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UPLIFTED ARMY ANTS!!!!!

Sir Read this....it seems the Uplifted ARMY ANTS
have been secretly ARRMING them selves, with the Vorpal Bunnie problem and now the Army Ant problem.....sir, what are we gonna do????.... :eek: :eek:
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Originally posted by trader jim:
Sir Read this....it seems the Uplifted ARMY ANTS
have been secretly ARRMING them selves, with the Vorpal Bunnie problem and now the Army Ant problem.....sir, what are we gonna do????.... :eek: :eek:
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Sounds like we need to use some TL-13/TL-14 Insecticides, TJ.
 
Originally posted by trader jim:
Sir Read this....it seems the Uplifted ARMY ANTS
have been secretly ARRMING them selves, with the Vorpal Bunnie problem and now the Army Ant problem.....sir, what are we gonna do????.... :eek: :eek:
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Plasma fire will fix most any problem. ;)
Orbital Nuke Strikes if the pests are massive enough. :D
More is better.
 
Originally posted by Capt. Blacklight:
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Sir Read this....it seems the Uplifted ARMY ANTS
have been secretly ARRMING them selves, with the Vorpal Bunnie problem and now the Army Ant problem.....sir, what are we gonna do????.... :eek: :eek:
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Plasma fire will fix most any problem. ;)
Orbital Nuke Strikes if the pests are massive enough. :D
More is better.
</font>[/QUOTE]D'BRE StratArm is deployed. We are ready to handle the UAAs! :D
 
Originally posted by trader jim:
Offices of The D'Bre StratArm have been overrun, sir, no survivors...looks like they were eaten sir!!!!...... :eek: :eek:
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Kinda hard to do since they're not in the Sector of the outbreak TJ...Guess again! :D
 
Originally posted by trader jim:
Offices of The D'Bre StratArm have been overrun, sir, no survivors...looks like they were eaten sir!!!!...... :eek: :eek:
Correction: It was not the office, but the forward command post was attacked by UAAs.

Fortunately Comm. Specialist Murphy radioed the situation. The orbitting battlecruiser that open fired on thier position. 99.9% of the UAAs were wiped out.

The D'BRE shall mourn and remember thier lose.
 
Originally posted by Liam Devlin:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by trader jim:
Offices of The D'Bre StratArm have been overrun, sir, no survivors...looks like they were eaten sir!!!!...... :eek: :eek:
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Kinda hard to do since they're not in the Sector of the outbreak TJ...Guess again! :D
</font>[/QUOTE]Good catch Liam!
 
you asked for it..... how many you want...Gen assist can do.

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i still prefer my cat and bunny girls though

but if you realy want em.... it will cost ya.


Originally posted by George Boyett:
I dont't believe I'm going to suggest this, but many it's the time to develop Unlifted Aardvark! :eek:
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Originally posted by trader jim:
Not bad Jewels, not bad at all!!! you may have the making of a fine crooked Merchant!!!!....if you need any "pointers", ijust may have a few!!!
;)
he is forgetting about the a whole new market of potential costomers....as sentients they'll surely need to garments (of the lastest fashions ofcourse), money (to buy the fashions with) and that means a ready labor pool for the enterprising...

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Originally posted by Nurd_boy:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by trader jim:
Not bad Jewels, not bad at all!!! you may have the making of a fine crooked Merchant!!!!....if you need any "pointers", ijust may have a few!!!
;)
he is forgetting about the a whole new market of potential costomers....as sentients they'll surely need to garments (of the lastest fashions ofcourse), money (to buy the fashions with) and that means a ready labor pool for the enterprising...

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</font>[/QUOTE]<Exploitation Mode>
No, uplifts are a manufactured cheap labor pool. You don't have to follow safety, work compensation, health, and housing regulations. Why, because thier not people. If they break or cause problem, just get rid of them. It's easy to make more.
</Exploitation Mode>

With some of the published and fanbased adventures of a employee exploitation by companies, I can easily see this happenning with uplifts.
 
Originally posted by Trader (CJ) Scott:
you asked for it..... how many you want...Gen assist can do.

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i still prefer my cat and bunny girls though

but if you realy want em.... it will cost ya.

I fear that the only solution the Uplifted Army Ants are aardvarks. If you can do it, proceed. They can be our only hope against the UAAs. :(
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Also put in a life limit so we don't have to worry about them after they complete the objective.
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Originally posted by George Boyett:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Nurd_boy:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by trader jim:
Not bad Jewels, not bad at all!!! you may have the making of a fine crooked Merchant!!!!....if you need any "pointers", ijust may have a few!!!
;)
he is forgetting about the a whole new market of potential costomers....as sentients they'll surely need to garments (of the lastest fashions ofcourse), money (to buy the fashions with) and that means a ready labor pool for the enterprising...

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</font>[/QUOTE]<Exploitation Mode>
No, uplifts are a manufactured cheap labor pool. You don't have to follow safety, work compensation, health, and housing regulations. Why, because thier not people. If they break or cause problem, just get rid of them. It's easy to make more.
</Exploitation Mode>

With some of the published and fanbased adventures of a employee exploitation by companies, I can easily see this happenning with uplifts.
</font>[/QUOTE]got to disagree...

their development is expensive, time-comsuming and a major investment for a company to pursue.

the resulting uplift would be (at least in early production) to valuable to waste. Then factor in numerous rights groups that would surely spring up to protect these beings....I think, it would be more of a situation where the uplift had rights (to a certain extent), but, worked for a wage to the development company to pay off his creation cost (like an endentured servant or debter's prison) then, once paid off was a free citizen.
 
Originally posted by Nurd_boy:
got to disagree...

their development is expensive, time-comsuming and a major investment for a company to pursue.

the resulting uplift would be (at least in early production) to valuable to waste. Then factor in numerous rights groups that would surely spring up to protect these beings....I think, it would be more of a situation where the uplift had rights (to a certain extent), but, worked for a wage to the development company to pay off his creation cost (like an endentured servant or debter's prison) then, once paid off was a free citizen.
Not if expense of uplifts is cheaper than employing humans in the long term. The Uplifts can be be more efficent and productive, and company can save money on safety and compensation. Overall a bigger profit, even if the company lowers prices because the cost of production per item is cheaper because the company does not have to pay wages or pensions.

The company could train/condition the uplifts to have loyalty and sense of obligation to thier creaters. This would reduce the chance of uprisings and organizing.
 
but all this would depend on what tech level the creation is done at.

At..say tech 12..it would be alot more expensive and tie up more resourses than the same procedure at tech 15, or tech 16...not to mention the the inevitable 'failures'......once sentient creation is started, the failures create a whole new problem, self-aware but not to physical specs?...(I guess they go back in the vats) imagine the law suites there !!!

geez, thinking (ok, realizing) the ethical morass of uplifting and the law....local or Imperial? Solimani or Zhodani? Hivers? k'kree?....Or, or ...VARGR UPLIFTERS !!!

never mind what is uplifted....what about WHO DOES THE UPLIFTING ?!?!?!?!?!

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hehehehheheheh......you will never know who does the UPLIFTING.....my R&D boys are now working on UPLIFTING the FLU BUG!!!!!......hahahahhahahaha....HHHHMMMMMMNNnnnnnn....maybe the ECOLI BUG....MMMUUUUUHHHhahahahahah..or the ATHLETES FOOT BUG!!!!....YES YES IT EVEN GETS BETTER YET!!!!hahahahha heheheheheh....spills COFFEE JUICE into the Vat and doesent know it...also sneezes into vats.... :eek: :eek:
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