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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:42 pm
by Arioch
Werra wrote:Follow up question: How popular are the Torrais then? Is Stillstorm well known for example?
I'm sure there are a wide range of opinions of different officers. Stillstorm has been around for a long time and is about as well known as any officer of her rank, but kind of like a submarine commander, much of what she does is out of sight of the public and not much talked about. She doesn't spend much time in port and when she is, her personality is not exactly that of a media darling.
Mr.Tucker wrote:Does that not mean that information regarding the lives and tribulations of said heroes would remain very accurate over extremely long periods of time? After all, embellishing (the main source of inaccuracies) means lying and that's nearly impossible...
Information can still be subjective; two people can watch the same event and have different interpretations of it. But there is less room for obvious exaggeration or misrepresentation.

Because information is packaged together with context (who said what), it can be easier to fact check and run down mistaken information, rather than being left with persistent anonymous rumors.

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 2:03 am
by orion1836
That's too bad. A Stillstorm fanclub would have been hilarious. :lol:

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 4:59 am
by icekatze
hi hi

I'd say it gives extra weight to the goal of many in the warrior caste of having their deeds be remembered, if there's a population who is eager to learn of such deeds.

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:45 am
by Sweforce
Arioch wrote:
Mr.Tucker wrote:Does that not mean that information regarding the lives and tribulations of said heroes would remain very accurate over extremely long periods of time? After all, embellishing (the main source of inaccuracies) means lying and that's nearly impossible...
Information can still be subjective; two people can watch the same event and have different interpretations of it. But there is less room for obvious exaggeration or misrepresentation.

Because information is packaged together with context (who said what), it can be easier to fact check and run down mistaken information, rather than being left with persistent anonymous rumors.
I came to think of the unreliability of witness testimonies, how we automatically tend to fill in the blanks with wild guesses that become false memories. I am sure the listel know how to keep this to a minimum when comes their own memories but anything they get second hand could be affected.
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I myself have a hearing disability, I am not deaf but I have a tendency to mishear people. If what I pick up is garbled somewhat, the brain subconsciously "fill in the blanks" so I may end up clearly hearing someone saying something they didn't actually said. If the context still make sense I may then not understand that I misheard them.

This phenomena also works with eyesight up to the point that I have occupationally "seen" mythical creatures, a pile of clothes on a chair may look like a dragon in the dark but since it obviously cannot be a dragon it never register as anything but a cool coincidence, like seeing shapes in clouds. Seeing a dragon at the backdrop of a forest a mile away get the same effect, dragons do not exists so the only thing that happens is that I look at it for a few seconds until I figured out exactly how that tree over there and the bush next to it together looked like a dragon, something that dispels the illusion. But what happen when you see or hear something that is reasonable? I reject the dragon since it is ridicules but if it looks like a person I could send the police out on a wild goose chase for someone that doesn't exist. Btw, if you want to hide in plain sight, looking ridicules may actually work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TQETLZZmcM

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 8:26 pm
by Werra
So...do Loroi play pranks on each other with their psionics? If they do, what does it look like?

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:09 pm
by Arioch
Werra wrote:So...do Loroi play pranks on each other with their psionics? If they do, what does it look like?
I expect that the number of pranks you could pull with telekinesis would be virtually unlimited.

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:18 pm
by Werra
I was actually more thinking along the lines of telepathy. Putting mild suggestions into somebodys mind, making them fart at inopportune moments.
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Implanting fake memories of a beautiful family they once had and tragically lost
. Pranks, you know.

Next question if you don't mind. What officer on board Tempest would be akin to a staff-sergeant?

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 9:24 pm
by dragoongfa
Since the Loroi don't have a distinction between Enlisted and Commissioned officers I guess that the parallel of the Staff-Sergeant would be whoever oversees the various departments. On a warship that would be the first-officer/XO. On the army it would be a mid/high tier rank who would be assigned a similar position in the chain of command of the ground unit.

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:24 pm
by Arioch
Werra wrote:I was actually more thinking along the lines of telepathy. Putting mild suggestions into somebodys mind, making them fart at inopportune moments.
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. Pranks, you know.
There are very few Loroi who can do these things, and those that can (Mizol, mostly) wouldn't generally do them as pranks. Invading someone's mind is considered an extremely hostile act.
Werra wrote:Next question if you don't mind. What officer on board Tempest would be akin to a staff-sergeant?
Staff-sergeant is not a naval rank, so I'm not sure in what sense you mean. In an infantry unit, squad leaders are Tonzadi, and the Ragan ("Chosen") is roughly equivalent to a company first sergeant (though she is more equivalent in rank to a first lieutenant). For the Tempest's security unit, the Chosen would be Teidar Razorthorn (the purple-haired Unsheathed). But in terms of the ship's command staff, there are no particularly important low-ranking officers equivalent to a chief petty officer who is "chief of the boat". Clerks and staffers are usually junior Paset or Pideir. The important assistants to the commanding officer are the executive officer (Mallas Rune-Laurel) and the operations chief (Seinen Forest).

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 2:41 pm
by malletmann
I don't know if this has been discussed previously, but how to Teidar use their powers in combat? Is telekinesis their primary weapon, or do they use it in support of conventional weapons, similar to biotics in the Mass Effect series?

What form of attack to they favor? Lightning bolts out of their hands, a more boring tossing of their opponents around, or do they have some more interesting tricks to dispatch the cy-bug menace?

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 2:55 pm
by dragoongfa
My guess is this:

Find the brain/heart and crush it to a pulp.

