From: stevie [Stephan.Aspridis@stud.uni-hannover.de] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 6:48 PM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Hybrids >>Considering that Germany was one of the three nations active in the hybrid >>design project (with the United States and Biogene), there could be some >>Prussian militarism in there, along with a dash of Latin machismo and old >>fashioned American belligerence. Why should there? Last time I checked, Germany is one of the most pacifistic countries west of Australia. How about that: German/Prussian Discipline along with a dash of Latin (no better word) emotionalism and American "love for freedom"? :) > >My wife and I were discussing the Hybrids last night thinking through what >types of work they would do well with considering their dexterity penalty >and color vision problems (in the case of cats). It occurred to us that a >field other than combat that they could very well excel at could be heavy >duty construction. Most of the tasks shouldn't require extremely precise >manual dexterity or complex color differentiation. With their cheap, >non-biomod based high strength, agility and endurance attributes they could >be highly useful workers. Plus, if hybrids have "inherited" the lack of a >fear of heights or falling that the apes and cats I have seen all seem to >possess, they would make great high-rise construction workers. > But they would really excel at what they originally were designed to do: The cats are nearly as (+30) and the apes even stronger (+50) than the standard GEO shock trooper. Of course, they also made clear that they didn't want that ("You are a super soldier. Here, take this gun." "Naaah. No way.") ;) But heayy workers, especially at great heights. Yes, why not. Ciao, Stephan *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Blair A. Monroe [bmonroe@mailer.fsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 2:51 PM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Hybrids At 07:52 PM 12/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >"Society expected them to be claws for hire, so they bought into >that stereotype, except for a couple of them who just wanted to live >like normal people. They developed a fledgling warrior culture with bits >borrowed from Euro-chivalry and Bushido - honor was important, but also >ill-defined. So you had a community dedicated solely to the art of >battle. My cats were not necessarily typical, but it's one way that a >hybrid community might go." > >Considering that Germany was one of the three nations active in the hybrid >design project (with the United States and Biogene), there could be some >Prussian militarism in there, along with a dash of Latin machismo and old >fashioned American belligerence. > My wife and I were discussing the Hybrids last night thinking through what types of work they would do well with considering their dexterity penalty and color vision problems (in the case of cats). It occurred to us that a field other than combat that they could very well excel at could be heavy duty construction. Most of the tasks shouldn't require extremely precise manual dexterity or complex color differentiation. With their cheap, non-biomod based high strength, agility and endurance attributes they could be highly useful workers. Plus, if hybrids have "inherited" the lack of a fear of heights or falling that the apes and cats I have seen all seem to possess, they would make great high-rise construction workers. -- Blair ------ Blair A. Monroe Web Developer / Information Professional / Gamemaster E-mail: bmonroe@mailer.fsu.edu http://mailer.fsu.edu/~bmonroe/ *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.