Quote:...Oh. Oh, okay, I see your problem.
Go ahead and do that if you want... just remember that unless someone or something is tweaking genetics regularly that can't happen naturally from species that evolved so differently and so far apart. Which is why I wondered if the Seeders turned into or still tweak everyones DNA. The sheer unlikelyness of a successful mating is going to cause experts and mathematicians conniption fits of epic proportions.
No, that's not what happened.
Timeline -
100,000 years ago: Modern human species 'finishes evolving' and starts to spread across Earth.
80-50,000 years ago: somewhere during this period, our magic Precursor aliens come along and look around at every seeded world in the this part of the galaxy, then decide that archaic humans represent the most promising of the available potentially sapient animal species. They scoop up substantial sized breeding groups and drop them on about a half-a-dozen other fairly ideal worlds.
~45,000 years ago: Local spacetime begins to crystallize into the mostly immutable form we know and recognize today.
~30,000 years ago: The above process finishes.
~20 years ago: Stresses from other portions of the expanding universe exceed the ability of crystallized hyperspace to endure, and the whole shebang, well, shatters, producing an abrubt change to certain underlying constants.
~18-10 years ago: Most other human (and non-) populations finish development of their stardrives and set off exploring and expanding.
12 years ago: Fanatic Sect explorer starship stumbles across radio transmissions from Earth and relays location to home command. An invasion force is promptly dispatched to subdue the heretic planet and begin a forced conversion process that will give them a leg up against the other sects.
10 years ago: Fanatics are forced off of Earth amidst furor, riots, pitched battles, and not a few glassed cities. Much bad feeling on both sides.
9 years ago: First Terran Jump Core tested. Head of Fanatic Sect begins calling for a crusade against the demonically controlled nation which humiliated his people before it can finish corrupting the (surviving) population of the Earth into literally selling their souls to the machine.
7 years ago: Short, ugly Terran-Paladin war as the UTN begins its expansion program.
6 years ago: First sponsored mercenary groups begin to appear.
Now: Terran date 203X, player characters are allowed into the game.
Quote:*considers*
Thus the militant ones decide to get rid of those loony humans before their society crumbles in the wake of thei stupidly random things these people are capable of. Most of their race things that the militants need to chill out.
No... I don't think that that really... feels right.
I don't want to make them directly congruent to any real world religion, but the more militant phases of Islam's expansion would be a definite parallel to what I'm sort of picturing.
Drogn:
Quote:Dropping them on enemy encampments to break their necks... ie, from x-teen-thousand feet up.
I challenge you to find a military application for Tickle-Me-Elmo-style talking plush toys, though. No, air-dropping them on enemy encampments to break their will does not count.
You could hide land mines in them.
Any turbine that sucks up one of the ones you've conveniently scattered all over is going to have a seriously bad day.
Ja, -n
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