Darkspleen

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At this point what I'm thinking of using as defining techs for a "fully developed" civilization is FTL travel and communications, terraforming, and advanced metamaterials. I'm sure I'll be adding more to the list later on, but that's what's come to mind thus far.

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I wonder if darkspleen's civ is at the tech level the Saru are at,

@Arawak

Considering how skewed the Saru's tech development its impossible to give a meaningful comparison.

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Dark, how is your civilization culturally?

(Do they worship the sun?)

@Arawak

Not quite ready to answer that question in full, but I can in part. Its not a homogeneous culture. There are three spiritual groups: atheists, paganism, and the Starborne faith. None of these groups specifically worship the sun, though if you had a really open interpretation of sun worship I suppose you could argue that the Starborne faith does worship stars in a sense.

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I haven't really gotten a feel for the average development level in the RP yet, but that is a distinct possibility. I intend to be a couple of steps below the average civ.

And I'll be discussing the zerg-like entity (for lack of a better term) in the near future and we'll get all that straightened out. If Duck wants something different I'll work with him on it, but as things stand right now what I said before is what I'm planning for them.

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I don't ever recall specifically stating that they were mindless. They aren't, clearly, as they have objectives. I've simply stated that I don't intend to put their thoughts into writing AND that even if I did it wouldn't necessarily make sense to you or I.

Also I think you are blowing them out of proportion. Are they a threat to my civilization? Yes. Does that necessarily mean they are a threat to any other given civilization? No. The reason being is that my civilization isn't going to be as developed as everyone else's.

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1) Don't assume just because you have access to their thought processes that they will somehow magically be more interesting. You are assuming that they will think in a fashion that would be intelligible to use, which doesn't necessarily have to be the case. Also relying on inner thought to portray personality and goals of an entity can be something of a lazy method in some cases. What's more interesting: writing a character *think* about how he likes a girl or having him *DO* things that illustrates that he likes a girl? And on top of all this you have to keep in mind that if I do decide to write the inner thought processes of this entity we are likely to be put in a situation where we will be limited in what we can do with them. For instance if at one point I write about one of these entities thinking about how its motivation for everything is to just hug people then that means that Duck CANNOT have that same entity have a motivation that does not involve hugging people.

2) I never said their goal was to cleanse the galaxy. Their goal was to wipe out other civilizations to make space for another civilization. Think smaller in scale. MUCH MUCH smaller. These guys only exist in a small region of the galaxy, probably some isolated corner.

Though to be honest I haven't finalized my thoughts in regards to this entity, so its all subject to change at this point. But for now I'm going to treat them more as a force of nature than a civilization.

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All the more reason to let their actions do all of the talking.

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While I find the idea quite amusing, why they do what they do isn't really relevant. I'll never write out their internal though processes or anything. And they themselves are important only in how they affect the civilization I'll be playing as.

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What? Why?

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I will when I've got some details.