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Old November 17th, 2001, 01:25 AM
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Default Re: Neural Combat Net

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So, racial techs are some kind of "instinct" owned by the race? IMO that's the only way to give the "racial" adjective to a technology. But racial techs must be researched, just as conventional technology (It is only knowledge, developed by the scientist/priests). So, something here is not correct (Perhaps my concepts fused
True, it is reserached, and can likely be stored on computers and stone tablets.

For some, like Psychic and Temporal, the physical ability would be cruicial. How do you explain sight to an alien without eyes? How can you expect them to know that the TV their trying to build has a fuzzy picture?
Organic and crystalline, too. Having the ability to form DNA or crystals at will, and possibly also using them as a language would make the tech pretty much inaccesible to outsiders.
What about religious? How about the race forming a collective entity in a sort of psychic-like way. They all have minimal telekinetic powers, and the shrines unify the will of the masses towards a goal, which then happens like magic.
Imagine the nature shrine setup such that visitors think of making cold people warm. Then those 1M people on the harsh ice moon find that the TK powers of the people who have visited the shrine are warming their planet. That would be pretty cool. Research points would be spent learning what evokes the strongest and longest-Lasting responses from the population. Gifted shrines would probably have caretakers from the religious species to power it.
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