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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2003, 09:29:21 pm »

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No one answered my question though; What happend to the Slylandro caster, that was installed on their moon?

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They even installed a broadcasting satellite in orbit around our world
which let us talk with them whenever we wanted.

The Slylandro never mention losing it, so it's probably still floating around out there...


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« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2003, 12:31:34 am »

No, they (Slylandro) said the Shaggy Ones (Precursors?) installed it on their moon, yet there's nothing there when you land on it

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« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2003, 12:35:11 am »

Yeah, i know. I'm seriously getting addicted to this. the high post copunt comes from me and bioslayer being alone here last night rambling around about everything basically.... The sacry thing is that I talk even more than I wirte.

As for the caster;

1 It's cloaked with something way better than Ilwrath technology
2. It's hidden deep inside the planet, yet powerful enough to work from in there.
3. It's cleverly disguised as a rock, maybe the Precursors knew as much as the Taalo about silicon technology?
4. The Moon is a giant arrtifical caster disguised as a moon.
5. The caster is mostly in *prettyspace*, but it reaches into our dimension as well.

Ay of these good enough?


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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2003, 12:40:30 am »

or the caster is the moon. Grin

Built Precursior tough Wink


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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2003, 02:13:41 am »

Maybe the Chenjesu are the descendants of a little bit of the caster that was knocked off by a meteorite...


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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2003, 03:36:30 am »

...a highly sophisticated species of shaggy giants
who made repeated trips to our world over a period of several Drahn.
They even installed a broadcasting satellite in orbit around our world
which let us talk with them whenever we wanted. They were called the
-Slylandro Speaker

Could be the moon, but probably not on the moon.

I always assumed that the satellite was what you used to communicate with the gas-bags, and that it converts hyperwave into some hologram that the Speakers can see, and vice-versa. Since they have no technology, the only other alternative is that they can use hyperwaves naturally like Chenjesu.

I don't think that's likely, but if it's true, why would the Precursors need to give them a transmitter?
Maybe it's not a hyperwave transmitter, maybe a (quasi/pretty)wave)?
More of a pager than a transmitter?

Maybe Procyon was once one of these transmitters; is one of the moons around Source a Sapphire world?


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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2003, 12:51:51 pm »

Hmmm...well, maybe the Precursors were aware of the looooong time scale the Slylandro think in, and thus intentionally built a shielded orbital device that could last for a number of drahn?


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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2003, 07:14:47 pm »

I have to admit, I never understood the way this thread took with that question at all... Like culture 20, I always just assumed that the caster was active, seeing as you can talk to the SLylandro. We wont be able to guess anythinge else about how it's constructed to work for such long times, wether it's hidden on the moon or in orbit, the point is, it's obviously there.


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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2003, 10:31:40 pm »

Hmm, could be.
It's interesting how the Slylandro have pratically not evolved at all for over few thousand of centuries.. I mean, they are sentient, yet what kind of a society do they have on their gas planet? there are most probably no cars, or any kind of technology.. what do they eat?! at least, they don't have to worry about gases Wink


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« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2003, 10:34:19 pm »

Well, doesn't evolivng incorporate the whole "survival of the fittest" thing? I mean, in order to evolve a lot, you need challenging cirumstances, or at least varying ones. Slylandro home base seems like afairly peaceful enviroment where it just isn't necessary, biologically speaking...


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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #25 on: February 27, 2003, 02:04:29 am »

Well, you WOULD have mutation and genetic drift, but without change, the new ideas created by chance are unlikely to supersede the existing ones.


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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2003, 01:27:52 am »

I'm surprised they got to where they are now.. they don't seem to have any basis for existence or evlove-ment (eh?)


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« Reply #27 on: February 28, 2003, 02:14:00 am »

But something casued them to get to this stage. and now they are ready for the next big step. Expansion into space. A Slylandro in every system ,that's their goal. Between them and the Shofixti, they'll pretty soon wipe out all the other races! We're all doomed I tell you!

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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #28 on: March 03, 2003, 08:32:06 am »

Well, I think that the Sly's are just living really, really long and their life cycle takes accordingly long.
Therefore, reproduction is possible (glowing parts) and they have juves pulled down into the depths (or did I read that in one of the threads?)
Anyway, like all living things they surely undergo change. But if you lived as long as they probably do, your childhood wouldn't be over till you're 250 or so - they just take their time with everything. Change and genetic mutation (or their equivalent) usually takes thousands of generations to manifest itself...

As for the caster - is IS the moon (my guess). No wait, "this is not a moon - it's a giant space station!"
I'm sure the Precursors were nice enough to make sure the Sly's keep their only way of communicating with the outside world!


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Re: Slylandro expansion
« Reply #29 on: March 15, 2003, 03:36:19 am »

Wait a minute, I thought the melnorme were the ones that installed the caster?
I could be very wrong, just makin sure, but the Melnorme were definetly the ones who gave them their first probe ship. Thats how they can travel by the way. They dont need to be lifted off their planet or anything. The Slylandro Probe multiplies as it eats meteors. They never have to leave, unless it gets overpopulated, that is to say, they never had the intention of leaving.


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