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:55 pm
by Arioch
malletmann wrote:I don't know if this has been discussed previously, but how to Teidar use their powers in combat? Is telekinesis their primary weapon, or do they use it in support of conventional weapons, similar to biotics in the Mass Effect series?

What form of attack to they favor? Lightning bolts out of their hands, a more boring tossing of their opponents around, or do they have some more interesting tricks to dispatch the cy-bug menace?
It depends on the situation and the abilities of the individual, but in most cases psychokinesis is used as a supplement to a conventional weapon.

The most common modes of telekinetic attack are to throw an object at the target, to throw the target into an object, or to apply a force directly to a vulnerable point on a target (as mentioned above). For those with the proper skills, heat can be applied to an area of the target that is either combustible or explosive, or that is too strong to be defeated by direct force (such as an armored bulkhead or the skin of an armored vehicle) until it loses structural integrity to the point where the user's telekinetic force (or the object's internal pressure) will cause it to fail.

Some psychokinetics can manipulate electricity, causing shorts or overloads, but they do not generate it from their hands.

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 6:48 pm
by Mr.Tucker
Found this little tidbit:
"The evidence remaining at these ancient Soia-era sites is very sketchy, as these sites suffered the worst of the catastrophes that marked the end of the period and the fall of the Soia dominion; most useful evidence comes not from these sites of Soia-Liron habitation, but rather from the ancient settlements of the native subject races of the Soia."
Which races? All the non-Soia-Liron species of today were cavemen at the time (if they even existed in sentient form). This includes the Mannadi, Golim, and Pipolsid. The only ones with any advancement would have been the ancestors of the Fenrias and Historians. And the Historians would not give away such info....
Just how many civilisations existed at the time of the Fall?...

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:39 pm
by Arioch
Mr.Tucker wrote:Found this little tidbit:
"The evidence remaining at these ancient Soia-era sites is very sketchy, as these sites suffered the worst of the catastrophes that marked the end of the period and the fall of the Soia dominion; most useful evidence comes not from these sites of Soia-Liron habitation, but rather from the ancient settlements of the native subject races of the Soia."
Which races? All the non-Soia-Liron species of today were cavemen at the time (if they even existed in sentient form). This includes the Mannadi, Golim, and Pipolsid. The only ones with any advancement would have been the ancestors of the Fenrias and Historians. And the Historians would not give away such info....
Just how many civilisations existed at the time of the Fall?...
Many of the natively-evolved intelligent races had starflight-level technology at some point during the Dreiman-Soia epochs; the Fenrias were the only ones who started this period with it, but by the end, most had it, including the Tizik-tik Umiak, Mannadi, Lurs, Tithric, Jilaad, and a number of species that are now extinct. It seems clear that either the Dreiman or Soia (or both) actively worked to uplift these civilizations, even though under the Soia regime, such species were effectively quarantined on their homeworlds. During the cataclysm that ended the era, every world that had such technology was bombarded to the destruction of that technological culture, and sometimes to the extinction of the species (and sometimes of all life on the planet).

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:30 pm
by Victor_D
Arioch wrote:Many of the natively-evolved intelligent races had starflight-level technology at some point during the Dreiman-Soia epochs; the Fenrias were the only ones who started this period with it, but by the end, most had it, including the Tizik-tik Umiak, Mannadi, Lurs, Tithric, Jilaad, and a number of species that are now extinct. It seems clear that either the Dreiman or Soia (or both) actively worked to uplift these civilizations, even though under the Soia regime, such species were effectively quarantined on their homeworlds. During the cataclysm that ended the era, every world that had such technology was bombarded to the destruction of that technological culture, and sometimes to the extinction of the species (and sometimes of all life on the planet).
Poor Tithric :( Well, third time's the charm, guys, don't lose hope...

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:07 pm
by SVlad
Arioch wrote: During the cataclysm that ended the era, every world that had such technology was bombarded to the destruction of that technological culture, and sometimes to the extinction of the species (and sometimes of all life on the planet).
Wild guess: It wasn't cataclysm. Soia ended their experiment (whatever it was) and just revert changes, clean up workspace and collect garbage.

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:58 am
by GeoModder
SVlad wrote:
Arioch wrote: During the cataclysm that ended the era, every world that had such technology was bombarded to the destruction of that technological culture, and sometimes to the extinction of the species (and sometimes of all life on the planet).
Wild guess: It wasn't cataclysm. Soia ended their experiment (whatever it was) and just revert changes, clean up workspace and collect garbage.
Why abandon the place afterwards then?

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:18 am
by CF2
GeoModder wrote:Why abandon the place afterwards then?
Perhaps it's an elaborate way of obtaining new technologies, by forcing species to develop them on their own absent the influence of their overlord?

Or perhaps it was some sort of purge of machine intelligence, which was feared enough to destroy all technological worlds, causing the ruin of their society and species.
Or a galactic exodus for cultural/spiritual reasons, which demanded that none be able to follow them.
Or some external power decided to wipe them out, and didn't care about settling their vacated territory.

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 6:07 am
by fredgiblet
SVlad wrote:Wild guess: It wasn't cataclysm. Soia ended their experiment (whatever it was) and just revert changes, clean up workspace and collect garbage.
And then started their new experiment and stepped off the stage to see how it progressed.

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 6:48 am
by Zarya
fredgiblet wrote:
SVlad wrote:Wild guess: It wasn't cataclysm. Soia ended their experiment (whatever it was) and just revert changes, clean up workspace and collect garbage.
And then started their new experiment and stepped off the stage to see how it progressed.
“The Gods were wearing lab coats.” :D
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