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Topic: 'They' cannot see you now. (Read 40888 times)
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FalconMWC
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Maybe only if they *showed* themselves? Anyway - If it their bodies were taken piece by piece then anything brought into another demension would be dead, correct?
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Culture20
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Orz might be able to put people back together alive. Since the overall effect is just *sliding* from one *level* to another, Orz might not understand why we would have an aversion to this (especially if the fish creatures are the corporeal *fingers* of Orz; it travels *layers* piece by piece naturally).
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Or perhaps the Orz have a way of *sliding* that is natural to their, ehm, unique phisiology, but wreaks havoc on other races.
Mosquito Mange is described in a book called Roadside Picnic, written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Here's the excerpt.
Right in front, two hundred yards away, Redrick saw the helicopter. It had fallen, apparently, into the middle of a mosquito mange spot, and its fuselage had been squashed into a metal pancake. Its tail had remained intact, only slightly bent, and it stuck out over the glade like a black hook. The stabilizer was also whole, and it squeaked distinctly, turning in the light breeze. The mange must have been very powerful, for there hadn't even been a real fire, and the Royal Air Force insignia was very clear on the flattened metal.
Think of it as a really, really, really strong temporary gravity well. It apparently pulled a helicopter to the ground and crushed so quickly that a fire didn't even have a chance to start. That's what I call pressure.
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FalconMWC
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But the question is, are we considering SC3 apart of this thread?
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Lightman, perhaps the Mosquito Mange occured where the Orz were ripping holes in the dimentions? I'd wager that the gravity there would get so strong it would punch through "reality" into another. Some poor 'synth was standing in a spot where it happened, got turned into a flapjack, and then sucked through the rift that was created shortly thereafter (keeping canon with the 'no corpses' buisness). Yeah. I had thought that perhaps the "pulling" from the Orz created some phenomenon like that. It could also be as you mentioned, that every time it "pushed" through, something like that happened. It doesn't have to be exactly the same as mosquito mange, but perhaps something similar. It would be the closest the Androsynth could come to explaining it (like the ghosts).
I was also wondering if that could explain the cuts, but I don't really see a connection... unless intense gravity could cause physical damage (cuts) that wouldn't show up immediately. But it seems to me that, in the game, the cause of the cuts is ongoing.
HentaiZonga: Thanks for the info. NECRO-99 did explain that in his post from Feb. 03.
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« Last Edit: February 10, 2004, 04:30:51 pm by lightman »
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Death 999
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Well, I think Zonga's post was fine in that it clarified the actual source of the name, which was a welcome addition. I mean, the earlier mention described its effect on a helicopter or plane or something, but this did not clear up where the name came from, or some of its other properties.
It's one thing to protest against spam; it's another thing to protest against people saying interesting things that are only partially redundant.
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