.... holy shit, I just thought of something while sweeping the decks.
Okay. Old project that I used to work on with a friend: silicon based life-forms, sapient, highly inteligent, form of living starships. They synchronised closely with their pilots; close to a mating-bond - more like the seemingly-psychic bond shared identical twins. Pilots entered mating bonds with other pilots, and their ships likewise; ergo they reproduced simultaneously, thus ensuring a future pilot-ship bond.
Now, take this and apply it to Fenspace Treeships. New tree-ships start out as seedlings that bond to an infant. They grow up together, the young tree-ship taking on the dimensions of a space fighter at the young adulthood stage, and so on until you have the eldest of them all: the massive tree ships of those who live to be incredibly old - say four- to five-hundred years or more.
I think this would be the true Fen-equivilant of Jyuraians. Throw in Nippon-inspired ninja-pirate action for more authenticity (because, after all, the original Jyuraians were pirates that caught the fancy of a Tree-Goddess).
Thoughts?
Okay. Old project that I used to work on with a friend: silicon based life-forms, sapient, highly inteligent, form of living starships. They synchronised closely with their pilots; close to a mating-bond - more like the seemingly-psychic bond shared identical twins. Pilots entered mating bonds with other pilots, and their ships likewise; ergo they reproduced simultaneously, thus ensuring a future pilot-ship bond.
Now, take this and apply it to Fenspace Treeships. New tree-ships start out as seedlings that bond to an infant. They grow up together, the young tree-ship taking on the dimensions of a space fighter at the young adulthood stage, and so on until you have the eldest of them all: the massive tree ships of those who live to be incredibly old - say four- to five-hundred years or more.
I think this would be the true Fen-equivilant of Jyuraians. Throw in Nippon-inspired ninja-pirate action for more authenticity (because, after all, the original Jyuraians were pirates that caught the fancy of a Tree-Goddess).
Thoughts?