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Thread: Macrystis Biology
Post: RE: Macrystis Biology
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Crossroads Wrote: (02-07-2023, 01:48 PM)
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This all sounds really cool. I'm no biology expert, but I do really like speculative evolution as a genre and do somewhat geek-out about the diversity of l... |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-07-2023, 02:08 PM |
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Thread: Macrystis Biology
Post: Macrystis Biology
| Hi all! Macrystis as a project has been coming along nicely, and I hope to begin drafting articles within the coming months for expanding the current stub. WorldTree has been helping expand the cultur... |
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02-07-2023, 07:17 AM |
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Thread: Minor Update to Transapient Population
Post: RE: Minor Update to Transapient Population
| Todd I have to be honest with you, I have just been agreeing with what Crossroads had stated since their comment, and even stated as much in my first response. I’m okay with what Ryan said as well, I ... |
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Banelord |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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12-18-2022, 10:04 AM |
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Thread: Minor Update to Transapient Population
Post: RE: Minor Update to Transapient Population
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Rynn Wrote: (12-18-2022, 04:04 AM)
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Im not opposed to changing the numbers of transapient (I am strongly against adjusting archai), but other than you being “underwhelmed” what are the arguments in... |
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12-18-2022, 06:22 AM |
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Thread: Minor Update to Transapient Population
Post: RE: Minor Update to Transapient Population
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Rynn Wrote: (12-18-2022, 04:04 AM)
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Im not opposed to changing the numbers of transapient (I am strongly against adjusting archai), but other than you being “underwhelmed” what are the arguments in... |
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Banelord |
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12-18-2022, 04:59 AM |
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Thread: Minor Update to Transapient Population
Post: Minor Update to Transapient Population
| Hey everyone!
I’ve been looking through the population statistics again recently, and while I can generally agree with how modosophont populations are handled, the numbers of transapients leaves m... |
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12-18-2022, 02:10 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
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Drashner1 Wrote: (12-17-2022, 04:17 AM)
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I'll allow that we could probably figure out ways to better explain or present transapients in the setting (possibly including putting the reasons above mor... |
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General Setting Discussion
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12-17-2022, 05:21 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
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Drashner1 Wrote: (12-17-2022, 01:36 AM)
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Banelord Wrote: (12-17-2022, 01:31 AM)
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I suppose you can’t copy and paste from notes, this will take a minute to transcribe…
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If the notes are on pa... |
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12-17-2022, 01:38 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
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Drashner1 Wrote: (12-16-2022, 02:03 PM)
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Heya! Welcome back. :)
We really do need to keep pushing forward with this. I (probably we) will need to refresh on the thread to determine what is done,... |
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12-17-2022, 01:31 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
| Hey all!
It’s been a while since I’ve been back to check on this thread (or OA in general to be honest) and I was just bumping this thread so it doesn’t get lost, since it’s a pretty big rewrite. ... |
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12-16-2022, 07:43 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
| I actually like the third idea you posited Todd. While it may seem confusing at first, literally just split the sophont page into three major sections: Terragens, Xenosophonts, and Transapients. Xeno ... |
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05-17-2022, 11:56 PM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
| Now that I think about it “human and xeno” literally just means “baseline” if they’re in the biont category. I now officially see no reason there has to be a distinction. Human is a subclade of baseli... |
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05-17-2022, 11:13 PM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
| Baseline originally was meant to include humans and xenosophonts. I’m okay with making it a modifier and I suppose xeno could be a modifier as well…? My biggest reason for making baseline be a major c... |
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05-17-2022, 10:54 PM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
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The Astronomer Wrote: (05-15-2022, 08:26 AM)
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Banelord Wrote: (05-15-2022, 08:15 AM)
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-Human: This shouldn’t be a modifier, as Terragens should assume a baseline Terragen is a human
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When I ... |
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05-15-2022, 09:35 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
| I don’t have too much time to throw my two cents in but I agree with much of what Todd has said, and I can break down individual thoughts more clearly in a list:
-Human: This shouldn’t be a modifi... |
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05-15-2022, 08:15 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-17-2022, 10:05 PM)
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So, getting back to the main subject, and going back up the threads to find the most current posts, does the following accurately summarize our current thin... |
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04-18-2022, 10:46 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
| I’m fine with all types of virtuals being rolled in as a cultural group! Considering that there are also “downloads” in the setting which don’t have a specific clade this makes sense to me. So six tot... |
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04-10-2022, 03:36 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
| So from the above information, it seems like the new primary categories could be the following:
Biont:
1) Baseline
2) Provolve
3) Neogen
Synthetic:
1) Aioid
2) Alife
3) Exotic ... |
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04-09-2022, 09:15 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-09-2022, 05:04 AM)
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We don't currently have 'uploads' on this list. Did we decide to class them as a sub-type of Aioid or should they be added under what is currently 'Syntheti... |
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04-09-2022, 09:03 AM |
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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
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Rynn Wrote: (04-09-2022, 12:28 AM)
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This does seem like a good improvement. One thing that I'm not too sure on is the synthetic classifications. The biont ones present a nice spectrum for how they ... |
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