Zompist Bboard Again

What are you defining as "advanced technology"? Certainly their development of technology would be different from ours, but whether or not they would develop "advanced" technology depends on what that means. I think that we agree that any technology would need tool use. To make ...

Couldn't they use wetsuits to do things outside of their aquatic environment? Like as humans we need oxygen and air pressure and can therefore do things outside our natural environments if we have suits that allow us to maintain our preferred environment. Similarly, aquatic species might be able to ...

Pivots The rest of the Edge post will have to wait since it's on another computer. Instead, I'm going to compile everything that's known about Pivots. I'm also unfortunately going to have to wait until I get to my other computer before underlining new words, so bear with me. It's worth pointing out...

It's been three years since the last update, so I'm switching focus again (though the Worm Scanner does actually tie into this update). The far reaches of the world In this section, I'll aggregate a lot of the knowledge and rumors the Pivotians and Ik'Thulu have about the farthest reaches of the wor...

Cygnus Pentad Physics It's been a while (again), so I'm going to go off-topic again and talk about the Cygnus Pentad understanding of physics. All dodecaverse societies that didn't degrade technologically have a more advanced physics than the one the original Civilization used (which is itself ligh...

oh. so its possible - if not deliberate in their particular case - to opt out of the mesh? When I read through the posts, I thought that cybcygs only killed traitors that were part of the mesh...mostly because at the time, I thought all cybcygs were part of the mesh. "Meshes" are formed f...

Kingslaves Kingslave Biology As mentioned, Kingslaves descend from the biological constructs that the mysterious aliens used to terraform and sculpt planets to their liking. Like their ancestors, Kingslaves are composed almost entirely out of liquid water, lattices made from Pandus Aquus that hold ...

Since I haven't posted in a couple years I'm going to skip over the remainder of Cybcyg society for now, and start talking about the two alien races (Kingslaves and Speccons). Known Alien History Both Kingslaves and Speccons are descendants of the mysterious aliens who disappeared (though not in the...

So, I assume that the Type III-a are not counted in, say, the chefwar's 80% vs 20%...or are they a part of the 80% and 20%, but not taking up arms or doing anything to advance either side in the war? Type III-a cybcygs do literally nothing, including interacting with the statistical probability mes...

How do you access different universes? To answer that it's kind of important to delve into the original civilization's understanding of physics. Bear in mind that most of it has been obsoleted by modern Cygnus Pentad science (and also science in other parts of the Dodecaverse, but that's irrelevant...

Any chance of expanding on the dodecaverse? How do you access different universes? Are these 12 dimensions like the umpteen of string theory all scrumpled up so small that you don't notice them? The Dodecaverse is a large collection of universes "arranged" along twelve axises (or in twelv...

- What are the options for Oneflesh who want to leave their wonderfully dystopian society, but are still weirded out by Dreamflesh, Newflesh and other transhuman antics? First of all, good questions! They do definitely help with the creative process. You'd be surprised at how normal transhumanism i...

I don’t have anything of substance to add, but this is delicious and I hope to see more. Thanks! Cybcyg Types Before we get into the larger groupings of Cybcygs, I should first mention the different types, as they play a pretty big role: * Type I -- These are essentially automatons. They do what th...

Cybcygs If you haven't already guessed, "Cybcyg" is short for "Cybernetic Cygnoids" -- an old designation that contrasted them with "Isomorphic Cygnoids" or "Technological Cygnoids" (basically just newly designed machines) in the old outdated *mech classifica...

Oneflesh Social Niches Despite the sound of things, Oneflesh don't actually have a caste system. What they have instead is a system based around the concept of a "social niche" -- a collection of traits and actions associated with some set of field proficiencies and some ranking among peo...

Oneflesh Beliefs I've talked a bit about Oneflesh history and their rigid biological conservatism, which has bled over into other form/function conservatism as well. It's worth making a note about how unusual this is in the Cygnus Pentad -- the free mixing of biological humans, mechanical beings, a...

I'm not a huge sci-fi guy, but this is really cool stuff and a fascinating read. I really appreciate the amount of thought that has gone into this so far. Thanks! Oneflesh These are a bit different. Oneflesh are humans that don't use Newflesh nodes, effectively trapping them in whichever body they ...

So, onto a more in-depth look at the different "races". I'll cover the main racial groupings first and then get into the various types of hybrids (which is what most of the population is. This will probably be a multi-post post -- it's fairly late tonight already and it'll probably also ta...

That being said, I do recall indicators in the Ik'Thulu thread that the inhabitants weren't original to that "world" (not sure "world" really applies in that case, haha), but they weren't quite expanded on. It isn't really relevant in that setting except in very specific circums...

I’m hardly an expert on this, but how can a universe have parabolic geometry? I thought that a space could have spherical (positive curvature), flat (zero curvature) or hyperbolic (negative curvature) geometry, but I haven’t heard of a universe having parabolic geometry. Could you explain what that...