New Race: Tessellate

Loser · #1 May 12th, 2003, 05:22 PM

I've got a quick-n-dirty idea... but it might not fit their traits.

Originally created by the United Flora for independent thought and administrative duties, the Tessellate were bred from parasitic flowers.

Their biology can be divided into three separate functions: the parasitic limb, the reproductive system, and the intellectual system.

The entire Tessellate race is dependant on members of [a certain tree species]. Sticky Tessellate seeds are carried to the surface of these trees by carrion flies and grow into the tree. The parasitic limb burrows itself, over time, under the bark of this tree and along whatever limb it inhabits all the way to the trunk of the tree. It must reach the trunk before it can properly developed it's intellectual centers.

The Tessellate race consists of two sexes: a floral male and female. Both produce a single huge flower that is indistinguishable between them save for the tiny sex organs at it's middle. The flower is a dark mottled red and smells of rotting flesh. This attracts carrion flies which, fed by a sugary at the center of the flower, carry the male gametes to the female flower, who is then able to produce seed.

The intellectual center of Tessellate biology is thought to originally have been a defense mechanism of some sort. Due to UF intervention and manipulation the defensive portions of this area of its biology are nearly undetectable and all that remains is the large swollen synapse-cluster that previously control the defense features.

When they mutinied their way out of UF, the Tessellate rebels took with them a whole slew of 'liberated laborers' from UF. These slave species continue to serve the Tessellate and provide the manual work of their civilization.

If they are not already in here (and I'm about tolook), could you post the Tessellate Racial Traits in this thread?

[ May 12, 2003, 16:23: Message edited by: Loser ]

Gryphin · #2 May 12th, 2003, 05:25 PM

Loser
Good point. I should have posted the Racial Traits first. I could have saved you that time. (oops).
Thanks for the contribution.
I'll get the Racial specs up tonight, (7:00 East Coast US),

The Tessellates are a Crystalyn race. They are not organic but thank you.

[ May 12, 2003, 16:27: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

Loser · #3 May 12th, 2003, 06:12 PM

Gryphin
No worry. No lost time. I can snap out little ideas like that in minutes.

If they are not organic, how did they come out of UF?

Or is that something that needs to be covered (made up) for their history?

Wait... I think I can get there.

Give me a minute.

Gryphin · #4 May 12th, 2003, 06:18 PM

The UF created them. I'll get the outline unless MB post it first.

Master Belisarius · #5 May 12th, 2003, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Loser:
Gryphin
No worry. No lost time. I can snap out little ideas like that in minutes.

If they are not organic, how did they come out of UF?

Or is that something that needs to be covered (made up) for their history?

Wait... I think I can get there.

Give me a minute.

In real life, the UF inspired me to do the Tessellate's AI scripts.

Then, I believed that in some way, I could recognize this fact and the GREAT work of Rollo/Henk doing the UF, including the UF in the Role Play of the Tessellate.

For this, the original sketch about the Tessellate, was around that the UF created them using some kind of genetic engineering, mixing the UF genes with the Crislonyte, with the idea to use the Tessellate as scouts and colonize inhospitable systems.

cybersol · #6 June 4th, 2003, 08:21 AM

Not that the tessellate need to be too much stronger or the other AI developers may cry, but I did notice a possible bug. The weapons platforms use the ability Combat To Hit Defense Plus. I think you meant to use Combat To Hit Offense Plus, since the planet has a -200% to hit penalty? And once they have the talisman, both components are basically a waste of space.

[ June 04, 2003, 07:30: Message edited by: cybersol ]

Master Belisarius · #7 June 5th, 2003, 04:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by cybersol:
Not that the tessellate need to be too much stronger or the other AI developers may cry, but I did notice a possible bug. The weapons platforms use the ability Combat To Hit Defense Plus. I think you meant to use Combat To Hit Offense Plus, since the planet has a -200% to hit penalty? And once they have the talisman, both components are basically a waste of space.

Yep, agree that the -200% makes the ECM mostly useless...
But please remember that it was a beta Version!!!

In some days I'll release an improved AI... with a few twists that nobody else (in the unmoded game) used in the way that I did!