Well, there is nothing wrong with D&D in space, Star Frontiers looks like a fun game. There's nothing wrong with turning one's YTU into D&D in Space. But then it won't be Traveller anymore; again, nothing wrong with that. I think what people are voting for or against in this poll is about having blue Darrians in UTO. That's a whole different matter.
Ah the Blue Darrians get no love, just like the orphans they are. I didn't post the poll, though I will stand for them as my creation, I never had planned for them to be official. The fact that they have created such emotion is good though IMO.
The older D&D stuff is actually pretty good IMHO. CT and OD&D have more in common than most people would care to admit.
AD&D from the early 80's is about as far as I got with that stuff, so any later Drow stuff I don't know about. I prefer Traveller for a thousand different reasons, but I like cool sci fi over the akward nerdy stuff.
Miss Zeta's body shape is more alike the "generous" Heavy Metal babes than the "bulimic elf" look. Why the need for the Drow body at all? Just work with what the lady gives you.
I guess I liked the clothes, as much work as the figure took, the background took an amazing amount of work as well. Just turning the A-10's into the background ships wasn't a simple task. With art, I go where the muse takes me.
Why don't you modify pictures of perfectly normal folks? I don't think most Darrians, blue or not, will look like female holywood sex symbols.
Let's have some originality and realism here, for once! I want to see 50 year old Darrian males with beer bellies and stubble. I'm sure even the Drow have fat people and their women get affected by gravity when they cross the 300 years barrier.
Number one, I guess if I am going to be staring at a picture for hours on end, I like it to be a beautiful woman? Call me just a normal red-blooded Solomani man.
Otherwise, yes, there is the BD Trooper, it is real, I p-chopped the gun and then on to the figure and made/modified the background. None of it is easy though, just the anti-aliasing by hand alone takes a good amount of time.
That's all that needed. To quote the wikipedia article about hemocyanin "Although the respiratory function of hemocyanin is similar to that of hemoglobin, there are a significant number of differences in its molecular structure and mechanism." (Emphasis mine). You might as well argue that there's no reason to change a DC installation just because you're going to run it with alternating current. After all, it's electricity either way.
That is exactly what I am talking about, that sentence is merely about the process of how the two different compounds bind oxygen, otherwise it states their function is similar. As per electricity, the generation (AC or DC) is secondary to if the system is spec'd for the voltage, amps and ohms. It is all electricity either way. Though oxygen in itself is a highly corrosive and toxic gas (ie if someone was put in a 100% oxygen enviornment, they would die) so ether way it is oxygen. Though it would be illogical to assume that if you were there engineering something, you would be doing it for lower performance. Any issues such as chemistry would be worked out before hand; it's the model T wheel (hemocyanin), once engineered, it becomes the porsche wheel (neo-hemocyanin).
Yes, but very few species of animal are human or hominoid, and if you modify a human significantly it ceases to be a human. There are actually at least three different questions conflated here, "Can it be done/would it work?", which I doubt very much but can't prove, "Would it be done?", which I doubt but won't argue (much) against, and "Would the result still be Homo sapiens?", which I think is self-evidently not the case.
If they are Darrian, then they are put of the genus Homo Darrianus? lol I remember reading that about the Darrians someplace. This just gets too nit-picky, otherwise Darrians can't talk because they are missing the FOXP2 gene and lack the subcortical structures for language. Missing language, you won't have much of a civilization. The questions should be separate for clarity though. Generally I am not trying to reinvent the wheel, just going with what is there. Even the stuff about Entrope/Torment, the Maghiz, is all extrapolation from what is there, it all just fell into place, what can I say?
The Vargr were modified by the Ancients, who are per definition capable of super-science. Even so, I really really doubt that they're still interfertile with Canis lupus.
Creating Rosettes is super science, genetics is not, and you only have what there is in beginning to work with unless you are down to changing the basic form, ie you can only increase the stroke on a crankshaft of a IC engine until you run up against the barrier of excessive rod to stroke angle and with that snap your rods. There are work arounds, but with the vargr being terrestrial organisms, the physionomy has to stay relatively similar. Tools and knowledge, it's all you need, one thing engineering teaches you is that everything is a system.
Geneered by (or in cooperation with) the Ministry of Conservation. The original reference (in The Spinward Marches) just mentions 'biologically altered humans'. I'm not sure when that turned into the Nexxines being a distinct species, but there's a comprehensive writeup of them in GT:Humaniti.
Ah, ok, I have never seen the GT stuff. I'm a CT'er (lol and this is the only site where I can say that).
greets,
-Robert
