I'm just of the mind that some facsimile of realism should be enforced on this server. It's not necessarily the furries that I have a problem with, since they can be explained using scientific roleplay. It's the 'anime-ization' of it all that irritates me. Nothing against anime, or using anime to base your characters off of, but this isn't anime in space. Children aren't starship captains, they can't handle the physical, emotional and mental stress of command.
This is what I get for watching Eureka Season 5 with my parents for a couple hours...
' Wrote:Well there's Hidamari's char which is like 12 or 13 and runs a rogue destroyer i think.
Don't even get me started about Jeremy Hunter...:P
That was Eva McDowell, adn it was a 21 year old with a harem of 16-18 year olds.
' Wrote:Its legit...I mean : You give him toy models of Osirises and a map of Omicron Minor...he places the Ossie toys on the map...and you just follow his strategy...eventualy your planet gets toasted but thats other topic....
I didn't command anything inRP for Minor's Fall.
Actually, I think I used a muffin given to me by Eriksson to break out of jail. Explosive muffins and all.
' Wrote:He does RP him as around 19 I think (or at least I hope). Thankfully the Order| did away with standard military rankings and so he is ranked veteran agent (last time I checked). Still, I'm not sure how you're a veteran after only a couple of years.
RP him LOOKING 19, he's actually around 30. Cryogenic suspension is excellent on the skin.
InRP, he's been in and out of the Order since the Dyson Sphere in SP; and it's been years in RP, and he's a Agent Commander.
Means I kicked my ass into gear a lot more then others.
' Wrote:Through the incompetence of his superiors, most likely.
Through working my ass off and fixing my RP from stupid to actually plausible.
' Wrote:Well I meant his characters in general. They're all in the range of 12-25 or some such.
EDIT: I think, at least.. >.>
15 - mid 60s. The average age of my characters is around 22-23. AIs are ageless, so I don't count them.
No, if you want the youngest character, then it's Soren and Sora Hunter, the 2 year old twins who don't leave Alexis Hunter's penthouse suite because them in a space ship is absolutely ridiculous.
' Wrote:I'm just of the mind that some facsimile of realism should be enforced on this server. It's not necessarily the furries that I have a problem with, since they can be explained using scientific roleplay. It's the 'anime-ization' of it all that irritates me. Nothing against anime, or using anime to base your characters off of, but this isn't anime in space. Children aren't starship captains, they can't handle the physical, emotional and mental stress of command.
So you think furries can be explained through science but you don't think the human psyche can be matured rapidly through science?
Um.
Not that I'm defending captains under the age of 20, but your argument is totally random.
' Wrote:Wait, I had respect?
At one point (years ago now) I considered you a good acquaintance, so yes I had some respect for you.
' Wrote:So you think furries can be explained through science but you don't think the human psyche can be matured rapidly through science?
Um.
Not that I'm defending captains under the age of 20, but your argument is totally random.
At one point (years ago now) I considered you a good acquaintance, so yes I had some respect for you.
Sorry to let you down. I've been working really hard to forget my previous years here at Disco.
The thing with that though is that they don't explain it. I mean, if people could come up with a scientific explanation for it, say by downloading a mature personality into a computer chip and then implanting the chip into the child's brain, then sure. I could go with that. But that also brings up the question: What battle hardened marine would take orders from a child? Even one with a computer chip in their head. It just seems implausible.
Also, what happens if the child is engaged in hand-to-hand combat? No amount of psychological maturation can compensate for a lack of muscle tone, underdeveloped skeletal structure and overall frail body. I can see them being used as spies because of their small size and such, but not in a position where they may need to fight off an invading army. Again, technology could be used to compensate, but.. That seems like a lot of trouble just to get a kid into the commander's chair. It just doesn't seem reasonable.
' Wrote:The thing with that though is that they don't explain it. I mean, if people could come up with a scientific explanation for it, say by downloading a mature personality into a computer chip and then implanting the chip into the child's brain, then sure. I could go with that. But that also brings up the question: What battle hardened marine would take orders from a child? Even one with a computer chip in their head. It just seems implausible.
One of my old characters (now lost to the sea of wiped accounts) was subjected to an experiment that was an attempt to turn her in to a sort of nexus for battlefield control. Coupled with linked soldiers, it was akin to a robot army, made out of flesh. The soldiers would have the 'useless fluff' of their minds stripped, leaving them as pure combat tools to be commanded by this 'nexus'. In short, they were brain chipped.
That role (or attempted role, as the project was never finished for whatever reason... probably because of how inhumane it was) left her with little sense of self. She wasn't ten by any stretch of the imagination, but she certainly wasn't an adult. The entire idea is loosely based off of an anime (other than the name of the character and the way she acts... very loosely). The original conspirators behind this was some quiet Ageira lab, but that was back when i led the faction, dunno what Max thinks of the idea, not that it matters anymore. You can read some story roleplay I did with the character here if you get bored or you're interested or whatever.
To bring it all back to the point at hand; it is much more plausible in my opinion, to convince or make a crew follow a child, than to create furries and whatnot through the use of genetics. Cyberware styled ones are somewhat plausible, but they'd still be shot to hell by most people in the galaxy.
I don't think there has ever been 10 year old Fleet Admirals, or 10 year old ship captains. There have definitely been teen ship captains, though.
Some of it happens in military factions because characters join a faction at a realistic age for a Recuit (Late teens, early twenties), and end up getting promoted. My Liberty Air Force character was in her early twenties as a Lieutenant and ended up as one of the Staff-Level Officers (she's since been demoted rather quickly, but the point remains) due to heavy combat losses.
Young Officers aren't entirely implausible in a conflict where experienced individuals are dying too quickly to be replaced, and I can imagine the situation in Minor mauling the Order's command structure, for instance. Heavy losses on a particular ship could also see a very young Officer left as the surviving ranking member, though stretching that logic past the ship returning to base gets rather flimsy.
That said, ten year old Fleet Admirals are a touch on the ludicrous side, unless said Fleet is manned by toddlers (or strict monarchies, but I digress.)
' Wrote:That said, ten year old Fleet Admirals are a touch on the ludicrous side, unless said Fleet is manned by toddlers (or strict monarchies, but I digress.)
Liberty's 10th Fleet shall bring order to the playground!
Jeremy_Hunter Wrote:I didn't command anything inRP for Minor's Fall.
But I've heard rumors that say before the final battle, you gave a motivational speech so bad that it made Order pilots want to shoot themselves in the head so they wouldn't have to listen to the rest.:P
' Wrote:But I've heard rumors that say before the final battle, you gave a motivational speech so bad that it made Order pilots want to shoot themselves in the head so they wouldn't have to listen to the rest.:P
I was there, he did say a lot of things that made me regret choosing the Order's side.