remembering information from any point in its long life. This would be obviously something complex, not basic tasks. However, if that information becomes inaccurate, it is actually a demerit, since it may confuse the mind or lead to false conclus...

But that's exactly what our species has been doing since forever. We do retain information across the lifespan of our nervous cells by passing the knowledge on to the next generation. That we can cup our hands to drink comfortably from a stream is likely an extremely old example of such knowledge. ...

It's also worth nothing that the organism you linked is a bit of a cheating in the fashion of Theseus' ship - it's not a single extremely old organism, it's a colony of interlinked clones, in which old individual organisms continuoisly keep dying off and being replaced by younger clones. Yes, it's ...

Aging is about way more than telomeres, and making something that continuously and indefinitely lives with a normal mammalian metabolic function without decaying at all is not just biologically unlikely - it fucks a lot with the laws of thermodynamics and information theory as we know them. The law...

Past about 400, the telomeres are exhausted and they body's systems start to break down; a Loroi can be kept alive past this point with increasingly invasive ultra-tech medicine, but she certainly won't grow any further. There are ways around telomere exhaustion or alternatively, lifeforms that don...

If the Loroi keep growing their entire lifes, how big do they get? Fireblade now is just a bit taller than Alex, but how much more will she grow during the rest of her four century lifespan?

What if a high ranking Loroi decides to stick around for 800+ years?