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Topic: Aliens; how do they move? (Read 8904 times)
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I imagine the Zoq Fot Pik all waddle or hop around in a highly comical fashion.
The Umgah probably pull themselves around by their limbs. Those flesh chambers they're in must somehow give them better mobility. The Umgah spy that pulled the trick on the Spathi probably had special parts grafted onto it so it could pretend to be one of the slugs.
The Chenjesu... well... you've got me there.
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If always wondered about the chensesu in particular. It could be that they have limbs made up of crystaline substances. It could be that they are mindes that move from crystal to crystal. But movement is still neccesary for building those broodhomes.
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The bass that the zoq-fot-pik are on is not attached to them, it is like a platform. I imagine the zoq and the fot have legs. The pik may traval like a worm.
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i always belived that the chenjesu used telepathy and telekinesis, to move objects and interact with the world around them. though no written explination surpports this, to me it makes since that a being, not organic, would have other means to be mobile.
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Death 999
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The Umgah don't look parasitic to me.
IIRC, the canonical answer for Chenjesu is that they do not move themselves, but they do have the ability to manipulate electrical fields, enabling them to build complicated electrical devices. These can then be used to move the Chenjesu if they so desire.
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The Chenjesu had no natural predators, and were chemo-photovores; they had no need to evolve movement since both were in extreme abundance on their planet. Assuming that their bodies are piezo-electric, some part of them has to deform in order to produce their electric arcs, so they might have some sort of silca-musclular base used to move slowly in search of new chemical deposits (and to eat).
The ZFP: The Zoq probably waddles, the Fot probably crawls with hundreds of tiny legs under its shell (it looks like a lichen-scraper), and the Pik seems to bounce quite a bit already in the comm screen.
The Chmmr in SC3 bear no resemblance to the Chmmr in SC2...
The Umgah are agoraphobic, so they don't touch the ground too often. In regards to their being parasitic: I mentioned parasitic anscestry as a possible explaination for their agoraphobia and preference for fleshy living environments.
A question from another thread: Did the Ur-quan travel through the tree-tops on their planet (like they do in their dreadnoughts now), or did they crawl on the ground?
Do Druuge move at all, or do they hang in chains throughout their lives, letting machines move them around?
How do the Supox move (a question answered in another thread if I recall correctly)?
Do VUX have legs or two more tentacles?
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« Last Edit: February 20, 2004, 01:37:29 am by Culture20 »
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I think some of those questions are yet to be decided. The VUX could walk with legs, or many tenticles. The supox could easily have legs. Most of the pictures seem to cut off so you don't see how they walk. Maybe that should be an ingame question.
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Just answered one of my own questions: VUX are bipedal (in the SC1 manual).
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Hmm... I would guess that the Pkunk exhibit morphological changes that came about due to living principally in space.
I don't know how the planet-bound ones do it.
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They don't have legs...hands... or anything they can use to move! So there are 2 options: Telkenesis(like DEFAINT said) or they just don't need it, since they have the Tech they need to move. 
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