10-02-2015, 06:38 AM
(10-02-2015, 06:29 AM)Shaadaris Wrote:(10-02-2015, 06:01 AM)SilverOtter Wrote: So my post on FTL was a devil-spawn? Appropriate, considering the dimension the humans puncture into.
Okay, so first off, the radiation is because they have a homeworld close to the galatic center. This means the solar system has more heavy elements compared to say, our world. This gives them the many elements they use, the isotope knowledge to make odd alloys that somehow don't explode, and the radiation resistance.
The space-time thing is that the area near the galatic center is ripe for wormholes, which occasionally appear, then collapse when enough matter comes through, which most of that time was the galatic dust (note: real thing, because we are in a giant spinning dust cloud), which means they had the placement to see wormholes, practicalize their use, and exploit their creation (using void energy, like every other FTL).
The last thing is that the Anodynes are steretyped as the crown of the Engineer philosophy, which is on opposition to the Scientist philosophy to which Hylotl are stereotyped. The Engineer does not care about why it works, but about how it can be used, in a efficient manner that uses the exploitation to it's fullest potential.
The classic Anodyne and Hylotl conversation, with all that glorious stereotyping, is as follows:
A Hylotl travels to Anodyne space. He is having a great time, studying how the Anodynes live on their own planets. At one of the colonies he staying overnight at, he notices a large distortion in the sky. He asked a nearby local what was going on. She responded as such:
"It's just a wormhole, it's going to collapse like that anyways."
"Wormholes? Why are they happening around the galatic center?"
She shrugged. "I don't know, nobody knows."
"Nobody knows?!" The Hylotl nearly screamed to the entire colony, "What have you been doing with them this entire time?!"
The Anodyne looked him straight in the eye, and kept a straight face.
"Using them."
Anodynes have faces?
Kind... Of? They have mouths, and face muscles, the eye is a different story, but yeah you could say they have faces.
Also in-universe Anodynes wrote that so it might just be a different expression Wooleyism-ed into something we know.
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