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Topic: Slylandro expansion (Read 14645 times)
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ScreamingTemporalDoom
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The Slylandro explain how they evolved intelligence. They started out as social hunters, capturing drifting phytoplankton and eating it. Sorta like herbavorial wolves. They evolved intelligence in order to better communicate with each other and herd the phytoplankton more effiecently. This gave rise to a fairly peaceful and highly communicative society -- appearently, their intelligence made harvesting phytoplankton so efficient that there never was any real conflict over resources and thus no war. The fact that they are arrested in technological progress -- and thus, there's no strain on resources that an industrial build up would require -- probably also contributes to this lack of conflict.
They're also in no want for space, even considering how little of Source they utilize. The Slylandro speaker says at one point that the nice thing about living on a gas giant is that, if someone is bothering you, you can just easily go somewhere else.
These two facts also mean that the Slylandro can move of their own accord; if they couldn't, they wouldn't be able to herd anything, nor would they be able to simply go away when personalities clashed.
I would also think many Slylandro would jump at the chance at exploring beyond Source themselves. Even if they take a few decades to explore the wonders of the galaxy, that's really very little time in their mindset. I would imagine they'd use some kind of Vac Suit, like what the Orz use. Can you imagine a Slylandro stomping around the starbase in those? Espeically with their glowy bits showing?
I don't, however, think they would be expansionistic. They have plenty of room on Source, no real economic need for expansion, and no natural aggression. I think they would probably expand if only for curiousity sake, but I doubt they'd expand very fast or very far.
Then again, they can take their time. No other known race is going to colonize their perfered landscape.
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Omni-Sama
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My biological systems seem to be malfunctioning then...
But I do believe that it's completely chemical, as cynical and unmagical that may be.
Hey, someone finally fighting in my corner!  Here I thought I was all alone. I most usually am... hehe.
I was just arguing the fact before that we are not 'prgrammed' to procreate. Sure, it is part of our bilogical process as mammals, but I'd like to think we've grown out of a lot of our primal instincts. Just as an civilized society should do, procreation should not be all abiyt continuing the race and should be all about love and affection. Of course, if the Slylandro could make babies, that discussion would be so much more relevant to this question, but alas here we are with nothing to show... 
By the way, until you feel what love really is, it's hard to understand the human desire to "procreate" as you so scientifically put it. Not that I'm hacking on anybody. I'm sure you'll all get dates some day, but that day seems a long ways away for some of us... hehe. 
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"Even Our House Pets Are Rather Evil." - Ilwrath Captain
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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I think the reproductive urge is not behind most trouble -- it's delusion and pride.
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