Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:59 pm
What is the occurrence rate of Mizols?
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The answer to that question is currently classified.CJ Miller wrote:What is the occurrence rate of Mizols?
I wonder if Tempo would find "Romanes eunt domus" funny being the only one who deals with language.Arioch wrote:I've observed that the more conservative and buttoned-down the society, the more ridiculous and outrageous their sense of humor. I suspect that a lot of what the Loroi would find funny is slapstick, wacky non-sequitur Monty Python type stuff.
The primary requirement for the Mizol is high unamplified telepathic power, and the secondary requirement is some level of psychokinetic power, which is desirable but not absolutely necessary. Individuals who are powerful in both telepathy and psychokinesis are usually trained as Teidar, but someone who does not respond well to amplification may end up as Mizol. The Mizol induction numbers are probably smaller than the Teidar, however in wartime the Teidar have a much higher attrition rate, due to more hazardous duty and potential cumulative side effects of amplification.CJ Miller wrote:What is the occurrence rate of Mizols?
Curse. You.Aroich wrote:APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD
Funfact: Head-On is just wax.Arioch wrote:APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD
Arioch wrote:APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD
Considering that the first commercial that I saw for it didn't even say why you were applying it to your forehead, I think you're giving them too much credit: even snake oil salesmen get as far as saying what it's for by the end of the pitch. As far as headaches go though, it might work for any that could be treated by a (very very very) light massage (assuming that there are such headaches), in which case the wax is just a lubricant, but I might have seen it ten times before they said that it was actually FOR something.CJ Miller wrote:Funfact: Head-On is just wax.Arioch wrote:APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD
Snake oil is alive and well. ._.
Measurements-wise, sure, but I suspect that specifications for Soia bolt threads didn't have much meaning to hunter-gatherer society Loroi, and power and data connections even less so.fredgiblet wrote:Many of the standards are likely based on Soia standards anyway, right?
Now I'm interested in seeing such standards :3Absalom wrote:I suspect that specifications for Soia bolt threads didn't have much meaning to hunter-gatherer society Loroi, and power and data connections even less so.
Yeah, considering that the commercials never tell you what the product is supposed to do, it would come as more of a surprise to me if the stuff had some actual medicinal value.Absalom wrote: Considering that the first commercial that I saw for it didn't even say why you were applying it to your forehead, I think you're giving them too much credit: even snake oil salesmen get as far as saying what it's for by the end of the pitch.
I think that during much of the "dark age" for all of the races on the former Soia Empire worlds, there would always have been a small number of functional and semi-functional devices that were preserved, maintained by small cadres of tinkers (probably super-secret orders akin to shamanism) who figured out a few basic functions and collected spare parts. These near-magical workings wouldn't have been much help to the actual advance of technology in the classical/medieval eras, as they were too far removed from what the primitive cultures could make themselves. But with the invention of their own machinery, developing cultures could start to make the connections between their own technology and the secrets that the Keepers of the Digital Calculator of Nesed had been hoarding for a thousand years.Absalom wrote: Measurements-wise, sure, but I suspect that specifications for Soia bolt threads didn't have much meaning to hunter-gatherer society Loroi, and power and data connections even less so.
Well, in many cases like the Delrias beam weapons, there's not really a question of "keeping" sensitive information from the Delrias, since the Delrias invented the technology and understand it better than the Loroi. But for the Loroi, "trust, but verify" is better stated as "we can 'trust' them because we have telepathic operatives watching them all the time." Insurgency operations against Loroi occupations have been spectacularly unsuccessful.Alexandr Koori wrote:Well, and another one question. Loroi must to trust to others races if allow to them organize complete production cycle of weapons. Am I right?