I have been following along mostly skimming, than reading, but it sounds a lot like this is the planet of Dr.Morreaux.
--- In , allen carpenter <justacarpenter@...> wrote:
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> Cheetahs are already in the works as the single scout runner types were
> battle is already engaged, their sheer sprint speeds (@50 kmh) will make
> them nearly impossible to hit without battlecomp assistance in powered
> armor. and bears I already ruled out, in canon, Genassist already dubbed em
> failures, perhaps the violent streak they wanted didn't enable them to have
> the temperament they wanted, or, as bears are loners by temperament, they
> were not amenable to military discipline of any kind. Of course, that same
> temperament made them ideal for scout service.
> Any Shock troops they would have wanted to gengineer would of necessity have
> to have been willing to take orders from Human Masters. So Many strains
> would not have been considered,
> badgers and wolverine for there brutal ...... call it xenophobia for lack of
> a better word.
> of course, that might explain why the planet is devoid of human life ......
> 8-)
>
> Hyenas are interesting, I'll have to give 'em some additional thought.
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> The world definitely is going to be Balkanized along Hybrid strain lines now
> (silent evil chuckle)
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> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:04 PM, allen carpenter
> <justacarpenter@...>wrote:
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> > I considered wolves briefly, but I came to the conclusion that they would
> > be perceived merely as vicious Vargr, like the Urzaeng, the oversized vargr
> > coreward and to spinward of the windhorn. already describes as massive
> > enough to give Aslan a fair one on one unarmed, and with a nasty temperament
> > to boot.
> > To make em work as the villains i WANT them to be perceived as, they would
> > by necessity have to be run like, and LOOK like, werewolves.
> >
> > BTW, where can I get info on the 'empress wave? I never found more than a
> > brief reference to it and that it makes people a lot crazy, enough to wreck
> > their own tech in mob frenzies.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Jeff Dougherty <
> > dougherty.jeffrey@...> wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >>
> >>
> >> Allen,
> >>
> >> Wolves come to mind as the obvious possibility. Very good predators, and
> >> the pack mentality would be a good one for shock troops.
> >>
> >> -JTD
> >>
> >> "Well I can saw a woman in two
> >> But you won't wanna look in the box when I'm through
> >> I can make love disappear-
> >> For my next trick I'll need a volunteer." - Warren Zevon
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sep 28, 2011, at 5:05 PM, allen carpenter wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> all good stuff, but more good stuff now.
> >>
> >> I started creating the star system and it turned out to be a trinary star
> >> system, and the far companion turned out to be a type M0V
> >> which has it's own habitable zone!
> >>
> >> I have decided to relocate the base there and create a different primary
> >> UPP. which means I now have a star spangled adventure in hand!
> >> The base itself I have decided was the launch point for Genassist projects
> >> in the surrounding subsectors, possibly the corporate headquarters for the
> >> whole sector, even though it is nowhere near central to the sector, just
> >> central to the worlds in question. and since it is now orbiting an
> >> uninteresting far companion, it's detection would have been minimized even
> >> before the collapse and vampire fleets.
> >> Genassist was doing the ages old 'evil' of tampering with human DNA by
> >> adding certain strands from Native, Terran, and Alien DNA pulled from stocks
> >> of Top Level Predators with the intent of being able to field shock troops
> >> with heavy weapons without the need of powered armor, and being carnivorous,
> >> still able to 'live off the land' as it were.
> >> so now there is the shell of a shipyard capable of constructing ships, but
> >> controlled by carnivore / cannibal human hybrids that see humans as just
> >> another protein source. Bears were done as potential PCS for the T20
> >> campaign, and they are rather docile for the ideas coming to mind (Perhaps
> >> that's why genassist scrubbed the project after all), so that means other
> >> TLPs would have been used. Lions and TIgers come to mind (Oh My 8-) Cheetahs
> >> come to mind as well. Aslan Sprinters eat your hearts out!
> >>
> >> Any ideas for Alien Dna hybrids out there???
> >>
> >> As for a lab ship, does anyone here remember what the Solomani used as the
> >> equivalent? I can't find it in any of the source books I have on hand. I do
> >> know that the Solomani were up to T16 in life sciences per source material
> >> (issue 13 of the travellers digest, page 26 communications, medical and
> >> environment all at T16.), so that would mean any labships they had would be
> >> the find of the century for for a backwater empire with tech 12 as its best.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:39 AM, roger <rogerclarktopaz@...>wrote:
> >>
> >>> **
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Your genetics base need not be abandoned. What if the scientist was
> >>> called back to, say work for the government making bio-weapons for the war.
> >>> He might have just shut down the base, as he would be right back after this
> >>> minor distraction was finished, and it might be interesting to see how his
> >>> "children" fared on their own. Being that far out in the boonies leaves me
> >>> to think it was not sponsored by the Solomani but it might have been
> >>> sponsored by a group who were up to something. Either way the UPP would read
> >>> X-000000-0. In the notes section when you write up the sub-sector you could
> >>> note under the planet that the base was shut down intact/abandoned/or
> >>> striped. As to virus, I have always treated it as just another faction that
> >>> fought in the war. One that came into beaning late and was able to attack
> >>> the other factions at their weakest but due to a lack of a solid leadership
> >>> fell apart after there was no one left to fight. Being so far out you might
> >>> make the vampire ship a independent ship with a specialist virus (God or
> >>> Mother) with a bent towards science. Finding the base would be like its Holy
> >>> Grail. The ship might be a lab or scout belonging to the genetic scientist
> >>> or perhaps the ship got tired of the killing and it turned its back on the
> >>> war and left. Your locals, would probably have mixed emotions towards
> >>> humanoids, running from devotion to homicidal rage but would all see the
> >>> base as a holy place.
> >>> Roger
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane
> >> to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
> >> Nikola Tesla
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "Here at Ortillery Command we have at our diposal hundred megawatt laser
> > beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say
> > we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his SMITE button
> > for our fire control system."
> >
>
>
>
> --
> "Here at Ortillery Command we have at our diposal hundred megawatt laser
> beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say
> we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his SMITE button
> for our fire control system."
>