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Diablous

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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #135 on: May 02, 2010, 03:04:13 pm »
Quote from: Tarran on May 02, 2010, 03:03:35 pm
Hmm.

Develop a virus that takes over the mind and DNA of infected creature and puts it under our control.

Come on guys. The only thing that can stop us is a badass superalien, or some idiots building a gigantic weapon that wipes out all sapient life in the galaxy.

Also; cookie for you if you figure out what I'm referencing to.

Second one is Halo.
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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #136 on: May 02, 2010, 03:05:20 pm »
Wow that was fast.

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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #137 on: May 02, 2010, 03:05:49 pm »
Quote from: Tarran on May 02, 2010, 03:05:20 pm
Wow that was fast.

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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #138 on: May 02, 2010, 04:00:07 pm »
 I'm confused about how ~research works; if we can make something as complicated as leaves out of nothing, why can't we modify a insect to have flight and a piercing proboscis?
 Oh, and we know how incredibly large that thing is from the Surroundings information, for those that didn't notice. If it is a herbivore we are almost certainly doomed.
> Move brain underground while making root storage. If possible, invent mosquito with virus and DNA sampling capabilities.
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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #139 on: May 02, 2010, 04:19:30 pm »
We need DNA. We know how to make leaves, because the Snork had leaves, or something.
We don't know about flight or probosci though.
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« Reply #140 on: May 02, 2010, 04:21:20 pm »
Quote from: Nivm on May 02, 2010, 04:00:07 pm
I'm confused about how ~research works; if we can make something as complicated as leaves out of nothing, why can't we modify a insect to have flight and a piercing proboscis?
 Oh, and we know how incredibly large that thing is from the Surroundings information, for those that didn't notice. If it is a herbivore we are almost certainly doomed.
> Move brain underground while making root storage. If possible, invent mosquito with virus and DNA sampling capabilities.
The leaves come from the snorks; they are based on their tails.
Yes.
Snork: Three legged fox with a photosynthetic fishtail.
You have to admire the imagination of this guy. Resepctp.

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Do not, I repeat, NOT, try to attack the creature. All Our ProtoSoldiers against it would still be a battle of 1:475. The creature would stomp Our soldiers and then trample Us (and the surrounding plant life) in acid-induced pain. Then it would plod off again, with nothing but a light rash, whilst We have been devastated. The best We could hope for would be for a soldier to climb up its legs and shoot acid in its eyes, but that would still not kill it, and it would still probably trample Us.
How do you know this? It seems to me like it's quite small. Maybe a wolf.
See the statuses. There is one mammal in the area. Additionally, there is 1.9 tons of mammal in the area. QED there is one 1.9 ton mammal in the area.
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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #141 on: May 02, 2010, 04:29:49 pm »
sorry but you have understood this wrong: there are 1,9 tons of a mammal species around here not one 1,9 ton mammal.
Oh and that with the snork-fishtail thing and research works the following way:
the snork thingies have a fishtail-like tail :o
Mixed with the DNA of our Triffid-vines you get leaves... pretty easy isn't it? anyway if we manage to gather the DNA of something flying wecan copy this and make our things flying...

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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #142 on: May 02, 2010, 04:40:08 pm »
Can we adapt the leaves to be put on a small insect and to be flapped?
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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #143 on: May 02, 2010, 04:42:51 pm »
 Considering that (non-photosynthetic vines)+(non-photosynthetic fish tail)=(photosynthetic leaves), that isn't far off at all...
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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #144 on: May 02, 2010, 04:43:49 pm »
Oh.
Whoops.
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leaves don't work like that

Anyway.
I stand by my previous action- anything big enough to shake the ground is to big for our soldiers to deal with. So do not act aggressively towards it.
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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #145 on: May 02, 2010, 04:58:23 pm »
I note that the mind network costs 3 days, however does that mean it takes three days to make or we skip three days of time. If it's the former I vote for it.
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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #146 on: May 02, 2010, 05:35:44 pm »
Well we don't need a real mosquito, we can just have a small bug with a sharp horn and a small storage sack(we can have those on the plant so why not on a bug), they go cut something up and suck up anything that comes out, not really complicated.
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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #147 on: May 02, 2010, 06:04:13 pm »
Quote from: NUKE9.13 on May 02, 2010, 04:43:49 pm
I stand by my previous action- anything big enough to shake the ground is to big for our soldiers to deal with. So do not act aggressively towards it.
We're a plant. We live in the ground. A very angry dung beetle could shake the ground, to us.
It's like when you put your ear against a table and tap on the table, right? You can hear it really loudly. Humans wouldn't be able to detect shaking, probably, because we only touch the ground with our feet - but plants are embedded in it, and we have crazy mindmeld-senses.
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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #148 on: May 02, 2010, 07:59:42 pm »
but 1.9 tons is a hell of a lot  of mammal.

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Re: Hive Mind
« Reply #149 on: May 02, 2010, 08:02:37 pm »
Like the GM said, it's not all one mammal. Chances are there's 100 snorks around and the attacker is only 50 pounds or something.
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