Quote:Point the first, our different strains aren't diverging a hundred thousand years ago, but more like half that.
I think it was the tens or hundreds of billions of miles separating these transplanted tribes that prevented the interbreeding. After they rejoin there is little to really stop interested parties from boinking each other. My problem is the whole 100,000 years of alternate evolution that with no inter breeding for balancing genetics that occurs in the meantime. They also didn't swipe Romans here or people from modern France... the swiped pre-Ice age man-kind here. Thats before we had that lovely Ice age to cause us to get all the body fat. Ive heard you say that Earth is a cold planet that means to me that there wasnt a recent Ice age on the others. Different reasons people died off means different traits for the survivors.
Point the second, what I've been saying from the get-go is that, now that the strains have been reintroduced to each other, they are most certainly interested.
Point the third, my time range for the pickup falls smack-dab in the middle of the last glaciated period.
Point the fourth, it is a long, long step from 'different traits' to 'unable to breed', especially when an already existant, mutually shared trait (language and intelligence) is working to suppress the need behind the development of those further traits.
Point the fifth, I'm fairly certain that I actively specified at the very start that the people the Precursors had picked up were, indeed, anatomically modern - ie, they practically were Romans or modern French.
Quote:Yep, though the 'massive changes' weren't nearly as random as you seem to be suggested - most of the surviving biosphere was deliberately set up to be as deadly and agressive as possible, and the 'cat mods' were the portion of the human population that managed to survive the resulting ecosystem. And you're certainly right about the adventure hook. ^_^
As a side note, perhaps what caused the cat people to be cat people was that biological apocalypse it cause massive changes to the planets gene pool that mean lots of big nasties and vicious little pack hunters made out of the flora, fauna and the populous. The cat people are the ones that survived the plague relatively unscathed. Tech development at the time went towards power armor and getting off of that deranged hell. Much of their tech was lost, because it wasnt immediately useful in the situation and the planet was to dangerous to go tech hunting on afterwards. Which can make a adventure hook tech hunting on a rather hostile planet.
Quote:Oh, they scooped up a band here, a band there - wherever the particular subspecies they were interested in (Homo sapiens sapiens, ie, us) happened to be. They were patient sorts, the Precursors.
If the precursors ran into Earth and went 'Oh this species has potential! Lets drop some off on other planets and see what happens!', then they had to get the people they transplanted from somewhere. Yes Earth, but where on Earth. The thing about The Gulf of Mexico is an example.
Quote:That's what I said, yes. Along with a sizable dash of the idea that such menial things were beneath the notice of anyone who was rich enough to afford an education that'd let them actually do something about it...
Reading about said reaper I've decided it was lack of motivation.
Ja, -n
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