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Topic: ATTN Starship Captains: What ship would you captain as part of its race? (Read 6278 times)
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Valaggar
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EDIT: Also in the first post before you begin rattling off every ship known to man, you actually just state that the person can be reincarnated as any captain of any race. So shouldn't people be able to choose Umgah Captain of a Skiff or Ur-Quan captain of a Jugger?
Umm... it sounded a bit ambiguous, indeed.
Arilou'la'lee'lay or Pkunk, existing in the so many different dimensions and stuff sound interesting  , so it's a bonus if I get killed. |
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« Last Edit: June 12, 2007, 08:51:51 pm by Valaggar »
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Valaggar
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I don't know why, but everybody's forgetting that the race to whom the ship you captain belongs is also your race, i.e. if you choose Orz, it means that you are Orz guiding the ship with its *fingers*; if you choose Skiff, it means that you are an Arilou captain piloting that UFO.
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Valaggar
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Question! Do you remember your past life?
For example: After your mysterious reincarnation, do you just kind of "wake up" inside a different body with your old memories intact and no idea how to control your new body? The reincarnation of a Fury thing was a rudimentary plot device to put everything in motion (i.e. to explain why you can choose between races); however, the idea is that even if you remember or not your past life, you surely can control your new body, since the neural/whatever connections are in place and ready to be used, and your new brain is a brain adapted for your new body.
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CeeVee
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Hmm? But that doesn't...
Are you so sure that simply being in a body and having all the neural connections there means that you know how to use them? After all, when people are born as a baby they don't automatically know how to talk, walk, or efficiently use fine motor functions, right? I imagine that if your consciousness/soul/whatever is just plunked into a body you wouldn't know how to use it right away.
I mean, geez, most of these aliens are so different physically that it would be a total shock to have such a body switch.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that my answer would depend a lot on what the circumstances of this reincarnation or whatever are.
If I have no memory of my life as a human, I don't think it would really matter which I was. I, personally, won't gain any knowledge from the experience because I, as I am right now, cease to exist the moment that I become something else. I'm not "CeeVee" anymore, I'm now, for example, Reep-Yeep the Yehat and as far as Reep-Yeep knows, they've always been a Yehat.
So it would be kinda pointless to me if I get to pick which alien species I want to be if I'm, personally, never going to get the experience. Kinda depressing too.
However, that all changes if I remember who I was.
Am I making any sense here?
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Valaggar
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Or possible you're doing a very Valaggar-y thing and overthinking a simple premise. Now that would be amusing. Now I know how others feel when I do like that... 
The only difference is that in that case you were a civilian/all-arounder. Here you're a Captain.
If I have no memory of my life as a human, I don't think it would really matter which I was. I, personally, won't gain any knowledge from the experience because I, as I am right now, cease to exist the moment that I become something else. I'm not "CeeVee" anymore, I'm now, for example, Reep-Yeep the Yehat and as far as Reep-Yeep knows, they've always been a Yehat.
So it would be kinda pointless to me if I get to pick which alien species I want to be if I'm, personally, never going to get the experience. Kinda depressing too. You are going to get the experience, but as a casual thing, not as being part of another species - so you're not going to wonder at how cool/horrible it is to be the respective species.
(As to babies/neural connections: You are not going to reincarnate as a baby, but as an adult individual. That's how Fury reincarnation works.)
(Also, although this is not relevant, I just wanted you to know - you were a Human initially, not a Pkunk)
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Valaggar
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Note how Cedric phrased it: "become an actual verb". "Shiver" was already a verb, so it couldn't have become one.
Also, long live to the verb "to Valaggar". May it rise and take over the world. May its reign be glorious and everlasting.
PS: Maybe you should add "Valagger" and "Vallagar" as "common misspellings"?
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« Last Edit: June 15, 2007, 11:54:17 am by Valaggar »
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Sorry for the annoyance, I'm just...like that. I have a tendency to put details into otherwise minor things.
