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Re: Announcing the Aquarium: the new Sea Monkey home.
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Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:09:12 GMT
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> Hm, this is something I will have to think about. My immediate thought about
> the SMs is that they are environmentally aware, so that they resent the
> encroachment of humans in their environment. Having been sheltered from the
> upper world the SMs have seen the effects of humans 'up there.'
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> In terms of building, that would mean that the word to use to describe their
> tech is organic. Maybe patterned after coral reefs, where everything is
> alive in one way or another. And maybe that's the understanding that the SMs
> have over humans...they understand how delicate the balance of life is and
> are threatened by the humans offsetting the balance., which would make a fun
> storyline.
I totally agree. If they were telepathic, its likely they would have a
better understanding of the environment and somehow be at harmony with it.
So, humans would be the ultimate invasive species (the biologist in me is
coming out). With thier ability to adapt to any environment, they could
totally throw off the balance of SM ecosystems.
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> Now if you want to get extreme, what could happen with this is that the SMs
> want to ultimately take control of the seas, perhaps to the point of coming
> up with a way of raising the sea levels.
I guess that depends on where we see them living. If you remember the old
aquazone posters, they seemed to be in an environment with huge blue
canyons. I always considered that hydronauts were spacers who colonized an
ocean planet (which I named Oceanica). But, were the SMs to invade a
planet, raising the ocean levels would be a rather rude way to terra form
for thier own purposes :)
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> Furthermore, the Fleebnorks could provide onething that the SMs don't have:
> flying ability. And the Fleebs would want to rule the land and air...don't
> ask me why, because I haven't thought that far:)
I like that idea. Though I was toying with the idea of giving the SMs
interstallar "gates" they could use to go planet to planet, in a war they
would still need air and space power.
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> In thinking about the SMs, what might be important to them is the tactile
> and physical... And if they live in a continual noise of thoughts from one
> another, what might be terrifying to them is silence. And that is why they
> are fighting, because they have seen the silence approach after humans have
> explored and used their lands.
I really like that. "To halt the menacing silence."
> I spent some time thinking about this while I was building the AttackCrab,
> and I agree that wheels are a foreign concept to the SMs. And organic is
> another thing that I would expect from the SMs. Most, if not all of the SM
> crafts would be based by the environment that they live in, so fish shapes
> and other sea animals would be emulated.
Sounds good.
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| (...) Another difference I see is that humans don't adapt to the environment as much as adapt the environment to them. And that mastery of the environment is something that the SMs disdain...they live in a general harmony with the sea. (...) So (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.aquazone)
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| (...) I can see a SM and his advisor, a Fleeb.... (...) Point taken, so Alpha Team still has a chance:) (...) I have a slightly lengthy drive to and from work, so my thinking happens then...and yep life IS too short! (...) No problem! (...) A town (...) (21 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.aquazone)
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